moreover 10 July 2009 12:17:00- Domain Market

We currently own a business name (Sydney Designers) and are looking to register a domain name under the same name. However, the domain name (sydneydesigners.com and .com.au) have been purchased by another person, who is not using the domain as an

moreover 09 July 2008 00:03:00- Domain Market

were met with skepticism in some quarters. The argument was that the new fees were insufficient, and that tasting would continue to be profitable. Domain Tasting, to recap, is a practice by domain speculators in which they register a domain and then

moreover 10 July 2009 09:54:00- Domain Market

New York City domain dispute attorney, Karen Bernstein, says that domain industry professionals (affectionately known as 'domainers') are being hammered by meritless domain disputes and should lobby the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers

moreover 01 April 2008 13:00:00- Domain Market

VietNamNet By the end of March 2008, VNNIC had granted more than 62,000 .vn domain names, much higher than the number of international domain names, at over 40,000. Domain names with Vietnam's national code have become more attractive because

Domain Name Wire 16 July 2009 02:00:10- Domain Market

Man sues eNom after domain (not in his name) is transferred to someone else. One of the costs of doing business as a domain registrar is the inevitable lawsuits. Most of these are trademark suits where the plaintiff includes the registrar of a domain name as an defendant. But some of them are more [...]

Domain Name Blogger 13 September 2008 01:06:40- Blogs

A new type of investment has come around in the arena of cyberspace and it is centered around domain names. Now a days it is impossible to buy a domain name four characters or less ? they pretty much have all been taken up by investors. Even nonsense words (like abcd.com) , if they are [...]

PlanetDomain Blog 12 March 2008 09:40:14- Blogs

Domain names are the cornerstone of the internet. As the primary source of internet navigation, without domain names, your customers couldn't get around and wouldn't know how to find you. Also, domain names form part of a company's identity and branding. Yet many companies make mistakes every day that can ...

Elliot's Blog 03 April 2008 18:54:08- Blogs

DNJournal is reporting that Q1 2008 sales blew away Q1 2007 sales in terms of average sale price and dollar amount of domain sales. This is good news for the domain industry and would indicate that the domain economy is in good shape. A few weeks ago, I was one of the people who stated [...]

Domain Name Wire 16 April 2008 17:24:25- Domain Market

When selecting a registrar, customers place security at the top of the list. Advertisement According to Domain Name Wire’s 2008 survey of 841 domain name industry participants, security is the number one selection criteria when choosing a domain name registrar. This is a change from the first two years of the survey, which had price as [...]

Verisign 17 June 2008 08:22:59- Registries

The VeriSign Domain Report

As the global registry operator for .com and .net, VeriSign reviews the state of the domain name industry through a variety of statistical and analytical research. As a leading provider of digital infrastructure for the Internet, VeriSign provides this briefi ng to highlight to industry analysts, media, and businesses important trends in domain name registration, including key performance indicators, and growth opportunities

Domain Pulse 15 September 2008 06:45:21- Domain Market

It has been confirmed in online sources that there are now one million .mobi domain names registered.

.mobi domain names are designed to be used for web content for mobile devices. While one million domain names is a significant achievement, there are questions as to whether there is any need for a .mobi name.

New smartphones such as the Apple iPhone

moreover 15 July 2009 13:59:00- Domain Market

ICANN, the non-profit group that regulates domain names, wants to vastly expand the number of ?top level domain names? beyond the 21 that currently exist, such as .com, .net, and .mobi. But the proposal, which is expected to go into effect next year,

DNXPERT 15 September 2008 15:52:05- Domain Market

In order to register a domain name, you need an account with an ICANN (Internet Corporation For Assigned Names and Numbers) accredited domain name registrar.

Getting an account with a domain name registrar is easy. The sign up process takes a few seconds. You are usually required to provide some personal information ? your name, address, telephone number, email address etc.

Make sure you provide correct personal information when creating an account. Registrars are entitled to lock or take away ... READ MORE

DNXPERT 20 April 2008 14:36:55- Domain Market

When purchasing a domain name website or blog a lot of people turn to aged domains by registering expired domains or purchasing a domain from a reseller. Aged domains are domains that have been in use or at least registered previously. Logically, aged domains are a sought-after commodity. Besides the fact that the aged domain probably [...]

Domain Name Wire 10 July 2009 14:46:17- Domain Market

Brewer files complaint with World Intellectual Property Association. Heineken Espana, SA, has filed for arbitration at World Intellectual Property Organization to get the domain name Heineken.tel. .Tel is a new domain name designed to be a business card on the web. Because .tel domain names can’t be developed as traditional web sites, I’ve wondered [...]

DNXPERT 02 January 2009 15:05:11- Domain Market

NIC.CZ, the domain registry for the .CZ domain name (ccTld for the Czech Republic), have announced - as picked up by Domain News - that they have passed the 500,000 domain registrations mark.

NIC.CZ have seen a steep climb in registrations since the introduction of their own registration system in October 2007 - FRED. In just the year following the introduction of FRED, NIC.CZ have recorded over 200,000 new registrations.

?The Czech domain register is one of the fastest growing globally. If ... READ MORE

DNXPERT 16 September 2008 11:30:33- Domain Market

When you want to change your website's webhost, you must change your domain's DNS ( domain name system nameservers ). DNS information is specified by your hosting provider.

By default, your domain's DNS point to your registrar's parked page. If you are not using a domain, and you decide to not change the default DNS, your registrar is actually earning money from your domains visitor's clicks.

The DNS acts as the background of a domain name, helping domains' resolve to IP addresses. 

Domain Name Wire 24 February 2009 21:44:55- Domain Market

Japanese find ways to navigate web even before IDNs. In an article titled Domain names? We dont need no domain names, IDG News Service writer Martyn Williams explains how the Japanese use the search box in lieu of domain names. Instead of typing Google.com into their browsers, they search for Google at Yahoo. On the Yahoo [...]

moreover 03 June 2008 13:01:00- Domain Market

VietNamNet Bridge ? Afraid that Internet users won?t understand their names, some companies register super long domain names, which have up to 39 characters. The longest domain name is congtycpdichvugiaiphaphethongthongtin.vn (information system

moreover 30 March 2009 12:31:00- Domain Market

Businesses and individuals have registered 177 million domain names around the world by the end of 2008, a 16 percent increase year-on-year, a report said. Related readings: Ministry recalls private domain name consisting of 'Olympic torch' Owning 'love

Domain Name Wire 18 February 2009 15:58:28- Domain Market

Latest industry brief shows rate of domain registration growth slowing. VeriSign (NASDAQ: VRSN) has released its latest Domain Name Industry Brief (pdf), which shows an all time high of 177 million domain names in existence. Although the total base of domains is growing, the growth rate is falling. The total base of domain names increased only [...]

moreover 03 February 2010 06:58:00- Domain Market

The 2010 Domain Pulse, hosted by SWITCH (the .CH registry) was held in the snowy Swiss city of Luzern. Domain Name Security (DNS) was of particular importance in this year's meeting with DNSSEC being implemented in the root zone in 2010 by ICANN, and by

DNXPERT 03 October 2008 03:09:13- Domain Market

As of today, the .ME Registry has reduced the minimum requirement for a .ME domain name registration to a single year. This means customers can secure the most popular new domain extension ever with just a one-year commitment, instead of two.

