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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
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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.
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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 |
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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) |
