Domain Name Strategy
Greetings from Eagle River
Josh Bourne ⬥ 29 July My boys and my mom, walking through the woods. I’ve spent the past week on vacation with my two sons up in Eagle ...
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Getting the Facts Straight
Josh Bourne ⬥ 17 July A recent Slate article titled “www.thosenewdomainnames.areforsuckers,” caught my attention last week. With all the controversy over ICANN’s planned rollout of a potentially unlimited ...
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Brand Hijacking
Josh Bourne ⬥ 2 July This week, the Wall Street Journal reported on businesses’ struggle to protect their brands on Twitter. Many are concerned about unauthorized uses of ...
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ICANN’s Meeting Down Under
Phil Lodico ⬥ 24 June A quick report of some of the most important developments coming out of ICANN’s meeting Sydney: Despite concerns over the way in which ...
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Bringing in the Big Guns
Phil Lodico ⬥ 20 June As the debate over new TLDs rages on, more and more people are joining in the discussion and offering their two cents. Just ...
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Mistaken Identity
Phil Lodico ⬥ 20 June Anybody who has had a friend sneak onto his or her Facebook profile and change the information knows the heavy reputational damage that ...
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Off to a Good Start …
Phil Lodico ⬥ 12 June ICANN announced on Friday that it has teamed up with the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago (NORC) to undertake ...
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Getting Up on a Soapbox
Josh Bourne ⬥ 9 June Last week, when I attended Rep. Boucher’s congressional hearing on the relationship between Internet governing body ICANN and the U.S. government, I was ...
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ARE YOU LISTENING, ICANN?
Phil Lodico ⬥ 21 May ICANN claims that the roll out of new TLDs is designed to encourage healthy competition in the domain name space, but the organization ...
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When the Good Times Come Again …
Josh Bourne ⬥ 14 May It seems like everyone is feeling the economic crunch to some degree. The New York Times reports that even though there are encouraging ...
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Disorder in the Court
Josh Bourne ⬥ 29 April Southern Company (Southern), a Fortune 500 company that provides energy related services in the South, filed for an injunction against Dauben, Inc, a ...
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Who Should Hold the Reins?
Phil Lodico ⬥ 27 April We’ve talked a lot about the governance issues in ICANN, but it’s trickier to discuss ways to go about fixing these issues. For ...
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