The .ME domain extension was introduced in April and exploded in popularity almost immediately after being made available to the public. More than 100 registrars now offer the top-level domain and the portfolio of .ME names is fast approaching 150,000.  READ MORE

.auDA 01 May 2008 22:11:49- Registries

Web in infancy, says Berners-Lee | Are gadgets killing the internet? | uk: Ofcom: BBC not accountable for 'web meltdown' | Is Balkanization of the Internet inevitable? | ca: Domain name policy balances privacy with public access by Michael Geist | Quarter million domain names for .mx | Battling Brandjackers: Study finds declines in domain kiting and pay-per-click abuses against the world's strongest brands by Ihab Shraim, MarkMonitor | Interpol: Olympics cyberattack not a major threat | MySpace stripped of myspace.co.uk domain victory | Google readies for action against Dutch smut site | Domainer Loses LH.com to Airline Giant Lufthansa | Opportunists Profit From Domain Names and Tragedy in Austria | A Case of Network Identity Theft? | Melbourne IT acquires VeriSign Digital Brand Management

Domain Name Wire 15 July 2008 15:32:21- Domain Market

Here are three ways to get cash for domain names fast — and a fourth potential way. Perhaps you are looking to trim your portfolio. Or maybe you need to raise some cash. Unfortunately, domain names aren’t very liquid assets. But here are three ways to sell your domain names quickly, as well as a potential fourth way to do

DNXPERT 15 September 2008 15:58:23- Domain Market

You can save a lot of money if you approach domain registration wisely. You might not consider a saving of $1 or $2 to be a lot. However, if you are registering in bulk, these $1 or $2 can quickly turn into $50 or $100, which is quite considerable.

Use Coupons

An excellent way to save money while registering domains, is to use coupon codes. I never register a domain without using a coupon code. A Godaddy or NameCheap registration generally ... READ MORE

moreover 27 February 2009 10:57:00- Domain Market

SAN FRANCISCO (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Despite the economic downturn, Internet domain name registrations posted a significant 16-percent growth last year, a new report has found. The Internet added 24 million new domain names in 2008, bringing the total

Dominik Mueller's Blog 26 March 2008 22:39:49- Blogs

I recently wrote an article about buying domain names for DotSauce Magazine. Mark published it earlier today, so I’d like to point you to his great domain news site where you can read it. Its title is “Buy Domain Names Now“, short excerpt follows: I think we’re having quite an interesting market situation right now that is [...]

Domain Name News 30 July 2008 16:01:21- Domain Market

Imagine the following scenario: A registrant owns a .NET version of your .COM domain and decides to list it with SnapNames. However he mistypes the domain by entering the .COM version in the spreadsheet he sends to his account manager. The account manager then proceeds to move the .COM version of the domain, which is owned by another registrant, from his Moniker account to a SnapNames auction, where the auction is

moreover 15 July 2008 23:49:00- Domain Market

On the Web, your name is everything; your domain is your brand. Sure, it sounds easy-just pick a name and get your real estate website going-but its just not that simple. Choosing a domain name for your real estate website is one of the most important dynamics in your real estate business. Your domain name choice will be the foundation of all that you do over the Internet in the future. And in the future, the Internet will be very important in

DNXPERT 24 March 2008 20:15:09- Domain Market

CNNic, the Chinese .cn domain name registry have announced they have passed the 10 million domain registrations mark in January 2008. While other countries take pride in reaching 7 figures, China is strongly striding towards being the leading nation in terms of ccTld registrations. Only Germany with their .de ccTld have reached 10 million registrations in [...]

moreover 02 June 2008 11:58:00- Domain Market

By Edwardo Mascasas Domains are becoming a part of day to day life. You cannot watch a TV advert etc without a domain name being slipped in for good measure.So how do I get one of these?According to many experts and even to those who have tried the

moreover 27 March 2008 07:38:00- Domain Market

Companies and organizations in the Asian-Pacific region now have a new option for their website domain names the suffix dot Asia. The DotAsia Organisation announced its .Asia Go Live registry in Hong Kong yesterday, on a first-come-first-serve basis. The DotAsia Organisation is a not-for-profit, community-based group, incorporated in Hong Kong, that is sponsoring the operation of the .Asia top-level domain registration. Patent and trademark-registered bodies, have already had the opportunity to register for the new ‘dot Asia’ domain, in the first two phases of the project.

Verisign 04 April 2008 14:28:54- Ofindo

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA – March 27, 2008 – VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), the leading provider of Internet infrastructure for the networked world, today announced, effective as of October 1, 2008, an increase in registry domain name fees for .com and .net, per its agreements with ICANN.

VeriSign announced that the registry fee for .com domain names will increase from $6.42 to $6.86 and that the registry fee for .net domain names will increase, from $3.85 to $4.23.

Traffic volume continues to increase with the emergence of consumer-driven services, the surge in Web-connected wireless devices and the proliferation of technologies and services using the Domain Name System (DNS). VeriSign processes a peak of more than 33 billion DNS queries per day under normal traffic conditions.

Nask 09 May 2008 15:42:27- Domain Market

A millionth .pl domain has been registered in the national internet domain register kept by NASK (Research and Academic Computer Network). Head of the NASK Internet Domains Division, Andrzej Bartosiewicz, informs that the domain has been registered on 6 May 2008.

“Exceeding the first million of Polish domains coincides with the fifth anniversary of launching a fully automated system of domain registration and introduction by NASK of the Partnership Programme which allows the partner companies to individually register domains in the national register .pl. Since the moment of introducing the Partnership System, we have been observing an increase of the number of registered domains and a creation of a market with active registrars”, says Andrzej Bartosiewic

Domain Name Wire 15 April 2008 07:38:39- Domain Market

Companies need to be careful when allowing affiliates to use their trademark in domain names.

I do a lot of “affiliate arbitrage” by promoting affiliate programs through paid search platforms such as Google Adwords. This used to be really easy. But then Google decided to limit identical “display URL” for each search term to one. So if you were promoting Orbitz.com then you had to use a different domain name to direct traffic to the landing page. If you used Orbitz.com, your ad wouldn’t show if someone else had an ad with the same domain.

moreover 17 July 2008 03:22:00- Domain Market

In the first three months of '08, 14 million domain names were added to the internet, according to the first quarter 2008 Domain Name Industry Brief published by VeriSign — via MarketingCharts. That's a 17 percent increase over the fourth quarter of 2007, and 15 percent over the year-earlier period. At the end of the first quarter, the total base of domain name registrations globally across all of the Top Level Domain Names (TLDs) numbered 162 million. That's a 26 percent increase over

moreover 03 February 2010 12:45:00- Domain Market

Learn where to register a domain name. Best and reliable registrars. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Learn where to register a domain name. Best and reliable registrars. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE PR Log (Press Release) ? Feb 03, 2010 ? To obtain a domain name, you

Domain Name Wire 13 July 2009 20:13:31- Domain Market

Registration has opened for the second annual Domain Convergence conference. The conference will be held in Toronto, Canada August 13-14. Early registration is available through July 20 for $649, $100 off the regular price. The event is a general interest domainer conference, but will also include a special session about .ca (Canada) domain names. [...]

.auDA 12 June 2008 13:15:06- Registries

Berners-Lee: Challenge of the Web is 'creative connectivity' | How Many TLD Applications Will ICANN Receive? | Consultation on Proposals to Reform ICANN Meetings | ICANN Launches Subscription-Based Policy Update | CIRA Creates Backdoor WHOIS Exceptions for Police and IP Owners | .ES Approaches One Million Domain Names | Dot-What? Will_This_Name_Happen.nyc? | MP appointed to head internetNZ board | Russia's president calls for Cyrillic Internet domain

.auDA 25 April 2008 05:16:21- Registries

ICANN GNSO Votes to Kill Domain Tasting | Where do the Swiss live who have registered the most domain names? | Campaigning for the launch of .eng | Hackers jack thousands of sites, including UN domains | Study finds hackers can exploit misspellings | Red Bull wins redbullsucks.com from energy drink rival | Microsoft sues over brand in Dutch programme curbing kids on Internet | US court says IP addresses are private

Domain Pulse 30 April 2008 14:01:30- Domain Market

NIC Mexico announced they reached the milestone of the 250,000th .mx domain name on April 28. While .mx is not one of the larger ccTLDs, it is experiencing strong growth with an increase of 24 per cent in 2007.

