Current Economic Crisis Addressed by Jeff Kupietzky

The 2009 DOMAINfest Global conference in Hollywood, California featured an informative state of the industry address on Wednesday, delivered by Oversee.net president, Jeff Kupietzky. Later on in the day, Kupietzky interviewed Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak as part of Kupietzky’s economy-based address.

Click here (http://www.dnjournal.com/archive/lowdown/2009/dailyposts/01-29-09.htm) for more on this story.

Source: DNJournal by Ron Jackson — Reprinted with permission — January 29, 2009

.Pro Registrations Grow Five-Fold in Five Months

Following the relaunch of the .pro TLD with expanded registration
guidelines approved by ICANN, Registry.pro has announced a five-fold
increase in registrations since September 2008.

2009 DOMAINfest Global Conference Starts with Bootcamp

According to Ron Jackson’s Lowdown report, the first day of the 2009 DOMAINfest Global conference began with an afternoon bootcamp for industry newbies, which consisted of four sessions on the the fundamentals of the domain business. The 2009 DOMAINfest Global conference is being held at the Renaissance Hotel in Hollywood, California.

Click here (http://www.dnjournal.com/archive/lowdown/2009/dailyposts/01-28-09.htm) to read more about the first day of the conference.

Source: DNJournal by Ron Jackson — Reprinted with permission — January 28, 2009

ICANN – Application Round Opens for Sydney Meeting Fellowships

MARINA DEL REY, Calif.: The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers has launched the seventh round of fellowship program applications for its 35th International Public Meeting to be held in Sydney, Australia from 21-26 June 2009.

Just like the Internet, ICANN is global in scope in its operations, said Theresa Swinehart , ICANN’s Vice President, Global and Strategic Partnerships. “Our fellowship program has had a lot of success at our last five meetings in making sure global voices are heard in the wide variety of public forums that it holds.”

DOMAINfest Global Moniker Live Auction

As part of the DOMAINfest Global conference currently underway in
Hollywood, there will also be a Moniker live and extended online
auction.

Journey to DomainFest

So here I am once again at thirty thousand feet winging my way across the Pacific Ocean to a domain conference in the USA. You would think that I would be sick of the fifteen hour flights by now and you would be right. All international flights from Australia are typically an endurance affair but then again it’s the price you have to pay for living in such a magnificent country.

One of the really nice parts of this flight is that I’m on one of the new A380 aircraft. They are the world’s largest passenger aircraft and like a brand new car this plane has a typically “new” smell which is a refreshing change from the normal old 747-400s that I normally fly.

ICANN – Host Sought for 2010 Europe Meeting

In accordance with ICANN’s commitment to continuous improvement in the management of meetings, and in response to requests for advanced planning, ICANN today posts a call for Expressions of Interest to host the meeting to be held in Europe on 17-23 October 2010. The objective is to routinely provide advice on locations for meetings 12 months ahead of schedule.

* Europe 17-23 October 2010

ICANN – Public Comment: Initial Report on Fast Flux Hosting

A public comment period opens today for 20 days on an Initial Report on Fast Flux Hosting.

In May 2008, the GNSO Council initiated a Policy Development Process (PDP) and called for the creation of a working group on fast flux. The working group was asked to consider the following questions:

Keywords – debate intensifies as Dutch court raises questions with the ECJ

The controversy over whether keywords sold by search engines can infringe trade marks has intensified, after the Dutch Supreme Court referred five questions on the subject to the European Court of Justice (‘ECJ’), says Law-Now, an online publication of the law firm CMS Cameron McKenna LLP.

IPv6 Contest: Looking for fresh Ideas for the new Internet Generation

The German IPv6 Council initiated a contest for ideas pertaining to the
next generation of the internet. The council invites submissions of
applications which are based on the new internet standard of IPv6. This
way the transition to the new rules of data traffic on the internet
should take place in an efficient manner and on a large scale.