In Domain Editorial (BETA) » Another Alternate Root? I asked:

Will Unified Root’s Nameservers be storing any queries for currently non-existing domains? If so, what will be done with that data?

I received the following answer from their press contact a couple of days ago:

(some typos were corrected)

I have asked UnifiedRoot for response. They say: Root servers do not store any query history or data. Data collected on root servers are purely performance data and does not contain any information valuable for sales and marketing.

While we obviously do know that those queries do contain a possible value for determining typos and other available traffic domains, it seems that this new alternate root does not (at least not publicly) know anything about these potentials. Maybe they should read this blog

In the “Domainers” industry was mentioned in the Registrars’ session on the ICANN settlement. Frank S. of the registrar Domain Name Sales spoke up and commented on his point of view of the settlement. Joi Ito mentioned that he had to learn more about this segment of the industry, where the lines between registrants, resellers and registrars can be very blurry. There was an audible tumult in the room when Joi used the term “Cybersquatter”. Yet, he uses it again in his article at CircleID: The “Parked Domain Monetization” Business

Update:
Joi Ito also put an article up on his blog ( Investigating parked domain monetization), which points at a new page a created on the ICANN Wiki: Parked Domain Monetization. Reading the comments on Joi Ito‘s blog is highly recommended.

I am back from ICANN. While I only managed to attend two sessions, I once more was able to confirm that the most important meetings happen in the hallways. Considering that this was my first ICANN meeting, I was actually quite surprised at how many people I knew and how many people knew me. Since I was not able to post anything while at the meeting, I will try to catch up with some more posts during the weekend. Also I will to make a couple of changes that are needed on this site. Stay tuned…