Limei Liu: Suggestions on IDN Variant Management
To some applicants, ICANN’s variant management policy in DAG4 has become a big obstacle to the new generic Top-Level Domain (gTLD) application. The policy is to delegate the string while reserving the variants, and these variants will not be delegated until a sound mechanism is developed and the desired variants are evaluated. But for some [...]
GoDaddy Puts Itself Up for Private Auction?
Remember when GoDaddy filed to go public? And then canceled their IPO? According to what the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) writes today, they are giving it another go: Apparently Qatalyst Partners, the boutique firm run by veteran technology banker Frank Quattrone has been retained by GoDaddy to offer the company in an auction that private [...]
.ORG Prices To Increase April 2011
In an announcement sent to registrars, the Public Interest Registry (PIR) announced that they would follow suit with the recent Verisign increases and increase prices for .ORG domains to $7.21 per domain name year on April 1st, 2011. The announcement reads: This is a notice by Public Interest Registry (PIR), pursuant to Section 7.3(B) of [...]
Hitting Home Runs With Domain Development: Industry Pioneers Show How It’s Done
Website development has been a hot topic among domain owners this year. While much of the conversation has centered on developing a large number of domains at once - some of the most successful developers in our business continue to do it the old fashioned way - building full fledged online businesses brick by brick.
Welcome to the third edition of the @DotSauce Twitter link roundup where I share a selection of tweets that represent some of the top news and resources related to the domain industry, web…