So What’s In The ICANN Goody Bag?

Anyone who has ever been to a TRAFFIC domain show or other industry convention, knows that all attendees get a goody bag full of stuff from sponsors and advertisers that pay to give there stuff away.

The ICANN show is no different and DomainNameWire.com even pointed out last week the curious relationship between ICANN and Sponsors.

So I was pretty interested to see what swag was included in the handsome ICANN Brussels backpack that each attendee got;

1 .Org key chain.

1 .Org notebook, the paper kind, not computer kind (looks pretty much like the same notebook Parked.com gives out at shows).

1. .Be Key chain

1 very nice hard covered notebook from .EU.

1 “Yes to .XXX” button

1 USB hard drive from the .FR registry

A .Dot Pro Tee Shirt (I know you’re jealous).

An unidentifiable object (at least to me) from SIDN, which is not identified on the object or on the blank box, but which looks weird enough it could get you stopped at customs on the way back.  SIDN is the .NL registry.

A small box of candy from Centr, (Council of European National Top Level Domains registries)

A coaster from the proposed .Irish registry.

An empty small bag called “treat of the day” courtesy of Iron Mountain (an Intellectual Property Management firm) for which you have to go by their booth each day to receive.

A deck of “.playing .cards”,  as they call it, from the AUSregistry.com who calls themselves the “TLD Specialists”

A Pen from the .CO registry.

A pen from the .Ru registry which has a lot of Russian words on it.

Of course all the freebies is followed by printed material from each company, the most interesting of which is a big orange sign the ICM registry wants people to hold up at the meeting that says “Yes to .xxx”.

Other proposed extensions passing out printed matter include:

.Lat (for Latin America)

.Irish (for Irish people in and out of Ireland)

.Scot (For Scottish people)

.Bzh for Breton

.CYM for Welsh people

.Gal for Galician people

.Green (no .eco in sight)

.Shop

and although I guess not a new extension, a couple of handouts for .us.com.

I have to admit as bad as the .US extension has been on the resale market i didn’t even know there was a .US.com.

There is also a “new” ccTLD being promoted .SO, which is for the country of Somalia which anticipates a launch in the fall of this year.