Author Archives: Joe

About Joe

Joe Alagna is the North American General Manager for CentralNic LTD., a domain name registry. He's also an avid domainer and has been involved in the domain name industry and ICANN for over 10 years. Before that, he negotiated major accounts contracts as a National Accounts Manager for AT&T Wireless.

ICANN Update and “Monkey Business”

Posted on April 28, 2012 by Joe

Update 2012-04-30: The CEO of ICANN, Rod Beckstrom stated in an interview today that ICANN “will not publish information about who could see what”. ICANN posted an update today but it wasn’t about when TAS would reopen. Here it is… … Continue reading →

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The Best Fake I’ve Ever Seen – A Man Flies Like A Bird

Posted on April 26, 2012 by Joe

This is the second flying story I ran across this week. Sorry, off topic, but it is so interesting. The problem here is that this one is a fake. A Dutch CGI artist pulled off a pretty amazing hoax, building … Continue reading →

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New York To Los Angeles in 12 Minutes

Posted on April 23, 2012 by Joe

I ran across a video made last year about an experimental aircraft that can fly at hypersonic speeds (20 times the speed of sound). The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) did a test flight of an aircraft capable … Continue reading →

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A New, More Customer-Friendly Type Of Web Address Is Coming

Posted on April 22, 2012 by Joe

It was nice to run across an article today about new Top Level Domains that described them as “Customer-Friendly”.  We need more positive press about new TLDs.  There are plenty enough painting them in a negative way. The truth is … Continue reading →

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New and Old Top Level Domain Names (TLDs)

Posted on April 1, 2012 by Joe

I’ve had an interest in history for many years, especially in the business world.  I collect old books about selling and marketing and I think I have an above average knowledge of the history behind modern sales methods and modern … Continue reading →

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