There’s money in ringtones, including the domain name RingTones.com, which sold recently for $750,000 through Sedo according to Domain Name Journal’s list of top reported domain name sales in the…
Monthly Archives: December 2010
Government control of the internet is a seemingly never-ending battle between government and its supporters on the one hand, usually when it suits the supporters in their battle of choice,…

The registration of wikileaks.is has caused the Icelandic registry, ISNIC, to issue a statement stating under what conditions they would delete the domain name.

British police with the cooperation of Nominet, the registry for .UK domain names, have shut down 1,800 websites selling counterfeit or non-existent goods, BBC News reports.

The meeting between the ICANN board and Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) has been set for 28 February and 1 March, reports Stephane Van Gelder on his blog.
If Americans could spell, the top selling domain name for the week to 5 December could easily gone for a much higher price. The domain, color.com, sold for $350,000 through…
If Americans could spell, the top selling domain name for the week to 5 December could easily gone for a much higher price. The domain, color.com, sold for $350,000 through…
Bank of America appear to have bought up hundreds of domain names that relate to the bank, including those that make negative comments about executives and board members in an…

ICANN is today releasing the results of a survey on DNS security response operations for national computer security incident response teams (CSIRTs).
DOMAINfest Global is coming soon, scheduled for 1 to 3 February in Santa Monica with more than 600 people from 30 countries expected to attend along with presenters from around…
The seizure of 82 domain names by the US government in November as part of Operation In Our Sites v. 2.0 that were claimed to be used for commercial websites…

At the ICANN meeting held in Cartagena, Colombia, from 5 to 10 December, it was agreed there would be an intersessional meeting to be held between ICANN and the Governmental…

“In an in-house interview carried out on the last day of its recent conference in Cartagena, ICANN’s chairman and CEO have answered questions over the Board’s decisions on the new…

Hebrew internationalised domain names (IDNs) will be available for general registration in the Israeli ccTLD as of this Sunday, the Israeli registry ISOC-IL has announced.

There are now nine million active .UK domain names registered, the registry, Nominet, announced Monday, confirming its position as the world’s second largest ccTLD and fourth largest TLD overall.