Just about dot anything
Since a meeting in Paris ICANN have voted that people can choose the own domain name like domainbroadcasting.domainhunting, catchy eh?!

The familiar TLD’s such as .com .org... more

Canadien scam artists!
A scam company based in Toronto Canada has since 2004 been sending false bills to companies to renew there domain name.

The Federal Trade Commission said that  the Canadian  company... more
Main spam domains contacted by ICANN

ICANN has recently released the top 10 worst domain registrars with most spam and junk content. After ICANN did its cluster analysis they have now started to contract the non-compliant... more

Microsoft sues Dutch mother for domain name.

Carola Eppink, a 46 year-old mother of three who wanted to reduce the amount of time her children spend on the internet and be more informed about what they where looking at. To do his she set up the... more

A flurry of registrations as Dot Asia goes online

The .Asia domain has been switched on and is being bought up quicker than you can say Chinese New Year. The domains are currently being delivered on a first come first served basis instead of... more

Tampa company buys SEClawyer.com
The new and exciting Internet Media/Direct Navigation advertising company Elysium Internet, Inc, announced there purchase of SEClawyer.com on Monday the 25th of February. Scott Gallagher Elysium and... more
DotAsia launches domain name registration
The new .asia domain registry opens for business today for governments, trademark owners, and official bodies, giving corporations an opportunity to secure trademarked domain names without the battle of... more
Bin Laden Group domain name up for grabs on ebay
Many people own a piece of US history whether it be war memorobila or perhaps even property. But what about a virtual US history?

Well now is your chance to snatch a Web site domain once... more
Virtual robbery in cyberspace and how to stop it!

They're out they're, and there looking to snatch your domain! Cybersquaters: the virtual robber of the cyberworld. To be more specific, cybersquatting is registering, trafficking in, or using a... more

Earthquakes result in 10,000 lost domain names

Two powerful earthquakes off Taiwan severed undersea cables on December 26 , knocking millions of Internet users offline and sparking chaos for businesses across Asia as thousand lost valuable... more

Opposers of .xxx speak out against new proposal

Conservative leaders are urging U.S. citizens that now is the time to speak out against the proposal to create .xxx domain names for pornographic websites.

The Internet Corporation... more

Banks and travel industry to have exclusive TLD

You may have already had a peak into the new, .travel domain and you may have heard talks about the .safe or .sure domain for banks, but do you believe we will be seeing more of these two TLDs in the... more

Live.com backlink query turned off
Internet forums were exploding with outrage and demand last month over the sudden disappearance of the MSN Live Search backlink query.

When users tried to check backlinks in MSN or Live.com... more
LIPS.COM to be auctioned off at TRAFFIC Domain Conference & Expo in New York Cit

The Lips.com domain name is a four-star value which has never been available for auction until now. On June 21 it will be offered at the live Moniker domain auction from the TRAFFIC Domain Conference... more

Domain market value may reach $4 billion by 2010
In an estimated $2 billion dollar booming industry that involves the buying and selling of domain names, cyber experts are saying domain names are the real estate of the 21st century.
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2,000,000 domains registered with false data

An estimated 2.31 million Internet domain names have been registered with "patently false" data, a US congressional report concluded.

The report by the Government Accountability... more

Skype affiliate can keep Skyp.com, says WIPO

An amateur photographer, painter and sculptor who uses the domain name Skyp.com to redirect visitors to Skype.com has won a battle to keep his name. He pointed out that the internet telephony company... more

Senators demand new names for lewd domains

Two Democrats in the Senate of the United States of America introduced a bill of 11 pages, which wants the U.S. Department of Commerce to co-operate with ICANN, an organisation that oversees... more

Negotiations on Swiss domain have failed

The mediation negotiations in the dispute between the Federation and the proprietor www.schweiz.ch have failed. The Swiss Federal Office brought an action at the World Intellectual Property... more

Senators demand new names for lewd domains

Two Democrats in the Senate of the United States of America introduced a bill of 11 pages, which wants the U.S. Department of Commerce to co-operate with ICANN, an organisation that oversees... more

Large Swedish Furniture Store Wins Domain Fight

A large Swedish furniture giant has won a fight over a domain. At the arbitration tribunal of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), the judges decided in favour of the Scandinavian... more

Domain distraint litigation

There is much that can be distrainted. But domains too?
Court houses have been dealing with this question recently.


The Federal Court of Justice (BGH) in Karlsruhe has ruled that all... more

Domain grabbers are overtaking big web hosters

Studies have shown that the number of hosted domain names of big web hosters are clearly way ahead in terms of growth rate and in terms of hosted domains in general. This is now changing: a domain... more

Domains with non-latin characters?

