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		<title>CircleID: Top&#45;Level Domains</title>
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		<description>Latest Top-Level Domains related postings on CircleID</description>
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		<dc:date>2008-09-04T17:48:00-08:00</dc:date>
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			<title>Moniker Unveils Premium Contenders for its Upcoming Domain Name Auction at T.R.A.F.F.I.C. NYC 2008</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Moniker.com, an Oversee.net company and provider of Domain Asset Management services, today announced the availability of premium domain names for purchase via its live and extended online auction at the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/8945_moniker_premium_domain_auction/">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2008-09-04T16:55:00-08:00</dc:date>
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			<title>Domain Name Registrations Up 22% from Last Year, Totaling 168 Million</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[VeriSign today released the Domain Report for the second quarter of 2008, highlighting a continued growth of the Internet globally. At the midpoint of 2008, according to the report, there were 168 million domain name registrations across all Top Level Domain Names (TLDs) -- repersenting a four percent increase over the first quarter of 2008 and 22 percent growth over the same quarter last year. The base of Country Code Top Level Domain Names (ccTLDs) totaled 65 million domain names, a four percent increase quarter over quarter and a 27 percent increase year over year. VeriSign also reports on processing peak loads of more than 48 billion Domain Name System (DNS) queries per day in the second quarter of 2008. <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/domain_name_registrations_stats_2008/">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2008-09-04T09:44:00-08:00</dc:date>
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			<title>New gTLDs String Theory for Bidders</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The following is most of the generic Top-Level Domain (gTLD) strings applied for in the 2000 and 2003 applications. Some are two, and even one character ASCII strings. Some have since been approved, or disapproved (which of course means nothing in the 2008 round). It is a universe of 180 strings. Enjoy. <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/gtld_string_theory_for_bidders/">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2008-09-03T20:55:00-08:00</dc:date>
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			<title>New gTLDs Questions Not Answered: Which Kind of Auction?</title>
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			<link>http://www.circleid.com/posts/89342_new_gtld_question_auction/</link>
			<description><![CDATA[I was expecting something that would discuss the unique properties, if any, of the domain name market, and the types of inventory theoretically available to allocate, and the expected outcomes for the various types of auctions, and some showing that for some desired policy goals, whether greatest gain to seller or lowest loss to buyer, or something entirely different, the expected outcomes. This would assist the better informed, bottom-up, stakeholder-driven, consensus policy making. Is the domain name market indistinguishable from the spectrum market? If name spaces are distinguishable from units of spectrum... <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/89342_new_gtld_question_auction/">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2008-09-03T16:32:00-08:00</dc:date>
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			<title>.ORG Applauds US Government on DNSSEC</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[.ORG applauds the US Government's decision last week to require all users of the .GOV domain to implement DNSSEC, and even more importantly, to sign the .GOV root. .ORG is the first generic Top Level Domain authorized by ICANN to implement DNSSEC, and we are hard at work putting together a comprehensive plan to roll it out. <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/88291_org_government_dnssec/">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2008-08-29T11:09:00-08:00</dc:date>
			<category>internet</category><category>dnssec</category><category>security</category><category>top_level_domains</category>
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			<title>The Internet as a Democratic Utility</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[In the wake of our recent news that .ORG has officially registered 7 million domains, some comments made to CNN by Craigslist founder Craig Newmark this week really resonated with me. The article, entitled "Internet Can Strengthen Democracy" discusses many of the same issues we have found to be the driving forces behind .ORG's consistent year-over-year growth -- community building, interaction, and inclusivity. <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/the_internet_as_a_democratic_utility/">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2008-08-29T11:01:00-08:00</dc:date>
			<category>internet</category><category>domain_registries</category><category>internet_governance</category><category>policy_regulation</category><category>top_level_domains</category><category>web</category>
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			<title>New Geographical Top&#45;Level Domains and Auctions</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>2008-08-29T09:10:00-08:00</dc:date>
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			<title>ICANN Auctioning New Top&#45;Level Domains: Serving Public Interest or Its Own?</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ICANN has recently published a number of updates to the implementation program for new gTLDs. One of these updates is a paper by ICANN's "auction design consultant PowerAuctions LLC". The document makes a case for an auction to be held for the "resolution of contention among competing new gTLD applicants for identical or similar strings." In other words, two (or more) applicants for ".bank", or applicants for ".bank" and ".banks."... <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/88273_icann_auction_top_level_domains/">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2008-08-27T15:59:00-08:00</dc:date>
