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Here's the The Lowdown
from DN Journal,
updated daily
to
fill you in on the latest buzz going around the domain name industry.
The Lowdown is
compiled by DN Journal Editor & Publisher Ron
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People,
Companies & Events in the News: T.R.A.F.F.I.C.
2012, Phil Corwin, Verisign, David Castello
& BREE
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Several
bases to touch today.
In
48 hours we will be on our way to Florida's
Fort Lauderdale Beach for the 2012
T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Conference that will
be held at the oceanfront Ritz Carlton
Hotel. There will be two days of pre-show
cabana networking at the Ritz Friday &
Saturday (October 5 & 6), followed by
the conference that runs Sunday evening
(October 7) through Wednesday morning
(October 10).
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The
final show
schedule has been posted at
the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. website. If you keep
up with industry news, you have already
heard about a lot of the show's
highlights like the live
domain auction, keynote
speaker, T.R.A.F.F.I.C.
Awards, etc. There is one
conference event that |
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People
from all over the world will be at the 2012
T.R.A.F.F.I.C. conference. Above Norway's
Truc
Tran and Braden Pollock of Los
Angeles enjoy the
Farewell Breakfast at last year's show
in Florida. |
hasn't
gotten the attention it deserves - one
that happens to be one of my favorites. It
is the only thing on the closing day
schedule, Wednesday, Oct. 10 - the Farewell
Breakfast. Business has all been done
and people are usually ebullient over a
productive week spent with so many
like-minded people in a world class
location.
That
makes for a very upbeat and enjoyable
atmosphere where you can go from table
to table and say your final goodbyes to
friends new and old. The only downside is
you will hate having to say goodbye to so
many people who have become more than
business associates - people who have
become true friends. It's one of
the great things about our business. Very
few people in the world really understand
it, so those who do feel a special kinship
with each other. |
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I'll
have daily updates from
T.R.A.F.F.I.C. 2012 in this column
starting this weekend. I
hope to see many of you there and
for those who will be making the trip to
Florida I look forward to seeing you at
the beach.
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Two
days after T.R.A.F.F.I.C. ends Phil
Corwin, the Legal Counsel
for the Internet
Commerce Association,
will be in Toronto to
speaking about intellectual
property rights in new
gTLDs at a Policy
Conference for ICANN's
Non-Commercial Users
Constituency (NCUC). Phil
will be part of a panel
discussion scheduled to get
underway at 11:30am Friday,
Oct. 12 with new ICANN CEO Fadi
Chehadé set to address the
audience immediately after
lunch.
Phil's
panel will also include Bertrand
de la Chapelle representing
ICANN's Board of Directors, NCSG
Representative to GNSO Council Rafik
Dammak and dotGay's Avri
Doria. |
Phil
Corwin |
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Verisign
has released their latest
quarterly Domain
Name Industry Brief
covering the 2nd quarter of
2012. The period ended with
with more than 240 million
domain names registered across all
Top Level Domains (TLDs). That
represents a 3.1% increase
from the previous quarter. This is
also the 6th consecutive quarter
that has seen registrations rise
by at least 2%. Registrations have
grown by 25.5 million,
an 11.9% jump, year
over year.
The .com and .net TLDs
administered by Verisign reached 118.5
million names combined at the
end of 2Q-2012 which marks a 7.8%
increase over the same quarter
in 2011. |
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The
number of Country Code
Top-Level Domains
(ccTLDs) registered at the
end of 2Q-2012 was 100.3
million, rising 5.7% from
the previous quarter and soaring
18.5% from the same
quarter a year
ago.
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Ever
since David Castello
moved to Nashville
a little over a year ago
to manage the career of
upcoming rock star BREE
and play drums in
her three-piece band, we
haven't seen as much of
the Castello
Cities Internet Network
co-founder as we would
like. However, the
musician/domain honcho
is still successfully
juggling CCIN business
(along with brother
Michael),
providing the backbeat
for BREE and staying in
touch.
As
busy as he is, it looks
like David's work with
BREE is about to add a lot
more to his plate.
Now that BREE has
written a treasure trove
of irresistible tunes
and the trio has several
great recordings in the
can, a big promotional
push for BREE is
getting underway. It
started Monday with the
release of an
attention-grabbing Electronic
Press Kit video
by veteran director Marcel
that you can see on YouTube
(Marcel also did BREE's
butt-kicking video
for "Whisky"
that, as of this
writing, has over 372,000
views). |
BREE
and David Castello |
When
the inevitable tour takes place
David and BREE may be coming to
your city. In the meantime,
David's friends in the domain
business can look at David's
detour to Nashville (where CCIN
owns Nashville.com)
the way we do - we haven't
lost a friend, we've gained a
rock star. There is a lot of
upside there too. You just know
that when BREE and her band are
on the cover of The
Rolling Stone, David
will sneak in a plug for domain
names! |
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(Posted October
3, 2012)
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