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

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 [...]

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 [...]

.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 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

.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

.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

.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

.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

.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

.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

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

.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

Web Design Library 09 April 2008 08:13:43- Domain Market

Introduction

You've decided on a domain name for your new business, and the domain is already registered and for sale. How much should you be willing to pay? This is becoming a common question, as so many quality domain names have already been taken. While there is no scientific method to determine a precise value for any domain name, there are some considerations that go into determining a reasonable ballpark value for that domain name you want. Please read on, and learn about some of the techniques professional domain appraisal companies utilize to ply their trade.

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

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 ...

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 [...]

Internet Business Law Services 07 February 2007 17:33:00- Domain Market

Hong Kong Domain Name Registration Company Limited ("HK DNR?) is the Hong Kong's authority in charge of domain name registrations since 2001. HK DNR is under the control of the Hong Kong Internet Registration Corporation Limited which is the national registry and registrar for the registration and assignment of domain names in this country. Companies or individuals can register the following country top-level domain names: .COM.HK, .EDU.HK, .GOV.HK, .HK, .NET.HK, .ORG.HK in English and other Chinese domain names. This article provides start-up guidance on how to register these English domain names in Hong Kong. [More..]

IP Finance 19 March 2008 08:46:34- Blogs

ICANN's Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO) is soliciting comments on its draft resolution to curb the much-criticised practice of domain tasting -- which leverages the value of many brand-based domain names for the benefit of third parties seeking to cash in on them. According to the GNSO: "The GNSO Council is considering the issue of "domain tasting", a term used to describe the case when someone registers a domain name and then tests to see if the name has sufficient traffic to provide more income than the annual registration fee (usually through pay-per-click advertising). If the name is deemed sufficiently profitable, it is kept.

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 [...]

Kickass Web Design 17 March 2008 10:01:16- Blogs

This is a topic that has come up over and over again on WebProWorld– the use of hyphens in domain names for SEO. And it’s amazing it keeps coming up since the answer has been the same since Google was born. Hyphens in domain names are a bad idea, but, ironically, not because of the [...]

BetaNews 07 May 2008 09:37:28- Domain Market

From today until May 20, anyone with a trademark is eligible to apply for a name with the suffix .me, the assigned top-level domain for the Southern European nation Montenegro.

The country has made the .me domain available to interested parties worldwide, hoping to capitalize upon the myriad of uses the extension holds in the English language while keeping its own "visit.me," "explore.me," and "invest.me."

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 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.

Internet Business Law Services 07 February 2007 17:33:00- Domain Market

Trademark based-Domain Names have become a precious corporate asset that both large and small companies are willing to protect against unauthorized use or abusive registration. Yet, protecting those domain names at an international level may prove costly and complicated. For these simple reasons the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ("ICANN") wisely implemented two documents that have been crucial for companies engaged in protecting their domain names. The first document is the called "Dispute Resolution Policy" ("Dispute Policy") and the second document is called "Rules for Uniform Domain Name Disputes Resolution Policy" ("Dispute Rules"). This article briefly explains these two international measures to solve domain name controversies. [More..]

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.

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

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

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

guardian.co.uk 17 March 2008 11:09:19- Domain Market

Neil Stanley goes to bed each night knowing he will wake up a little richer. All over the world, the clicks of computer mice are depositing a few more pounds into his account. His secret is that he was smart enough to ask: what's in a name?

Stanley is a trader in domain names, the addresses of websites which commonly follow 'www' and end with '.com' or '.co.uk'. Once a banker at Goldman Sachs, he now has a different portfolio of lucrative investments including bridalfashion.co.uk, onlinecareers.co.uk, schoolguide.co.uk, sendingflowers.co.uk and impotency.co.uk. He is one of a growing band of cyber-speculators able to make a living from buying and selling domain names at a substantial profit. No effort or expertise in building websites is required. Instead, a PC with broadband connectivity and an eye for a popular generic domain is enough to draw traffic and unlock a fortune. Recently Stanley was involved in a deal which registered a domain name for almost nothing and sold it for $40,000 a few weeks later.

Miami Herald 25 March 2008 11:05:11- Ofindo

Here's a popular baby item you won't find on the gift registry: Baby's own website, with his or her own domain name. A growing number of expectant and new parents are setting up websites for chronicling every moment of their babies' lives -- some starting at conception by posting growing belly pictures, ultrasound images and even a countdown to the due date.

Once they've decided on a name for the baby, they're registering it as a website. For popular names like Braden and Ava, it's a virtual race to get the matching domain name before someone else does. Hundreds of companies sell domain names, most for about $10 a year.

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 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 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,

IBLS 20 March 2008 17:39:16- Ofindo

Trademark based-Domain Names have become a precious corporate asset that both large and small companies are willing to protect against unauthorized use or abusive registration. Yet, protecting those domain names at an international level may prove costly and complicated. For these simple reasons the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ("ICANN") wisely implemented two documents that have been crucial for companies engaged in protecting their domain names. The first document is the called "Dispute Resolution Policy" ("Dispute Policy") and the second document is called "Rules for Uniform Domain Name Disputes Resolution Policy" ("Dispute Rules"). This article briefly explains these two international measures to solve domain name controversies.

