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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 To Use “Digital Archery” Method for Secondary Batching in New TLDs

Posted on April 1, 2012 by Joe

ICANN announced today that since they received over 500 applications they are triggering the use of “Digital Archery” as part of the batching of applications. The last report I saw stated that there were 839 applicants. It had been stated … Continue reading →

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ICANN Adds 266 New Gtld Applicants In A Week

Posted on March 25, 2012 by Joe

ICANN has revealed that it now has 556 registered users in its Top-Level Domain Application System, up from 290 just a week ago. Each TAS account can be used to apply for 49 new gTLDs (not 50 as previously reported), … Continue reading →

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JAS Global Advisors To Be One Of Three Independent Evaluators

Posted on March 24, 2012 by Joe

A Chicago company, JAS Global Advisors, is playing a key behind-the-scenes role in an unprecedented expansion of Internet domain names – the web’s equivalent of real-estate addresses dominated by .com, .gov, .org and .edu. The expansion will open the way … Continue reading →

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Aftermarket Domain Values Somewhat Exponential

Posted on February 29, 2012 by Joe

ICANN has a pretty good reporting tool on their site (I’ll give you the url at the end because I want you to read my article first ). It’s a dynamic tool that shows registry numbers. Unfortunately I couldn’t find … Continue reading →

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MLS Domains Association Selects CentralNic as Registry Provider

Posted on February 23, 2012 by Joe

Association cites CentralNic’s experience with integrated registry and registrar services as key factor in selecting registry back-end service provider MLS Domains Association, a non-profit association of U.S. multiple listing services, has selected CentralNic Ltd. as its registry back-end service provider … Continue reading →

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