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22-Dec-2006
Harry Potter 7 Domains Protected
As fans of Harry Potter go crazy online analysing the possible implications of the name of the final book in the series, Harry Potter and...
21-Dec-2006
Search Directory botw.org Acquires Domain Name
Search directory, Best of the Web, located online at BOTW.org since 1994, has recently acquired the highly-prized domain name bestofthewe...
18-Dec-2006
ICANN Formalizes Relationship with ccTLD Manager for Finland
MARINA DEL REY, CA - The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) signed an exchange of letters with the country code ...
15-Dec-2006
Beijing Olympics Use .cn Domain Name Instead of .com
The 29th Olympic Games has used beijing2008.cn instead of beijing2008.com as their official website. When people visit www.beijing2008.co...
15-Dec-2006
Vodka.com Domain Sold For $3 Million
The billionaire Russian entrepreneur behind Russia's biggest vodka maker has paid $3 million to acquire the vodka.com domain, part of a b...
15-Dec-2006
Sex.com: a url worth dying for?
In a twist worthy of a James Ellroy novel, con man Stephen Cohen -- who forged a letter convincing Network Solutions to give him possessi...
14-Dec-2006
VeriSign launches brand and fraud protection services
Secure communications specialist VeriSign has launched a new suite of services designed to alert firms when their brand is being abused b...
12-Dec-2006
ICANN Signs Contract for '.asia'
ICANN said late Thursday that it had signed an agreement with DotAsia Organization, Ltd. to run the ".asia" top-level domain, approved by...
12-Dec-2006
Of Course It's Not Over: Sex.com Saga Rolls On
Last October, Stephen Cohen, the guy that forged documents to steal the sex.com Domain Name a...
12-Dec-2006
Russia's Pro-Kremlin Youth Group Threatens ICANN With Lawsuits
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (icann.org) said last week it was considering eliminating some outdated domain na...
12-Dec-2006
Sex.com Thief Released From Prison
In yet another twist in the extraordinary tale of Sex.com, the con-man who stole the world's most valuable domain has been released from ...
12-Dec-2006
ICANN sees progress on revamped DNS
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) met in Sao Paolo last week and made progress on a project to expand domai...