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			<title>How Rise in Nationalism and Industry&apos;s Lack of Foresight Could Mean a Fragmented and Isolated Web</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[I have been thinking a lot lately on the topic of the free flow of information on the internet -- what kinds of tools are available now and in the future for governments (especially repressive ones) to control content, isolate their people and keep any contrary viewpoints censored. I had an interesting conversation with a Practice Lead from IFTF.org. <a href="http://iftf.org/">The Institute for the Future</a> (IFTF) is a California based independent, nonprofit research group with 40 years of experience in identifying emerging trends that will transform global society... Turns out they are quite concerned about the fragmentation and control of the Internet as well. But will it be an inevitability? <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/88267_nationalism_internationalized_domain_names/">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2008-08-26T07:07:00-08:00</dc:date>
			<category>internet</category><category>censorship</category><category>domain_names</category><category>internet_governance</category><category>multilinguism</category><category>policy_regulation</category><category>top_level_domains</category>
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			<title>.ORG Domain Name Registrations Pass 7 Million</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[.ORG, The Public Interest Registry, the registry behind the global .ORG domain name, announced today that more than 7 million domain names are now registered as .ORG, making it the third largest generic domain (after .com and .net). Since management of the registry was assumed by Public Interest Registry in 2003, .ORG registrations have increased more than 250%. <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/88259_org_domain_name_registrations/">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2008-08-25T09:10:00-08:00</dc:date>
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			<title>New gTLDs: Comments on the Unsigned &quot;The Economic Case for Auctions&quot;</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[When Kurt Pritz briefed the Generic Names Supporting Organization (<a href="http://gnso.icann.org/">GNSO</a>) Council (and observers) in Los Angeles April 10th and 11th, the new generic Top-Level Domain (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_top-level_domain">gTLD</a>) process model flows transition through an "auction" state in two of the three paths where two or more applications existed for the same (or similar) strings. At that time Kurt, speaking for Staff, was clear that the existence of a well-defined community was <em>not dispositive</em>, which surprised the Council members from the Intellectual Property Constituency... <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/gtld_comments_economic_case_for_auctions/">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2008-08-25T07:27:00-08:00</dc:date>
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			<title>Did We Miss ICANN&apos;s Reply?</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[On July 29, the Non-Commercial Users Constituency (NCUC) and Public Interest Registry (PIR) sent out a joint letter to <a href="http://www.icann.org">ICANN</a> asking it to consider the interests of the end-users as core to its policies in Internationalized Domain Names (IDN) implementation... As of today's date, August 21, 2008, we have yet to receive even an acknowledgement of receipt of our letter... <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/idn_org_did_we_miss_icann_reply/">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2008-08-21T12:56:00-08:00</dc:date>
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			<title>dotMobi Builds on Breakthough DeviceAtlas Mobile Development Tool</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[dotMobi, the company behind .mobi - the only ICANN-approved Internet address designed specifically for helping consumers find mobile content - today announced the inclusion of Mobizoft video content adaptation data into the award-winning DeviceAtlas, the definitive source of mobile handset information for mobile content developers. <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/88214_dotmobi_deviceatlas_mobile_development_tool/">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2008-08-21T02:00:00-08:00</dc:date>
			<category>internet</category><category>domain_names</category><category>domain_registries</category><category>mobile</category><category>top_level_domains</category><category>wireless</category>
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			<title>Will .cn Become the New .com?</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[I recently came across a chart of the most popular top-level domains (TLDs), compiled by <a href="http://www.domainesinfo.fr/statistiques.php">Stephane Van Gelder</a>. Although I keep track of country code TLD registrations for the <a href="http://bytelevel.com/map/ccTLD.html">Country Codes of the World</a> map (see also <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/710110_cctld_map_country_code_top_level_domains/">related CircleID post</a>), Stephane tracks all domains, including .com, .net., etc. And when I saw it I got to thinking... <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/88203_will_cn_become_the_new_com/">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2008-08-20T14:11:00-08:00</dc:date>
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			<title>Hostway Announces &quot;The .Pro Red Carpet VIP Affair&quot; Domain Reservation Period</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Hostway Corporation, the global Web solutions leader, announced it is now taking reservations for the .Pro Top Level Domain (TLD) through August 31, 2008. Hostway's wholly owned subsidiary, <a href="http://www.registry.pro/">RegistryPro</a>, is the exclusive Internet registry for .Pro, a TLD for licensed professionals and entities. <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/pro_domain_reservation_period/">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2008-08-19T16:58:00-08:00</dc:date>
			<category>internet</category><category>domain_names</category><category>domain_registries</category><category>top_level_domains</category><category>web</category>
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