27-Feb-2007

DotMobi Auctions 15 Premium Names

Soon after a successful auction appearance in 2006 when .mobi domain names sold for a combined total of just under US$400,000, dotMobi is...

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 .mobi domains next month. Singles.mobi, casinos.mobi, a...

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

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 Name Registration market in 2006 is estimated at 375mln rubles...

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 reached the 4,000,...

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 rather than .com address when using a search engine. YouGov carr...

18-Feb-2007

YouGov Online Survey

British Internet users are six times more likely to choose a .uk rather than .com address when looking for information via an Internet se...

18-Feb-2007

Nominet Vision Of Future

Lesley Cowley CEO of Nominet, has revealed a vision of the future for the 2012 UK domain market. The future vision was given as part of a...

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

Israeli Court Holds On DNS Decision

On December 17, 2006 The Israeli Magistrates Court of Tiberias held that a DNS (Domain Name Server) definition is an asset which may be r...

16-Feb-2007

ICANN Deletes Outdated ccTLDs

The proposal to delete some outdated ccTLDs by ICANN has been addressed by an article in the Russian language Cnews. The article claims t...

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. This document describes how the Counc...

15-Feb-2007

Domain Tax Guide Released

If you are unsure of whether you are reporting your domain purchases and sales correctly: The

15-Feb-2007

IEEPI Strasbourg Training Session

The European Business and Intellectual Property Institute (Institut Européen Entreprise et Propriété Intellectuelle (IEEPI)) has organise...

15-Feb-2007

TinyURL.com Shortens Web Addresses

Often there are problems with long Web addresses not working in E-mails, due to line breaks causing problems. At text, a free and reliabl...

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 2007 offering allows businesses to 'go mobile'- Extending new ...

13-Feb-2007

Domain Name Market 2007

The domain name industry experienced unprecedented growth in 2006. Leading domain industry news source Domain Name Wire (domainnamewire.c...

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 address designed specifically for mobile phones announced plans today to launch ...

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 domains on some of the major social sites, with McDona...

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 March 3, 2007, on a first come first served basis. IDNs means...

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 .com and .net domain...

08-Feb-2007

dotMobi To Provide Mobile Site Building Tool

dotMobi, company behind the first and only Internet address designed specifically for mobile phones, today announced a partnership with A...

08-Feb-2007

VeriSign to spend over $100M on upgrades

VeriSign Inc., which manages the ".com" and ".net" Domain Names registry and ensures Internet...

07-Feb-2007

DotMobi Potential Sparks Buying Frenzy

Dotmobi extensions are designed especially for websites that can be easily navigated on a small cellphone screen. Such an ideal website w...

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 is also the organizing party of DOMAINfest Global, a semina...

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, with the first issue arriving in mailboxes this week. The magazi...

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 such...

07-Feb-2007

James Pearce Joins DotMobi

dotMobi, the official worldwide registry for the .mobi domain, have announced the appointment of James Pearce as Vice President of Techno...

07-Feb-2007

Updated EURid Website Adding More Languages

Following its launch on Monday 5 February, EURid has started augmenting its new public website with additional languages with plans to gr...

05-Feb-2007

Domain Names - A New Investment

It is a new investment game. As real estate goes down a new type of real estate market is providing fantastic opportunities for smart inv...

03-Feb-2007

Doteu Survey

A survey on .EU shows it has proved effective for the small businesses that use it. However only half of Britain’s SMEs understand its me...

02-Feb-2007

DNtalks New Community Site

DNtalks.com is a new community relating to the Domain Name industry, populated by name owners...

02-Feb-2007

New Pig Fail To Buy Domain

A UDRP dispute on Monday decided that the New Pig Corporation cannot take the generic domain name pig.com. The New Pig Corporation is in ...

02-Feb-2007

VeriSign Increase Prices

VeriSign Inc, who run the domain suffixes .com and .net, have stated that the annual price of any

Review Of Verisign Shows No Wrongdoing

VeriSign Inc., who have a business range from managing the ".com" and ".net" ...

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...