Author name: fairwindsp

Josh Bourne ⬥ 16 July I was driving with my family to Nationals Park to see the Nats play the San Francisco Giants on Sunday, when I noticed a Windows Catering truck drive by. As it passed, (because I can’t help myself) I noticed the company’s domain name displayed on the side of truck. Again, […]

Josh Bourne ⬥ 24 May Proxy services are a serious problem. They embolden cybersquatters and cybercriminals by providing them with safe harbor in the form of invisibility and/or anonymity and make it difficult for trademark owners to gain access to infringers. A proxy service is a registered domain name holder (“registrant”) that licenses the use

Josh Bourne ⬥ 24 June George Kirikos wasn’t the only one who raised really interesting and challenging points at the ICANN meeting.  There are two more people who made comments and asked questions that I think are important and that I’d like to talk about here. The first is Zahid Jamil, who hails form Karachi,

Josh Bourne ⬥ 24 June I just finished a conversation with a contact who is still at the ICANN meeting in Brussels.  He attended the ICANN Public Forum and let me know that in his opinion it looks like the .XXX gTLD, an extension dedicated to hosting adult content, should be approved soon.  Overall, he

Josh Bourne ⬥ 22 June While in Brussels, I had the chance to participate first-hand in one of ICANN’s international meetings. One of the sessions I attended yesterday was the “New gTLD Program Update.” George Kirikos, who many in the ICANN community know and appreciate for his knowledge and commitment to improving ICANN, submitted a

Phil Lodico ⬥ 15 June The aftermarket is one of the resources we use to measure the value of domain names.  We recently decided to look into how the reported sales prices have trended across domains that have changed hands more than once over the past few years.  We found that roughly 30 total domain

Josh Bourne ⬥ 10 June What could the domain names coconutloving.com, desperaterussianhousewives.co.uk, and jellyparties.co.uk have in common? The answer is surprising – all three sites are registered and run by the BBC. Following a Freedom of Information request, the BBC recently released a list of 154 of the domain names that it owns. The sites

Liz Sweezey ⬥ 30 April After being closed for a year for renovation, the Safeway located at Wisconsin Ave. and 34th St. NW is re-opening its doors to local Georgetown and DC residents on May 6. Thank God.  I’ve been living in DC for nearly 3 years, and Georgetown’s Safeway has been my local grocery

FairWinds Partners ⬥ 28 April Virtue, a social media management company, put out a study recently that revealed that Facebook fans have a value of $3.60 apiece for big brands.  The company based their valuation on how many impressions a wall post receives given the number of fans a page has.  For large brands, the

Josh Bourne ⬥ 20 April CADNA recently released a report that predicts how much new generic TLDs will cost brand owners once they are released.  A lot of the attention paid to the subject of new TLDs has been focused on .BRAND TLDs and whether or not companies should register their own branded TLD.  In

Phil Lodico ⬥ 13 April News about VeriSign’s new registry service, called “Domain Name Exchange,” has been creating a stir in the Internet community. VeriSign, which is the operator of the .COM, .NET, and .NAME TLDs, has proposed a new service for domains in .NET that would essentially allow a registrant to return a domain