Number Of Domain Names Registered Approaching 200 Million

After much speculation about the name of the much awaited Sony PlayStation 3 motion controller, a dedicated gaming blog, VGChartz, has reported that the much vaunted controller will be christened as ‘Arc’. The blog...

The United Nations Internet Governance Forum, which is being hosted by Egypt at the Sharm el-Sheikh resort in Cairo, will see the launch of world’s first Arabic internet domain which has been developed by the country. The...

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) seems all set to come up with some handy propositions in a bid to make the internet a more amicable entity to the millions of users across the globe.The global...

A recent survey has revealed that as many as two-thirds of businesses are simply not aware of the fact that they will be able to employ their own names rather than use standard domain name extensions, including .net, .com, .org,...

The gold rush for .tel domain names has already started as the new told level domain name is released today, in what some have called, the biggest innovation in top level domains since the dotcom. .Tel domain names cost between...

A Radical transformation in the way we use the internet could be at our doorsteps, as Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has given a green signal to bring upon customizations of web-addresses. Initially...

A father who purchased a £70 domain name for his 10-year old son is now facing the prospect of a lengthy and costly battle against the estate of CS Lewis, the author of the popular Chronicles of Narnia series. Richard...

I was interested to read a report from Mcafee this week that confirmed my suspicions on some top level domains, namely that some are a lot more iffy than others.According to Mcafee, some domain name registry firms are more lax...

Registering and re-registering your domain names will become more expensive as Verisign, which manages the generic top-level domains dot.com and dot.net, increases the price of base registration fees. Registrars such as Godaddy...

Fox News Network has failed to win control over a domain name that is almost identical to one of its television station names because it did not register its trade marks early enough.Fox News, the cable television news channel of...

Financial magazine The Economist has failed in its attempt to gain control of the internet address theeconomist.com.The address was not transferred to it because the owner claimed that he had never heard of the magazine when he...

The fact that the myspace.co.uk address led to a 'parked' page with adverts for social networking sites including MySpace was taken to be evidence of an abusive registration and the domain name was given to MySpace.The ruling was...

A technology law expert has called on the business world to set up a policing outfit to tackle cybersquatters. The call came as Dell raised the stakes in the fight against domain hoarders, demanding compensation of $1 million per...

Velcro has won control of the domain name velcro.biz from the chief executive of a rival firm who argued that because the Velcro trade mark had become a generic name for hook and loop fasteners, he was entitled to the...

Sedo has sold the recycle.co.uk domain name has sold for GBP150,000. It is the highest figure paid for a co.uk internet domain name and breaks the last recorded value by GBP40,000 which was set by J Sainsbury plc when it...