Verisign Announces Strong Growth As .COM Passes 100m Registrations

Verisign Announces Strong Growth As .COM Passes 100m Registrations

Total registrations of .COM and .NET domain names increased to 113.8 million at the end of 2011 representing an eight per cent increase year-on-year Verisign announced....

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DOMAINfest Global Announces Latest Updates For Next Week’s Conference

DOMAINfest Global Announces Latest Updates For Next Week’s Conference

It’s sunny and warm in Santa Monica in the lead-up to DOMAINfest Global and just five days away from the conference. The organisers are promising excitement from...

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Sedari Signs With dot Moscow Bidders

Sedari Signs With dot Moscow Bidders

[news release] Sedari has been engaged by the Foundation for Assistance for Internet Technologies and Infrastructure Development (FAITID), a not-for-profit Russian...

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ICANN: New gTLDs: What to Expect in 2012

ICANN: New gTLDs: What to Expect in 2012

Tremendous anticipation, planning, and work drove toward 12 January, 2012, the day ICANN began accepting applications for new gTLDs. Whether you’ve applied...

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Newspapers.com Up For Sale

The domain name newspapers.com and associated website is up for sale with the owner hoping to receive up to $1 million for it.

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Nominet Announces Single & Multi-Year Registration Details

Nominet Announces Single & Multi-Year Registration Details

Nominet has announced the rules and prices they charge to registrars for multi-year registrations, with the options for registrations from one to ten years, when...

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ICANN: Inter-Registrar Transfer Policy Part B Policy Development Process

ICANN: Inter-Registrar Transfer Policy Part B Policy Development Process

Recommendation 9, Part 2 Concerning a New Provision to Lock and Unlock Domain Names Purpose (Brief): Public notice is hereby provided of the proposed change to the...

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Minds+Machines Signs Agreement with Bavarian Government to Manage .BAYERN

The Directors of Top Level Domain Holdings Limited have announced that Bayern Connect GmbH, the German operating company in which TLDH has a majority holding, has...

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3d.com Sells For Cool Half Million

3d.com Sells For Cool Half Million

As the reporting of 2011’s top reported sales draws to a close, there was a half million dollar sale to top the weekly Domain Name Journal sales chart in the week...

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Number Of DNSSEC Signed .SE Domains Soars

Number Of DNSSEC Signed .SE Domains Soars

The number of .SE domains that were signed using the DNSSEC security standard rose from 4,299 in early 2011 to 171,650 by 31 December, 2011. The registry has attributed...

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The Future of the Internet – Who Decides? Speech by Rod Beckstrom

The Future of the Internet – Who Decides? Speech by Rod Beckstrom

In this half hour speech, Rod Beckstrom, ICANN’s CEO and president, gives the keynote address at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).

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DNS.be Information Campaign To Continue

DNS.be Information Campaign To Continue

From 16 January till the end of March DNS.be is targetting the Belgian professions and intellectuals in order to convince them that having a presence online is extremely...

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ICANN: .CAT WHOIS Proposed Changes

ICANN: .CAT WHOIS Proposed Changes

Purpose (Brief): ICANN is opening today the public comment period for the Fundacio puntCAT’s, request to change its Whois according to EU data protection...

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New Speakers Announced For DOMAINfest Global

New Speakers Announced For DOMAINfest Global

A number of new speakers have been added to the DOMAINfest Global 2012 agenda with the conference only 11 days away.

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25 Registrations For New TLDs After One Week: ICANN

25 Registrations For New TLDs After One Week: ICANN

There are now 25 registrations for new generic Top Level Domains one week into the three month application period ICANN has announced. However, this number does...

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