Domain Name News

Domain Fraud - Being Cheated by a 16 Year Old
Domain Bits has a story about stolen domain names at Domain Name Forum. “In this case, jayspot of DNF purchased the domains pornos.com, liveporn.com, and asianxxx.com from Alexa the Top . Jayspot paid $115000 for the first two ...

Time is Running Out!
According to the newest post on The Lowdown by Ron Jackson, the Internet Commerce Association has just released vital information that will help domain owners protest anti-domainer language in the controversial Snowe Bill.ShareThis.

US shuts down Domain Name of Spanish Company selling Trips to Cuba
The United States prides itself as the guardian of free speech on and off the Internet. Countries such as China may censor the Internet, and otherwise-civilized nations such as Germany or France may attempt to block what they view as ...

Nominet Registrar Information Days
Nominet is running another series of their popular information days to help familiarise members and registrars with their business practices and the use of their automated systems.ShareThis.

The World Keeps on Digitalizing
The Internet grew by nearly 33 million domain names in 2007. The Domain Name Industry closed 2007 with more than 153 million domain name registrations worldwide across all of the Top Level Domain Names (TLD).

Christian Domainer Sees His Evil Ways
As reported on stuff.co.nz, a New Zealand man who believes his Christian views conflicted with his actions has given up the activity of buying and selling domain names. The “reformed cybersqatter” found the Bible verse at 1 Corinthians ...

Godaddy and Dark Blue Sea Strengthen Relationships
Dark Blue Sea, parent company of Fabulous.com have entered into a five year agreement with Godaddy to sell domain names from the Dark Blue Sea portfolio through Godaddy’s sales channels. The agreement also puts Godaddy in a position to ...

Comment on DNSSEC on IDN .test zones by DOMAIN NAME NEWS 10.03 ...
DNSSEC on IDN .test zones by Richard Lamb Yesterday ICANN began DNSSEC signing the IDN .test zones. Over the next few days, we will be testing and carefully monitoring the system. It is not expected that DNSSEC or the testing will have ...

Fox News loses domain name fight
On February 8, 2007, the Fox News Network announced that it was launching a business news channel. Later that day, a company by the name of Worldwide Directory Services registered the domain name foxbusinessnetwork.com. ...

Facebook founder makes Forbes rich list
Mark Zuckerberg, the 23 year old whiz kid founder of social networking site Facebook.com, is the youngest person to make it on the Forbes rich list. He is currently worth 1.5 billion USD and takes up the 785th position in the world’s ...