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ICANN’s Culver City Regional Registrar Meeting Slides

Posted on May 23, 2012 by Joe Alagna

ICANN held a very nice regional registrar event last week and I was privileged to attend. Their Registrar Liaison Manager, Mike Zupke came through with his promise to send us the slides from the meetings. It was a good meeting, … Continue reading →

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TAS Reopens

Posted on May 22, 2012 by Joe Alagna

Ok, It’s game on again. After so many weeks of down time, research, and notifications, TAS has reopened.  They’ve allowed for some maintenance windows this time. Their target date for closing the window is now next Wednesday (May 30, 2012) … Continue reading →

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ICANN Update and “Monkey Business”

Posted on April 28, 2012 by Joe Alagna

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

Posted on April 22, 2012 by Joe Alagna

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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