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Author Archives: pinkybrand
Understanding your TLD’s heartbeat
If you don’t have consistent access to the hearbeat of your registry, you can’t properly manage and grow your namespace.
Gotta work for it. The inside track to TLD success.
…the “build it and they will come” days are over. Gotta work for it.
The ICANN 61 – San Juan meeting schedule has been released
I don’t have to tell you that the conflict between the domain name system’s WHOIS service and the GDPR that will come into force this May is a super hot topic in the industry that will be discussed.
Verisign’s Registration Data Access Protocol (RDAP) pilot is up and running.
You can now test it for .com and .net. Afilias also has a pilot for .info. [Written before GDPR debate in full swing.]
Reflecting back to 2009 – dotMobi, ICANN 36, Korea DMZ
Wow it’s hard to believe we shot this video EIGHT years ago this week inside the DMZ looking over to the border with North Korea, while attending the ICANN 36 meeting.
How solid is the customer relationship with the new gTLDs? Is any registry making decent money?
Some new domain extension (new gTLD) registry operators may be doing OK or even much better than OK despite lackluster volume. Unfortunately for more than a few, not so much.
The Great Domain Correction of 2017?
It is clear now that the new gTLD industry has not “killed” it.
Baidu is now using TLD Registry, Ltd.’s fully Chinese domain extensions.
Chinese search engine giant Baidu has started using TLD Registry, Ltd.’s Chinese IDN TLDs with 百度.在线 (“BaiduOnline”) and 百度.中文网 (“BaiduWebsite”) with no redirects.
English site is up for the 2017 Global Domain Industry Summit slated for 7-9 July in Xiamen, China
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