.TEL General Availability launch; 100,000 Names Registered

In what Telnic CEO Khashayar Mahdavi calls the biggest innovation since .com, the .tel generic Top Level Domain (gTLD) was launched to all comers last week. Within 36 hours of .tel being made available through General Availability, the 100,000th .tel domain name was registered.

ICANN – New gTLDs and Trademark Issues: Implementation Recommendation Team (IRT)

As directed by ICANN’s Board in a recent resolution (see http://www.icann.org/en/minutes/resolutions-06mar09.htm (http://www.icann.org/en/minutes/resolutions-06mar09.htm) ), the Intellectual Property Constituency (IPC) has formed an Implementation Recommendation Team (IRT). Members of the IRT are listed here (http://www.icann.org/en/topics/new-gtlds/irt-list-23mar09-en.pdf) [PDF, 20K]. The IRT has been formed to provide possible solutions to trademark issues raised in the new Generic Top-Level Domain (New gTLDs) implementation planning.

.tel crossing 100,000 domains – Get your own .tel now for only 12 Euros with EuroDNS

Luxembourg, 27th march
2009 – Telnic has
just announced crossing the symbolic number of 100,000 .tel domain registered
since the beginning. Don’t miss the opportunity to be part of this exciting and
new communication channel and get your .tel now at www.eurodns.com (http://www.eurodns.com/), for only 12 Euros, using the
Promocode: GOTEL12.

ICANN – Travel Support

A public comment period has opened today for 30 days on the topic of travel support.

Last year, ICANN created travel procedures to clarify which members of the ICANN community were to receive travel support for that fiscal year (2009). At the same time, it was announced that they would be reviewed after the first year of use.

Body.com Big Seller for Sedo

Body.com was easily the biggest seller for Sedo (http://www.sedo.com/)
in the week to March 16, selling for US$400,000. Second biggest sale
for the week was gonghui.com that sold for $63,000 while the third
biggest sale was lol.de, the biggest ccTLD sale of the week, sold for
€35,000 ($47,250).

Domain Roundtable 2009 to Be Held in Washington DC

[news release] Thought Convergence is proud to announce the fifth annual Domain
Roundtable conference, set to take place June 14-17, 2009, at the Grand
Hyatt Washington in Washington DC. This year’s theme, Reaching Beyond:
Shaping our Future Together, looks to assemble key players and decision
makers from the domain, financial, legal and Internet technology
sectors. Interested parties should visit www.DomainRoundtable.com (http://www.DomainRoundtable.com/) for the latest registration information.

.TEL GO Live opening at EuroDNS – Get your .Tel for only 12€

Luxembourg, 24th February – Following the successful Sunrise
and Landrush periods, EuroDNS announces the opening of the .tel Go Live phase today at 15:00 UTC.

OECD Welcomes Formation of The Internet Technical Advisory Committee (ITAC)

Formation of ITAC Set To Safeguard Internet Development and Innovation Through Multi-stakeholder Internet Governance
OECD Recognition for Open Industry Dialogue as a Driver for Safe and Effective Internet Development.

[news release] The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and
Development (OECD) has welcomed representatives from the pre-eminent
Internet technical organisations as partners in its work on
communications policy issues – a step seen as highlighting the vital
need for multistakeholder inputs into Internet-related discussions and
the continued evolution of enhanced cooperation among stakeholders.

dotSCO campaign Receives Backing of Scottish Parliament

The Scottish Parliament’s Public Petitions Committee formally endorsed
the dotSCO campaign last month, after receiving assurances from the
Government that it was doing all it could to help ensure an application
could be submitted to ICANN later this year, the dotSco campaign has
announced.

Flatrate.de Biggest Seller of the Week

The biggest ccTLD sale of the year, flatrate.de, was the biggest sale
of last week, selling for €160,000 (US$200,000) reports Domain Name
Journal. The next four top sellers for the week were all .com sales,
although none broke six figures. Claim.com was second, selling for
$80,000 and RodeoDrive.com third selling for $60,000.