ICANN announces domain name changes
Talkback Increasing the number of gTLD's isn't user-friendly - how many of us can recite all the existing 14(! The minutes from ICANN's meeting in Tunisia admit the most recent additions to the gTLD list "have faced significant acceptance problems.
[November 7, 2003, 20:26]
Storm brewing over new domain names
News The World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) is gearing up to cope with a possible flood of disputes resulting from disgruntled individuals failing to register their trademark as a new generic top level domain name (gTLD).
[August 10, 2001, 16:00]
BT plans Internet registrar business
News Registering domain names is big business: Network Solutions, which until recently had the monopoly on gTLD registrations, built up a multi-billion dollar company on the business. British Telecom is planning a new business unit that will register...
[March 9, 2001, 7:08]
.Info reaches the half-million milestone
News More than half a million customers have registered a .info domain name during the first 90 days of operation, according to Afilias, the official registry for the new global top level domain (gTLD). The 500,000 milestone comes after Afilias received...
[October 25, 2001, 12:23]
Cybersquatting escalates in Asia
News The more popular ones are gTLD (generic top-level domain)," she said. Instances of cybersquatting are growing in Asia, fuelled largely by the availability of inexpensive internet domain names, according to an internet domain name registrar.
[October 8, 2007, 8:15]
ICANN announces domain name changes
News ICANN has to tread the same line, being careful not to create domains that will see owners of current domain names register the corresponding domain under the new gTLD simply to protect their 'brand'.
[November 6, 2003, 12:00]
Dot-net to go non-profit?
News All the other gTLD registries and registrants don't have to take that burden. The tussle over dot-net domains has begun. Five companies announced this week that they're hoping to win the contract to operate the master database for .net domains, a...
[January 20, 2005, 17:10]