Domain Pulse 27 May 2008 08:32:05- Domain Market

Protecting your company with a trade mark gives the owner a title to claim of a “company name”. This works in the domain name industry as well, a trade mark will in most cases cover the owner in obtaining a domain name. A few registry’s will not allow a client to obtain a domain without a trade mark. Reading through IBLS new article covers intellectual

Domain Name Wire 25 August 2008 16:31:12- Domain Market

Public Interest Registry (PIR), the registry that manages the .org top level domain, announced today that there are now 7 million .org domain names registered. Since management of the registry was assumed by Public Interest Registry in 2003, .org registrations have increased more than

Domain Name Wire 02 October 2008 22:17:12- Domain Market

New association to further interests of Canadian domainers.

A new domainer association is launching at the Domain Convergence conference in Niagara Falls next week.

Domain Owners Association of Canada (DOAC) aims to protect and increase the value of its members’ domain names. Peter Maxymych, President of

moreover 28 March 2008 06:46:00- Domain Market

It's not often that a domain-name holder accused of cybersquatting actually prevails in a dispute with the party that filed the complaint. It's rarer still for that entity to then win a counterclaim of attempted reverse domain-name hijacking. But that's

.auDA 09 April 2008 22:49:40- Registries

Video boom threatens to gridlock the internet | Web could collapse as video demand soars | Coming soon: superfast internet | Australian broadband network soon to be obsolete | ICANN Issues Advisory Regarding the Inter-Registrar Transfer Policy | NTIA Shrugs by Milton Mueller | US domain name costs rise as Australian regs loosen | Happy second birthday .eu! | Estonia prepares for repeat of cyberattacks on anniversary | The evolution of CyberCrime Inc. | US Cyberwarfare Prep Includes Offense | nz: Extra cyber defence team considered | Craigslist bullies unofficial blog over domain, trademarks | Are Domain Name Registrars Ready for IPv6? by Patrick Vande Walle | Pizza.com cooked for $2.6m

moreover 28 June 2008 15:47:00- Domain Market

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the organization that manages the world's most important web address extensions- in other words, what goes after the dot in a URL, has decided that the internationalised domain names those that do

moreover 30 March 2008 13:24:00- Domain Market

The Nationalist Government is considering moves to create a Scottish web domain name. Proposals which could see the endings of websites based in Scotland changed from '.co.uk' to '.sco' are currently being looked at by finance secretary John Swinney.It

.auDA 21 April 2008 18:24:11- Registries

FCC Net Neutrality Hearing Draws Diverse Views | Net neutrality debate spreads to Europe by Milton Mueller | AT&T: Internet to hit full capacity by 2010 | Despite guidelines, assigning Net domain names is tricky | A Journey Through Time (20 years of .at / 10 years of nic.at) | Back in the USSR: Soviet Internet domain name resists death | Experts split on "cyberterrorism" threat | Storm clouds looming for Internet, experts say | ISPs' Error Page Ads Let Hackers Hijack Entire Web, Researcher Discloses | IWF Seeks Registries Involvement to Tackle Child Abuse | Domain Name Sales Boom During Real Estate Bust | ComScore Stands By Google Research | T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Goes Down Under

moreover 18 October 2008 07:13:00- Domain Market

Telnic, the company behind the .tel top level domain launching in December and billed as 'a new communications 'hub' for individuals and businesses that...will enable secure sharing of contact information and true personalisation of online services' is

moreover 26 March 2008 20:02:00- Domain Market

-- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- The official registry for the .nl domain name, SIDN (sidn.nl) announced on Tuesday that it has taken a closer look at the results of its landrush for numerical domain names in February following some alleged

moreover 05 February 2010 11:46:00- Domain Market

Over time, people have grown accustomed to most Web site addresses ending in .com, .edu or .gov. Yet a proposed expansion of the generic top-level domain (gTLD) space by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) will change the way we look at domain names forever.

In the months ahead, the domain-name landscape will undergo a revolutionary change by allowing a virtually unlimited number of gTLDs—the string of characters after the dot in every Web address. Rather than being limited to .com, .net, .org or other commonly recognized TLDs, any .ourbrand top-level domain will be possible.

For businesses, this change means that protecting their trademarks and searching for and watching gTLDs will become increasingly complex. For consumers, the change is designed to provide greater transparency about domain owners and make it simpler to navigate the Web.

However, before that simplicity can be achieved, there is complexity—and uncertainty—to sort out. What will the final form of the gTLD process be? What are the real risks and opportunities for companies?

Most importantly, what should businesses be doing to prepare?

Determine how generic top-level domains fit with your brand strategy.

There is only one chance to protect your

Domain Name News 01 June 2008 21:15:12- Blogs

MacRumors.com is reporting a rumor that Apple is the new owner of the domain name Me.com. It’s unclear why the company purchased the domain name, but rumors center around it possibly being used as a rebranding of the popular .mac services. The speculation was first started by John Gruber at DaringFireball.net when he [...]

Domain Pulse 10 June 2008 14:31:29- Domain Market

With 973,894 domain names registered at the beginning of June, .ES is the latest ccTLD to be approaching the magical one million mark. Already in the first five months of 2008 registrations have increased 20 per cent.

moreover 18 April 2008 22:16:00- Domain Market

MOSCOW - The Soviet Union may be in the dustbin of history, but there's one place the socialist utopia lives on: cyberspace. Sixteen years after the superpower's collapse, Web sites ending in the Soviet '.su' domain name have been rising - registrations

moreover 26 March 2008 18:00:00- Domain Market

Professionals: Reserve your dot-pro domain today with EnCirca BOSTON, March 26, 2008 -- EnCirca (http://www.encirca.pro) announces it is accepting advance orders from all businesses slated to become eligible for the dot-pro domain. After months of

moreover 04 April 2008 02:05:00- Domain Market

BALTIMORE, April 3 (UPI) -- The investment of $20 a year to maintain ownership of the Internet domain name 'pizza.com' netted the U.S. owner a hefty return of $2.6 million Thursday. Chris Clark of North Potomac, Md., registered the name in 1994, when

Ofindo 10 March 2008 14:08:17- Ofindo

The registration of the new Internet domain names of the Republic of Serbia with .rs extension commences on Monday, March 10, 2008. In addition to the .rs,

moreover 29 March 2008 15:55:00- Domain Market

Drafters of the long overdue Communication Bill have decided, for now, to leave out the clause that will regulate the registration of Internet domain names. The drafters felt that the regulation of such services would better be handled under an Act

Domain Name News 27 March 2009 16:19:24- Blogs

Since the general availability phase of the new .TEL domain started on March 24th, the registry has now already passed 100,000 registrations according to insider sources. A 6-12 hour delay in new domain propagation, seems to confirm the high registry load. It seems that many investors, speculators and other registrants flock to the launch of [...]

Domain Name Wire 20 October 2008 15:16:38- Domain Market

New IDN TLDs may pose problems for second level IDN holders.

