Experience once again all the drama, struggle and joy of your first few months of domaining with the 2008-2009 first Annual Domainer Apprentice Challenge. Modern Domainer is proud to present the industry’s first reality game.

By Gregory Theriot

A discussion on one of ICANN's forums linked to a document at the U.S. Department of Commerce's National Telecommunications and Information Administration – a letter which warns ICANN's chairman that the new gTLD rollout procedures might not yet be ready for prime time.

You can visit Facebook & MySpace profiles for the Domainer Apprentice contestants:

File this roundup under 'good job,' 'good review,' and 'good news,' respectively.

ICANN announced today that the newly-proven tactic for combating domain name tasting, namely that of fining registrars with unacceptably-high AGP deletes, is being expanded via a new Add Grace Period Limits Policy.

The SMX family of conferences grew this week when Search Engine Land announced SMX Search Analytics, debuting March 31 through April 1, 2009.