Issue 17, June 2008
June 30, 2008 Spreading the message
NamesBeyond - the US-based ICANN-accredited .aero registrar - has been successfully using the media to spread the message that airlines only have until 30 November this year to register their pre-reserved IATA-location identifiers within the .aero domain. After 1 December, those airport codes will b...
June 30, 2008 Registry does not support "front running"
Concerns have been raised in recent months over a new phenomenon known as "domain name front running".This occurs when someone conducts a search for a domain name and, shortly thereafter, someone else (a "front runner"), using information obtained during the search, pre-emptively registers the name....
June 30, 2008 The exhibition domain
When youre running a trade exhibition, you need to get the message across to potential exhibitors and visitors quickly, efficiently and clearly. Air transport industry exhibitions command an increasingly global audience - so precision in marketing is vital. Relevance is also critical, so hats off to...
June 30, 2008 Oshkosh is the place to be
From 28 July to 3 August, the town of Oshkosh, in the US state of Wisconsin, becomes the place of choice for up to 750,000 people with one interest in mind - a passion for flying. Some 10,000 aircraft will be flown into EAA AirVenture by enthusiasts from around the world. This is the annual conventi...
June 30, 2008 Meet the registrars - Regtime
Regtime Ltd was the first Russian ICANN-accredited registrar to offer a full service of cyrillic domains to Russian companies and individuals. Russian is the native or second language for more than 230 million people, so the decision to launch cyrillic language domains in 2001 was an important stage...
June 30, 2008 Universal Aviation
Active in more than 50 countries, Universal Aviation is the ground support division of Universal Weather and Aviation Inc., which began operations almost 50 years ago providing weather briefings for Corporate aviation. Universal Aviation covers Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Latin America, as wel...
June 30, 2008 Who owns and runs the Internet: the role of W3C
Its easy to forget that, when Tim Berners-Lee first thought up what he called the World Wide Web in 1990, it was intended simply as a tool for the use of fellow scientists associated with CERN, the particle physics research centre that straddles the French/Swiss border near Geneva. The TCP/IP protoc...