For years, domain names were only available in roman characters. Domain names in these characters don’t make a lot of sense to web users who’s primary languages don’t use these characters. But then so-called International Domain Names (IDNs) using non-roman characters became available. Domainers jumped on board and invested heavily. Many of these domains get solid type-in traffic or have been turned into search engine friendly destination sites. There’s just one problem:

moreover 03 July 2008 16:01:00- Domain Market

Since the original seven domain "dots" were established, the Internet Corporation For Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN;

) has expanded the number of generic top level domains (gTLDs) only rarely. But by 2Q 2009, adding new dot domains could start expanding rapidly. Last week, at an annual meeting in Paris, ICANN approved a recommendation that would add many new domain names, as well as expanding the languages and character sets for internationalized domain names. The nuts and bolts of processing the expansion will not appear until the final version of the implementation plan is approved by the ICANN board in early 2009. Complex and challenging issues remain before them following "principles of fairness, transparency, and non-discrimination," as well as technical issues to insure the stability of the domain name system—as my interview with former ICANN chair Vinton Cerf confirms. However, the potential impact over the years of a massive

Domain Pulse 17 June 2008 11:32:14- Domain Market

Hangeul,” the Korean alphabet, could be used for Internet domain names as early as the first quarter of 2009, the head of a domain management agency said Tuesday.

ICANN, or the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, has been in the process of revising the current Roman alphabet-based system to allow use of other characters for domains such as “com,” “org” and “net” used at the end of addresses.

Domain Name Wire 06 February 2010 03:10:02- Domain Market

Eyewear companyâs dates donât add up. Zenni Optical, LLC, a retailer of eyeglasses, has been found guilty of reverse domain name hijacking by a World Intellectual Property Organization arbitrator. Zenni Optical filed the complaint to get the domain name Zenni.com. But its dates didnât add up. Zenni.com was registered in May 2002. But Zenni [...]

CircleID 17 July 2008 23:15:25- Domain Market

The .Me Top-Level Domain (TLD) Registry officially opened today for everyone on a first-come, first-served basis at 15:00UTC July 17, 2008. In follow up to the launch of this TLD, companies, organizations and members of the public where told that they can get a "Web presence that is truly personal, and have their new Web site working

moreover 27 May 2008 05:36:00- Domain Market

The number of successful attacks on .au domain names has increased over the past 12 months, according to the latest Cyber Hack Update 2008 report from TippingPoint. The report, released at the AusCERT conference revealed that Australia is second in APAC

.auDA 28 April 2008 22:18:27- Registries

Stark warning for internet's future | The Future of the Internet: And How to Stop It by Jonathan Zittrain: The Sunday Times review | Spanish government's domain names held to ransom over water | Cybersquatters plague London's mayoral race | Seinfeld Isn?t Laughing about JerrySeinfeld.com

.auDA 13 November 2008 21:38:43- Registries

Termination of Registrar EstDomains to Go Ahead | Why the DNS is broken, in plain language by Kim Davies | ICANN to terminate notorious registrar's credentials after all | DNS creator says flaws in protocol put firms at risk | Survey: One DNS Server in 10 Is 'trivially Vulnerable' | Domain name vibrators.com sells for $1m | Kredit.de Defies Credit Squeeze Selling for ?900,000

moreover 01 January 2009 14:47:00- Domain Market

(SinoCast Daily Business Beat via COMTEX) -- 12.915 million CN domain names have been registered by October 2008, making the national domain the largest in global ranking, showed the latest statistical data released by the China Internet Network

moreover 12 July 2009 20:16:00- Domain Market

InternetNZ has launched an online marketing campaign to promote '.nz' internet addresses as growth in website registrations slows and fresh competition from new 'top-level domain names' looms. Growth in the number of '.nz' addresses fell below 10 per

.auDA 17 April 2008 18:18:19- Registries

Russians Snub ICANN with IDN SU Registrations | Latest issue of ICANN magazine out | DotAsia Goes Live With Thousands of Registrations | Trading in .au Domain Names Starts in June | .CA reaches the one millionth registration milestone | 12 millionth Domain Name Registration for .DE | Dot-Quebec? | Experts clash over cyberterrorism threat | Sound the alarm, IPv6 execs say | Industry execs sound IPv6 alarm?is the sky really falling? | Study: Google Lost Share of Search Ad Dollars to Yahoo | Google bots are crawling in a new way

DNXPERT 01 May 2008 07:59:18- Domain Market

NIC Mexico (Network Information Center México), the registry and administrators of the .MX cctTLD, is announcing that on April 28th, 250,000 .MX domain name registrations have been reached. This new threshhold turns out to be highly promising for the increasing use of .MX domain names, given the accelerated behavior of registration in the last years; and [...]

moreover 04 April 2008 23:14:00- Domain Market

BRUSSELS (AFP) - The European .eu web domain has picked up 2.8 million customers in its first two years of existence and ranks in the global cyber top ten, the EU commission said Saturday. On the web domain's second birthday the EU's executive arm proudly listed leading brands such as Bridgestone, Mika and Versace among the companies, groups and individuals who have chosen an .eu Internet address.

moreover 06 February 2010 00:23:00- Domain Market

WIPO Case NumberD2009-1684 Domain name(s)monstertemplates.commonstretemplates.comtemplatemonsters.comtemplatemonstres.comtemplatestunning.comtemplatetuner.comtemplatetunning.com ComplainantIgor LognikovRespondentCharles Andrew Mc Gow-Edmunds aka Charles

moreover 18 April 2008 22:51:00- Domain Market

The real estate market may be languishing, but Web properties -- domain names -- are booming.

In the first quarter of 2008, $38,029,543 in domain sales were reported, a 78% increase over the $21,253,105 in domain sales reported for the first quarter of 2007, said Ron Jackson, editor and publisher of DN Journal, in an e-mail.

"In the first quarter of 2008, 3,764 sales were reported to DN Journal, making the average sale reported $10,103," said Jackson. "In the first quarter of 2007, 3,086 sales were reported to us, but the average price was only $6,886. For all of 2007, 13,888 sales were reported to us, and the average sale for the year was $8,698. So 1Q-2008 showed a significant rise in both average sales price and total dollar volume reported."

Domain Name Wire 10 March 2008 15:18:30- Domain Market

$100 gift available to readers. Advertisement Yesterday Domain Name Wire turned 3. March 9, 2005 seems like a long time ago. Back then we were talking about Yahoo (YHOO) launching its answer to Google Adsense, GoDaddy fighting to keep whois privacy (I guess some things never change), and registry prices for .net domains dropping (OK, [...]

Domain Name Wire 13 March 2008 20:13:46- Domain Market

Advertisers can exclude ads from showing up on parked domains; lower revenue ahead?

moreover 08 July 2008 03:52:00- Domain Market

Last week the proposal to allow a new breed of internet domains triggered talk of another “internet gold rush”. I’m not sure this is going to happen, however it is a timely reminder of the importance of protecting your own business name. The Global Top Level Domains (gLTDs) are the suffixes such as .com and .net at the end of internet addresses. There are 22 of these and they are controlled by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) which is chaired by an Australian, Dr Paul Twomey. ICANN has proposed to make new gLTDs available to anyone who makes a suitable application. So somebody can apply to create a .smartcompany or .australia domain to replace the boring old .com or .com.au. I have to admit my first reaction

moreover 28 October 2008 02:19:00- Domain Market

The global top level domain debate is set to ignite with the release over the weekend of the draft new global top level domains program guidebook. The global top level domains (gLTDs) are the suffixes such as .com and .net placed at the end of internet

moreover 23 June 2008 19:27:00- Domain Market

PARIS (AFP) Internet users should soon be able to use new domain names such as .love, .paris or .bank if one of the world wide web's biggest shakeups is approved this week as expected by the web regulator ICANN. The Internet Corporation for Assigned

moreover 23 June 2008 11:37:00- Domain Market

SOFIA (Reuters) - Bulgaria applied on Monday to register an Internet domain name in Cyrillic script as part of efforts to boost national pride amid a growing influence of English. The Balkan country of 7.7 million people last year won the right to spell

