November 30th, 2007 by 
David Goldstein
The one millionth .au domain name has been registered. The announcement from auDA said a finance company on Australia’s Gold Coast registering the domain name elite-finance.com.au registered the name that reached the milestone.
“We are pleased to announce that the 1 millionth .au domain registration is elite-finance.com.au” said Chris Disspain, auDA’s CEO. “We congratulate the Registrant of elite-finance.com.au for being part of this momentous occasion.” (more…)
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November 30th, 2007 by Chief Editor
MoldData, the .md registry in Moldova, informed DomainNews that they launched a new service called “.MD via SMS” together with Moldcell, the local cell phone carrier. This service is only available to Moldcell customers however.
What does .MD via SMS service represent?
.MD via SMS is a service developed by “MoldData” SE in collaboration with Moldcell. It is a service which helps you reserve a certain domain name in .MD zone via SMS.
How does it work?
It’s easy! Just send an SMS with the domain name you are interested in, spelled in Latin characters, to the number 4959. (more…)
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November 30th, 2007 by David Goldstein
Moniker, the first and only provider of Domain Asset Management(TM) services, today announced that it will be hosting the first live and online auctions of premium domain names during PubCon Las Vegas 2007, the Search Engine & Internet Marketing Conference, on Wednesday, December 5 at the Las Vegas Convention Center. PubCon Las Vegas2007 runs December 4 through December 7, 2007 and is the premiere educational conference and industry trade show programmed specifically for web professionals and website owners. (more…)
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November 30th, 2007 by Chief Editor
CLEVELAND, PRNewswire - BrandMuscle, Inc. has been chosen by dotMobi, the company behind .mobi — the first and only Internet domain exclusively for mobile phones — to implement its BrandBuilder(R) marketing solution.
The dotMobi Marketing Mobi-lizer solution provides domain registrars and resellers around the world with access to customizable marketing and advertising materials to promote registration and use of the .mobi domain. This no-cost tool eliminates the need for expensive agency and design resources so that registrars of any size can launch campaigns easily and inexpensively.
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November 29th, 2007 by Chief Editor
Experts debated what 2008 will mean for the domain name industry at last month’s registrar conference held by .uk registry Nominet, predicting strong growth for the suffix. There were also warnings from some quarters over the continued rise of the practice of domain tasting, and firms were urged to tightly manage their domain name portfolios.
Lesley Cowley, chief executive of Nominet, predicted the UK top-level domain would reach 10 million subscribers next year, but she added that trust and security would increasingly be differentiators for registrars as they seek to retain customers.
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November 29th, 2007 by Chief Editor
LOS ANGELES, PRNewswire - Yellow Pages Corporation; operator of popular online YellowPages sites and telephone books including travel website aggregator YELLOWPAGES.travel; released a press release informing the public on how online travel websites work and why they all show different prices and different availability for the same flights and hotel bookings. (more…)
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