ICANN Dispute Resolution Policy is an alternative dispute resolution mechanism to help companies defend their domain names, implemented in 1999. Registrars in the .com, .info, .net, .org, .biz, .name, top-level domain follow the 'Dispute Policy' procedures to defend their domain names in two types of disputes; (1) trademark-based disputes, and (2) disputes arising from abusive registration of domain names which is commonly known as cybersquatting. In addition to the above top-level domain names, other country-code top-level domains have adopted the ICANN Dispute Policy. For example, .nu, .tv, .ws. Thus, country-code top-level domain holders facing domain name controversies (or those doing prior analysis) should search whether their country registrar has adopted the ICANN Dispute Policy. It is important to note that the terms of the ‘Dispute Policy" will be automatically incorporated within the Registration Agreement between the registrar and the domain name holder (or country code registrars).

According to the ‘Dispute Policy' procedures, trademark-based disputes may be solved by agreement between the parties, court action, or arbitration. In this case, the complaint must be filed before a court of proper jurisdiction against the domain name holder. Those complainants accusing third parties of violation of their trademarks on domain names usually file complaints based on international or domestic intellectual property laws, or WIPO arbitration mechanisms. Yet, the ICANN dispute mechanisms are also available for them.

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

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.

LAchronicle 27 March 2008 16:41:43- Ofindo

A reverse DNS Lookup, also known as a reverse DNS search, or an rDNS, is a form of searching service that allows you to discover the hostname or the host that is associated with an IP address or with the host´s address.

In general, the Domain Name System (DNS) is what is used to discover which IP address is connected to a certain domain name. Therefore, a reverse DNS lookup provides the host and domain name information when an IP address is provided to the person who is searching.

In the case of a reverse lookup for a DNS, you may often also hear the term "reverse resolving" instead of the more precise term "reverse DNS lookup". These reverse DNS lookups are accomplished by way of a reverse IN-ADDR entry which is applied by way of a PTR record format.

Reverse DNS lookups are most commonly used for the following reasons:

To assist in network troubleshooting in the same way that tracerouting and pinging is helpful with network support. They were especially useful for SMTP e-mail, and website tools for tracking users such as in the case of internet forums.

Telegraph.co.uk 29 April 2008 09:01:53- Domain Market

Spanish government's domain names held to ransom over water By Fiona Govan in Madrid Last Updated: 2:12am BST 28/04/2008 A cybersquatter is holding the Spanish government to ransom by refusing to give up the domain names of several government ministries unless they agree to transfer water to all of Spain’s drought stricken regions.

Following his re-election last month, the Socialist prime minister Jose Luis Rodriquez Zapatero announced the creation of four new ministries but authorities failed to register their internet addresses and they have been bought by someone else.

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?

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 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

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

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

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

Search Engine Watch 08 April 2008 10:43:33- Ofindo

Do you have a domain that appears to have ranking problems in Google, Yahoo or MSN? Sometimes this may leave you wondering, "Has my Web site somehow been banned in the search engines?"; "Did my search engine optimization firm do something bad?".

If your Web site is brand new, you can skip this and just read some earlier columns on optimizing a new Web site.

If your Web site once ranked and all of a sudden seems to be taking a hit, perhaps you should check to see if you've suffered a ban in any one of the search engines or encountered a penalty.

First, let's take a look at what a ban might look like.

The Sydney Morning Herald 18 April 2008 08:33:06- Domain Market

Argentina's Web sites end in ".ar," while Germany gets ".de" _ for Deutschland, as the country is known in German.

Then there's ".aq" for Antarctica, a land with more penguins than computers.

About 250 country-code domain names exist for various nations or territories around the world, used as suffixes in the Internet addresses crucial for computers to find Web sites and route e-mail. Outside the United States, these suffixes are often preferred over the global ".com" as a source of national pride.

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...

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.

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, [...]

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.

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 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 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

Royal Pingdom 14 March 2008 15:56:11- Blogs

We decided to analyze how five of the most talked-about web hosting companies have grown over the last few years. The results are really interesting. Since we didn?t have inside information about these companies, we looked at the number of domain names on their DNS servers, and how these numbers have changed over time (from April [...]

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, (...)

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 [...]

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 [...]

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:

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 [...]

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

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 [...]

Heise online 29 April 2008 08:03:32- Domain Market

From May 1, it will be possible for the first time to register domains with the Montenegrin suffix .me. The startup phase is complex and will go through several stages before domains will become freely available on a "first come, first serve" basis on 17th July. Even then, more than 3000 domains will remain off-limits.

The .me Registrar intends to allocate 2600 particularly desirable domain names at a later, as yet undisclosed date and is likely to put them up for auction. More than 400 further character sequences are reserved for the Montenegrin authorities and for the Afilias registry service itself, and won't become available to the general public.

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,