The Perils Of Forgetting to Renew A Domain Name
Forgetting to renew a domain name can have several consequences. It can cause a loss of business, hassles in getting the domain name re-registered and a competitor may register it. Read More
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ICANN Name Branding: dot DO or dot DIE
ICANN is now evaluating 2000 proposed gTLD dot names. Based on the guidelines established and the choice of submissions the most names seem be straightforward cases. Read more
Olga Madruga-Forti among 2012 NomCom Nominees
Ms. Olga Madruga-Forti a senior executive in the telecommunications and satellite industries from Buenos Aires, Argentina has been appointed to the ICANN Board of Directors others include Gonzalo Navarro ,George Sadowsky among others. Read More
Rise in internet domain disputes
Disputes over internet domain names have hit a record high over the last 12 months, experts have said. Legal information provider Sweet & Maxwell said that such disputes adjudicated by the World Intellectual Property Organisation hit 2,944 in the 12 months to July 2012, a 6% increase from 2,775 in July 2011. Read More
The Internet battle for .bible domain name
How will faith be presented on the Internet? Recent moves by the ruling body that oversees the Internet have allowed for the most dramatic expansion in the Internet since it was created: an almost limitless number of top-level domains are now possible, to join the classics such as .com, .edu and .net Read more:
Get ready to pay more for .co.za
UniForum SA is set to increase its tariffs and will also shorten the period in which customers can pay for their .co.za domain, according to proposed policy changes. The following changes are proposed to be implemented from 1 March 2013 with the annual fee increasing from R50.00 to R75.00 Read More
Is this the end of .CO?
It looks like everyone is dropping their .co’s. So is this the end of .co? I hope not but it sure looks like it… Rick Schwartz’s blog is running a contest to see if anyone can guess how many .co’s dropped in the month of August. Read More
Are you plagued by a bad online address? You may soon have a shot at a better one.
Relief may be on the way for small businesses stuck with bad Web addresses. Next year, the organization that oversees the Internet will start selling rights to an unlimited number of new top-level domains — the suffixes like .com that appear at the end of Web-site names. Domains likely to appear include those that take …
Vatican purchases website domain “.catholic” _Romereports
The Vatican is looking to organize some of the Church’s activities on the internet by buying the web domain “.catholic”. The purchase of the domain doesn’t come cheap. The Vatican paid $740,000 to apply for .catholic in four languages. It was previously owned by the corporation Assigned Names and Numbers. Watch Video
ICANN welcomes new CEO as the Expansion of domain namespace is underway.
Recently at Prague the entire internet fraternity welcomed a new CEO to the ICANN board, Mr. Fade Chehade who was picked among several other professionals who applied for the Position, He comes from a fairly wide background having been A founder of several organizations including CEO of Avocado, a company providing cloud-based administrative software for …