Journalism

In remembrance of Guy Kewney

April 8, 2010

So I am a pretty poor choice to write something about Guy Kewney, who passed away earlier today my time and in the early hours UK time.
I have never worked alongside Guy. I have never edited him or been edited by him. In fact, I think I have never written for the same publication as [...]

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Talking about Sex.com on NPR’s On the Media

February 28, 2010

I recorded a show for National Public Radio’s (NPR) On the Media show earlier this week talking about Sex.com, my book about it and the domain’s upcoming auction next month.
The show played this morning. You can see the NPR page (with transcript) at http://www.onthemedia.org/transcripts/2010/02/26/06. And listen to the show below:
[Audio clip: view full post to [...]

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Watch out: .xxx is coming to an Internet near you soon

February 23, 2010

So I think there is a real chance that the Internet extension .xxx will appear on the Internet some time this year.
Of course, you really can never know since overseeing body ICANN is a complex beast, but following the first use of the organization’s Independent Review Process (IRP) and the resulting panel declaration [pdf], [...]

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UK government says Nominet EGM changes enough to get it off company’s back

February 5, 2010

A quick update to my earlier post about voting to ensure that the .uk registry isn’t regulated by the government.
The top civil servant at the Department for Business (BIS, formerly BERR, formerly DTi), David Hendon, has sent a letter [pdf] back in response to a letter [pdf] from Nominet’s chairman Bob Gilbert saying that the [...]

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My first story in three years – Oversee’s auction scandal

February 4, 2010

So I’ve written my first news story is what I think is three years. It’s on The Register and is about Oversee’s auction scandal following a discussion with CEO Jeff Kupietzky at Domainfest last week.
Here go: Domain auction house wrestles with alleged shill
I held off journalism while in my job at ICANN – mostly [...]

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Vote now to stop government regulation of .uk

February 2, 2010

Nominet is canvassing support for a crucial Net governance vote that it says will help prevent government regulation of Britain’s dot-uk registry.
The company has just published a series of resolutions to be put to a member vote at an Extraordinary General Meeting on 24 February in London. The resolutions will see several significant changes made [...]

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How much do you love.info?

January 27, 2010

Enough to pay $12,000 for it?
I just got the results for the Domainfest first-day auction, described as “very strong” by Oversee’s main on the ground, Mason. Certainly looks better than last year, which was a bit of a wash-out. Is this another sign the economy is finally picking up?
Anyway, of 73 domains, 49 were sold [...]

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Adam Epstein wins Domain-pitch-fest

January 26, 2010

Just an update on my previous post – Adam Epstein from AdMarketplace won the first round of the PITCHfest.

The winning idea – pubMarketplace can be found at, well, pubMarketplace.com. There is a flyer in the Domainfest bag about the service.
It advertises itself as “Bringing the Power of Search to Content Publishers” and offers the [...]

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How d’you like my shiny thing? – Domainfest 2010

January 26, 2010

Whenever you hear editors decrying the death of newsprint – and the Guardian’s Alan Rusbridger did exactly that this week – there is always someone who points out that online advertising has jumped x percent in the past year and is now worth xx billion.
And the response is always: but that remains only a [...]

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Domainfest 2010 begins

January 26, 2010

I’m off to Domainfest 2010 in Santa Monica this morning, hampered slightly by a dreadful cold.
Should be interesting – this morning they are experimenting with almost a TV format and having people pitch new product and service ideas for increasing website traffic and revenue to a panel of experts who will tell them what [...]

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