On the eve of ICANN 44 in Prague, Michele and Conn are joined by Antony Van Couvering, whose company Top Level Domain Holdings have applied for a total of 92 new generic TLDs, some on their own behalf and some for clients. Antony points out that it’s going to be an interesting meeting in Prague. There’s […]
Archive | June, 2012
UK Advertising Watchdog Bans Twitter Ad Campaign
The UK’s advertising watchdog, the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA), has banned a twitter campaign from Nike. The complaint centred around tweets from footballers Wayne Rooney and Jack Wilshere. The ASA understood that, as part of their sponsorship deal with Nike, the footballers were required to take part in marketing activities and that both were asked […]
Microsoft Announce Surface
Last night Microsoft announced their new tablet – the Surface. It looks pretty slick, though I’m not sure what kind of price bracket it’s in. Here’s the promotional video for it: [youtube]http://youtu.be/dpzu3HM2CIo[/youtube] Find out more here
Questions For Antony Van Couvering?
With the new TLD applications list now published and the ICANN public meeting only a week away we’ll be talking to Antony Van Couvering, CEO of Top Level Domain Holdings. Antony Van Couvering is CEO of Top Level Domain Holdings who have applied for 70 new TLDs! So who is Antony Van Couvering? His LinkedIn […]
A Great Big Hulking Lump of Metal [Podcast #33]
As ICANN announce “The Big Reveal“, the list of 1930 new generic Top Level Domains which have been applied for by prospective registries, Kelly Hardy joins Michele and Conn to discuss the news, puzzle over “Digital Archery”, and speculate on the prospect of new territory in the world of internet names. The other big news […]
Minister for the Internet [Podcast #32]
Michele’s in Arizona, at a meeting of domain registrars, discussing policy, including the Registrar Accreditation Agreement. It’s always a struggle to podcast over hotel WiFi but this time we decided it was hopeless. I kept the Skype connection on the studio end, and used Skype-Out to phone Michele’s hotel room. We recorded yesterday on World […]
Game Of Thrones Cooking
The second season of Game of Thrones draws to end in the US tonight, with Irish and UK audiences having to wait a couple of days to get the last episode in the season. While you might not be able to relive the lifestyle of the show’s characters (and some aspects of it probably wouldn’t […]