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Scotland seeks its own domain name extension
We’ve been chatting about an interesting story in the office this morning: the Scottish National Party wants to establish a top level domain (TLD) for Scotland. The story has been covered by the Times and over on Circle ID. ...

Scotland wants its own domain name
Along the lines of the Scottish initiative, a campaign has also been launched for .cym to become a new Welsh internet domain name and for London to be the first city in the world to be given its own “.ldn” internet domain name. ...

Web414 Cards -- a Look at the Past, a Look at the Future
A. You have at least one domain name you'd like to have on the card. It must represent your work and not be a subdirectory of another site (for example, not your flickr photos or facebook URL), but your own domain. ...

Are You Being Scammed By Your Web Design Company?
I truly believe that it is your right to shop for better prices and it is your right to own your domain name even if you didn't have a hand in registering your domain name. As the owner of the website, you put your trust into your web ...

Scotland seeks its own ccTld
THE Scottish National party is to take its campaign for independence into cyberspace by seeking to change the endings of all websites based in the country, from “.co.uk” to “.sco”. Alex Salmond, the first minister, is to lodge a formal ...

Verisign yanks up domain name fees — again
Take notice that starting October 1st, 2008, California-based Verisign which operates the “.com” and “.net” domain name suffixes will raise the fees required to own them. And these aren’t insignificant raises, we’re seeing the “.com” ...

In memoriam: Pinoylaw.com
I think it was the first domain name we registered under the company’s Internet Value-Added Services (IVAS) business, and the first domain to be hosted in our fledgling web server, other than our own corporate domain. Birth Pains ...

The ongoing internet land grab
So while the richer end of domainers deal in heavily advertised auctions where the prime domain name properties are dealt, some of the most surprisingly valuable domains can be snapped up for around 10$ per year, namely when their ...

Domain Name Scams & Cons
The scam company will send you a letter that looks like a domain renewal invoice, but is actually a very close match of your existing domain name. For instance, if you own cityofcairns.com, they might send you an invoice for ...

“Finders Keepers” is not a legitimate defense to a cybersquatting ...
What I really love is how the Panel slapped the unethical registrant with his own “finders keepers” language. Complainant’s previous registration and use of the disputed domain name before the registration inadvertently lapsed coupled ...