The AmLawDaily, poses the above question to Stephen Ryan, a partner in the law firm of McDermott, Will & Emery who according to the post is “the longtime outside counsel for the American Registry of Internet Numbers.
According to the article the “Internet Governance Forum” is being held in India this week and “”The main topic [...]

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The Knoxville News Sentinel, announced today that they were finally going to use their long owned domain, Knoxville.com.
“”””Starting Friday, Dec. 5, Knoxville.com will become the News Sentinel’s premier online source of information about things to do in the Knoxville.  Major sections of the site will include movies, music, events, nightlife and dining. There also [...]

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This is off the topic of domains, but I find most domainers are Tech Toy crazy.
I did want to acknowledge the passing of one of the original tech toys, XM Radio.
About 10 days ago the official merger between XM Radio and Sirius went into effect, with Sirius being the surviving company.
As one of those who [...]

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According to the AP, Carl Icahn, bought 7 million more shares of Yahoo for $67 million.
That works out to about $9.92 a share.
His stake in Yahoo is now 75.6 million shares, or nearly 5.5 percent of the company
Icahn previously bought 70 million shares for about $25 a share and has lost $900 million on that [...]

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eNom, announced today the renewal of their Domain Name Services Agreement with VeriSign, under which eNom serves as the registrar for premium .tv domain names.
According to VeriSign, .tv domains have experienced annual growth of over 60 percent and a doubling of new .tv domain name registrations.
More than 7,000 premium .tv names are currently registered—a 40 [...]

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First I want to wish all of you and your families a great thanksgiving, as we all have so much to be thankful for.  With so many people out of work; losing their homes, companies out of business and retirement plans wiped out, as an industry, we are very, very fortunate.
I see many TV shows [...]

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In an interview with iTWire,  ICANN CEO, Paul Twomey, said that he expects ICANN to start accepting application for the new gTLD”s by mid 2009.”
Aside from restrictions in relation to trademarks, intellectual property rights, potentially confusing names like .kom and some character strings that will cause problems for the Internet’s name servers, like .1234, Twomey [...]

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According to a report today in CNET.com, Google’s Chrome browser has a 3.6% usage rate.
Browser usage according to CNET are split up as follows:
Internet Explorer 40.7%
Firefox                 37.4%
Safari                   18.2%
Chrome                3.6%
Opera                   1.2%

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According to CNET,  Google is going to make a major reduction in the 10,000 contractors they use:
“We have 10,000, and we have had a plan in place for awhile to significantly reduce that number, This is something we’ve been thinking about for awhile–six or seven months. It predates the most acute phase of the (present [...]

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For the last eight weeks I have been watching an incredible amount of advertising on Television, Print and online for the new Blackberry Storm.
The ad campaign was incredibly successful.
So successful that by all accounts the Storm was sold out all across America within 48 hours after its release.
According to reports somewhere between 100K and 400K [...]

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