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ICANN has approved the new .asia domain to be overseen by the DotAsia Organization. .Asia will be a supplement to the various Asian national ccTLDs, including .cn (China) and .jp (Japan). DotAsia is the first gTLD (generic TLD) Domain Registry to have their headquarters in the Asia-Pacific region.…
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While technically the U.S. Government could delete the domains of other nations, they have never exercised that right. This unusual control that U.S. Government has is the subject of a debate at the United Nations. The White House Administration published principles that stated that “national governments have legitimate sovereignty concerns, …
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Analysts are questioning the .mobi domain extension, which went live this past week, as they claim the new extension is not the key to getting Internet users onto the mobile Internet. The TLD was planned to help users easily find mobile websites, but analysts claim the whole TLD launch was …
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The Cameroon Registry for the .cm ccTLD is being accused of typo-squatting. The registry is redirecting all accidental .cm traffic to advertising pages instead of returning an error to users. As a result, if an internet user misspells .com as .cm, a common error, they are now redirected to the …
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EURid, the organization in charge of the .eu TLD, suspended more than 74,000 domain names after bringing a lawsuit against 400 different US Domain Registrars for what it says was a breach of contract. The suspended domains were all registered for three U.K. based companies, but according to EURid, the …
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The new .mobi TLD, which was created to help Internet users easily identify and find mobile content, became available this week. The idea is that users will know immediately if a site is formatted for mobile devices if it uses the .mobi extension. The new TLD, or mTLD (Mobile Top …
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ICANN has voted against the proposal to create an .xxx TLD geared towards the adult industry. The plan has been the subject of controversy of the last few months with many conservative groups campaigning against the new TLD. ICANN’s decision was not unexpected.…
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ICANN and a Chinese Internet Registry are denying reports that China plans to devise its own TLD domains in order to circumvent ICANN’s control. The rumors stem from three Chinese character domain names that many interpret as Chinese TLDs, but are actually run on the .cn servers.…
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EURid is now offering .eu domain names. This week, applicants rushed to apply for the new names, with the most popular being for sex.eu. The new TLDs are for individuals and companies within the European Union, but are not designed to take the place of European country ccTLDs.…
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ICANN has postponed their plans to create a separate TLD for the adult industry. The non-profit organization was supposed to vote on the issue of the new .xxx TLD, but postponed the vote in order to review more documentation. The plan has been filled with controversy from all sides.…
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ICANN voted to approve the new .xxx TLD, managed by the ICM Registry, reversing their original decision. They are working with the Registry to finalize the details in hopes to have the TLD available by the end of the year.…
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The White House is opposing the creation of the new .xxx domain extension over “concerns about a virtual red-light district reserved exclusively for Internet pornography.” The Commerce Department has asked for the TLD contract to be placed on hold after they received nearly 6,000 letters and email complaints that expressed …
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ICANN agreed to life the price caps on .net domain registrations in its renewal contract with VeriSign, the company who manages the TLD. The current price cap of $4.25 expires at the end of 2006 and after that, all restrictions expire.…
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ICANN and EnCirca, a Domain Name Registrar, are in a spat regarding the .pro TLD. ICANN accuses EnCirca, a registrar who primarily services trademark owners, of “exploiting a loophole in its rules to offer the tightly restricted .pro domains to nonprofessionals.” RegistryPro, the organization that manages the .pro extension is …
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ICANN announced a unanimous vote to begin discussions for several new TLDs. Several companies have submitted applications (at a cost of $45,000 per application) to operate new TLD Registries. Preliminary approval was given to the .post and .travel TLDs. Other TLD applications include .cat, .xxx, and .mail. These would be …
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VeriSign reported this week that domain name registrations are at an all time high with 64.5 million names registered. The number of registrations represents a 7% increase over last year. The report shows that while .com’s are still the top TLD, ccTLDs come in second, taking 39% of the domain …
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For the next month, trademark owners can now register .pro domain names through Registry Services Corporation, the registry for the new .pro TLD. According to the Registry, .pro “is designed to give professionals both a distinctive and secure Internet presence for their web site, notably by the establishment of a …
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Ten organizations have submitted proposals to ICANN for the right to sell potential new TLDs. ICANN has not approved any new TLDs since 2000, but has several proposals including .cat, .mobi, .asia, .tel, and .post. ICANN is in the process of considering the new top-level domains, though there is no …
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After new laws authorize harsher penalties for deceptive online porn publishing, the adult industry is reconsidering a proposal for their own TLD, .xxx. The discussion has been going on for awhile, but is only now beginning to gain steam with webmasters. ICM Registry, the company behind the extension, says that …
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RegistryPro, the Registry for the new .pro TLD, is hedging their bets that doctors, lawyers, and accountants will line up to register their .pro domains. The .pro TLD, specifically geared towards professionals, will go online in a few weeks. The company hopes to lure customers by offering a domain name …
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VeriSign and the Internet Society (ISOC) announced that the transfer of the .org domain extension will be delayed in order to give companies selling the extension more time to comply with new requirements. Once the transfer is complete, VeriSign and the ISOC appointed Public Interest Registry (PIR) will jointly manage …
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UltraDNS, the primary provider of the .info domain extension, was the victim of a denial-of-service attack that sent nearly 2 million requests per second to the company’s servers. The company said that they were able to get the attack blocked before it had an effect on their primary DNS services.…
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California startup New.net, Inc. is now offering 30 new domain name TLDs, including .inc, .llc, .llp, .ltd, .law, and .med. While the TLDs are not ICANN-endorsed, New.net claims that they reach upwards of 121 million Internet users through their ISPs.…
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According to SnapNames, registrations for the top domain TLDs (.com, .net, and .org) fell by 3.5 million from October to June. Domain Registrars struggle to find a market in the post dot-com bubble industry.…
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