Archive for November, 2011

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

Nov 21, 2011 4 Comments by

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, [...]

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

Nov 15, 2011 No Comments by

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 in the Cyrillic .РФ [...]

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The Biggest Threat to IDN.IDN gTLDs

Nov 14, 2011 2 Comments by

I first learned about it by reading a Forbes article making the rounds (here) at the end of September. Bob Liodice, president and CEO of the Association of National Advertisers (“ANA”) authored the article, which is entitled “How to (Unnecessarily) Encumber The Internet And The Economy” and argued that the new gTLD program will be [...]

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