.CM is expected to be favored by the Domainer market as it presents great opportunity for getting typo traffic from existing popular .com site. For people frequently mis-typed their frequently-visited website, thus allowing owners of popular domain.cm to harvest these mis-typed traffic and earn from advertisement revenue.

However, the registry has now given priority registration of .cm to trademark owners from 15 June till 14 July 2009 before they open for public registration. That means that after 14 July 2009, you can register for 1malaysia.cm provided you are willing to part USD400 (approximately RM1,440) for a 2 year registeration (landrush registration)

For trademark owners who wish to protect their online brand, they should now apply for their trademark.cm now during the sunrise period through accredited ICANN registrar Webnic.cc

Then come similar directories, Malaysia Buying Guide in 1993, now known as Super Pages; Info Pages, Info Today etc. These are general directories that help publics to easy search for products and services via their vast classifications ie, from accounting firm to zinc manufacturers.

However, today, these directory companies are facing a very tough market situation. The cost of printing has gone up, the paper cost has done up and so goes to distribution cost and manpower cost. But the advertising rate is coming down as more and more companies are shifting their marketing funds to online.

Search Engine Optimization is now becoming the Yellow Pages of the future. Any products and services can be easily found within 3 sec without the need to hunt for the directory.

Internet has change the business model. Companies are now easily founded based on their website importance and relevancy and not how much advertising fund you have.

Appearing in the first page of search engine result would bring much business as potential clients see your website first before seeing any of your competitors.

Thus, have a website is no longer useful if your website does not appear in the first 3 pages of search engine result page, for no one will be able locate your website. Worst if your competitors websites appears in the first page but not yours.

It is advisable to engage the service of professional SEO consultants in Malaysia, such as Qinetics Solutions Berhad to assist in optimizing your website so that upon your target customers search for your services in Google would find out about your business.

Qinetics Solutions Berhad offers money back guaranteed for their SEO service.

ICANN is seeking a registrar to take over about 5,000 domains registered at Maxim Internet. It warns that contact data for the registrants is in an inconsistent format.

ICANN sent a breach notice to Maxim on March 30. Since that time the company has notified customers it was shutting down. In ICANN’s termination letter to Maxim, Director of Contractual Compliance Stacy Burnette wrote:
Using the primary contact information provided by Maxim, ICANN staff transmitted an e-mail message to you and left telephone messages for you inquiring about Maxim’s intentions to remain an ICANN-accredited registrar. After failed attempts to reach you, observing that Maxim’s website was no longer operational on 1 June 2009, receiving an electronic mail message from a person claiming to represent Maxim in its “close down” on 3 June 2009 and receipt of other electronic mail correspondence from you referring to the “closing” of Maxim, ICANN concluded that Maxim is insolvent.

Maxim owes ICANN over $150,000.

Other terminated registrars include AfterGen, Inc. dba JumpingDot, Hi Yi Global Information Resources, Sundance Group, Inc, and Clertech.com Inc.
ICANN also sent a notice of breach to Lead Networks Domains Pvt. Ltd for failure to comply with UDRP decisions. Lead Networks was recently named in a lawsuit that alleges it failed to transfer a domain that a customer lost in a UDRP.

Great!..After highlighting to Maybank.  The phishing Site has been taken down.  I try accessing the site today(12 June 2009) at 2.20pm and it is not longer accessible.  Good Work!

.Tel is a interesting extension because it adopts a very difference technology. All the above mentioned extension require you to subscribe to hosting service before you can upload any contend, but not for a .tel extension. it stores all the contact information in the DNS. Read for here for about .tel

One interesting .tel site I found out is www.mobileyp.tel, which lists important contact numbers such as credit card report lost hot-lines for many established banks in Malaysia. The beauty of a .tel domain is that the contact information listed are “click to call” enabled, meaning if you are surfing via your mobile phone, you can directly make that call without the need to key in the numbers.

The demand for .tel would surely increase once more people realize the benefits of it.

It can be used a a personal online name card, image people are able to reach you via looking into your name.tel, so it does not matters if you have changed your contact numbers or move to a difference state. As long as you update your contactable information in your name.tel, you are then always accessible.

I have registered a .tel for myself, but I would not reveal it here. Hehehe, otherwise, you will have access to my full contact information, such as address, skype id, msn id, office numbers and many more.

till date, there are more than 200,000 .tel names being registered. So,if you wish to secure your name.tel, check out a domain registrar here