Very cool. Obama's transition web site is a .GOV domain! He's now official.

Renew your domains now - and save $0.50/domain - ICANN announced price increases effective October 1, 2008.

Instructions on how to set up your dns SPF record to improve email delivery and prevent forged email from your domain.

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ICANN is considering opening up the top level domains to 100's or 1,000's of new ones. Min cost probably $100K to get one of these (and then manage the TLD as your own registrar).

This could lead to a new gold-rush for this name space.

Quoted: The Internet's key oversight agency relaxed rules Thursday to permit the introduction of hundreds, perhaps thousands, of new Internet domain names to join ".com," making the first sweeping changes in the network's 25-year-old address system.

Nice summary of "whois" and public information about faves.com

WashingtonVC - an Interstate "Real Estate" group, trades in domain names and builds sites behind common (theoretically valuable) english word domains.

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