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Domain Name Latest News
US Porn Typosquatter Banged Up - Feb 27
A Florida man who directed children to pornographic websites by registering misspellings of domains likely to be popular with kids was imprisoned for two-and-a-half years yesterday.
John Zuccarini, 56, of...
VeriSign Files Lawsuit Against ICANN - Feb 26
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA - VeriSign, Inc. (Nasdaq: VRSN), the leading provider of critical infrastructure services for the Internet and telecommunications networks, today announced that it has filed a lawsuit in...
VeriSign to Launch Chinese DNS Site - Feb 19
VeriSign ( verisign.com ) announced on Thursday that it plans to launch a global Domain Name Service Internet constellation site in China to improve Internet use for the country's 56...
2003 Sets Record For Domain Registrations - Feb 18
Renewal volumes and overall growth drive up domain name business
Strong growth in domain registrations saw 2003 end as a record year for web domain registrations, according to domain name...
Afilias Moves Launch Date for .INFO German Script Domains to 16 March - Feb 12
DUSSELDORF, Germany - Afilias, a global provider of Internet domain name registry services, announced Thursday that it has moved the launch date for .INFO German script internationalized domain names (IDNs)...
German Web Host Slams Ex-Partner Nsi In Domain Dispute - Feb 10
German web host Strato is battling with its former partner, US-based domain name registrar Network Solutions (NSI), over 240,000 web site addresses.
Strato formerly had a resale...
Porn Site Whitehouse.Com Domain Name Up For Sale - Feb 10
The owner said he won't sell it unless he knows who's buying.
The domain name for the pornographic Web site WhiteHouse.com, which is often confused with the government site whitehouse.gov, is...
Quick Grab For Hookes Website - Feb 09
Just hours after David Hookes died, a Hoppers Crossing man tried to make money out of his name.
Part-time pet tag seller and prison officer Paul Drunmall has admitted registering...
VeriSign Reconsiders Search Service - Feb 09
A company that plays a key role in managing the Internet's domain system is considering whether to restart a controversial search service that makes money off Web users' typos, a...
Failure to Renew Domain Disrupts E-Mail at Post - Feb 06
E-mail communication to and from The Washington Post was disrupted yesterday after its washpost.com Internet address was shut down because the company failed to renew its 5 annual registration.
The...
Roxio Wins napster.co.uk From The Crown - Feb 05
Roxio, the company behind the newly-legitimised Napster music service, has won a battle for napster.co.uk. The UK's domain name registry ruled that a registration of the name by the Treasury...
Australia Gets Own Root Dns - Feb 03
Australia will have its own top-level internet name server from next week, bringing it in line with New Zealand.
Sunday's launch is expected to improve the resilience of the internet...
BulkRegister Adds Six Country Domains - Feb 03
Domain name registrar BulkRegister ( bulkregister.com ) announced on Monday that it has launched six new Country Code Top Level Domains (ccTLD) and lowered the price for five others.
The...
Police Warn On Domain Name Letters - Jan 16
Domain expiration notices demand money for name renewal
Cambridgeshire Police has issued a warning about the sales tactics of another Cambridge-based domain name reseller.
The company is sending out unsolicited...
.nz Domain Name Fee Reduction Announced - Jan 14
InternetNZ (www.internetnz.net.nz) is reducing by 12.5% the wholesale domain name fee charged to authorised .nz registrars by nz Registry Services (NZRS).
The President of InternetNZ, Keith Davidson states "The InternetNZ Council is pleased to confirm that the wholesale domain name fee will drop to .75 per domain name per month, down from .00 per domain name per month"....
.Name Tld Expands - Jan 14
As of today Global Name Registry - operators of the .name top level domain - are allowing web users to register second rather than third level domains. This will allow...
Court Bars Canadian Domain Slammer - Jan 06
50.000 misled consumers can get their money back
On December 23, The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has requested that a federal district court instruct an Internet domain...
Domain Interest Rekindled - Dec 26
ONE more sign the technology sector is rebounding: an internet domain name is again commanding seven figures.
Last week, a Florida man sold men.com for .3 million, a healthy profit...
SeniorHealthBenefits.com on sale for $50,000 - Dec 19
Murfreesboro, TN - Access to quality health care via the internet is a growing concern as Baby Boomers enter retirement. SeniorHealthBenefits.com, the premier domain name for online senior health benefit...
.Name Registry Site Hacked - Dec 01
The website of the .name registry was hacked over the weekend through an Apache exploit.
London-based Global Name Registry was updating its Apache and PHP system when hackers SUr00tIK &...
Release of SRS Source Code - Nov 27
Another key milestone in the development and implementation of the .nz SRS has been reached with the announcement by NZRS that the SRS Source Code will be released under a...
Pivotal Private Equity Acquires Network Solutions - Nov 26
PHOENIX - Pivotal Private Equity announced today that it has signed an agreement to acquire control of Network Solutions, the world's largest domain name registrar, for 100 million dollars. Herndon,...
Parlez vous Umlaut? - Nov 24
Good news for all Müllers, Jägers or Schröders in Germany. They will no longer have to write out their surnames as mueller.de, jaeger.de or schroeder.de if they want to use...
Why Spamcop Got Yanked - Nov 03
Anyone who tried reporting spam to the popular Spamcop service this weekend got a nasty surprise. The site had bizarrely disappeared. And no, it wasn't a server outage.
Joker.com, the...
Domain Names NZ - Oct 29
The Domain Name Commissioner is aware of another mass mail out by an entity trading as "Domain Names NZ".
"Domain Names NZ" appears to be sending pro forma letters to registrants...
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