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Today in the Lowdown at DNJournal.com: A new online magazine focusing entirely on ccTLDs has launched at ccTLDInvestors.com. Plus, ICANN closes its meeting in Nairobi by announcing a new Trademark Clearinghouse database.

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In today’s ICANN board meeting at the 37th ICANN meeting held in Nairobi, Kenya, the board postponed a decision regarding the .XXX sTLD application and directed to solicit public comment for this application within 14 days with a comment period of no less than 45 days, allowing the board to reconsider this issue at the 38th ICANN meeting in Brussels. ICANN has to reconsider the issue after their rejection of the application was reviewed by an independent panel.

In today’s ICANN board meeting at the 37th ICANN meeting held in Nairobi, Kenya, the board postponed a decision regarding the .XXX sTLD application and directed to solicit public comment for this application within 14 days with a comment period of no less than 45 days, allowing the board to reconsider this issue at the 38th ICANN meeting in Brussels. ICANN has to reconsider the issue after their rejection of the application was reviewed by an independent panel.

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The ICANN board has voted down the community proposal for Expressions of Interest for new gTLD applicants, requiring a $55,000 application fee. The proposal was mainly driven by proponents and applicants for new gTLDs with the hopes of speeding up the process.

The ICANN board has voted down the community proposal for Expressions of Interest for new gTLD applicants, requiring a $55,000 application fee. The proposal was mainly driven by proponents and applicants for new gTLDs with the hopes of speeding up the process.

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DNN’s crack team of roving reporters sent us a tip that Comedy Central’s Colbert Report just gave DomainTools.com some prime placement.  In a report on SurvivalSeedBank.com, host Stephen Colbert mocks the website copy which states “If you don’t have the ability to grow your own food next year your life may be in danger” . . .  “Next Year?  This site was registered almost 2 years!”, states Colbert who then flashes over to a whois screen shot of SurvivalSeedBank.com from DomainTools .  . . “So next year was last year and we’ve been dead almost 2 1/2 months”  quips Colbert.

DNN’s crack team of roving reporters sent us a tip that Comedy Central’s Colbert Report just gave DomainTools.com some prime placement.  In a report on SurvivalSeedBank.com, host Stephen Colbert mocks the website copy which states “If you don’t have the ability to grow your own food next year your life may be in danger” . . .  “Next Year?  This site was registered almost 2 years!”, states Colbert who then flashes over to a whois screen shot of SurvivalSeedBank.com from DomainTools .  . . “So next year was last year and we’ve been dead almost 2 1/2 months”  quips Colbert.

Nice research work Colbert and nice screen time DomainTools.com !   Survival Seed Bank seemed to  get a little boost recently according to this Google trend chart.

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A good friend of DNN’s and domainer (and winner of DomainFest pitchfest) is participating in the GM Road Trip Challenge.   They’re competing against other teams to win money for charity.  If you want to help their team, you can do so by checking out their site at their cool domain RoadChallenge.com and contributing a comment in their blog posts or just tweeting about it and encouraging their team on via Twitter. All you have to do to help is send out a tweet and maybe request retweets.  We suggest “GO CHAD ! domainers representing #sxswsf “   :)  or “helping some friends win some money for charity PLEASE RETWEET this #sxswsf”    Good luck South Florida team and Chad.

A good friend of DNN’s and domainer (and winner of DomainFest pitchfest) is participating in the GM Road Trip Challenge.   They’re competing against other teams to win money for charity.  If you want to help their team, you can do so by checking out their site at their cool domain RoadChallenge.com and contributing a comment in their blog posts or just tweeting about it and encouraging their team on via Twitter. All you have to do to help is send out a tweet and maybe request retweets.  We suggest “GO CHAD ! domainers representing #sxswsf “   :)  or “helping some friends win some money for charity PLEASE RETWEET this #sxswsf”    Good luck South Florida team and Chad.

Oh yea and if you blog about it throw in the #sxswsf hashtag in your title as it might help get distributed further on twitter. :)

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ShopCity.com is rolling out an innovative nationwide local shopping network that is offering career opportunities to partners interested in operating their own local marketplace on one of 7,500 URLs. Founder Colin Pape will talk about the platform on a Domain Success webcast tomorrow (Friday March 12).

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