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27-Feb-2007
DotMobi Auctions 15 Premium Names
Soon after a successful auction appearance in 2006 when .mobi domain names s...
27-Feb-2007
Gmail Domain Dispute Looms in China
Google Inc., is facing an obstacle in the world`s second largest Web market in the fight to consolidate its trademark globally – China`s ...
26-Feb-2007
ICANN Opens Comment Period on PIR's
ICANN, yesterday announced an open comment period on Public Interest Registry's excess delete fee proposal. On 22 November 2006, ...
26-Feb-2007
.mobi domains to be auctioned in March
To help fund upcoming projects, the dotMobi group is auctioning off 15 of the top .mo...
23-Feb-2007
ICANN Rides To Rescue
Following The Register’s criticism of ICANN’s lack of action on the RegisterFly issue, The Register covers ICANN taking as "increasi...
23-Feb-2007
Traffic West Show
Over 500 industry professionals will attend Traffic West. One of our cornerstone events during the show will be the Moniker Live
23-Feb-2007
Tasting Causes Name Shortage
Entrepreneurs have been taking advantage of a five-day grace period to sample millions of domain names, keeping the relative few that mig...
23-Feb-2007
Russian Domain Registration Market
The Domain Registration market in 2006 is estimated at 375mln rubles ($14...
22-Feb-2007
NAF Reports Increase In Domain Name Filings
The National Arbitration Forum (N.A.F.) announced in a press release on Wednesday that its domain name disputes resolutions increased by ...
22-Feb-2007
Domain Stats Feb 07
Below are the Domain Name Statistics as of 02/20/2007. Note that .info has reache...
22-Feb-2007
Future Of The Domain Name Industry
How will Pay-per-click, type-in traffic, social media, and valuation affect the domain name industry? 1. Betting solely on pay-per-click...
22-Feb-2007
Motorola Loses Motorazr
WIPO and ICANN have created the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Procedure (UDRP) to allow for a relatively quick and innexpensive ...
19-Feb-2007
RegisterFly On The Fly
"In the past couple of weeks, over 70% of the non-jurisdictional contacts my Office has received have concerned registerfly… In most...
18-Feb-2007
.uk Addresses Preferred By Brits
It is 6 times more likely that British Internet users will choose a .uk ra...
18-Feb-2007
YouGov Online Survey
British Internet users are six times more likely to choose a .uk rather tha...
18-Feb-2007
Nominet Vision Of Future
Lesley Cowley CEO of Nominet, has revealed a vision of the future for the 2012 UK domains...
17-Feb-2007
Google Takes Action Against Polish Poets
Google has launched legal action against a group of Polish poets, demanding that they give up the Internet domain name gmail.pl. Izabela ...
16-Feb-2007
NameBio.com Domain Sales Database V. 2.0 Released
NameBio.com is a site designed to give domainers a place to compare domain sales to their current
16-Feb-2007 On December 17, 2006 The Israeli Magistrates Court of Tiberias held that a
16-Feb-2007 The proposal to delete some outdated country code top level domains by ICANN has been...Israeli Court Holds On DNS Decision
ICANN Deletes Outdated ccTLDs
16-Feb-2007
Eurid Release Draft Code Of Conduct
EURid has now released a draft version of the Code Of Conduct laying out all rules and procedures regarding
15-Feb-2007 If you are unsure of whether you are reporting your domain purchases and sales correctly:
The
15-Feb-2007 The European Business and Intellectual Property Institute (Institut Européen Entreprise et Propriété Intellectuelle (IEEPI)) has organise...Domain Tax Guide Released
IEEPI Strasbourg Training Session
15-Feb-2007
TinyURL.com Shortens Web Addresses
Often there are problems with a long Web address not working in E-mails, due to l...
13-Feb-2007
Registrations of Chinese domain names surge
Now that website technology supports domain names with Chinese characters, many of Chinese companies and netizens are cheering the upcomi...
13-Feb-2007
Telecom Italia Goes Mobile With dotMobi
First mobile operator in the world to sell .mobi domains to customers- New 2...
13-Feb-2007
Domain Name Market 2007
The domain name industry experienced unprecedented growth in 2006. Leading domain ind...
