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IPv6 Use Growing, But Only One Step In Adoption
“Support for IPv6 has grown by almost 20 times in the past year by one measure, but most websites still can’t be reached without IPv4, the current Internet...
Two Porn Companies File Antitrust Lawsuit Against .XXX Registry And ICANN
The operator of the .XXX top level domain, ICM Registry, and ICANN are being sued by Manwin Licensing International, a Luxembourg-based company that runs Playboy’s...
11.com Tops Weekly Sales In Half Million Dollar Sale
11.com became the sixth biggest sale so far in 2011, selling for $525,000 through MediaOptions, to top the Domain Name Journal list of top reported sales in the...
RIPE-NCC Seeks Legal Clarity On How It Responds To Foreign Court Orders
“An international law enforcement action against a large botnet will set an important legal precedent regarding regional Internet IP Address registries,”...
AFNIC Announces French Territory ccTLDs Get Same Rules As .FR
French territories with their own ccTLD will have the same registration policies as .FR from 6 December, the registry has announced.
UK Internet Groups Express Concerns Regarding Nominet Takedown Powers
The Internet Service Providers Association (ISPA), the Open Rights Group and London Internet Exchange (Linx) have expressed concerns and are resisting a proposal...
Nominet To Create judiciary.uk
The Nominet Board has approved a request from the Judicial Office and the Cabinet Office to allow the judiciary its own closed second level domain (SLD), judiciary.uk.
Business Most Popular User of Websites Finds Eurid Survey
A quarter of websites (26.5%) globally are used for business according to a EURid survey of eight top level domains and three European ccTLDs, with close to one...
Believe It Or Not, Ripley.com Tops Weekly Sales Chart
Believe it or not, ripley.com topped the Domain Name Journal sales charts for the week ending 19 October, selling for $78,000 through DomainNameSales.
Small & Medium Businesses Want To Register Domains In New gTLDs Finds ARI
Small and medium-sized businesses have expressed an interest in registering appropriate new domain names when industry-specific generic Top Level Domains relevant...
ICANN: Inter-Registrar Transfer Policy Part B – Recommendation #8 and #9 Part 2 – Staff Proposals
Section I: Description, Explanation, and Purpose The Inter-Registrar Transfer Policy Part B presented its recommendations to the GNSO Council earlier this year....
New gTLD Program: ICANN Seeks Independent Objector
Position Description [PDF, 77 KB] ICANN is seeking expressions of interest from persons or organizations to serve as the Independent Objector for the New gTLD Program....
ICANN: New gTLD Customer Service Center Expands to Offer More Services
In anticipation of the opening of the New gTLD application round on 12 January 2012, ICANN is expanding the New gTLD Customer Service Center.
EURid Launches Win An iPad Competition For Registrants
The .EU registry, EURid, has launched a competition where anyone who validly registers a .EU domain name between 24 November and 25 December 2011.
Overstock Finds Public Not Ready For O.CO Domain And Retreats To .COM… For Now
Admitting they were a little too hasty in abandoning their overstock.com domain name for o.co, Overstock have now recommenced using their original domain name. While...
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