Melbourne IT Appointed To Manage Twitter’s Domain Name Portfolio

Melbourne IT (ASX: MLB), have announced that they have been selected to manage Twitter’s domain name portfolio.

“Melbourne IT could not disclose the contract value but has conceded the Twitter account is reasonably small. Compared to some other clients that hold in excess of 10,000 domains, the social networking company is relatively new and is starting off with only a handful of critical names.”

The two year contract is believed to be centered around Melbourne IT’s Corporate Domain Management solution and includes protection against infringement and malicious web attacks.

Source: Melbourne IT & ARN.

Exclusive Podcast: What’s in a Name?

Legal sales of .com.au domain names are on our doorstep. Where are the opportunities and what are the issues? Will we see sales like the $12M sex.com ?

This is the podcast from an event I attended at the Churchill Club in Melbourne. The panelists were:

Richard Moore – CEO, Dark Blue Sea Ltd
Bruce Tonkin – CTO, Melbourne IT Ltd
Jo Lim – Chief Policy Officer, .au Domain Administration Ltd (auDA)

Thanks for Brendan Lewis (who was also the moderator) for permission to reproduce the podcast of the event.

I hope you enjoy it.