The popular Comedy Central show “The Colbert Report” aired a satirical news piece about the web site SurvivalSeedBank.com
on March 10, 2010. Colbert referenced a DomainTools whois record to highlight the creation date of the domain name and showed a screenshot of the record itself.
View the entire video here.
Look for the screenshot approximately 15 minutes into the show.
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.
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As we predicted in our blog post last month, ICANN pushed off a a vote on ICM Registry’s proposal to run the .XXX domain name extension to “no later than its Brussels meeting,” which is scheduled for June 20-25.
ICANN directed its general counsel and chief executive to formulate “possible process options” to the plan that would be available for public comment.
The ICANN board will post the options and a report within 14 days on its website.
The options will be posted for 45 days.
ICANN board member Rita Rodin Johnston said that the panel worked diligently in reviewing ICM Registry’s appeal to its proposal through the week that started Sunday.
“I just want to assure everyone in the community that the board takes this decision [by dispute-resolution jurists] very seriously … we intend to continue moving very quickly in making a decision,” Rodin said.
After the meeting, ICM Registry CEO Stuart Lawley said he plans to be patient over ICANN’s latest move on the .XXX matter.
“We note the ICANN board resolutions and are looking forward to seeing the proposals in the next 14 days for the process to implement the independent review panel’s decision,” he said.
We are not surprised the ICANN is pushing this decision off for several reasons:
.XXX which would create a red light district on the Internet remains the is the most controversial of all possible new extensions.
As of last night there were over 350 stories on it on Google news from sources from Abc News to the Harvard Law Record, to individual adult site operators all discussing the fact that ICANN was going to consider allowing the .XXX extension.
There is a ton of interest in the extension, and huge opposition to it.
ICANN was not going to jump in feet first based on a 2-1 non-binding opinion of a independent panel, which had an 8 page strong dissenting opinion, without furthering considering the issue.
I’m sure there will be a ton of news and thoughts coming out in the next couple of day, weeks and months and we will keep you up to date.
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Sedo has announced it has brokered the sale of WeddingGift.com and WeddingGifts.com for a grand total of $160,000 US today.
This comes on top of their recent announcement of the sale Read more »
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 ne
xt 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.
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. :)