Michael and Roger Collins of Afternic are very pleased — for now at least.
NameMedia (a.k.a. BuyDomains), a company which owns and sells hundreds of thousands of domain names, has purchased Afternic, a site where individuals can buy and sell domain names.
Small companies with good offerings will continue to be gobbled up as those with money [...]

Paul Twomey, ICANN’s default CEO, warns about the imminent collapse of the Internet.

“The internet is like a fifteen story building, and with international domain names what we’re trying to do is change the bricks in the basement,” he said.
“If we change the bricks there’s all these layers of code above the DNS … we have [...]

Cocca (Council of Country Code Administrators) is up and running and doing well. Cocca is a forward-thinking assocation of smaller ccTLDs who are pooling their resources in an intelligent way.
This is an effort that’s been ticking away in the background for many years and I’m really pleased to see it finally [...]

Eurid, the operator of .EU, announced that it was cutting its wholesale price from 10 Euros to 5 Euros (about US$6.40 at today’s rate).
Is Eurid crazy? They’re cutting the price in half! Eurid is acting as if unit cost should go down as sales increase!
Haven’t they learned the lesson that ICANN, NeuLevel, [...]

I am delighted to announce that Jeff Kirsch is joining Names@Work. Sometimes you meet someone and you know that you just have to hire them if at all possible. Someone who will contribute more than a skill set, more than a work effort, more than a spot on the roster. Someone who will challenge you and even change what you thought the company was meant to do. This is Jeff.

“Catalonia has a TLD, so why not Wales?”
So asks Peter Black AM (Assembly Member).
So the Welsh are going for .CYM, a gTLD (three letters or more — ccTLDs are two-letter codes), following the lead of Catalonia’s .CAT.
According to a BBC article, the Welsh Assembly voted to approve a campaign to get .CYM added [...]

.MOBI, the telco-sponsored Internet top-level domain, wants applicants to submit an RFP (Request for Proposals) to prove you’re good enough for one of their names. Deadline: December 18, 2006.
Sez Pinky Brand:

Rather than putting names up for auction or distributing them via “first-come, first-served” methods, dotMobi is allocating news.mobi, weather.mobi, sports.mobi and ringtones.mobi to four [...]

Word of the day: astroturfing.
Microsoft will provide free wireless access to Portland, Oregon.
Microsoft’s move, and similar initiatives sponsored either by municipalities themselves (Philadelphia) or commercial providers (Google in Mountain View), may be the first step toward making mobile content really rock.
City-wide wifi isn’t just about being able to get a [...]

Word of the day: gobsmacked.
One of our new clients, a successful entrepreneur in the gourmet food business, was very concerned about working with people so far from his office in New York. Although he is well-traveled and has done business all over the world, his core team was always local.

“How can [...]

A new British law bans Denial of Service attacks.
And Islamic law bans killing.