ccTLDs.com, less than 24 hours old – so far so good. How it affects the overall plan. Also, registries that will speak in Amsterdam

By now it should be obvious I’m doing everything I can to promote ccTLDs to the market at large. If there is something I’m not doing, it’s only because I haven’t thought of it yet. It isn’t for a lack of effort or willingness.

The new forum should help focus the discussion on these topics. Soon, we’ll be offering it in multiple languages and adding many other features. It’s a work in progress so bear with us as we set about improving the service.

The benefits are starting to already show. Because of the forum and our show in Amsterdam dedicated to ccTLDs we have had commitments from the following speakers:

Sabine Dolderer the leader of Germany’s denic which runs .de.

Phil Kingsland – Director of Marketing and Commincations for Nominet (.uk)

Michel and Rudolf of SIDN who run the .nl registry.

.PL (Poland’s registry) will have someone there.

Klemens Pidner from Austria’s .at registry will be presenting.

Oscar Robles-Garay who runs Nic.mx and will be launching the general registrations of .mx during the show.

Moustapha Saya Kiagama, the General Manager from Netcom.cm SARL will be presenting.

Someone from .NG will be there for the relaunch of Nigeria’s extension. There are over 150 million English speaking people in Nigeria.

We are talking to a dozen others so the list is sure to grow.  If you would like to nominate a speaker for one of our Seminars at TRAFFIC ccTLDs, you may click here to nominate yourself or another person.

What’s great is that because of the intense focus on the subject matter at hand, country-code top-level domains, we are getting both registries and registrars beating down the door to attend and sponsor the show.

This all means that there will be more people at the show than past European domainer meetings and more contacts and relationships to be had. There will definitely be a wider variety of people from the domain industry. This will be a show like no other.

Anyway, back to the message board. We are going to do our best to keep ccTLDs from being clutered with advertising. The only thing people will be able to purchase will be individual forum sponsorships. If someone wants to sponsor the .de forum, for example, they will get their image below the usernames in the threads and a sticky thread at the top of the .de forum. At least for a while, there won’t be any other ads on the site. We are looking for a clean experience.

I really have more to say but I’ll leave it for future posts. I’ve got to go meet up with the family now at Magic Kingdom. I made my daughter promise not to ride Space Mountain without me.

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