April 15th, 2008 by
David Goldstein

The Canadian ccTLD, .ca, is the latest ccTLD to reach the one millionth domain name registration, reaching the milestone on Tuesday. Although a long way behind the 12 million registrations for .de and 10 million for .cn, it is still a significant landmark. … more
March 5th, 2008 by
David Goldstein
The World Group, web design firm Fortune Cookie and dotMobi, the company behind the .mobi domain for mobile web content, today announced the launch of a special joint venture: World Mobi Ltd.
This new venture brings together the travel industry expertise of the World Group, WEB Design from Fortune Cookie and the mobile domain names from dotMobi to create more than 600 city-based mobile sites for tourists around the world. … more
March 4th, 2008 by
admin
TOKYO — The number of registered Internet domain names that end with Japan’s country code of “.jp” has exceeded 1 million for the first time, totaling 1,003,285 as of March 1, Japan Registry Services Co said Tuesday.
The figure jumped by some 104,000, or 12 percent, over the past year amid increased use of weblogs by individuals and a growing number of companies promoting their products through their new websites, according to the Tokyo firm, whose chief task is domain name registration. When the Internet was in its infancy in Japan, domain names that end with “co.jp” for corporate use were most commonly used. (Kyodo News)
March 4th, 2008 by
admin
First Light Net, A Targeted Advertising Company, Recently Landed Fishing.net, the Latest in a Series of Domain Name Acquisitions; With the Purchase, First Light Net, Which Specializes in Advertising for Angling, Hunting, Sports & Outdoor Industries, Strengthens Its Foothold in the Growing Online Angling Market
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February 28th, 2008 by
admin
What does the IDN wiki give us? by Tina Dam One topic that kept being misunderstood at the ICANN meeting in India was ‘what is the purpose of the IDN wiki’ – the example.test site that are actual IDN TLDs in the root. I’ll try to explain what is going on with the wiki and what it can and cannot be used for.http://blog.icann.org/?p=278
February 26th, 2008 by
admin
WASHINGTON, Feb 25, 2008 /PRNewswire-USNewswire via COMTEX/ — Senator Snowe’s Anti-Phishing Bill, Introduced Today, Will Combat Fraudulent and Deceptive Internet Practices That Harm Consumers and Businesses Alike
The Coalition Against Domain Name Abuse (CADNA), comprised of ten globally recognized brand-name companies, strongly supports the Anti-Phishing Consumer Protection Act (APCPA), introduced today by Senator Olympia Snowe (R-ME) and cosponsored by Senators Bill Nelson (D-FL) and Ted Stevens (R-AK).
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February 1st, 2008 by
David Goldstein
InternetNZ, whose role includes managing the .nz ccTLD, is looking to change its official name reports ComputerWorld. The official name - “The Internet Society of New Zealand†– is rather long as the article notes, and the organisation is not an official chapter of the international Internet Society, or ISOC. … more
January 16th, 2008 by
David Goldstein
ICANN released the first version of a new ‘Dashboard’ that will offer measurements of ICANN’s performance in numerous areas across the organization.
“At this stage the ‘Dashboard’ has reports from Finance, IANA, and IETF request queue. We are looking for community feedback on this tool and will expand the reports available over time,” said Dr Paul Twomey, ICANN’s President and CEO. … more
December 30th, 2007 by
David Goldstein
Anyone who recently typed KNOL.COM into their browsers following Google’s announcement of their answer to Wikipedia, where specialists write encyclopaedia-type articles, will have found they went to a website for a cleaning company in the Netherlands that sells vacuum cleaners and steam cleaning equipment.
The owners of KNOL.COM are grateful to Google for the extra visitors, especially as their website didn’t crash. This is another example of a global company making an announcement and not ensuring they have the relevant domain name registered.