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.ME domain names showed strong aftermarket selling power during the TLD’s first auction of 2012. Due to high bidder demand, the auction exceeded its projected end time by nearly three hours. More than 93 .ME domain names were sold during the auction, including Hotel.Me, which sold for $25,000, Life.Me at $17,450 and Forex.Me at $16,099 USD. The auction was held in partnership with Sedo, a domain name aftermarket service.

“We are very pleased with the results of this auction,” said Predrag Lesic, CEO of the .ME Registry. “Many dot-ME domain names saw high interest from bidders - it’s apparent that dot-ME domain names have become one of the top choices in domain aftermarket.”

.ME domain names have a history of success on the aftermarket, particularly those with SEO-friendly keywords. “The bar has been raised on dot-Me domain name values, especially the domains with verbs,” Domain pundit Michael Berkens wrote on TheDomains.com.

.ME domain names prove they are a strong alternative to .COM domains - not only through powerful auction results but also in domain name industry studies. Sedo.com’s 2011 Annual Domain Market Study1 shows that .ME domain name extensions are in the 10 most frequently sold TLDs.

.ME domain names are especially popular with startups. According to Thomas Park, the .ME ccTLD is in the top four TLDs of choice for startups, nearly exceeding .org in popularity.

“The dot-ME registry had a very successful 2011,” said Lesic. “Between our partnerships with Visa and Delicious, several successful auctions and the steady influx of domain registrants who have embraced the catchy domain name extension to create their online identities, the sky is the limit for dot-ME!”

To learn more about the .ME Registry, including information on future auctions or to find out how to register a .ME domain name, visit; http://www.domain.ME/.

For other examples and articles about the many clever uses of .ME, visit: http://www.Domain.Me/blog.

About the .ME Registry:

.ME Registry (the d.b.a. of doMEn, d.o.o.) was chosen by the government of Montenegro to operate the new .ME domain name extension. .ME Registry partners include ME-net, GoDaddy.com and Afilias Limited. Me-Net is located in Montenegro and its principals have been leaders in the ICT sector in Montenegro, including the privatization of its largest ISP. GoDaddy.com is located in the USA and is the world’s largest domain name registrar according to Netcraft Ltd. Afilias Limited is headquartered in Ireland and is a leading registry services provider, supporting more than 13 million domains worldwide.

1 SEDO, “2011 Annual Domain Market Study” <http://www.sedo.com/press/DomainMarketStudyUS2011.pdf >

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The Delhi High Court Thursday refused to stay an order of telecom tribunal TDSAT restraining the Department of Telecom (DoT) from enforcing a ban on 3G roaming pacts between mobile operators.

Challenging the jurisdiction of the Telecom Dispute Settlement Appellate Tribunal (TDSAT) to decide on the 3G roaming dispute, the DoT Thursday approached the high court, saying that the tribunal has no power to look into the licence terms and conditions entered among the operators and the DoT.

TDSAT, had Jan 20 dismissed the government's plea challenging its jurisdiction to decide on the 3G roaming dispute.

The DoT also challenged the telecom department's order of Dec 24 last year that had restrained the DoT from enforcing a ban on 3G roaming pacts between mobile operators.

A bench of Acting Chief Justice A.K. Sikri and Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw said: "We are not inclined to interfere with the TDSAT order, and the petition is dismissed."

The DoT had declared 3G roaming pacts between mobile operators illegal and asked five telecom operators to stop their inter circle roaming on 3G bandwidth within 24 hours. This order of the department was challenged by Airtel, Vodafone India and Idea Cellular before TDSAT and sought a stay on the telecom department's order.

According to the DoT, the roaming agreement among telecom companies for 3G services is illegal and would lead to a significant loss of revenue to the government. Earlier, telecom regulator TRAI and the enforcement cell of the telecom department had termed the agreement illegal.

The service providers had entered into a roaming agreement to offer 3G services such as video calling, mobile TV and multi-media gaming in telecom circles where they could not win the 3G spectrum auctioned last year.

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New Delhi, Feb 23 (IANS) The Delhi High Court Thursday dismiised a plea seeking a stay on a tribunal order that restrained by the Department of Telecom (DoT) from imposing a ban on 3G roaming pacts between mobile operator.

The DoT had pleaded that the tribunal had no jurisdiction to look into the licence terms and conditions entered among the operators and the DoT.

But the court said the Telecom Dispute Settlement and Appellate Tribunal (TDSAT) had the jurisdiction to hear the case of mobile phone service providers that have have challenged a telecom department order on banning 3G roaming services offered by operators in each others' circles.

A division bench of acting Chief Justice A.K. Sikri and Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw said they were not inclined to interfere with the tribunal orders and dismissed the petition.

The DoT had declared 3G roaming pacts between mobile operators illegal and asked five telecom operators to stop their inter circle roaming.