The ICANN organisation, which is responsible for watching over internet adresses, will soon begin testing domain names which are not made up of latin letters. This means that soon there will be... more

Domains are selling like hot cakes

A large trade market has stated that the volume in trade for top level domains reached 18.3 million euros in 2005. A year earlier it reached only 7.6 million euros. This means that trade in internet... more

Starting early

Many things come over to us from America, including a new trend:
More and more parents are registering the name of their newly-born child as a domain name, thus securing a place for their... more

301 redirection usually isn´t set to create fake PR´s
A 301 code is a permanent redirect. This code is placed on a page by a Webmaster when the content has moved to a different location. The 301 code is like a Webmaster saying to search engines, "Page... more
The fire brigade was dialed – and the adult chat service was connected

What happens when someone wants to make an emergency call and they encounter adult advertisement instead? The community of Fehrbellin would be able to tell you.

A mistake at the Denic registry... more

New domains registered by Google

Google registered new domain names for its trip planner service. These include googletransit
tripplanner.com/net/info and googletripplanner.net/info.  The domain googletripplanner.com is... more

Receive just deleted domains on your PC

The new software for deleted domains is available free of charge now. As announced, 14 days before the planned distribution it is immediately possible to use the releases canidat (RC1) of the... more

Domain overview: the business with .net Internet domains is to be distributed

Top Level Domain administrators are repositioning used domains: the reallocation of the ".net" Top Level Domains is set for the start of this year. Up to now, it has been administered by... more

eNom Hosts Over Six Million Domain Names

eNom, Inc., a leading provider of domain name registration and other online services, announced that it hosts more than six million domain names on its platform, including more than four... more

Dmain names for pay-per-click speculation

The number of web sites being opened purely to publish pay-per-click advertising links from the likes of Google Inc and Yahoo Inc is rocketing, according to VeriSign Inc, which runs the .com and .net... more

Host Department Offers Free Domain Names

Wilmington, DE (OPENPRESS) September 29, 2005 — Host Department, a leading Web hosting and domain name registration provider, today announced that they are bundling a domain name for free with... more

Anouncement: New software release to stream domains

The new „Domainbroadcasting Monitor“ will be launched and available for a surcharge in november. Only customers with realtime accounts will be able to use this favourable method to... more

Power grab could split the Web

For the first time in its history, the Internet is running a real risk of fracturing into multiple and perhaps even incompatible networks. At a meeting in Geneva, the Bush administration objected to... more

VeriSign keeps .net Domains

The German registar Denic lost the bid for the coveted .net Domians. On the 28.03.05 the international internet administration ICANN in New York announced that VeriSign® Payment Processing... more

New domain names for India
The National Internet Exchange of India NEXI has opened the real-time registration of the .in country code internet domain name for the public. The official Internet domain .in for the country will now... more
Cyber-squatting conflict in Scotland

The owner of the domain glasgow.com and other valuable domain names, Tommy Butler, is preparing to sue the Law Society of Scotland. Butler said, he will not pay the £42,000 bill for advice... more

ICANN release .jobs and .travel domains

ICANN, which stands for Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers gave the go-ahead for the designation of dot-travel (.travel) and dot-jobs (.jobs). Registration for the new top level... more

Pope Domains have been squatted

While Internet sites betting on the identity of the next pope, domain speculators are buying up domains of possible names for the new catholic leader. Weeks before the new pope became selected, US... more

.eu domains will be available next year

The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) has agreed to enter the .eu domain in the Internet root servers in the coming days. The new top-level domain ".eu" will be up and running by... more

Big Deal with .com domains

Serial entrepreneur, Dillon Dao has decided to sell 432 of his prized top domain. Dillon acquired most of his top level domains in 1997, in the early years of the internet, hence making his lot sale... more

Wal-Mart won arbitration proceeding

The WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organization )Arbitration Center took the domain address „walmartfacts.biz“ away from the Wal-Mart critic Jeff Milchen. Wal-Mart has been busy in... more

First .eu Domain online

After five years of preparations the European Top Level Domain .eu entered in the DNS root zone. Now has the registry EUrid its website and a email address online and running using the domain name... more

Boston mayor tries to avoid cybersquatting
The commitee of the candidate Thomas Menino bought domain adresses which are related to „Mumbles“. Menino said he did not know anything about the purchases. He embraced the name that has... more
European ccTLDs can be registerd by asiaDNS.com
Since May the Asian Domain registrar offers to domain interessants the possibilty to search and register European domain addresses. The coming launch of the .eu domain provoked an  increased demand... more
Indian Domains were safe in April
Cert-in (Indian Computer Emergency Response Team) says that the number of Indian website defacement recorded in April and March this year is significantly lower compared to the first two months of the... more
Cybersquatter lost against Morgan Freeman
The american actor Morgan Freeman won in a cyber squatting process against the website operator Mighty LLC. Freeman was found to have common law rights to the contested internet domain name... more
Samsung afraid of cybersquatting
Samsung has registered in this year more than 470 .cn domain names  in an attempt to protect the company from cyber squatters. CNNIC (China Internet Network Information Center), which administrates... more
Verio Provides IPv6 Service to UltraDNS

Verio, a subsidiary of NTT Communications, will provide its IPv6 Gateway Services to Internet access customer UltraDNS, a provider of managed DNS services. The company currently manages more than 12... more

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