Ofindo 11 March 2008 17:55:40- Ofindo

Since  March 3, 2008, the Costa Rican Registry (National Acadamy of Sciences) allows the registration of domain names with the “.cr” extension.

moreover 24 June 2008 05:58:00- Domain Market

By Liz Tay The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is proposing to relax the rules on top-level domain names in a move that could drastically change the Internet. If approved, new registration rules could allow companies to

moreover 07 June 2008 20:49:00- Domain Market

According to the new McAfee report, Hong Kong (.hk) domain has jumped 28 places as the most dangerous place to surf and search on the web. The report, "Mapping the Mal Web Revisited", revealed that 19.2% of all websites ending in the ".hk" domain pose a security threat1 to web users.

moreover 30 June 2008 11:13:00- Domain Market

Web regulators on Thursday voted to open up the internet's domain name system to create hundreds of new website addresses, such as '.paris' or '.Pepsi', in one of the biggest shake-ups in online history. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) approved the overhaul, which has major implications for businesses and consumers worldwide, during its annual general meeting in Paris. "This is a historic resolution.

moreover 25 April 2008 18:12:00- Domain Market

00 CDT OTTAWA - The Internet has reached a milestone in Canada with the one millionth dot-ca (.ca) domain name. The Canadian Internet Registration Authority says a Calgary lawyer registered the one-millionth dot-ca name for a website to promote his

DNS.PL 20 October 2008 09:10:17- Registries

Numbers of registrations domain names by NASK and Registrars in the last week, 13 October - 20 October 2008: 13294; number of IDN registrations: 323; number of domain names transfers: 3875; number of Option registrations: 749.

DNXPERT 07 June 2008 21:13:17- Domain Market

The .NU top level country domain (ccTld) of the small island nation Niue which is located between New Zealand, Tonga, Samoa, and the Cook Islands, has been popular for several years in Scandinavian countries where “nu” translates to “now.” Roughly 80% of the registered .nu domains are Swedish. On June 10 the landrush will begin for [...]

Domain Pulse 09 June 2008 13:01:40- Domain Market

China (.cn) has overtaken Germany (.de) to become the world’s largest country code for domain names. With an average of around 400,000 to 500,000 .cn domain names registered each month it would be safe to assume there are more than 12,300,000 names registered compared to 12,098,279 .de names registered at the time of writing.

Domain Name Wire 23 September 2008 20:17:11- Domain Market

Auction of 200 reserved domain names will test the aftermarket for .mobi domain names.

I know the folks over at dotMobi like me, but I’m honored they selected my birthday to launch a massive .mobi auction over at Sedo .

The auction starting November 5 will include 200 reserved domain names, and there are some doozies such as Blackjack.mobi, Games.mobi (which previously “sold” for $401,500), and xxx.mobi.

After slowly auctioning

moreover 15 July 2008 16:53:00- Domain Market

Posted by Tom Espiner I'm very pleased to say that GoDaddy has suspended the travel-getaways.com domain. I that to my surprise I had found I was the site administrator for travel-getaways.com, which was pulling content from a legitimate travel site. I

.auDA 19 June 2008 02:41:02- Registries

OECD proposes roadmap for the future of the Internet economy | Governments give consumers a boost at high-level OECD meeting on the future of the Internet | No Vacancy: Make Room for New Internet Addresses by Dr Paul Twomey | EU speaks out about seizing opportunities in the global internet economy | au: Conroy Hints At International Web Security Pact | ICANN: Improving Institutional Confidence consultation launched | ICANN: Proposed Global Policy for Autonomous System Numbers - Final Call for Comments and Background Report | VeriSign builds out DNS security defences | In First Quarter of 2008, Internet Keeps Pace with Quarterly Growth Rate Set in 2007 | VeriSign: Domain-name Registrations Keep Growing | US FTC Halts Domain Name Registration Scam | us: FTC Halts Cross Border Con Artists: Thousands of Small Businesses and Nonprofits Billed for Domain Registrations They Didn't Get | au: Lawsuit against AdultShop.com settled - DBS subsidiary settles mutual lawsuit with AdultShop

.auDA 08 May 2008 16:57:58- Registries

Public Comment Period Now Open for Domain Tasting Motion | CEOs underestimating security risks: Icann president launches new best practice guide for business leaders | Russian Plan to Foil Cybersquatters Backed | Unicaresoft loses MSNLock case against Microsoft | Domainers Can't Have It Both Ways: Until Blatant Cybersquatters Are Exterminated, All Domainers Will Suffer | Google trademark move sparks outrage

Blog de Stephane van Gelder 12 March 2008 12:04:51- Blogs

Domain Name Wire 05 February 2010 16:50:09- Domain Market

Escrow.com offers service for domain name purchase payment plans. I caught up with Escrow.com president Brandon Abbey during DOMAINfest last week. When I asked him about current trends in sales, he said the company is seeing more people wishing to do payment plans when they acquire domains. Escrow.com has a service for these customers. It [...]

.auDA 16 June 2008 13:13:35- Registries

us: Charging by the Byte to Curb Internet Traffic | ICANN Solicits Public Comment on Single Character Name Allocation Framework | Draft Final Report of Recommendations for IDN ccTLD Fast Track Mechanism Made Available | Canadian Internet Registration Authority ends free-for-all over personal information | Lewis estate takes on 11-year-old in new battle of Narnia | First Australian Web Site to Auction ".au" Domain Names

Ofindo 13 March 2008 10:43:30- Ofindo

moreover 03 April 2008 12:10:00- Domain Market

home > publications & resources > associations now To order reprints of any article in its original format, visit Scoopreprintsource.com Intelligence Q: What steps can your association take to help prevent cybersquatting and enforce trademark —as are for-profit companies. According to the Coalition Against Domain Name Abuse (CADNA), cybersquatting costs trademark owners more than $1 billion each year due to lost sales, lost goodwill, and increased enforcement costs.A typical example of cybersquatting is

.auDA 14 April 2008 19:14:41- Registries

Internationalizing the Domain Name System by Geoff Huston, APNIC | .ASIA adding 5,000 domains a day | International cyberattack drill tests nations' responses | DHS offers first take on Cyber Storm exercise | Study Finds 'Alarming' Ignorance About Cybercrime | Bush's Cyber Secrets Dilemma | Underworld economy runs on bots and spam | Presidential campaigns clueless about Net threats | L'affaire Yahoo is tres banale to Madison Ave. | dollars.com Going for Big Dollars in Sedo Auction

DNXPERT 02 January 2009 20:22:12- Domain Market

I have been testing the Mystery Domain Auction affiliate program with a couple of volunteer participants and having determined that it is operational, the feature has gone live.

As I state on the front page of the site and in the faqs, I aim to auction off the mystery domain name for an accumulated $1,000,000 - I don?t intend to keep all the money to myself. On the contrary, I am sharing 50% of every sale brought in by an affiliate ... READ MORE

moreover 28 April 2008 22:09:00- Domain Market

DUBLIN, Ireland and WASHINGTON, April 28 /PRNewswire/ -- As part of its ongoing series of unique methods of allocating Internet domain names, dotMobi -- the company behind the .mobi web address for mobile phones -- is bringing 16 "premium names" to market at Moniker's T.R.A.F.F.I.C. East Auction on May 23, 2008.

