26-Jul-2007

NameMedia and HiChina Announce Marketing Partnership

Leading Chinese domain registrar and hosting service provider HiChina is to partner secondary domain name sales company NameMedia in a st...

26-Jul-2007

Chinese Domain Registrars Join Self-Discipline Convention

More than 40 Chinese domain name registrars have opted to sign a self-discipline convention, to help them solve the problem of unbalanced...

26-Jul-2007

Simpsons Movie Domain Turned Over To 20th Century Fox

The World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) has ruled that Keith Malley must turn over his thesimpsonsmovie.com domain to Twentie...

25-Jul-2007

Domain Name Swapping Site Launched

SwapNames.com is a new online marketplace for

25-Jul-2007

GoDaddy.com and Others Vow to Help Protect Children Online

The president and CEO of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, the 2007 Miss America Lauren Nelson, a GoDaddy.com execu...

25-Jul-2007

Concerns About ICANN Censorship of New TLDs

Dan Krimm, Campaign Director and a founding member of Keep the Core Neutral...

25-Jul-2007

NIC Mexico Chosen to Create Latino TLD

The Latin American and Caribbean Federation for Internet and e-Commerce (eCom-LAC) have selected NIC Mexico, the domain registry for the ...

25-Jul-2007

CADNA Launches Campaign Against Cybersquatting

The Coalition Against Domain Name Abuse (CADNA) today offered its first press release, in which it announced the launch of its national c...

25-Jul-2007

ICANN Intends to Improve Public Commenting System

ICANN has always welcomed public feedback, but moves are afoot to improve the way that people can leave their comments, and ICANN says th...

25-Jul-2007

Dot TK Cleans Up .tk Registry

The Tokelau ccTLD registry, Dot TK, has taken hundreds of domain names offline. This move came after a damning report in March by intern...

24-Jul-2007

Many US Sports Teams Don't Own Their Team Domains

Trademarked brand domain names are often owned by the trademark holder, mainly because if they were ever owned by someone else, they've b...

24-Jul-2007

ICANN Updates International Domain Name Test Plan

ICANN has taken into account the comments of visitors to public forums...

24-Jul-2007

Chinese.com Sells for $1million

Sedo closed its first seven-figure deal of 2007, when it sold Chinese.com for €810,001 (USD$1million) this month. "

Google and Network Solutions Announce PPC Webinar

A collaborative webinar (a seminar about the web, for those who aren't familiar with the jargon) has been proposed by Google, the search ...

24-Jul-2007

Cybersquatters Take Advantage of Sochi's Olympic Success

Since Sochi was nominated as the host of the 2014 Winter Olympics, cybersquatters have snatched up a plethora of websites bearing the nam...

21-Jul-2007

Moniker's Domain Auction Ends

The combined sales of Moniker's live and silent auctions, which ended on the 12th and 17th of this month respectively, totalled more than...

20-Jul-2007

Norid 2007 Registrar Survey

The Norwegian .no domain registry Norid has completed its 2007 registrar survey, which assesses the satisfaction of registrars with Norid...

20-Jul-2007

£.com Up For Sale

£.com, and its partner domain name poundsymbol.com, are up for sale this month. The domain name makes use of International

20-Jul-2007

Chinese Government Suspends Blogs with Personal Domains

Blogs with individual Domain Names which are hosted in China are not allowed, according to th...

20-Jul-2007

Domain Names that Sell for Millions

Creditcheck.com sold for USD$3 million last month in New York, at an invitation-only auction hosted by Moniker.com. Over 200 domain name...

20-Jul-2007

Most Expensive .info Domain to Date

Domain parking service Sedo confirmed recently that they have closed the deal on the most valuable .info

19-Jul-2007

Independent Evaluator Seeks Public Input to Nominating Committee Review

ICANN's press release regarding the appointment of an independent evaluation body for its Nominating Committee is below.

Elvis.co.uk For Sale

On the 30th anniversary of Elvis Presley's death, the site manager of elvis.co.uk, Julie Mundy, is putting the domain up for sale. ...

