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March 24, 2009 Post

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
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The newest global domain extension .tel opened for public registration today. .Tel is an odd bird in that, unlike other extensions, you cannot host a website on it. Instead it is meant to 

allow you to present your contact information on the web via a page that is hosted at no additional charge by the central registry. You can see a sample .tel page here

Registration fees vary dramatically from one registrar to another. A couple of the lowest prices we have seen are being offered by Name.com and Dyandot.com. Name.com is offering one-year registrations for a limited time at $8.95, but additional years or renewals will be $14.95. Dynadot is offering .tel registrations at $10.99 per year for both new registrations and renewals. 

Several other bits of news to pass along today. T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Co-Founder and pioneering domainer Rick Schwartz will be the special guest on DomainSuccess.com's latest live webinar tonight from 9pm-10pm (U.S. Eastern time). You can register for the free event here

When Rick talks you can always expect some fireworks and on his blog today he said you shouldn't expect that to change tonight. Schwartz wrote, "I just may ruffle a few feathers. I don't have much value in giving politically correct answers. I always give folks a choice. I can tell you what you want to hear or I can tell you the truth as I see it. Some folks can't handle reality so I give them a choice. Tonight, no sugar coating."

Rick Schwartz

Congratulation go out today to another legendary domainer, Kevin Ham, and his wife Irene who are celebrating the birth of a healthy baby boy Monday. The proud parents named their new son (who weighed in at 8 pounds, 6 ounces), Gabriel

ICA Legal Counsel Phil Corwin

The Legal Counsel for the Internet Commerce Association, Phil Corwin, has posted two important new articles on the ICA website that address threatening issues for domain owners. The first one dissects a new report titled “ICANN At A Crossroads: A Proposal for Better Governance and Performance” that was just released by The Technology Policy Institute, a Washington-based “think tank." While the report's title is innocuous enough, Corwin points out that some of the proposals (including one that would have registries and registrars run ICANN) are not. 

In the second article, Corwin shines a light on some new WIPO proposals that could substantially increase the risk of reverse domain hijackings by over reaching trademark interests. 

You can get additional insight into the 

important points Corwin has raised with these articles in an analysis (and reader commentary section) that Michael Berkens posted on his blog Sunday.

Finally, on the heels of last week's announcement by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer that they had become the first major American daily newspaper to discontinue their print edition to become an online-only publication, comes word that the Ann Arbor News is going down the same path. The 174-year-old Michigan newspaper said it would issue its final print edition in July then publish via the Internet only. At least their company has a huge ace in the hole. They own AnnArbor.com, an asset that will assure them of a steady stream of visitors seeking news and information about the area they serve. 
(Posted March 24, 2009)


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