To help drive interest in -- and visits to -- the mobile web sites of brands and businesses around the world, dotMobi has chosen to bring names to market that represent a wide range of interests. The domain names to be auctioned at this event are airlines.mobi, boats.mobi, company.mobi, computers.mobi, drugs.mobi, escort.mobi, films.mobi, forsale.mobi, men.mobi, mortgage.mobi, records.mobi, religion.mobi, ringtone.mobi, sales.mobi, show.mobi, and strip.mobi

moreover 26 March 2008 17:08:00- Domain Market

The live registration for the .Asia domain name follows the end of the 'sunrise' and 'landrush' name reservation periods. Companies and individuals can now register for the names of their choice, which will immediately be accessible on the web. Companies and individuals can now register for the names of their choice, which will immediately be accessible on the web. Companies trading with the pan-Asian market may risk losing credibility as a supplier if they do not have...

.auDA 05 May 2008 22:42:01- Registries

The Future of the Internet - And How to Stop It by Jonathan Zittrain | Internet in danger of losing innovation | A simple way to avoid being the next Star Wars Kid by Jonathan Zittrain | A Killer Product: Will closed devices like Apple's iPhone murder the Web? | ICANN One Step Closer to Outlawing Domain Tasting: Public comment invited on proposal | Spain to reach a million domains this summer | How to Get Started as a Domainer: 28 Tips, Techniques and Resources | Google alters policy on linked adverts | The Real Threat to Google | Google adwords fuel new URL attack

.auDA 09 June 2008 15:32:26- Registries

Policy brief: The future of the Internet economy | Who will pay as the Internet grows? | Tim Wu: iPhone central to "future of the Internet" | Zittrain's "Future of the Internet" Reviewed by Milton Mueller | ICANN Seeks Expressions of Interest from Registrars to Receive Names from Two De-Accredited Registrars | ICANN Opens Public Comment Period for Draft/Interim Terminated Registrar Transition Procedure | Internationalized Domain Name Program Adds Two Languages | IDN wiki - adding Urdu and Thai by Tina Dam | UNESCO encourages Governments to participate in the next meeting of ICANN

Domain Name Wire 12 November 2008 22:32:19- Domain Market

ICANN’s Director of IDN discusses the importance of technical compliance for international domain names.

ICANN Director of the IDN Program Tina Dam

the importance of compliance with IDN technical requirements on the ICANN blog today. It’s a must read for anyone who has invested in international domain names (domains that use non-roman/latin characters) or considering them as

dotAsia 13 March 2008 15:39:17- Registries

Hong Kong, 13 March 2008 – DotAsia Organisation announced today that a total of 473,633 domain registration applications were received within the 3-week Landrush period. Including Sunrise and .Asia Pioneer Domains, the number of applications totals to over half a million: 505,838. .Asia registry will Go Live on March 26, domain names will be available on a First-Come-First-Served basis.

“The results exceeded our expectations. We are very pleased with the enthusiastic demand for the .Asia domain. This is a testament to the global interest in the thriving Asia Internet marketplace, and the investment appeal for the most prestigious cyber real-estate in Asia,” says Edmon Chung, CEO of DotAsia. “It will be interesting to see which of the domain names would fetch the highest prices in the auction. I believe we could be in for some surprises.”

45,697 domains received more than one application in Landrush and will go to auction. Out of which, “buy.asia” was the most sought after, with over 400 applicants fighting for the name. Others in the top 5 include: hot.asia, gold.asia, fun.asia, girl.asia. 1,051 domain names received more than one application during Sunrise. Among which, “sex.asia” received the most Sunrise applications, with 14 prior-right claims filed. A live ticker and the latest auction results can be found on www.registry.asia.

The top registrar in the .Asia Landrush was AsiaDNS (www.asiadns.asia). Others in the top-10 include: Dotalliance (www.dotalliance.asia), Communigal Communications (www.galcomm.asia), GoDaddy.com, Key-Systems (www.domaindiscount24.asia), Gabia, HiChina Web Solutions, DomainPeople (www.domainpeople.asia), Yesnic and NamesBeyond.com. “.Asia opened great opportunities for AsiaDNS. Even with high expectations, our results nearly doubled our expectations! We were able to attract new customers from around the world who understands the value of a .Asia domain.” said Frederick Schiwek, EVP of AsiaDNS.

About DotAsia Organisation:
DotAsia Organisation is a not-for-profit, community-based organisation incorporated in Hong Kong. Asia has developed into a global force in the international commercial, political and cultural network. The .Asia domain aspires to embrace this dynamism in the Asia Century to become a nucleus, intersection and breeding ground for Internet activity and development in the region. Visit: http://www.registry.asia for more information.

Domain Pulse 16 July 2008 08:01:17- Domain Market

Lawsuit alleges ads on parked domains are low quality and unlikely to convert. A lawyer has sued Google claiming that none of his ads on parked domain names converted into leads, and that Google didn’t provide an easy way to opt out of domain parking, writes Information Week. The lawyer spent $136.11 on ads on parked domains and error pages. He got 668 clicks and zero conversions, according to the lawsuit. According to the article, the lawsuit alleges that “Google includes millions of parked domains and

moreover 28 March 2008 06:20:00- Domain Market

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Domain Name News 10 March 2008 04:19:53- Blogs

Dark Blue Sea, parent company of Fabulous.com have entered into a five year agreement with Godaddy to sell domain names from the Dark Blue Sea portfolio through Godaddy’s sales channels. The agreement also puts Godaddy in a position to become a major shareholder in DBS. (c) 2008 DomainNameNews.com Visit our Calendar of Domain Industry Events. dark blue sea, [...]

.auDA 22 May 2008 14:57:59- Registries

Editorial: Democracy and the Web | ICANN Sends Notice of Breach to Registrar Red Register | Ensuring Global Voices Heard at ICANN Cairo Meeting | Global Survey on Multilingualism in ICANN's Work Now Online | Ghosts of Root Servers Past by David Conrad | .car gTLD Proposal Launched | Australia crumbles under Cyber Storm attack | U.S. military cites growing China space, cyber threat | Global group to provide cyberattack early warnings | Lax ISPs add to Internet security problem | World has to move to IPv6--Vint Cerf | Most Spam Sites Tied to a Handful of Registrars | Working to make the internet safe | Melbourne IT goes beyond its domain | Is America.com a $12m name like Sex.com?

CircleID 21 April 2008 16:59:00- Domain Market

The ICANN Generic Names Supporting Organization has had tasting on its agenda since last fall, with a staff report issued in January, and a proposed anti-tasting policy written in March. On Thursday the 17th, the GNSO put the proposed policy to a vote, and it passed overwhelmingly. Under ICANN rules, the ICANN board has to take up the resolution at its next meeting, and since it was approved by a supermajority, it becomes ICANN policy unless 2/3 of the board votes against it, which in this case is unlikely. More...

moreover 09 April 2008 09:51:00- Domain Market

Company to provide ICANN with colocation services for Global root domain name system. , a provider of IT infrastructure services, today announced that the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers has selected them to house its second instance of the Global L-Root server cluster at their flagship facility. The company states that ICANN is responsible for the global coordination of the Internet's system of unique identifiers like domain names and the addresses used in a variety of Internet protocols that help computers connect to each other over the Internet.

The company declared that it will provide ICANN with colocation services. It further claims that as a result, ICANN will be able to enhance global access to the L-Root servers, while also enhancing its ability to mitigate distributed denial-of-service attacks on the core of the Internet.

