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May 03, 2007 11:04 AM PST

CircleID Relaunched: New Topics, New Tools, Mobile Access and More

As you might have noticed already, the CircleID website has been newly relaunched and restructured from ground up. Since CircleID’s initial launch, back in August 2002, our goal has essentially been to continually improve the site as an online professional utility for the Internet infrastructure — while vigilantly taking note of your feedback and suggestions. We are pleased to announce the following updates and additions to the site:

Expanded Topics and Navigational Structure

As part of CircleID’s mission to provide a comprehensive online community hub for the Internet’s infrastructure and policies, two additional main topics have been introduced, in addition to the existing Domain Name System (DNS) coverage, resulting in the following main topic groups:

• Domain Name System (DNS)
• Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP)
• Broadband

Additionally, now you can navigate the archived postings within CircleID in three different ways (for an example, see the left side column on the main page). These options are:

• By Topic (DNS, VoIP and Broadband)
• By Section (Blogs, News, Recently Commented Posts, and Industry Updates)
• By Tag (Clusters of postings grouped by sub-topics otherwise known as tags)

Your Toolbar

You should be able to see your activated toolbar on top of the website (if you are logged in), giving you quick access to your newly updated control panel (Panel), post submission tool (Submit), member directory (Directory), etc. Additionally we have added the site explorer (Explore) section to help you get the latest statistics on popular postings through out CircleID.

Your Page

Your newly polished dedicated page (click ‘You’ on the toolbar on top of the website — if you are logged in) provides you with a free, clean, and uncluttered space to showcase your professional profile, website, blog and postings on CircleID. This page is fully editable via your control panel.

You never know who will be visiting your page — CircleID is used on a daily basis for networking and making new connections by your colleagues and industry professionals. And of course, participants on CircleID do get noticed. Please take a few minutes to review your page and make any additional changes/updates necessary. If you have any questions or trouble with your account, please don’t hesitate contact us for help.

Additionally, as a member, you now have a dedicated RSS feed for all of your posting on CircleID — which can also be controlled or turned off via your control panel.

Access Map

Do you prefer to visit CircleID via a Mobile device or your favorite RSS feed reader? Click the Sitemap in your toolbar on top of the page and get quick links to various options for your preferred access points.

Companies

CircleID supports its operations with revenue generated from advertisements and sponsorships. Additionally we provide company memberships (for a small fee) allowing companies within relevant industries to share information about their companies, products and services with CircleID’s dynamic and influential community (displayed within designated areas). Please contact us if you’d like to advertise or have your company featured on CircleID.

Comments?

Please use the comment form below to post your feedback and suggestions or send us a message — your input is appreciated and we will do our very best to respond to each one of them.

Thank you for being a part of CircleID.

Aug 24, 2006 12:01 PM PST

Celebrating the Web: OneWebDay Kicks Off in a Month!

September 22 is OneWebDay, a day to “celebrate the Web and what it means to us as individuals, organizations, and communities.” Founded by Susan Crawford and spearheaded by volunteers around the globe, the initiative is helping to plan events in major cities (check out OneWebDay Canada!)

OneWebDay is a day to make the web visible all over the world: “The idea is to show everyone what kinds of amazing collaborations and human interactions go on online. And to tell stories about how the web has changed our lives. It’s a transformative part of our world, this online phenomenon, and we shouldn’t take it for granted.”

We’re just one month away from the very first OneWebDay. Grab your button here and visit the official OneWebDay website to find out more.

May 11, 2006 3:27 PM PST

‘Domaining’ Added to CircleID Group of Topics

Domaining, a commonly used term to identify a business focused on domain name speculations, has been gaining growing level of attention. Although the Domaining is still viewed controversial in nature, Google, Yahoo!, and Financial Institutions are just few examples of some of the growing number of larger type organizations that are highly active in the field.

Never the less, the raising level of discussions and main-stream media coverage on Domaining activities is also emerging more and more frequently within the CircleID community. Hence, we have now added Domaining as a designated location for all conversations and participants in this field.

We’d also like to encourage members to edit/add to the backgrounder page for Domaining which is referenced to at the top of the main topic page among other CircleID pages.

Feb 23, 2006 7:42 AM PST

CircleID Selects UltraDNS to Provide Advanced Managed DNS Services

As you may have noticed in the footer of CircleID pages, this site’s DNS is powered by UltraDNS. We have followed UltraDNS’ growth over the years and gained a strong level of respect for its DNS management services. We are thrilled to have CircleID.com and its sister sites within Iomemo Network, managed by UltraDNS. We are also proud to have UltraDNS as one of CircleID’s industry participants. Below is the official release that went out today:

UltraDNS, the world’s leading provider of Managed DNS services, today announced that CircleID, the pre-eminent online community for technical and political Internet discussions, has chosen UltraDNS to strengthen its online presence. Given the importance of its DNS infrastructure to the online experience, CircleID has outsourced this critical component to UltraDNS in order to ensure the highest possible reliability and security for the destination site of a prestigious international community.

“As an open global industry journal, CircleID’s web site has become a key online destination for some of the Internet’s core and heated debates involving the world’s leading authorities and experts,” said Ali Farshchian, Founder of CircleID. “UltraDNS has been a very responsible steward of many TLD’s and has taken key steps to make the global DNS more secure, so we’re proud to be a client. We will be launching additional online community platforms in the near future, and are confident UltraDNS will ensure that our DNS requirements can easily scale to match our growth.”

