The head of the global Internet addressing authority at ICANN is expected to visit officials in China after ICANN received a request for a new domain name ending in ‘.china’ written in Chinese characters.
The outcome of these meetings will be interesting following China’s recent tightening of internet security which has been seen by many as [...]
Domain auction house Sedo has announced that it helped supervise the sale of the domain name Poker.org for a cool $1 million, the most ever spent on a .org domain name.
It was sold by a company called National A1 to PokerCompany.com. The total paid well beats the previous record, held by Engineering.org which sold for [...]
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The internet ended the fourth quarter of 2009 with at least a total 192 million domain names registered, according to latest findings by Verisign in their Domain Name Industry brief.
The total includes all of the top level domain names and is an increase of about 15 million on the end of 2008. About 11 million [...]
Domain oversight body ICANN claims that most online domain registrations are incorrect.
Up to 77% of domain registrations have information that is either false or incomplete, the report states. It covers international domain registrations for top level domain extensions .com, .org, .net. .info and .biz.
Checks were made on a random sample of domain registrations to see [...]
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Read the story »The domain name registrar is donating half a million dollars to the victims of the Haiti Earthquake. The CEO of the company Bob Parsons initiated the donation as soon as he learned of the earthquake that hit 7.0 on the Richter scale.
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An American hosting company and domain registrar have now opened up registrations for .IN. the Indian top level domain identifier.
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Read the story »It doesn’t happen very often but Google have lost a lawsuit in Canada to gain control of a domain name that have been registered that sounds much like Google. The domain Groovle.com has been set up as a personal homepage for web users. Google have decided to take action on the website because it sounds to close the their own brand.
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