Elliot's Blog 05 February 2010 02:43:57- Blogs

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ICANN 19 March 2008 12:48:05- Organisations

MARINA DEL REY, Calif.: Hebrew and Amharic speakers now have dedicated wiki pages to share their experiences as a part of the global evaluation of Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) being done by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. "Since its launch in October 2007, the IDN wiki has helped ICANN and the Internet community look at exactly how IDNs operate in the root, and how different software handles domain names in characters from different scripts," said Tina Dam, ICANN’s IDN Program Director. "We’re hoping that Internet users who understand Hebrew and Amharic will access these wiki pages and share their experiences." The IDN wiki was initially based on 11 example.test domains in Arabic, Persian, Chinese (simplified and traditional), Russian, Hindi, Greek, Korean, Yiddish, Japanese and Tamil. The wiki allows Internet users to establish their own subpages with their own names in their own language such as example.test/yourname.

moreover 31 March 2008 06:02:00- Domain Market

THE Scottish National party is to take its campaign for independence into cyberspace by seeking to change the endings of all websites based in the country, from .co.uk to .sco. Alex Salmond, the first minister, is to lodge a formal request with the

moreover 30 June 2008 22:35:00- Domain Market

Dot-com is so 1990s. The group that oversees the naming of Internet domains approved a measure today that will broadly expand what words can follow the period in a Web address -- everything from .ABC to .sex -- potentially sparking a domain-naming boom.

ICANN Blog 13 November 2008 01:30:07- Blogs

At ICANN?s meeting in Egypt last week, I had the opportunity to try and explain to various non-technical audiences why the Domain Name System (DNS) is vulnerable to attack, and why that is important, without needing a computer science degree to understand it. Here is the summary. How does the DNS work? The DNS can be considered [...]

moreover 13 July 2009 18:35:00- Domain Market

Heres a question to get a little discussion going today: Should anyone be able to start a top-level domain ? that is the part of an Internet address after the period, such as .com, .net or .fr (for France)? Thats the plan of the Internet Corporation

moreover 10 July 2009 01:23:00- Domain Market

ADULT entertainment companies seeking to operate internet red light districts would face resistance from the Rudd Labor government. 

The government said it would oppose their creation when they become available under the global internet regulator's new scheme to allow registration of generic top-level-domains (gTLDs). 

The domain names, which would be created to accommodate adult content, are expected to be in high demand when the world's internet names regulator, Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), starts accepting applications next February. 

Each could net ICANN tens of millions of dollars and several Australian companies are believed to be among those which have expressed strong interest in registering them. 

AusRegistry, which operates Australia's peak domain registry for .au, has revealed that it has been approached by several entities planning to apply to register adult-themed gTLDs including, .xxx and .sex. 

However, a spokeswoman for 

moreover 30 March 2008 11:24:00- Domain Market

GENEVA (AFP) - If you tried to guess the web domain for FIFA without knowing the exact address, chances are, you would get to an Internet page that has nothing to do with the International Football Federation. Cases of so-called cybersquatting -- or

moreover 11 November 2008 12:23:00- Domain Market

CAIRO - With one month to go until Sunrise opens, trademark owners were warned that they risk missing out on being listed in the new global, 'live' contacts directory if they fail take advantage of the first come, first served application period for

moreover 27 March 2009 18:08:00- Domain Market

Millions of people and businesses depend upon the DNS infrastructure for worldwide Internet communications. Unfortunately, this service like many others is vulnerable to exploits like DNS Cache Poison attacks. This white paper provides an overview on the

.auDA 19 May 2008 17:07:00- Registries

Cairo Selected to Host ICANN's 33rd International Public Meeting | NIST Tool Helps Internet Master Top-level Domains | ICANN reforms threaten voice of IP owners | Gov'ts Must Intervene to End IP Address Shortage, Says OECD

moreover 10 November 2008 14:11:00- Domain Market

US president-elect Barack Obama has already pitched himself as tech-savvy about broadband speed and the like, so he looks well-placed to deal with possibly the biggest technology challenges of his first year in office: the future of ICANN, the domain

moreover 27 August 2008 15:37:00- Domain Market

& Parking Cybersquattingof leading pharmaceutical brands has reached an all-time high, according to the latest BrandJacking Index research by MarkMonitor. Cybersquattingis the registration of domain names containing a brand, slogan or trademark to

moreover 12 June 2008 04:32:00- Domain Market

The Kremlin is concerned that Russian, once the main language throughout the Soviet Union, is losing ground to local languages and to the creeping influence of English. It sees defending Russian as a matter of national pride. He said 300 million people

moreover 01 April 2008 13:23:00- Domain Market

GMT ag-IP-news GENEVA - Against the background of an unprecedented number of cybersquatting cases in 2007, the evolving nature of the domain name registration system (DNS) is causing growing concern for trademark owners around the world, a press release

moreover 15 July 2009 11:32:00- Domain Market

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is releasing a new policy in which anyone can start a top-level domain (the part of a URL to the right of the period, such as '.com' or '.net'). According to ICANN, this service will enable

moreover 23 April 2008 13:17:00- Domain Market

One man calls for .eng to be available News Talk An English man has launched a campaign to ensure a corner of the internet remains 'forever English'. John Sewell of Maidenhead is hoping to raise support for a new domain name that will allow the English

moreover 27 March 2008 11:54:00- Domain Market

Report from financial research firm warning of negative impacts for the industry this year as recession bites.27-03-08Gibraltar-based online gambling group says new games will result from partnership with games design studio.27-03-08Turnkey online casino

DNXPERT 10 June 2008 15:25:11- Domain Market

The .ME Registry Landrush is underway, which means anyone can apply for names with the new .ME domain name extension. The Landrush process began Friday and is a 20-day period in which the public can make a claim for .ME names they want to register. The registry has been accepting .ME applications since May for trademark [...]

Domain Pulse 01 May 2008 09:16:42- Domain Market

Domain tasting is the disreputable practice of registering lots of domains, seeing how much traffic they get, and then using the five day Add Grace Period to refund the 99.9% of them that aren’t worth paying for. A related abuse is front running, registrars speculatively grabbing domains that people inquire about to prevent them from using a different registrar.

ICANN 06 March 2008 14:42:08- Organisations

ICANN has announced today that it has signed an exchange of letters with the country code top level domain (ccTLD) manager for .za-South Africa ZA DNA, (...)

moreover 30 July 2008 09:48:00- Domain Market

DNS patches that were released to quash a critical flaw have slowed the servers running the Berkeley Internet Name Domain (BIND) software and had an adverse effect of some versions of Windows Server. Paul Vixie, who heads the (ISC), the group

moreover 04 January 2009 19:22:00- Domain Market

A federal court in the Northern District of California has awarded Verizon $33.15 million in a case in which an Internet domain registration company tried to take advantage of Verizon and Verizon customers by using Internet names chosen to be easily

Domain Name News 26 March 2008 21:59:12- Blogs

Attorney John Berryhill addresses an important issue that seems to be ignored by some U.S. based registrars: Doing business with Specially Designated Nationals (SDNs) and countries under US sanctions is against the law. Berryhill’s article points to several obvious violations of the law by registrars including Network Solutions, Godaddy and Enom who all appear to [...]

moreover 29 May 2008 01:19:00- Domain Market

How realistic is an attack that successfully hijacks a domain by social engineering the domains registrar? Pretty realistic according to ICANNs recently released advisory on : In this Advisory, SSAC describes generic forms of this type of attack. We

Simply Geo 31 March 2008 13:15:46- Blogs

It has been awhile since I have posted something from Greg Sterling. He talks about Boston.com offering local search. It is very interesting how things are evolving on the internet. The geo domain industry is the center of the world for media companies wishing to do business locally. Tradional media will get the picture eventually, but [...]