The order was challenged by Airtel, Vodafone India and Idea Cellular before TDSAT.

According to the DoT, the roaming agreement among telecom companies for 3G services is illegal and would lead to a significant loss of revenue to the government.

The service providers had entered into a roaming agreement to offer 3G services such as video calling, mobile TV and multi-media gaming in telecom circles where they could not win 3G spectrum auctioned last year.

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WASHINGTON -- A coalition of internet giants including Google has agreed to support a do-not-track button to be embedded in most web browsers, a move that the industry had been resisting for more than a year.

The reversal is being announced as part of the White House's call for Congress to pass a "privacy bill of rights," that will give people greater control over the personal data collected about them.

The industry has been caught in a number of high-profile privacy slip-ups. Facebook recently agreed to settle charges by the US government that some of its privacy practices had been unfair and deceptive to users. And last week, Google acknowledged it had been circumventing the privacy settings of people using Apple's web-browsing software on their iPhones, iPads and computers. It stopped the practice after being contacted by The Wall Street Journal.

The new do-not-track button is not going to stop all web tracking. The companies have agreed to stop using the data about people's web browsing habits to customize ads, and have agreed not to use the data for employment, credit, health care or insurance purposes. But the data can still be used for some purposes such as "market research" and "product development" and can still be obtained by law enforcement officers.

The do-not-track button also would not block companies such as Facebook from tracking their members through "Like" buttons and other functions.

Christopher Calabrese, legislative counsel at the American Civil Liberties Union, said, "It's a good start. But we want you to be able to not be tracked at all if you so choose."

The do-not-track button has been hotly debated ever since the Federal Trade Commission called for its adoption about two years ago. Mozilla's Firefox web browser was the first to add the do-not-track option early last year. Microsoft's Internet Explorer web browser added it soon after, and Apple included it in the latest version of its operating system, Mountain Lion, which was released to developers this year.

But even people who clicked on the button were still being tracked because advertisers and tracking companies had not agreed to honor the system.

Thursday's announcement means they will work to begin adopting and honoring the system within nine months, according to the coalition, the Digital Advertising Alliance, which represents over 400 companies.

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HONG KONG and AMSTERDAM, February 23, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --

Hutchison Global Communications Limited (HGC) and Amsterdam Internet Exchange (AMS-IX) today announced the launch of AMS-IX Hong Kong, a professional Internet Exchange in Hong Kong, to boost regional Internet traffic and develop Hong Kong into a major Internet Exchange hub in the region. The new Internet Exchange builds on the formula of AMS-IX in Europe, which has grown into the largest group of interconnected IP networks in the world. This new collaboration will allow users in Asia to access extensive Internet networks via a single platform, while users of AMS-IX in Europe can extend their capacity in the Asia Pacific region.

Backed by HGC's extensive fibre-optic network, world-class data centres, and highly meshed international network, customers will be able to connect with the platform via dedicated ports with speeds of 1Gbps to multiple 1Gbps or 10Gbps. AMS-IX Hong Kong will serve as a neutral and independent peering platform with unrivalled quality of both private and public peering services at carrier-grade level to Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Internet Content Providers (ICPs) and telecoms operators from all over Asia Pacific.

For more information about AMS-IX Hong Kong and supporting quotes please check: https://www.ams-ix.net/hong-kong

About HGC

Hutchison Global Communications Limited (HGC) owns one of the largest fibre-to-the-building telecommunications networks in Hong Kong. Since establishment in 1995, it has been fully committed to building its own 100% optical-fibre network infrastructure and introducing the most advanced facilities. Coupled with its four cross-border routes integrated with all three of mainland China's tier-one telecommunications operators and world-class international network, HGC provides a comprehensive range of fixed-line telecommunications services locally and overseas. HGC is a subsidiary of Hutchison Telecommunications Hong Kong Holdings Limited (HTHKH, Stock Code: 215). HTHKH is a leading integrated telecommunications service operator, offering mobile and fixed-line services to local and international customers. For more information on HGC, please visit http://www.hgc.com.hk. For more information on HTHKH, please visit http://www.hthkh.com.

About AMS-IX

AMS-IX - Amsterdam Internet Exchange - is a neutral and independent Internet Exchange based in Amsterdam-The Netherlands since the early 1990's. AMS-IX has more than 470 Interconnected IP networks and a traffic peak of over 1500 Gbps (1.5 Terabit per second), making it one of the largest Internet Exchanges in the World. The AMS-IX platform provides a professional, high quality, non-blocking peering service for all types of IP traffic, be it regular IP data such as e-mail or web content, to also video/TV and voice. AMS-IX additionally hosts the first mobile peering point worldwide, the Global GPRS Roaming Exchange (GRX) and the Mobile Data Exchange (MDX) and the first interconnection of IPX networks (Inter-IPX).

More information on: http://www.ams-ix.net.

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