DOMAINfest 2012 Global conference is one week away.This year’s conference will be held in Santa Monica,California from January 31,2012 to February 2,2011 at the Fairmont Miramar Hotel Biz Stone,Twitter co-founder will be the keynote speaker .
Two domain name auction will be held :
Moniker’s Low & No Reserve Plus Premium Domain Auction – on February 2,2012 from 4:30 to 6:00 pm
Moniker’s Extended Online Premium Domain Auction – February 2,2011 through February 16,2012 .
For this year’s show,DOMAINfest organizers introduced a new contest-the Fantasy Domaining Contest .You will have to show everybody how good your PPC domaining skills are .The winner will receive a travel stipend of $1,000 plus four nights hotel plus free DOMAINfest admission .The second place will receive free DFG Conference Ticket and the thrid place will receive 50%off DFG Conference Ticket.
Online pre-bidding for the DOMAINfest domain name auction is now underway.The auction will be held on February 2,2012 at 4:30 pm Pacific Time . Here are some of the domains you can bid on :
1800business.com
civilunion.com
eco.org
emails.com
eve.com
host.com
internetradio.com
juice.com
marriages.com
planners.com
plasmatv.com
platinum.com
promo.com
qe.com
qr.com
security.com
unplugged.com
work.com
SIDN,the company behind .NL domain,has recently signed a five-year contract with NLnet Labs,the Dutch internet technology expertise centre,which has a worldwide reputation for its work in the field of DNS and DNSSEC.
You can read the announcement after the jump :
“SIDN, the company behind .nl, today signed a five-year contract with NLnet Labs. NLnet Labs – the Dutch internet technology expertise centre – has a worldwide reputation for its work in the field of DNS and DNSSEC. Through its financial backing for NLnet Labs, SIDN aims to support not only the continued development of DNS applications such as Unbound and NSD, but also NLnet Labs’ general internet R&D work, at least for the next five years.
Internet community
Not-for-profit organisation NLnet Labs was set up in 1999 and is dedicated to creating open source software and helping to develop open standards. Unbound – NLnet Labs’ DNS software – is widely used by the likes of leading Dutch internet service providers XS4All and T-Mobile. NLnet Labs is also closely involved with the development and standardisation of DNSSEC: a security extension to the existing DNS protocol. DNSSEC gives internet users the assurance that they are not being diverted to fraudulent lookalike websites when they use genuine domain names.
“NLnet Labs is a Dutch organisation with a high profile in the global internet community,” said SIDN’s CEO Roelof Meijer. “The DNS applications that they develop are popular with users all over the world. So the work that NLnet Labs does is very important – not least for the Dutch internet community and thus for many of our registrars. We are very pleased to be helping to ensure that NLnet Labs’ good work continues for years to come. The collaboration also dovetails neatly with our own R&D programme, SIDN Labs.“
Olaf Kolkman, CEO of NLnet Labs, commented: “The agreement with SIDN is very important for NLnet Labs. I see it as recognition of our work, which focuses on the technology that connects networks to a global internet. An internet that in turn serves as an engine of economic and social progress. SIDN’s support helps us continue striving to improve the security and stability of the internet. The financial agreement also reinforces the excellent working relations that have existed between our organisations for some time. ”
