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The Domaining
III conference
in Valencia, Spain continued
today with keynote speeches from Sedo
CEO and Co-Founder Tim Schumacher and the
Co-Founders of the Castello
Cities Internet Network, Michael
Castello and David Castello,
highlighting day two activities at the Hotel
Sorolla Palace. An appreciative audience
also had a chance to ask questions directly to
the keynote speakers in a lively Q & A
session that followed their talks.
(L
to R) Keynote speakers Michael Castello (CCIN.com),
Tim Schumacher (Sedo.com)
and David Castello (CCIN.com) answer
questions from the audience after
delivering
their addresses today at the Domaining III
conference in Valencia, Spain.
After
interacting with conference attendees for the
past couple of days, David Castello told us,
"I believe the domainers who attended Domaining
III will become the core foundation
for the Spanish domain industry for years
to come."
The
conference will close Saturday with a day of
networking that will include a boat ride on a
local lagoon and a dinner featuring the region's
favorite dish, Paella Valenciana. This is the
third annual show in a conference series staged
by Inverdom's
Dietmar Stefitz.
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I want to
close the week with congratulations to a
couple of companies that have something
special to celebrate. One is DomainConsultant.com
who announced the launch of a new domain
auction platform at Boxcar.com
that offers a number of new twists,
including the ability to put lots
of domains (multiple domains in a single
lot) up of sale at once. Best of luck to
Mike Fiol and his teammates at
DomainConsultant.com and Boxcar.com |
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Afilias
Director of Security
Greg Aaron accepting a 2010
Excellence in Registry
Services award Thursday
night in Washington, D.C. |
Also today Afilias,
a leading provider of Internet
infrastructure services and the registry
provider for the .INFO domain, is
celebrating the 2010 Excellence in
Registry Services Award they just
received from the Online
Trust Alliance. Afilias was
recognized last night (Thursday, Sept.
23rd) at the Online Trust Alliances’ 5th
annual Excellence in Online Trust
Awards in Washington D.C.
for its innovative leadership role in
online safety initiatives over the past
year.
Afilias’
cyber security initiatives included its
pioneering Anti-Abuse
Policy for the .INFO domain,
which has helped .INFO to continuously
score one of the lowest phishing uptimes
for all generic top-level domains (TLDs).
It also includes cross-industry
collaboration initiatives which have
helped suppress two of the largest
cyber-gangs and incidents in the
Internet’s history, Avalanche and
Conficker. In addition, Afilias has
worked to increase implementation of
Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC),
which is the only known protection against
cache-poisoning and man-in-the-middle
attacks. |
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Ram
Mohan, Executive Vice President and
Chief Technology Officer for Afilias,
said, "We appreciate the
recognition of our work to enable a more
trustworthy Internet and owe thanks to a
very cooperative industry, including our
domain name registrars who have been
responsive in helping us address domain
abuse. We will continue to strengthen
our anti-abuse program and will add
DNSSEC protection to more than a dozen
registries in the months ahead.” |
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