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In
other end of the week tidbits, friends with
connections in Brazil have been telling me
for some that that country is increasingly
becoming a hotbed for domains. One impediment to
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been a .com.br
registry restriction that limited use of the
extension to corporations in Brazil. Now Juan
Enrique Sánchez of registrar Domains Latin
America (NameAction.com) tells me that
restriction has been removed and any Brazilian citizen
can register .com.br domains. The registry also
lifted restrictions on .am.br, .fr.br and
.tv.br that had limited their use to radio and
TV stations. All good news for the domain business
in Brazil.
Speaking
of registries, the .pro registry is
set |
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to
begin the relaunch of their extension Monday
(July 21) when a pre-registration period that runs
to August 31 will begin. Open public registration
will resume Sept. 8. More details are
available here. |
New
York State's beautiful Adirondacks area appears
to be turning into something of a "spiritual
retreat" for domainers. Rob Grant (who was the
subject of our April
Cover Story) is based there and in recent
weeks he has welcomed a number of prominent domainers to
his Lake Placid home and treated them to a taste of
the local lifestyle. The latest to make the trek north was
DomainsForMedia.com
and DNCartoons.com
founder Eric Rice (the subject of DN
Journal's February 2007 Cover Story) and his
partner Clausen Ely. Grant soon had his visitors
out on a local lake for some bass fishing but from the
looks of the photo Rob sent me below, Eric and Clausen
were eating light at the fish fry that night!
(Left
to right): Clausen Ely, Rob Grant and Eric Rice in
the Adirondacks
At
first glance, Rob's catch (middle above) looked impressive
by comparison but upon closer inspection the soft edges
around Grant's image indicate that Photoshop may
deserve more credit for that fish than he does! Another
clue is that Rob's head in the picture is about half
the size of Clausen and Eric's. I know Grant is a humble
guy but, unless some lost tribe of Adirondack
headshrinkers caught and released him recently, his noggin is not that
tiny!
I
hope you all have a wonderful relaxing weekend. I am going
to be busy putting the finishing touches on our 2008
GeoDomain Expo review article that will be published
before everyone is back at work Monday morning. We posted
daily items from the show in our Lowdown
column while it was underway last week in Chicago,
but those were just an appetizer for the big wrap up
article we're working on now.
(Posted
July
18,
2008) |
