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Exclusive Q&A with Tina Dam

IDNBlog — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 20:03:48 +0000

IDNBlog.com: Q: You are currently a co-founder of myTLD.com, a consulting and management firm for new TLDs. What services do you offer and what types of clients do you work with? A: At MyTLD we provide a wide range of services, from general domain advice; gTLD application writing, strategy, processing, and launch to companies, organizations, or

Exclusive Q&A with Antony Van Couvering of Minds + Machines

IDNBlog — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 20:08:27 +0000

IDNBlog.com: Q: You are CEO of Top Level Domain Holdings, CEO and founder of Minds + Machines, CEO of dotNYC, and Principal of Names@Work. Are there any other companies or organizations that you are currently a part of, which I failed to mention? A: That’s about it, although I also act as an advisor to DomainsBot,

Foreigners Are Now Allowed to Register Russian IDN.РФ Domain Names

IDNBlog — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 20:25:30 +0000

IDNBlog.com: The .РФ ccTLD has quickly become a juggernaut with over 900,000 domains registered during its first year. Now .РФ is officially open to non-Russian registrants. Below please find the official press release issued today, which also includes some interesting stats: Starting on November 11 foreigners are allowed to register domain names…

IDNBlog’s 3rd Year: Here Are Our Traffic Stats

IDNBlog — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 13:17:28 +0000

IDNBlog.com: As IDNBlog has recently entered into its 3rd year, we’ve had our share of breaking news and great interviews (Schwartz, Schilling, Wrixon, Dam and Gomes), auctions, newsletters, and events, but I am proudest of our diverse reader-base. Below, is a snapshot of where our traffic comes from in order. Though I can’t give traf…

Chinese Buyers Prefer Numbers to English Domains, Why That Is and Why IDNs are Next

IDNBlog — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 22:42:08 +0000

IDNBlog.com: Chinese buyers bought a series of high-priced numeric domains in the last few months including 55.com for $2.3 million, 33.com for $358,000 and 11.com for $525,000. A nice recap of these sales and of the central brokering role played by 4.cn can be found here at DomainShane. Chinese businesses have historically been pushed to go

ICANN 42 in Dakar: IDNs and Timing of New gTLDs in Play

IDNBlog — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 22:36:01 +0000

IDNBlog.com: ICANN President and CEO, Rod Beckstom, launched the ICANN 42 meeting in Dakar, Sengal, with a rousing address that included ICANN’s hope that IDNs will expand the base of users on the Internet. Beckstrom stated: “We can also bring more voices and more people to the Internet through Internationalized Domain Names. IDNs mak…

What is the Real Purpose of New gTLDs? Allowing For Fully Internationalized Domains

IDNBlog — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 15:03:02 +0000

IDNBlog.com: Will the majority of the estimated 4,000 new gTLD applications even be in English? The Gulf News and other leading international news outlets have issued breathless reports about the potential of IDN gTLDs. In a recent interview Rod Beckstrom, outgoing ICANN CEO, stated that he was “surprised to hear that ICANN may see as many

Multilingual Startup Lands $5.25 Million

IDNBlog — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 21:03:31 +0000

IDNBlog.com: Given the surge in multilingual website development, it is no surprise that an online service that connects freelance translators to customers is growing rapidly. myGengo, billed as an oDesk for those in need of translation, has been featured on TechCrunch and GigaOm this past week. Atomico, a London-based venture capital firm and ex…

Multilingual Startup Lands $5.25 Million

IDNBlog — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 17:15:59 +0000

IDN Tools: Adapt or Die

IDNBlog — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 09:37:45 +0000

IDNBlog.com: IDNTools is changing once again. We are winding up our droplist service given that Google has tightened its Google Adwords Keyword API usage terms, and we can no longer use it to rank dropping names in our droplist. We are instead working on another IDNTools service that we believe will add equal if not greater