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 IDNBlog.com: 

Poker.org just sold for $1 million. Sex.com should definitely exceed $5 million in the forthcoming auction. This is electrifying news for domainers big and small. It should increase your confidence in the industry and in the money that can be made at the very top. When you have a one

 IDNBlog.com: 

Finally. Sam Nunez, the VP of Product Management at Sedo just announced that “Sedo will add support for Chinese, Japanese and other ‘multi-byte’ characters [for] IDNs starting next week.”

This was just posted as a comment to our IDN series on Elliot’s Blog (link here). Thanks for all who made this hap…

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I just vacationed in Mexico. It was a great vacation, with plenty of beach and guacamole. I also learned a good amount about the non-U.S. use of domains. My eyes gravitated towards every billboard or T.V. ad that used a domain name. I was particularly curious as to whether I saw a

 IDNBlog.com: 

Right before the weekend, ICANN posted an update to the terrorist threat that jeopardizes the upcoming ICANN Nairobi meeting.

Initially, on Thursday, ICANN posted that the U.S. State department released the following statement:

“As of early February 2010, individuals affiliated with al-Shabaab al-Islamiya were planning suicide bo…

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With great pride, I can announce that we rented out a billboard rotation in the famous Fashion Show Mall in Las Vegas. The Fashion Show Mall is owned by General Growth Properties Inc. and boasts over 250 stores including Saks and Bloomingdales.

Yes, this is similar to our earlier Times Square billboard (here), which gave

 IDNBlog.com: A number of press releases and registrar statements over the past week touted the ability to preregister Russia’s “forthcoming” .РФ IDN ccTLD extension.

The problem is that Russia hasn’t received ICANN approval to release the .РФ extension. Only recently has .РФ jumped the String Evaluation hurdle (link) but …

 IDNBlog.com: If you ever needed a reminder that both personal and corporate branding is crucial, just ask Akbar Zeb.

Fox News reported:
“A high-ranking Pakistani diplomat reportedly cannot be appointed ambassador to Saudi Arabia because in Arabic his name translates into [an adult] phrase.” (link: www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,584807,…

 IDNBlog.com: 

The jury is still out for the best videogame of 2010. But it looks to be Heavy Rain. The narrative genre is that of a psychological thriller, the visuals are captivating and the number of permutations there are to the story truly makes this a choose your own adventure game. You will

 IDNBlog.com: Jeremy Schoemaker (aka Shoemoney) is one of the smartest guys on the web. He made his first killing on the Internet through a pioneering ringtones site, Next Pimp. He then founded the eBay based ad widget, AuctionAds, and later became a famous affiliate marketing blog personality.

I’ve always thought that affiliate marketing a…

 IDNBlog.com: 
The names Медведев.рф (Medvedev.rf) and Путин.рф (Putin.rf) are among the many reserved IDN ccTLDs in the forthcoming .рф extension. Why does this not surprise me? Could you imagine a political dissenter owning Putin’s domain?

A recent Russian report noted that approximately 7,000 domain names have been reserved so far. From …