Dell has filed lawsuits in Florida against cybersquatters – individuals and companies – for typosquatting over 1,100 domain names.

Information Week reports the lawsuit was “filed under seal and without notice to the defendants in October — to avoid the removal or destruction of evidence — Dell charges Juan Pablo Vazquez of Miami, Florida, several unknown individuals, and a handful of domain name companies in Florida with violating its trademarks on more than 1,100 domain names. … more

The one millionth .au domain name has been registered. The announcement from auDA said a finance company on Australia’s Gold Coast registering the domain name elite-finance.com.au registered the name that reached the milestone.

“We are pleased to announce that the 1 millionth .au domain registration is elite-finance.com.au” said Chris Disspain, auDA’s CEO. “We congratulate the Registrant of elite-finance.com.au for being part of this momentous occasion.” … more

Moniker, the first and onlyprovider of Domain Asset Management(TM) services, today announced that it willbe hosting the first live and online auctions of premium domain names duringPubCon Las Vegas 2007, the Search Engine & Internet Marketing Conference, onWednesday, December 5 at the Las Vegas Convention Center. PubCon Las Vegas2007 runs December 4 through December 7, 2007 and is the premiere educationalconference and industry trade show programmed specifically for webprofessionals and website owners. … more

Nominet have announced they have been given the contract to run the Tier 1 registry for ENUM in the UK, which, for those who don’t know, in short ENUM is a standard that will unify the telephone numbering system with the Internet’s Domain Name System.

The Tier 1 registry for UK ENUM was awarded to Nominet by the UK ENUM Consortium (UKEC), a limited company set up with the recognition of the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR, formerly the Department of Trade and Industry) to administer the UK ENUM top level domain. Nominet believe theywon the contract based on their understanding of the issues and challenges relating to best practice management of a top level domain according to their news release announcing the success of their bid. As part of the process of establishing the registry we will be joining the International Telecommunication Union, Telecommunication Standardization Sector, ITU-T. … more

John L. Crain writes in the ICANN blog on what you can learn from running a DNS server that serves the root. John writes this gives an interesting view into the world of the DNS. With the ongoing improvements to the ICANN operated L-ROOT ICANN has been fortunate enough to be able to make use of the “DNS Statistics Collector” tool.

John goes on to say “DSC” allows us to generate different views of the DNS queries we have been seeing at the L-ROOT systems. Both to the current IP address (199.7.83.42) and to the old address (198.32.64.12). … more

Some user statistics for the first six weeks of use from the ICANN IDNwiki have been posted by Tina Dam on the ICANN blog. At a future date ICANN will also provide a report that focuses on the initial results with the evaluation of fully localized domain names, as the wiki has been set up for. … more

Sedo is hosting a premium auction event for top Benelux domains including dames.nl, podcast.nl and lcd.nl.  What’s so interesting about .nl domains? .nl is the third biggest ccTLD in Europe (after .de and .co.uk) with more than 2.500.000 registered domains. Check out the list below to see the list of domains with their respective translations. … more

In today’s ultra-competitive world of online marketing, Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is life or death. SEO improves the ability of Search Engines, such as Google or Yahoo!, to recognize and find your Web site. Studies show that over 75 percent of Web users find Web sites using search engines. If a search engine can’t find your Web site, neither can customers.

Business owners beware. … more

Whether domain names are property that can be subject to seizure to collect on a judgment is a question that has been asked in a Washington state court in the ongoing dispute between 1st Technologies and Bodog Entertainment Group SA (which does not operate the Bodog online entertainment businesses and websites). Bodog Entertainment Group does not think domain names are property. … more

The .BZH team have launched a pre-feasibility study as part of their project to gain the aforementioned gTLD according to a report in Agence Bretagne Presse. In conjunction with .CYM they currently have an online petition with .BZH having gained some 15,000 signatures in support of the new gTLD, while .CYM has gained around 6,000. … more

ePresenceSolutions.com hosting plans now include direct access to Google’s Webmaster Tools through the Hosting Control Panel. With Google Webmaster Tools, ePresenceSolutions.com users are now able to see how Google views their site, diagnose problems and share information with Google in order to improve their site’s visibility in search results. This service provides a free and easy way for web site owners to manage and improve traffic to their site. … more

Network Solutions releases white paper, “PPC vs. SEO – Friends or Foes?”, explaining the benefits of utilizing both PPC and SEO services to drive Web site traffic.

When it comes to which form of search engine marketing is most effective, the argument between search engine optimization (SEO) and pay per click advertising (PPC) can become as passionate and heated as a political debate. If a business owner is new to search engine marketing, it is easy to get overwhelmed and lost in the sea of opinions on both sides. With Network Solutions® new white paper, “PPC vs. SEO –Friends or Foes?,” business owners will discover the benefits to both solutions in driving traffic to their Web sites. … more

The November 2007 .NZ newsletter is now available. It includes .nz domain name statistics as at 31 October 2007 where the number of active .nz domain names increased from 300,397 to 305,446, a net increase of 5,049. … more

ClintonExposed.com has been listed for sale on eBay. Well, my first impression is does anyone really care? But then, there are Republicans out there in the US, and probably some Democrats, who take it as their goal in life to muckrake, tell lies, fibs and distort the truth. So who knows, maybe someone out there thinks this is a great domain name. There is a news release for the announcement below that calls this one of the “hottest” domain names. Yawn. Wake me up when the sale is completed! … more

In the November 2007 Netcraft survey they received responses from 149,784,002 sites. This is an increase of increase of 7.0M sites since last month, and represents growth of over 40 million sites since the start of the year.

Netcraft report that much of this year’s growth has come from an increase in the growth of blogging sites, however this month’s growth comes from traditional hosting providers, with large numbers of new domains at GI Partners and InterServer. … more