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		<title>Dirk Krischenowski &#45; CircleID</title>
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		<description>Postings from Dirk Krischenowski on CircleID</description>
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		<dc:rights>Copyright 2008, unless where otherwise noted.</dc:rights>
		<dc:date>2008-08-29T08:10:00-08:00</dc:date>
		

		
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			<title> New Geographical Top-Level Domains and Auctions (Featured Blog)</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[I was surprised by ICANN's "Economic Case for Auctions in New gTLDs" paper especially with view to the latest presentation on the new generic Top-Level Domain (gTLD) implementation process in Paris. That Paris presentation highlighted the protection of community interests such as religious organisations, geographically based communities or indigenous groups and suggested a preference of bona fide community-based applicants against pure generic applications for the same string. Contrary to this the only text passage in the current paper where ICANN considered the community-based applicants is "a 25% bidding credit could be offered to community-based bidders whose community is located primarily in least-developed countries". This reminds me of the discussion on discounts for HIV medicine... <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/88299_geographical_gtld_icann_auction">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2008-08-29T08:10:00-08:00</dc:date>
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			<title> Study Shows German Internet Users Prefer Memorable Domain Names for Cities and Regions (Featured Blog)</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The majority of private Internet users in Germany favour the increased usage of local domain endings as in .city or .region in the future because the more memorable names will help them to better find the information that they are looking for. That is the core result of a representative survey that was commissioned by eco Verband der deutschen Internetwirtschaft and conducted by the market research company eResult at the beginning of October. eco is the registered association of German Internet enterprises... <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/711212_german_internet_domain_names">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2007-11-02T12:08:00-08:00</dc:date>
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			<title> Local ".city" TLDs as an Opportunity for City Portals (Featured Blog)</title>
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			<link>http://www.circleid.com/posts/710210_local_city_tld_portals</link>
			<description><![CDATA[One of the most frequently asked question when it comes to the discussion about a city top-level domain ".city" (such as .london, .berlin or .nyc) is what .city means to the already established official city portal (such as London.gov.uk, Berlin.de, NYC.gov or in general City.com). This article contributes to the most important topics in this discussion... The choices at the top-level available to individuals, companies and regional communities is today limited to country codes (such as .de or .fr) and a very few generic endings (such as .com or .info). Individuals and companies in cities can't really identify with Internet addressing and look for ways to circumvent it. For instance, the term "hamburg" is already used in about 50,000 domains such as www.habour-hamburg.de demonstrably showing that they belong to the Hamburg community. The synonym "nyc" can be found in almost 300,000 domains... <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/710210_local_city_tld_portals">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2007-10-02T10:22:00-08:00</dc:date>
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			<title> .berlin TLD Awared the German Internet Award 2007 (Featured Blog)</title>
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			<link>http://www.circleid.com/posts/berlin_german_internet_award_eco</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Just to inform the people who are interested in news about the prospective TLD candidate dotBERLIN: At the ceremonial awards for the eco Internet Awards, dotBERLIN GmbH & Co. KG won the special award of the German Internet industry. dotBERLIN aims to create a new domain ending .berlin (a top-level domain), which will result in a local identity for Berliners in the Internet, providing an alternative to addresses such as .de and .com. .berlin has become a trailblazer, setting a trend which has since been followed by other large cities such as New York and Paris. <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/berlin_german_internet_award_eco">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2007-06-23T17:50:00-08:00</dc:date>
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			<title> City Identifiers on the Net: A Closer Look (Featured Blog)</title>
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			<link>http://www.circleid.com/posts/city_identifiers_net_tld</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Cities are among the largest regional authorities and natural human communities we know. Of course there are countries like China, India or the USA which count some hundred million or even a billion inhabitants. But there are also countries with far less than 100,000 inhabitants, like Tuvalu, Andorra or Barbados. If city communities are ranked by the number of inhabitants as independent entities among country communities, cities like <em>Tokyo</em>, <em>New York</em>, <em>Shanghai</em> or <em>London</em> head the ranking because they have more citizens than many countries. London for instance has more inhabitants than the Netherlands, and Tokyo outpaces Canada in that respect. Interestingly, there are only around 400 cities worldwide with more than 1 million inhabitants... The following post will give an overview of how cities are being identified on the Internet via Top-Level Domains and the opportunities that lay ahead. <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/city_identifiers_net_tld">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2006-04-24T13:36:00-08:00</dc:date>
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			<title> Urban Identity by City Top-Level Domains (Featured Blog)</title>
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			<link>http://www.circleid.com/posts/urban_identity_by_city_top_level_domains</link>
			<description><![CDATA[This document is intended to be a starting point for a discussion on upcoming city Top-Level Domain Names (city TLDs) such as .berlin, .nyc, or .london. It reflects considerations about the impact of city TLDs on the city society, the individuals in the city, the regional and global environment, and the Internet at large. <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/urban_identity_by_city_top_level_domains">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2006-01-01T08:49:55-08:00</dc:date>
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