I have mixed feelings regarding the story about the little island of Tokelau and the way an entrepreneur has boosted its GDP by 10% by selling the top level domain name. Already there have been more than 1.6m domain names ending in .tk sold. It brings about the question of whether the people buying these names are diluting the search market for others. If the dotcom, .net, .co.uk and others have gone for a word like 'guardian' should anybody be allowed to buy guardian.tk. We know that many entrepreneurs have tried to buy Italian top level domains in the past,…

As Communications Director at UKFast, I occasionally do presentations to businesses on the ways they can boost their brand using the Internet. At the end of last week I did a talk with the CIPR in Manchester on podcasting as…