ICANN To Reduce “Unreachable” Whois Registrations By 50% In 1 Year?
Review Team Asks for Community Comment on Draft Recommendations that Could Bring Big Changes to Whois Whois allows you to look up the name and contact information...
CIRA On The Road To Introducing .CA IDNs With French Characters
The Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) has launched the second and final phase of its consultation in the implementation of French characters...
And Then It Was Quiet On The Domain Sales Front In The Week To Christmas…
A quiet week for domain name sales in the week to 25 December according to Domain Name Journal’s list of reported sales. My.net was the top seller for a comparatively...
ARI Registry Services Signs 21 Contracts In The First Week Of Applications
The opening of the application window for new Top Level Domains on 12 January by ICANN has seen a flurry of interest from business in particular. ARI Registry Services...
Business Awareness of New TLDs Sorely Lacking: Adrian Kinderis
This is the first of a series of articles on new TLDs as a result of interviews with leading industry players. In this first article we interview Adrian Kinderis,...
The Wayward Anti-Cybersquatter Consumer Protection Act: A Survey of 11 Years of ACPA Caselaw by Roberrt Cannon, Federal Communications Commission; Cybertelecom
Abstract: The Anti-Cybersquatting Consumer Protection Act (ACPA) has lost its way. The ACPA was passed in an era of domain name land grabs, where nefarious individuals...
Kim Dotcom Owns Kim.com
Megaupload’s Kim Dotcom has certainly hit the headlines following his arrest in New Zealand last week. But one thing that had not yet been noted according...
Nominet Seeks Views On Draft Members’ Code
As with any successful membership organisation, Nominet views it as important to review how they operate to ensure they are well equipped to deal with future challenges....
Premium Domains Announced For Moniker and SnapNames auction on At DOMAINfest Global
With the DOMAINfest Global Conference starting this coming week, details of the Moniker Domain Live Auction, combining low and no reserve plus premium domains across...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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.
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...





