Domain Name News
Australian Community Inititiative Celebrates 100th Community Domain Registrations
An initiative to encourage Australian localities to develop websites that represent their community has reached its 100th domain name registration with Talgarno, a town in the state of Victoria, reaching the milestone. [Link]
SnapNames Introduces dotMobi Drops
After launching more than two years ago, dotMobi is responding to growing interest in acquiring deleting and expired domains. And now you can find these great deals on .mobi domains at SnapNames. Today, more digital mobile phones exist than TVs and PCs combined. Business conducted on the mobile web is expected to reach more than $150 billion by 2011, making … [Link]
MYNIC Launches .myDNSIPv6
KUALA LUMPUR, 20th November 2008 – MYNIC Berhad (MYNIC), one of the most innovative providers of Internet Registry and Addressing Services in Asia Pacific today propelled Malaysia into achieving yet another milestone in the technology realm by launching the .myDNSIPv6… [Link]
Nominet Issues Annual UK Domain Name Industry Report
LONDON. 19th November 2008, Nominet, the national registry for .uk domain names, issues its latest annual Domain name industry report revealing the importance of a .uk domain to small and medium sized businesses (SMEs) as their primary web address. The report also shows the continued increase in popularity of country code domain names driven by strong growth in countries such … [Link]
October 2008 issue of 'The Browser' out now
The October 2008 issue of 'The Browser', InternetNZ's monthly newsletter, is out now. Issues covered include: [Link]
dotMobi Releases DeviceAtlas Version 2.1 Mobile Device Database
dotMobi, the company behind the .mobi Internet domain and the mobiForge mobile web developer forum, today announced that the 2.1 version of DeviceAtlas™—the world's most comprehensive mobile development database—is now available… [Link]
Kentucky Court of Appeals Blocks 141 Gambling Domains LawSuit
In an interesting turn of events, the Kentucky Court of Appeals yesterday blocked Franklin Circuit Court from proceeding with Gov. Steve Beshear's lawsuit against 141 gambling Web sites until appellate judges hear oral arguments and rule on the matter… [Link]
3rd Annual SedoPro Partner Forum Highlights Announced
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., _ Sedo, the leading online marketplace for buying and selling domain names, today announced highlights of its recent 3rd annual SedoPro Partner Forum, which was held at the Côte d’Azur in the South of France on October 26 through 28. Global domain industry professionals participated in discussions on marketplace roadmap, and best practices and techniques for success… [Link]
Successful opening for .CO.NL
Amsterdam 19th November 2008 – The .CO.NL Grandfather phase opened successfully yesterday at 10:00 am GMT and the first day of registrations has shown some great interest in the new extension. The numerous official registrars that partner with the Operator have already submitted a high number of requests and the numbers will increase in the coming days. [Link]
Diffusion and Adoption of IPv6 in the Arin Region
by Hillary Elmore, Brandon Stephens L. Jean Camp [Indiana University Bloomington - School of Informatics] Abstract: In the near term there will be no available, unallocated IPv4 addresses. From original estimates of IPv4 exhaustion in 2037, the most widely-cited current estimates for ARIN IPv4 address depletion is now at 2013. This deadline gives a particular importance to IPv6 adoption. The … [Link]
DENIC to Offer Provider Change with AuthInfo - Fast, Secure, and Reliable
As from December 2008, DENIC and the DENIC members will make available a new procedure to domain holders who want to change their provider. The central feature of this new procedure is the transmission of a password, which is called AuthInfo. The AuthInfo is valid exclusively for this specific action and is related to one specific domain. [Link]
Casino.ru Largest .ru Domain Name Sale
Casino.ru was purchased by Game Media Inc. for US$250,000 to become the largest sale of a .ru domain name to date. [Link]
Registrar sues auDA for deleting domain name
[news release] Domain Directors, an associated company of Instra Corporation, an auDA (Australian Domain Name Administrator) and ICANN accredited registrar, yesterday commenced legal proceedings in the Supreme Court of Queensland against auDA, the Australian domain name policy and regulatory body. [Link]
ICANN — Draft Applicant Guidebook Now Available in Additional Languages for Comment
A draft 'Applicant Guidebook' for new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) is now available in Arabic, Chinese, French, Spanish and Russian for review and comment at http://www.icann.org/en/topics/new-~ (http://www.icann.org/en/topics/new~ . The draft Guidebook provides information for those interested in applying for new generic top-level domains. Designed to accompany the draft Applicant Guidebook is a set of Explanatory Memoranda (http://www.icann.org/en/announceme~ that are intended … [Link]
2009 ICANN Nominating Committee Convenes in Cairo
The 2009 ICANN Nominating Committee (Nom Com) has been convened and met for the first time on 7-8 November, immediately following the 33rd International ICANN Public Meeting in Cairo, Egypt. Prior to the Cairo meeting, on 28 August 2008, the ICANN Board appointed Tricia Drakes as Nom Com Chair. Tricia has selected Alan Levin as Associate Chair. Due to the … [Link]
Nominet in Disarray
Nominet (http://www.nominet.org.uk/), the governing body of the .uk domain space, has not been a happy place since the contentious Board election earlier this year (en/general/keep-greedy-domainer-sl~ Events have really come to a head in the last week. On November 10, 2008, one of the domainer members of the Board of Directors, Jim Davies, issued a public letter (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/~ calling for the … [Link]
ICANN Goes to Sydney in June 2009
ICANN has selected Sydney as the venue for their June 2009 meeting that they expect around 1,700 experts from around the world to discuss issues regarding the future of the Internet such as new gTLDs, internationalised domain names and the security of the DNS. [Link]
Pisos.net makes Six-Figure Sedo Domain Sale
Sedo’s domain name sales for the week to 11 October resulted in a big .net sale with pisos.net selling for €150,000. “Pisos” means “story” in Spanish. Other notable sales were aed.nl, selling for €25,500, rencontre.org (€25,000 – meeting in French), voyance.net (€25,000 – clairvoyance in French) and telefonbuch-deutschland.de (German telephone book) selling for €19,500. [Link]
Touré's ITU still pushing for an Internet counter-revolution by Milton Mueller
In his speech at the ICANN meeting in Cairo, the ITU's Hamadoun Touré spoke openly of the ongoing 'war' between ICANN and the ITU writes Milton Mueller. Mueller notes Touré demanded a stronger role for governments in ICANN, dismissed ICANN's GAC as cosmetic (quite wrong says Mueller) and correctly accused the IGF of avoiding issues but also rather harshly dismissed … [Link]
RickLatona.com Announces Auction List for TRAFFIC Down Under
The TRAFFIC Down Under Conference (http://www.trafficdownunder.com/) starts in Australia tomorrow. They are featuring two live domain auctions, one held by Aftermarket.com (en/general/aftermarket.com-now-off~ and a second held by RickLatona.com (http://www.ricklatona.com/) . Today RickLatona.com released the list of domains that they will be offering on auction on Thursday. You can view the list of domains here (http://www.ricklatona.com/2008/11/~ There are a range of … [Link]