Wednesday morning domain thoughts

A few thoughts regarding the domain industry.

I’ll be at a conference all day, so I’m going to kick today off with some recent thoughts regarding the domain name business. I have other posts in queue for today.

…ICANN will be under intense pressure to hit its deadlines now that it’s sitting on $350 million + of applicant fees. Ahead of it could just say “hey, it’s the process”. But now people have real money on the line.

…My guess is Frank Schilling either applies for his own fresh top level domains or invests in applicants. I’ll be curious to see which ones he goes following.

…If you are a domain business and send a press release the day following I see the news on another blog, don’t expect me to write regarding it.

…On the other hand, if you’re a fresh TLD applicant and want to share your application with me under embargo until the application period closes, drop me a note.

…Go Daddy has been on a PR blitz to introduce its fresh(ish) CEO Warren Adelman to reporters. It seems they’re putting him out there as the kinder, gentler, less controversial face of Go Daddy as compared to Bob Parsons. I’ve also seen quite a bit of advertising by the firm on high tech sites. It also has launched a couple fresh micro sites geared to techies.