Jothan Frakes joins Blacknight’s Michele Neylon and Conn Ó Muíneacháin on today’s podcast to talk about NamesCon, the domain names conference in Las Vegas from January 11 to 14. Click on the player above to listen to the show, or download it here: 36:39; 22MB; MP3. A veteran of the domains industry, Jothan is co-organiser of Namescon, now in […]
Tag Archives | Country code top-level domain
A Flatter UK Namespace – But Who Gets FC.UK?
Nominet, the company which runs the .uk ccTLD, have announced that from 2014, people will be allowed to register domain names directly under .uk. Prior to this, you had to choose a second level domain in which to register, such as .co.uk for businesses, .ac.uk for academic institutions, .gov.uk etc. According to Michele on the […]
Number Of Domains Per 1000 Population
IEDR’s annual report is just out and this graphic caught my eye: More details on the report here.
Country Codes And SEO
Google’s Matt Cutts explains the thinking behind how Google decides if a country code can be used globally or whether it’s only going to be targetted to a specific country. The basic thinking is that if the country code is in active use in the region then you won’t be able to target it to […]
.me Domain Registry Visually Highlights Growth
The .me domain registry published an infographic earlier today which illustrates a few key points about .me domains. We spoke to Natasa from .me a few months ago (well, almost a year ago!) So what do .me have to say for themselves? Check out the image below for some details What do you think of […]
What Should We Ask Natasa?
Conn and I will be recording this week’s podcast this evening. On the show this week we’re very lucky to have Nataša Đukanović from the .me registry as our special guest. Nataša is sales and marketing director for the .me domain name registry and is also one of the nicest people I know in the […]