19-Jul-2007

Most .eu Domain Names Left Undeveloped

After the rush to purchase .eu domain names, the sad truth is that only a fraction of registered domains using the new top-level domain a...

18-Jul-2007

Microsoft Protects its Brand

Realising that just registering their trademark domain names is not enough, Microsoft has recently registered a slew of domain names rela...

18-Jul-2007

India TV Disputes Use of a Domain Name

The Delhi High Court has ruled that US broadcaster India Broadcast Live may not use their domain name "indiatvlive.com" to broa...

17-Jul-2007

OECD Communications Outlook 2007

The OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) Communications Outlook 2007 is an extensive report which documents the ...

17-Jul-2007

.vc Domains Now Publicly Available

The country-code top-level domain for St Vincent and The Grenadines, .vc, is now entering its "landrush" registration stage, wh...

17-Jul-2007

Dot TK Launches New WatchDot System

.tk is the country-code top-level domain for Tokelau, a series of three tiny coral islands in the South Pacific Ocean. It is also the mo...

13-Jul-2007

Euidregistration.eu to be Terminated

Eurid has this morning decided to terminate the website "euidregistration.eu", after the owner was reported to be spamming doma...

12-Jul-2007

Mercedes-Benz Sets New Standard for Internet Marketing

Mercedes-Benz launches its new Internet television broadcasting service today, with live reports from the Mercedes-sponsored Fashion W...

11-Jul-2007

Sochi.info Up for Sale

With Sochi, Russia, being designated this week as the host city of the 2014 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, Sochi.info has been put ...

11-Jul-2007

Pioneer Domains Program for .asia Domain

"DotAsia, the registry operator of the .asia top-level domain, due to begin the first stages of its launch in October 2007, announce...

10-Jul-2007

Domain Name Registration Costs Registrars Less

Another reduction in Domain Name Registration transaction fees has been n...

10-Jul-2007

dotMobi Offers City Domains – at a Price

.mobi websites provide content which displays correctly and functionally on mobile devices such as palmtops, PDAs and mobile phones. dot...

06-Jul-2007

ICANN Proposal for More Privacy Online

The Whois database, where the contact details of domain registrants are held publicly, has long been a cause of tension. The disputes ar...

06-Jul-2007

Gmail Fails to Secure Gmail.de Domain

German courts have ruled that the original owner of the gmail.de domain name, a Mr Daniel Giersch, may keep his

06-Jul-2007

Six Millionth .uk Domain

Nominet announced today that the six millionth .uk domain name has been registered. .uk is the second most popular country-code top-leve...

05-Jul-2007

Launch Dates Confirmed for .asia TLD

Businesses and other groups located in Asia will now have an alternative to the generic .com top-level domain, when .asia is launched in ...

05-Jul-2007

Keep The Core Neutral Coalition Launches

The Keep The Core Neutral Coalition launched with over 100 members from around the world, including both individuals and organizations. Coal...

05-Jul-2007

Seltzer Disagrees With Domain Name Regulation

There are currently fifteen GTLDs, including .com, .net and .info. The process of adding new ones is complex and bureaucratic and as we r...

04-Jul-2007

MAG & CWTA Form Alliance

The dotMobi Advisory Group (MAG) and the Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association (CWTA) have today signed an Industry Alliance M...

04-Jul-2007

ICANN Testing International Domains

It was reported on Monday by the Associated Press that ICANN, the Internet’s key oversight agency, is on track to start testing addresses...

03-Jul-2007

Apple Acquires iPhone Domain

Apple has now acquired the iphone.com domain name, reportedly for around US$1m. Michael Kovatch had the forsight to register the

PIR names Alexa Raad as CEO

The Public Interest Registry (PIR) in RESTON Va. has to announced the appointment of entrepreneurial technology executive Alexa A. S. Raa...

03-Jul-2007

Bill Thompson Argues For Fewer Restrictions

Bill Thompson has appealed for ICANN to loosen their control over Domain Names saying the c...

02-Jul-2007

DARPA Announcement

DARPA has spoken out requesting revolutionary ideas to reinvent the internet. The announcement notes the internet was "designed and ...