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The Year in Review and the Year Ahead ...
The latest in the Domain Pulse series of Q&As looking at the year in review and the year ahead comes from a domain investor's registrar perspective. Today Marc McCutcheon from Internet.bs, part of the rapidly growing CentralNIC group, discusses how CentralNIC's merger with Key-Systems brought a lot of hard work and some incredible opportunities, GDPR is a good thing, registrars offering below-cost .com domain names is unsustainable, there are too many new gTLDs f
DotBERLINs Dirk Krischenowski On How I...
The Domain Pulse Q&A series looking at 2018 in review and ahead to 2019 today has dotBERLIN's Dirk Krischenowski. Krischenowski has been involved in the ICANN new gTLD programme since its infancy over a decade ago and was one of the founders of the .berlin project. Today dotBERLIN has become the fourth largest geographic TLD with over 54,000 registrations, an impressive feat given that the 3 cities ahead of Berlin are much larger cities by population Tokyo, New
Afilias Roland LaPlante Reviews 2018 a...
Today Domain Pulse has Roland LaPlante, Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer at Afilias participate in our Q&A series looking back on 2018, forward to 2019 and his views on GDPR, how new gTLDs are performing and how relevant are domain names today. He also expresses concerns as to how the entire 'ecosystem is grappling with the intersection of government desire for control (protection) and the historically open internet.'Afilias is the w
EURid on 2018 In Review The Year Ahead...
Domain Pulse is asking domain name companies and industry figures to give us their highlights and lowlights of 2018, what they're thinking will be happening in 2019 as well as their view on the EU's GDPR, the future of domain names and how Brexit is impacting them. The first cab off the rank is EURid, manager of the .eu top level domain.What were the highlights, lowlights and challenges of 2018 in the domain name industry for you?The European Commission's notice
Matthias Conrad new CEO at Sedo as Fla...
Sedo released some news that Matthias Conrad will take over as the CEO of Sedo.On January 1st, 2019, Matthias Conrad joined the management board of Sedo as our new CEO as Tobias Flaitz is stepping down. Together with fellow directors Barbara Stolz and Hakan Ali, Matthias Conrad will take over the leadership of Sedo. The shareholders of Sedo and Tobias Flaitz have agreed that there is a need for a change in the management. Matthias Conrad started his career in 1999 as product manager at Vodaf
.FAN Joins .FANS In A Battle of the Ne...
The .fan new gTLD hit general availability on 12 December in a marketplace where fans of sport and other forms of entertainment are well catered for. In the first 24 hours there were, according to nTLDstats, 996 registrations of .fan domain names, taking the total to 1,387. Today there are around 2,050 .fan domain names registered.But for the fans of sport and other forms of entertainment, there is a second option with the .fans new generic top level domain which hit general availabilit