27
Jun
London , June 26 (ANI): Selling unique domain names can certainly make you a millionaire and the latest instance is of a businessman who sold the domain name www.PS.com for a whopping 1 million pounds at an auction.
Nine years ago, Richard Haigh, 32, from Nottingham , bought this domain for a meager 20 pounds.
This Internet […]
27
Jun
ICANN today unanimously approved the creation of new gTLDs at today’s board meeting in Paris.The vote comes at the conclusion of the week-long meeting in the City of Light where around 1,500 people gathered to discuss the work of ICANN.
There was some reservations at the time taken to get to this stage by some board […]
27
Jun
ICANN today approved the introduction of a limited number of country code internationalised domain names (IDNs) as well as a proposal it intends to end the practice of domain tasting at its board meeting here in Paris in unanimous decisions by the board.The practice of domain tasting has been controversial and was examined by the […]
17
Jun
Number of registered .lt domains have reached 80000 on 2008-06-13. Average number of daily .lt domain registrations (including weekends) is now more than 117.More than 92% .lt domains successfully resolved to IP address during our test (resolving domain name is first step performed by your computer when opening website URL). Addresses of domain name (e.g. […]
16
Jun
In response to community comment and interest, ICANN has developed a proposed allocation framework and use of funds from the allocation of single-character second-level domain names (SC SLDs) in existing gTLDs. ICANN is proposing an auction mechanism and disbursement of funds toward areas of public good for the Internet community. Discussion of proposed allocation methods […]
16
Jun
An Edinburgh father who bought a website domain name for his son is facing a battle with the estate of Chronicles of Narnia author CS Lewis.
Richard Saville-Smith paid £70 for the name www.narnia.mobi so his son Comrie, 10, who is a CS Lewis fan, could use it for his e-mail address.
But now CS Lewis (Pte) […]
16
Jun
New Delhi: The Delhi high court has restrained a cybersquatter from using the domain names bhartiwalmart.in and bharti-wal-mart.com.
The court passed the interim order on a suit filed by Bharti Wal-Mart Pvt. Ltd, a Bharti and Wal-Mart joint-venture for wholesale cash-and-carry business, seeking an order restraining Bangalore resident Somesh Gupta, who has registered the domains in […]
16
Jun
NEW DELHI: The $2-billion online travel market is the latest to be hit by cybersquatters. Vendors, essentially cybersquatters, are using brand names of popular travel portals as their domain names and also in their content to generate traffic-sometimes by even hoodwinking the consumer.
So, don’t be surprised if next time you ‘google’ the name of […]
16
Jun
After the recent auDA (au Domain Administration) decision to allow the sale, purchase and trade of “.au” domain names, the anticipated .au property boom has begun. The need for a well structured, affordable venue, advertising domain names for sale in Australia, has been realised by the creation of the Domain Shed Web site Domainshed
Sydney, Australia […]
15
Jun
Adds another revenue stream for resellers and makes buying expired names
easier
TORONTO, June 12 /CNW/ - Tucows Inc., (AMEX:TCX, TSX:TC) a leading
provider of Internet services to web hosting companies and ISPs worldwide, has
announced an exclusive agreement with Afternic to auction Tucows’ large daily
inventory of expired domain names. Starting today, thousands of daily expired
domains from […]