SEO, Buying, Selling and Developing Domains
Generic top-level domains (gTLDs) may well prompt a digital land grab by the world’s biggest multinational brands when applications open this week, but new gTLDs such as .food, .health and .sport may also open up the internet to more consumer choice and small business opportunity.
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Brands prep for gTLD digital land grab
In the future brand owners may need to change their domain name strategy. With potentially hundreds of new top level domain names heading to the internet as early as 2013, brand owners are crying foul
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Perhaps trademark holders should no longer defensively register domains
Domain name used by “copyright troll” auctioned off for $3,300.
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Righthaven.com sells for $3,300
Salesforce.com loses dispute over Forces.com domain name at National Arbitration Forum. Salesforce.com has lost an attempt to get the domain name Forces.com, which it said was similar to its Force.com domain name. The registrant’s predecessor had registered the domain name before Salesforce.com started using the Force.com domain name.
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Salesforce.com can’t force owner of Forces.com to hand over domain
Video game maker unsuccessful in challenge to SSX.com domain name.
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EA loses domain dispute for SSX.com for upcoming SSX launch
A plan to add hundreds of top-level Internet domains beyond .com is proceeding over objections from U.S. officials, illustrating limits in the government’s ability to sway the nonprofit that manages the Web’s address system.
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Web-Name Expansion Battle Shows Limits to U.S. Sway Over Internet Guardian
Beginning January 12, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers will be accepting applications for newly available top-level domain names beyond the typical .com and .net variety. Some of the new domain offerings you might see are .book and …
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ICANN Has Started Taking Applications For New Top-Level Domains
Members of ICANN community and competing domain registrars find themselves as new United Domains account holders. Someone is having a laugh at United Domains’ expense. Over the past few days an unknown perpetrator has set up roughly 500 empty accounts at domain name registrar United Domains using email addresses of people active in ICANN’s Governmental Advisory Committee and at various competing domain name registrars.
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United Domains gets Punk’d
ICANN, an independent body responsible for organizing the Internet, plans to press ahead with plans to expand the number of possible website addresses despite criticism from industry and concerns from …
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ICANN to expand top level Internet domains despite critics
WASHINGTON, Jan 5 — ICANN, an independent body responsible for organising the Internet, plans to press ahead with plans to expand the number of possible website addresses despite criticism from industry and concerns from some law enforcement groups. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, which decides who gets to manage .com, …
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ICANN to grow top level domains despite critics
ICANN, an independent body responsible for organizing the Internet, plans to press ahead with plans to expand the number of possible website addresses despite criticism from industry and concerns from …
The nonprofit group that manages the Internet’s address system needs to take steps to ease corporate concerns over a program to add hundreds of top-level domains beyond .com and .net, the U.S.
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Web-Name Expansion Must Ease Corporate Concerns, U.S. Says
The nonprofit group that manages the Internet’s address system should take steps to ease industry concerns about a program that may add hundreds of top-level domains beyond .com and .net, the U.S. Commerce Department said.
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Web-Name Expansion Should Respond to Company Concerns, U.S. Says
Former customers and general Internet users are watching sites like ByeDaddy.org to track who has left GoDaddy and who has stayed
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GoDaddy Loses Thousands of Domains After SOPA Opinions; May be Delaying Transfers Purposely
The form response Lamar Smith sends to opponents of SOPA. As I mentioned in a previous post, I live in Lamar Smith’s district in Texas. His office is literally a couple miles from mine. Smith is the sponsor of Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). I wrote to him a week ago via his web site expressing how I didn’t like the SOPA bill because it reinforces the idea that America owns the internet.
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How Lamar Smith will respond to your SOPA complaint
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers needs better safeguards before it allows an explosion of new online addresses.
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Expanding Internet Domains
The Internet expanded by 2.3 percent in the third quarter over the second quarter, VeriSign reported in its latest report on domain registrations. There were 4.9 million more domains at the end of September than there had been in June, the report found.
December 22, 2011 — Internet services wholesaler Tucows announced on Thursday, via a blog post, that it has added more than 100 country code domains to the OpenSRS reseller services division, covering nearly 80 countries.
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Tucows Adds 100-Plus new Domain Extensions to OpenSRS System
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