Domain Name News

DomainGraduate releases Bonus Toolkit
Louisville, KY, and Seacoast, NH - DomainGraduate, the leading educational domain name investing guidebook, has announced a new toolkit for “Domain Graduates” by bundling a number of value-added services from Sedo, DomainResearchTool, ...

Afilias recognizes the best German-speaking .INFO-Sites and offers ...
INFO-Websites can apply for the .INFO-Award that will award 18.000 Euro in prize money later this year. The Award is created by global domain name registry Afilias in media-cooperation with INTERNET WORLD Business and addresses . ...

EuroDNS launches improved version of its Website
Thought from the ground up to facilitate Domain Name Registrations even more, the site provides enhanced ergonomy with an attractive look and feel. With version 2.0 of its flagship ...

.es Marches Towards One Million Registrations
.es, Spain’s ccTLD, is well on the way to its one millionth registration and will pass the nine hundred thousandth domain registration this month. It is expected the one millionth registration will occur in May.ShareThis.

Nominet Policy Advisory Body Election Results
Nominet announced today the results of its Policy Advisory Body Election (PAB). The four people elected are: 1. Robert Taylor, who is a well known domainer and owner of Hey.co.uk; 2. Clive DW Feather, was has been active on the Policy ...

Is Click Fraud Increasing?
In a report in January, Click Forensics found that the overall click-fraud rate for the online advertising industry was 16.6% in the last quarter of 2007, up from 14.2% for the same period a year earlier reports Forbes. ...

DNTV about the Internet Commerce Association
DNTV released a video about the Internet Commerce Association. Page Howe notes that if you haven’t yet joined the Internet commerce Association, it’s time to give it some serious consideration. Lots of hostile groups out there are doing ...

Standards - Part 10 - Our Google which art in…
... on article in the series on transparency and standards. The previous article examined how both Google and Yahoo have agreed to the standards outlined by the IAB but have not flowed the transparency down to domain owners.ShareThis.

GNSO Initial Report on Inter-Registrar Transfer Policy ...
The GNSO Initial Report on Inter/Registrar Transfer Policy: Clarification of Reasons for Denial [PDF, 229K] has been posted for comment. The comment period will be from 18 March 2008 to 7 April 2008. ShareThis.

The Internet’s Space Shortage
The necessity for the move to IPv6 is the focus of an article from Forbes recently. The article quotes Leslie Daigle, chief Internet technology officer for ISOC, who says it is simple math: the Internet Protocol addresses that are ...