29-Apr-2007

Nominet Board Election

Candidates in the Nominet elections have published manifestos regarding what they would do on the board. In 2006 winners had to reinstate...

29-Apr-2007

ICANN Whois Report

ICANN have published their fourth Annual Report on the InterNIC Whois Data Problem Report System and announced Data Accuracy and Availabi...

28-Apr-2007

ICANN Registerfly Injunction

US Federal Court Judge, Manuel J. Real issued a preliminary injunction yesterday where ICANN now have rights to terminate RegisterFly’s a...

28-Apr-2007

ICANN TLD Toolkit

ICANN have released a package which fixes problems caused due to recently added domain addresses. Web site designers and applications wil...

28-Apr-2007

Nominet Update

Following a number of member requests Nominet has decided to extend the deadline for the current governance consultation by one week to 9...

27-Apr-2007

Google Refuse Adult Domains

In an Adsense Marketing Campaign Google is refusing to accept any more adult Domain N...

27-Apr-2007

Nominet and Domain Fraud

Nominet (.uk registry) has linked up with Oxford Brookes University for two...

27-Apr-2007

Trademarks And Domain Names

Lawsuits are very expensive so use caution when registering a domain name which i...

27-Apr-2007

ICANN Amendment

ICANN received information from Telnic which requested .TEL registry agreemen...

27-Apr-2007

WWE Domain Dispute

WWE (World Wrestling Entertainment) has filed a suit against an individual in Minnesota. They claim he is misappropriating their trademar...

27-Apr-2007

Tribeca Domain Dispute

In 1995 a Tribeca resident bought the domain Tribeca.net. In 2006 the Tribeca...

26-Apr-2007

Googles.eu Domain Case

A man in Spain registered the domain googles.eu, for a website with a search f...

25-Apr-2007

London Domain

London could potentially have their own domain name. It would be possible to enhance finance, media, the arts, retail, sport and fashion ...

25-Apr-2007

Tina Arena Wins Back Domain Name

Singer Tina Arena has successfully won back an internet domain name from cybersquatters. The decision has potential to provide other ente...

25-Apr-2007

Germany Domain Registration Capital Title Regained

Munich in Germany has regained the title as the city holding the most .de Domain Name Registrations per capita. The area of Thüringen had...

25-Apr-2007

.biz Domains

NeuStar Inc, (operator and official registry of .biz domains) announce it wou...

25-Apr-2007

ICANN Domain Battle With RegistryFly

Legal proceedings were launched recently by ICANN against Registryfly.com. Re...

25-Apr-2007

SAS New Domain

SAS (Scandinavian Airlines) have launched SAS.mobi (the first major airline .mob...

25-Apr-2007

Wholesale .info Domain Price Rise

Wholesale prices for Internet domain names ending in ".info" are set to rise by 2.5 percent on Oct. 15, the same day fees for

24-Apr-2007

Rex.com Domain Auction

The Domain name "Rex.com" has been officially sold with a starting bid of $395, 000. The domain is currently at auction on Sedo...

24-Apr-2007

ICANN Interview

Karl Auerbach is the last board member to be publicly elected at ICANN. He has been involved in internet development practically since th...

24-Apr-2007

ICANN Registry Failover

Patrick Jones on the ICANN blog informally asks about types of information the community, users and public need in the event of a registr...

24-Apr-2007

Domain Resale Market

Ron Jackson reports the highest domain name sale every week in the DNJournal.com<...

24-Apr-2007

Domains Most Valuable To End Users

Is pay per click or selling a domain to end users more valuable for domainers? Domain...

23-Apr-2007

Cybersquatting Domain Problems

Cyberquatting is a serious domain problem. In 2006, there were 1,823 formal complaints made over

23-Apr-2007

ICANN Exchange Of Letters With Armenia

ICANN have announced a signed exchange of letters with the ccTLD (country code top level

23-Apr-2007

Catalan Domains

Mallorca, Ibiza and Catalonia now have their own domains. .Cat has been established t...

23-Apr-2007

EU Domain Name Anniversary

It is the first anniversary of the .eu top level domain. The EU Domain name was e...

20-Apr-2007

ICANN TRO Against Registrar RegisterFly

ICANN have been granted a TRO (Temporary Restraining Order) against RegisterFly (registrar). The TRO orders RegisterFly to "hand ove...

18-Apr-2007

Virginia Domains Registration

Various domain names have been registered referring to the recent Virginia shootings (similarly to people registering

18-Apr-2007

Ban On Domains Resembling US Agencies

Daniel O'Donnell, (president of the San Francisco company that owns the Web site irs.com), was to announce trading on the American Stock ...

18-Apr-2007

Domain Battle For Corbis.net

The battle over the domain name corbis.net drew to a conclusion when the stoc...

18-Apr-2007

Online Squatting or Cybersquatting

Online squatting known as cybersquatting is the process of registering internet domain names that steal well-known trademarks. It can be ...

18-Apr-2007

Innovative company Scandinavian Airlines is flying high with its latest take-off

Innovative company Scandinavian Airlines is flying high with its latest take-off. The airline has launched SAS.mobi, the first

17-Apr-2007

Austrian Domains

Promotion has helped the Austrian Top Level Domain name. An Austrian Domain Promo...

16-Apr-2007

Afilias Domain Fee Increase

Paul Twomey (ICANN’s CEO) received a letter from Afilias advising rises in fee charges from $6.15 in October following an announcement fr...

16-Apr-2007

.org Domain Names

Around 2, 000 .ORG domain names become available on a daily basis. This is due to registrants allowing them to expire or being unaware of...

16-Apr-2007

.fr Domain Registration

Over 800, 000 Domains have been registered under .fr (the French top level domain nam...

16-Apr-2007

DomainSponsor Domainfest

DomainSponsor (domain monetisation business of Oversee.net) have announced th...

16-Apr-2007

ICANN Urged To Create A .Safe Domain

Security vendor F-Secure Corporation today issued a press release urging ICANN to create a .safe

16-Apr-2007

.EU One Year On With More Than 2.5 Million Domains Registered

.eu one year on with more than 2.5 millon domains registered. This month .eu

15-Apr-2007

Russian ICANN Conference

On April 5-6 ICANN held the international conference on security and trust in Moscow (organised by RANS - The Russian Association for Net...

15-Apr-2007

ICANN Security Standards

Susan Crawford (an ICANN board member) has recently criticised the security standards at the DHS (Department of Homeland Security). There...

15-Apr-2007

Domaining Continues to Grow?

Domaining continues to grow as more and more people are aware of what a Domain Name

05-Apr-2007

Google TV Advertising

Google Inc. is set to enter the television advertising business. The search company has signed a multi-year deal with U.S. satellite TV c...