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FairWinds Partners ⬥ 28 April Virtue, a social media management company, put out a study recently that revealed that Facebook fans have a value of $3.60 apiece for big brands.  The company based their valuation on how many impressions a wall post receives given the number of fans a page has.  For large brands, the […]

Josh Bourne ⬥ 20 April CADNA recently released a report that predicts how much new generic TLDs will cost brand owners once they are released.  A lot of the attention paid to the subject of new TLDs has been focused on .BRAND TLDs and whether or not companies should register their own branded TLD.  In

Phil Lodico ⬥ 13 April News about VeriSign’s new registry service, called “Domain Name Exchange,” has been creating a stir in the Internet community. VeriSign, which is the operator of the .COM, .NET, and .NAME TLDs, has proposed a new service for domains in .NET that would essentially allow a registrant to return a domain

Josh Bourne ⬥ 8 April When I talk with clients and people I know who are involved in the domain name space, the questions they ask me often start with, “What do you think…” It occurred to me recently that providing answers to that type of question is a major part of what we do

Josh Bourne ⬥ 30 March UPDATE: Yahoo! had filed a lawsuit over the domain name, and in early June, the dispute was settled and flicker.com was transferred to Yahoo!.  Flicker.com now points to the Flickr homepage. Most people are familiar with Flickr, the photo sharing Web site owned by Yahoo!  But given its pronunciation, I

Josh Bourne ⬥ 25 March Last week marked the 25th anniversary of the registration of the first .COM domain name. Since then, approximately 80 million .COM domains have been registered according to a report by the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF). Despite an increase in the number of gTLDs available, .COM has dominated and

Josh Bourne ⬥ 17 March Since we cofounded the Coalition Against Domain Name Abuse (CADNA) in 2007, the non-profit has been dedicated to both building awareness and taking active steps to prevent cybersquatting and other online infringements. One of the main avenues for achieving these goals has been to engage with the Internet Corporation for

Steve Levy ⬥ 10 March The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, in US v. Kilbride, No. 07-10528 (9th Cir. 2009), upheld fraud and conspiracy charges arising from the defendant’s sending of spam emails containing advertisements for pornographic materials. Key to this ruling was the fact that the spam emails contained false and non-functioning email addresses

Josh Bourne ⬥ 4 March This article recently caught my eye: ICANN Head Visiting China After ‘dot-China’ Request. It is a report of ICANN CEO Rod Beckstrom’s visit to China, which comes on the heels of the country’s application to ICANN for the use of domain names that end in “dot-China,” with “China” appearing in

Josh Bourne ⬥ 17 February At the ICANN meeting in Seoul, the ICANN board decided to push back the roll out of new gTLDs to at least after the second quarter of this year.  A few weeks later, ICANN opened up a public comment period soliciting feedback on the possibility of creating a type of

Josh Bourne ⬥ 10 February On January 29, the Coalition Against Domain Name Abuse (CADNA), which FairWinds helped found and runs, hosted a policy forum here in Washington, D.C.  The forum focused on emerging challenges for the Internet community in 2010, specifically the future of ICANN under the Affirmation of Commitments (AOC) and potential reform

FairWinds Partners ⬥ 8 February With hundreds of social media Web sites, business and personal communication are rapidly changing to real-time. Social media is in front and center position now in organizations and discussions are taking place not only among the security team but within marketing, sales, human resources and even at executive levels. Firms