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Bestselling authors win back domain names
News Three leading authors have won control of Internet domains featuring their names after a Cambridge University lecturer bought them and tried to sell them for a profit. The Web site domains, containing the names of bestselling novelists Julian...
[April 5, 2001, 8:45]
Want a top-level domain? Be patient
News The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) -- a private global body charged with administering Internet domains -- is treading cautiously into the arena where increasingly the interests of companies, countries and consumers...
[March 10, 2000, 9:27]
TLD Assistant
Downloads With this program you can manage all your existing domains, generate tons of domain-names via keywords and register new domains. Manage and generate domains with just one program. The domain-name Wizard generates tons of new domain-names with only...
[February 2, 2006, 12:43]
China creates own Internet domains
News China has created three of its own top-level domains that will use the domain names .cn, .com and .net, in Chinese. There's confusion about whether China is creating top-level or second-level domains, because of an ambiguous report.
[March 1, 2006, 13:35]
Stockpiling of .eu domains can't be stopped
News Hooper was dismayed to find that cjh.eu was one of hundreds of domains that had been bought up by Really Useful Domains Ltd, which specialises in acquiring three-letter domain names and reselling them at a minimum of €1,500 (£1,015) each.
[August 9, 2006, 13:55]
Can free speech and the Internet co-exist?
News The Consumer Project on Technology, Ralph Nader's pro-consumer organisation, announced on Wednesday that the group intends to propose seven new domains when ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) meets this month in Cairo.
[March 2, 2000, 9:02]
ICANN ponders new top level domains
News Domain names can also be registered under dozens of country top-level domains such as .uk and .us. Now, however, the call for new domains has ebbed as thousands of names return unrenewed to the pool of available domains.
[November 13, 2002, 8:06]
VeriSign relents on browser 'hijack'
News VeriSign, the administrator of the .com and .net domains, made plans to shut down its new Site Finder service on Friday, after the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ordered the company to undo controversial changes.
[October 6, 2003, 14:20]
ICANN announces domain name changes
News The body which oversees domain names has listed two measures to increase the number of domains available. There will be an increase in the number of top level domains available, as well as the finalisation of a long-running push to standardise the...
[November 6, 2003, 12:00]
.Org domain to get new guardian
News A key Internet decision-making body is weeks away from naming the new guardian of one of the Internet's oldest and most popular domains. That involved breaking Network Solutions' monopoly control over the three primary top-level domains: .com, .net...
[July 17, 2002, 15:05]
BT plans Internet registrar business
News British Telecom is planning a new business unit that will register domain names under the .com, .org and .net generic top level domains (gTLDs). The company charges prices ranging from $25 for .org to $35 for .com domains -- average for the industry.
[March 9, 2001, 7:08]
Randomly generated name
Talkback So out of 6-8 "randomly generated" names, 6 already had domains registered? Six already had the domains registered, but Yuzoz was unique. We turned the system on on New Year's Day, gave it some rules and created 6,000 names.
[January 4, 2007, 17:13]
FTC backs better facts for domains
News The WHOIS database contains basic information about owners of .com, .net and .org domains, including names, addresses and phone numbers. The agency also hopes that registry managers will work with registrars in other countries to improve accuracy...
[May 23, 2002, 15:59]
Domain name 'fire sale' could break WIPO rules
News He claims that the domains represent the largest collection of first-tier, dictionary-word domain names to become available in the history of the Internet. The World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO), which runs the arbitration process for...
[July 27, 2001, 11:54]
An outsider looks in on Icann
News Icann is in the middle of choosing registrars for new top-level domains names in the first web expansion since .com was created. Mueller-Maguhn, whose arrogance comes across even during a phone call, said Friday he wants to make sure all users...
[October 16, 2000, 8:00]
Lawyers, analysts: ICANN vote will cause URL chaos
News On Thursday, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) voted to allow — in addition to more traditional top-level domains (TLDs), such as .com and .org — theoretically any TLD at all, as long as it is no longer than 64...
[June 27, 2008, 17:02]
New domain names on the way?
News The need for new domains is urgent, especially in the .com space, which has by far the most registered domain names. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the group overseeing the process, approved a number of resolutions...
[March 13, 2000, 9:51]
Turkmenistan stands to win in domain name games
News While the Americans have proposed that this be used for trademarked company names, the Turkmen are selling .tm domains to anyone with £99 via the global domain name registry NetNames. Over 3,500 domains have already been registered.
[March 11, 1998, 16:25]
Registrars accused of stockpiling 74,000 .eu domains
News Domains with a .eu extension became generally available earlier this year, following a "sunrise period" where European companies and organisations got first option on their names and trademarks. The domains in question were all registered for three...
[July 24, 2006, 17:20]
ICANN to fast track internationalised domain names
News The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has announced its plans to fast track the development of country-coded top level domains (ccTLDs) and local language scripting at the Internet Governance Forum in Rio de Janeiro...
[November 15, 2007, 9:44]