Domain Name Wire 28 October 2008 15:36:55- Domain Market

Fees estimated to cover actual costs of new TLD process. Want to offer .anything? Prepare to write a hefty check. Internet Corporation For Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) estimates that total application fees for entities wishing to offer new top level domain names, such as .nyc or .money, will be about $185,000. Despite the high [...]

moreover 21 June 2008 22:11:00- Domain Market

PARIS, June 21 /CNW/ - Telnic Limited, the Registry Operator and Sponsoring Organization for the new sponsored top level domain (sTLD) .tel, today announced details for launch at the ICANN meeting in Paris. Sunrise applications from national trademark

Domain Name News 27 May 2008 05:24:24- Blogs

I wasn’t going to attend the 2008 TRAFFIC East show. I’m totally burned out on “Domain Show Overload”. Really, how many freaking shows can we pack in to a calendar year ? While making my plans, I had only heard from a handful of colleagues that they would be attending, but I had some [...]

moreover 31 May 2008 23:08:00- Domain Market

Commission is worried that startup businesses will struggle to find domain names Europe must move on to a new internet address system as quickly as possible, according to the European Commission. The Commission is worried that startup business will

moreover 16 April 2008 00:16:00- Domain Market

With million dot-ca internet addresses registry now ranks seventeenth. , today announced that Canadian Internet users have registered one million dot-ca Internet domain names. The registry states that as one of the most wired nations, Canadians

auda 15 April 2008 08:24:16- Registries

In December 2007, the auDA Board approved a recommendation from the 2007 Names Policy Panel that the registrant transfers policy be relaxed to allow a registrant to transfer their domain name licence to another eligible entity, for any reason.

Key features of the new policy are as follows:

Dotsauce 17 July 2008 09:35:50- Domain Market

The much anticipated launch of the .ME domain is here.  Public registration for all .ME domains begins today! Official opening time is 11AM EDT / 8AM PDT. .ME Goes Live Today, Register Yours at GoDaddy! GoDaddy.com announced in a press release in January that they won the bid to manage the new .ME ccTLD. Over 30,000 .ME domains have [...]

Domain Name Wire 26 March 2008 21:42:29- Domain Market

A preview of TRAFFIC’s upcoming Australia show. Advertisement The popular TRAFFIC domain name conference heads to Australia this year for the first TRAFFIC Down Under November 18-20. The event is being promoted by Fabulous.com and TRAFFIC founders Rick Schwatz and Howard Neu. I recently caught up with Fabulous to understand how this show came about [...]

DNXPERT 26 March 2008 14:57:58- Domain Market

Hong Kong, 26 March 2008 ? DotAsia Organisation announces Go Live of the ?.Asia? registry, signifying the start of first-come-first-served registrations, allowing anyone around the world to get their .Asia domain instantaneously. ?With over 10 million domains registered in China alone and over 150 million worldwide, the potential for .Asia is only now starting to be [...]

.auDA 16 July 2009 10:04:33- Registries

Public Comment: WIPO Proposal for Modification of UDRP Rules to Allow ?Paperless? UDRP Proceedings | Internet regulator mulls cybersquatting block | Do We Need .More .Top .Level .Domains? | Brokering Peace Between Brand Owners and Domainers | The Best Internet Addresses Will Cost a Cool .Million | European ICANN reform proposal draws industry ire | UK, not North Korea, source of DDOS attacks, researcher says

moreover 28 March 2008 00:34:00- Domain Market

Everyone has had it happen to them: you're trying to remember the URL to your bank's web site, but type in some variation of the domain—americabank.com instead of bankofamerica.com, for example. Next thing you know, instead of your bank's web site, you end up at some place trying to sell you cheap Viagra. Cybersquatters are the bane of many users' (and businesses') existence, and the World Intellectual Property Organization says that they have grown to unprecedented numbers in recent years. WIPO says

ICANN 25 June 2008 10:12:20- Organisations

PARIS, France: The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers is another step closer to formalized relationships with all Latin American ccTLDs with the signing of its ninth accountability framework in the region, this one with the the country code top level domain (ccTLD) manager for .cr, delegated to the National Academy of Sciences of Costa Rica in 1990.

The signing took place at

Domain Name News 04 February 2010 20:09:57- Blogs

Disappointing Results, Despite $370,000 Sale Even though the interest in the Silent Domain Auction after the Targeted TRAFFIC conference by Rick Latona could not generate much interest, it appears it produced at least one noteworthy sale, with LongIsland.com selling for $370,000 USD. However only 9 out of the 600 listed domains sold according to the results [...]

moreover 30 May 2008 22:58:00- Domain Market

Company will continue to deliver services from Ireland and support customers from its Head Office in Worcestershire, UK. Namesco Ltd, today announced the acquisition of Register365.com, a hosting provider from Ireland, through its subsidiary Namesco Ireland Ltd adding 40,000 domains to its already existing portfolio. It states that Register365 is the shared hosting and domain registration division of Hosting365. It adds that with 35% market share, the purchase of Register365,

Elliot's Blog 10 March 2008 23:05:14- Blogs

An article in the New York Times confirms what most domain investors have said for years - direct navigation type-in traffic yields the most valuable website visitors. Based on a study performed by Internet marketing company Engine Ready, the article compares direct navigation traffic to search engine traffic, both paid and organic. While comparing [...]

DNXPERT 17 October 2008 22:15:48- Domain Market

ICANN have announced they will release the new generic top-level domain (gTLD) Applicant Guidebook, also called the ?draft Request for Proposal (RFP)?, within the next two weeks.

The Draft Applicant Guidebook, which will be in a draft format and posted for public comment and review, will comprise of six modules:

1. Introduction to the gTLD Application Process, which includes the main application fee 2. Evaluation Process 3. Objection and Dispute Resolution 4. String ... READ MORE

CircleID 29 June 2008 18:22:00- Domain Market

I have a heard a lot lately about ICANN unanimously voting in favor or relaxing top level domain rules and had a few people come to me and ask 'how does that affect what you do?' The short answer is, it won't; at least not for a long time and here is why... There might be some huge potential gain if all shoe companies got .shoes and branded it, but someone would have to manage it and each would have to spend money to brand .shoes to consumers. Adidas gets adidas.shoes but spends nothing to brand it and lets Nike pay to brand .shoes and Reebok to brand it as well and leech. So instead of cartel like behavior (which is hard to maintain), we fall back into .com More...

CircleID 24 July 2008 22:00:23- Domain Market

oday ICANN releases a paper with the title "DNSSEC @ ICANN - Signing the root zone: A way forward toward operational readiness". The paper explains in more detail than earlier documents what ICANN view on signing of the root zone is. I think the key points mentioned in this paper are true, and in general, I think this document is a good read. It is not long, and summarizes what I would call

Domain Pulse 07 November 2008 12:46:11- Domain Market

In a major change to the domain name system, the Internet Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has announced a draft plan (or Guidebook) that will allow for applications for new generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs) and is seeking comment from interested parties.

“Since ICANN was founded 10 years ago, one of the foundational principles has been to support competition and consumer choice in generic top-level domains. That competition is meant to promote innovation and enhance user choice and satisfaction” said Dr Paul Twomey, ICANN’s President and Chief Executive Officer.

“The Internet has produced great

moreover 26 March 2008 04:01:00- Domain Market

Unethical activities are nothing new online. From the early days of 'Black Hat' search engine optimization techniques like keyword stuffing and white on white text, through search engine results scraping for content, email spamming and modern phishing scams, the web has seen more than its share of dubious activities by those looking to get rich really fast.

The strange thing about these activities is this: while most people see techniques like spamming and gaming the search engine results as repugnant, even when they are not technically illegal, there is a group of webmasters and developers who see nothing wrong with any of it, and actually admire those (the tiny minority of ruthless operators) who succeed in making money this way.

This ambiguity is obvious in the media coverage of cybersquatting and typosquatting, mainly directed at webmasters and internet entrepreneurs, and written by those who follow and participate in the domain name industry.

To the ordinary web user,