CircleID.com is a well-recognized destination for in-depth discussions and analysis of the Internet’s core technology and its policies. The web site is designed as an open platform for Internet debate, and is updated daily. It is read widely by the leading technical, business, legal and political members of the Internet community throughout the world.

“CircleID is widely respected for its compelling content and the quality of the debate it attracts,” said Jeffrey Samuels, General Manager and Executive Vice President of Marketing, UltraDNS. “We are very pleased to have UltraDNS technology support this forum and foster the open exchange of ideas and opinions so critical to the continued development of the Internet.”

Jan 30, 2006 1:10 PM PST

Introducing the ‘Industry Spotlight’

While we are extremely excited that, over the past years, CircleID has continued to grow into a global hub for the Internet’s core infrastructure opinions and discussions, inevitably so has this site’s increasing demand for operational resources. Our goal is to raise the needed revenue support while staying true to CircleID’s quality and focus.

‘Industry Spotlight’ is our first trial step forward in what we hope to be a value-added direction for the community and the industry participants offering related products and services.

The Industry Spotlight is an exclusive offer granted to one company that, by the end of February 20, 2006 11:59 pm PST, has submitted the highest price for the entire offering described on this page (value estimated to be minimum of 50,000 impressions).

Help us spread the word and be rewarded

Do you know someone in the right company that could be interested in CircleID ‘Industry Spotlight’? CircleID will reward you with 20% of that company’s final bid if it is selected for this round of ‘Industry Spotlight’!

Read more about the ‘Industry Spotlight’.

Jan 04, 2006 12:16 PM PST

News Briefs Service Launched

We have added a new service to CircleID called News Briefs in order to bring you the latest related news and headlines from sources around the world. To maximize your benefit and ensuring an overall quality and efficient service, CircleID News Briefs service pre-screens and checks the originality and relevancy of news before they are posted for your attention.

The News Briefs service provides you with the following additional components:

- A dedicated front page for quick reading
- Link to full news source for each briefing
- Option to post further comments for each news brief
- Option to blog about any particular news brief on CircleID
- Quick search and access via Archives Tools
- RSS feed and inclusion in weekly Email Service

Enjoy! And please send us your feedback.

Oct 25, 2005 11:49 PM PST

CircleID Website Relaunched

CircleID website has been relaunched with significant overall improvements — some will be immediately apparent to you but many others will be noticed over time while making use of various site tools and services. Please make note of the major changes outlined for you below:

Member Panel: Restructured with New Features and Settings
- Add your blog URL to your public page
- Creative Commons License option for postings
- Your most viewed posts
- Your most commented posts
- Time localization
- And more...

RSS Services: Now Available for All Content Groups
- If you subscribe to CircleID RSS feed, please reset you reader
- Visit RSS services

Content Groups: New Additions & Improvements
- Main section serving community postings
- Industry section serving select company postings
- Organizations section serving related postings
- Backgrounders serving a community grown knowledge base
- Internal blog for updates on website & services
- Improved comment tracking
- Channels redefined as Topics with improved tracking

Search & Archive: Restructured to Address Extensive Growth
- View archives and search faster and more effectively

Upon reviewing the new site changes, please share your thoughts with us so that we can continue to improve and provide a powerful, easy to use service.

Oct 21, 2005 2:23 PM PST

RSS Title Link Problem Fixed

With special thanks to our savvy RSS readers, a linking problem was brought to our attention with the new RSS feeds. The new RSS feeds in the current Beta site did not link properly to the appropriate post when clicked. Please note that this problem has now been resolved. If you experienced a similar problem, please reload the feeds in your RSS reader and try it again. If this problem continues to persist on your end, please send us a note.

Oct 19, 2005 6:08 PM PST

New CircleID Website Launched (In Beta Mode)

As part or our commitment to better serving the community, the newly launched CircleID website has been rebuilt from ground up offering improved member features, RSS services, speed, collaboration, search & archival system and more.

Help us remove any bugs or design problems with the site: To communicate with us about the site, please use the feedback page as frequently as you wish. The new CircleID website will remain in BETA mode for (we hope) a very short time until all major testing and debugging has been completed.

To start browsing around this new site, we recommend Site Map as good starting point. Be sure to update your RSS feeds if you are a subscriber.

Jul 06, 2005 10:08 AM PST

ICANN Vancouver 2005 Website Launched

The hosts of ICANN Vancouver 2005, CircleID and Leading Edge BC, are proud to announce the launch of the official website for the event, www.icannvancouver.ca. In addition to providing all the required information for the event and visitors to Vancouver, the website will be continuously updated with latest developments prior to and during ICANN Vancouver 2005 (Nov 30 - Dec 4).

All attendees are encouraged to take advantage of the ‘Update Services’ provided on the site (RSS and Email Alerts) to keep up to date with the latest announcements for this upcoming meeting in Vancouver.

Companies interested in sponsoring the event are welcome to visit the Sponsorship section of the site for information on obtaining the sponsorship package. Please note that all sponsorship items are sold on first come, first paid basis.

Members of the press are invited to visit the Press Center. Please note that this section will be updated with further announcements in the following months leading up to the meeting. To stay updated, please use the ‘Update Services’ provided on the site for RSS and Email Alerts.

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