12-Feb-2007
Telecom Italia Team Up With dotMobi
The company behind the first and only Internet address designed specifically for mobile phones, dotMobi, today announced an exclusive par...
12-Feb-2007
DotMobi Release Whitelabel Service
The company behind the first and currently only Internet web address designed spe...
10-Feb-2007
Third Technology And Law Conference
On Friday 23 March 2007, MailClub, Euro-Counsels and the Bar council of Marseille organise the third Technology and Law Conference, on th...
10-Feb-2007
.eu Suffix Popularity Increases
.eu passed the 2.5 million mark earlier this week with the Domain Registratio...
10-Feb-2007
Businesses Late Registering With Social Brands
A number of businesses have overlooked the importance of registering their branded domain...
10-Feb-2007
DoC Veto xxx Domain Prefix
Despite the ICM Registries attempts to establish a .xxx domain on the web, the US Department of Commerce have prevented this from happeni...
10-Feb-2007
IDNs Improve Domain Versatility
The .org registry will be offering Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) on M...
08-Feb-2007
Verisign Plans $100 Million DNS Upgrade
As the internet continues to grow, so does the criminal threat. In order to deal with this, VeriSign, who manage the
08-Feb-2007 dotMobi, company behind the first and only Internet address designed specifically for mobile phones, today announced a partnership with A...dotMobi To Provide Mobile Site Building Tool
08-Feb-2007
VeriSign to spend over $100M on upgrades
VeriSign Inc., which manages the ".com" and
07-Feb-2007 Dotmobi extensions are designed especially for websites that can be easily navigated on a small cellphone screen. Such an ideal website w...DotMobi Potential Sparks Buying Frenzy
07-Feb-2007
Keith Urban Takes On Keith Urban
Country Singer Keith Urban has filed a lawsuit against painter Keith Urban, claiming the painter from New Jersey’s website is in violatio...
07-Feb-2007
dotMobi Developers Offered Free Software Tools
dot-mobi website developers are being offered free software tools to improve the quality of content behind the mobile top-level domain na...
07-Feb-2007
Best Investments For The Next Decade
The biggest question on the minds of the smart investors at the moment is what will be the best investment in the next ten years? In last...
07-Feb-2007
ICANN Net Servers Targeted
Experts have claimed there are signs that hackers attacked key parts of the backbone of the Internet on Tuesday, but no damage seems to h...
07-Feb-2007
DOMAINfest Global
The domain monetization business of Oversee.net known as DomainSponsor, which...
07-Feb-2007
MGM Vs R.L. Cadenhead
The National Arbitration Forum has released its decision in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. v. R.L. Cadenhead. There has been a domain-...
07-Feb-2007
Domainer's Magazine Launched
Last month the launch of "Domainer’s Magazine" was announced for all those ...
07-Feb-2007
Yahoo Implements Smart Pricing
From February onwards Yahoo will implement "smart pricing" for all of their pay-per-click (PPC) services. Google been utilizing...
07-Feb-2007
James Pearce Joins DotMobi
dotMobi, the official worldwide registry for the .mobi domain, have announce...
07-Feb-2007
Updated EURid Website Adding More Languages
Following its launch on Monday 5 February, EURid - who are the registrar for .eu
05-Feb-2007
Domain Names - A New Investment
It's a new investment game. As real estate goes down a new type of real estate market is providing fantastic opportunities for smart inve...
03-Feb-2007
Doteu Survey
A survey on .EU shows it has proved effective for the small businesses that us...
02-Feb-2007
DNtalks New Community Site
DNtalks.com is a new community relating to the
02-Feb-2007 A UDRP dispute on Monday decided that the New Pig Corporation cannot take the generic domain name pig
02-Feb-2007 VeriSign Inc, who run the domain suffixes .com and .net, have stated that the annual price of any
01-Feb-2007 VeriSign Inc., who have a business range from managing Domain Names registry to n...New Pig Fail To Buy Domain
VeriSign Increase Prices
Review Of Verisign Shows No Wrongdoing
01-Feb-2007
RealEstate.NET to launch in February
The team that operates Rooms.NET and Local.NET has established a new company called Real Estate.NET Holdings Pty Ltd, which has just ann...