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The Lowdown
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April 17, 2008 Post
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Here's the The Lowdown
from DNJournal.com! Updated daily to
fill you in on the latest buzz going around the domain name
industry!
Compiled
by Ron Jackson (Editor/Publisher)
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I'll
by flying all day tomorrow (en route to the Domain
Roundtable conference in San Francisco)
so there won't be a Lowdown post Friday. However,
starting Saturday I will post a daily item from the show
at the Palace Hotel. The event runs through
Monday with a big live auction scheduled for the
closing day. |
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Soon after
Roundtable ends, the spotlight shifts to London
where the UK's largest web related conference, Internet
World will be held April 29 - May 1.
The domain business will be represented there by Sedo,
Nominet and Edwin Hayward's MemorableDomains.co.uk.
Hayward, who has one of the best .co.uk portfolios,
plans to put 2,000 of them up for sale at Internet
World, including such gems as Britain.co.uk, SearchEngine.co.uk
and Maps.co.uk. |
Earl's
Court - London
Site of the Internet World show starting Apr. 29 |
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In a press
release issued today Hayward said "A
generic domain name is an investment that can bring more
online visits, leads and sales by driving recognition
and recall of a company's web address, building
credibility and market presence, improving website
usability and lifting the results of search
promotions." If you're going to the show you can
visit Hayward at Stand E277 in the Earl's Court
exhibition hall.
Elsewhere,
Sedo's latest monthly GreatDomains.com
online premium domain auction got underway today (it
closes April 24). Names on the block this time
aorund include Sociology.com, Chianti.com,
Bond.com and Won.com to name just a
few.
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Canada's
.ca hit 1 million
registrations this week |
One other note - Canada's
.ca country code hit the one million
registrations mark this week. I've always
thought .ca and America's .us could be
sleeping giants, given the size of those
nation's economies, the rapid expansion of the
web and an ongoing trend toward localization.
The ccTLDs of some of the other the major
industrial countries are already powerhouses
with Germany's .de and Great Britain's
.co.uk. the prime examples.
China's .cn,
though not yet a big factor in the aftermarket,
is also raising a lot of eyebrows with over 11
million names registered now (only
.com, .de and .net have more and it looks like .cn
will soon pass .net). Over the past year I've
also seen increasing aftermarket
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activity for .fr
(France) and .es (Spain) domains.
Certainly you can't beat .com for
universal recognition but the stronger country
codes have proven to be excellent investments as
well.
(Posted
April 17,
2008) |
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