Dot Gay Alliance wants a .gay domain name!
Dot Gay Alliance has been formed to demand the creation of a new top level domain .gay.
Dot Gay Alliance founder Joe Dolce spoke about this initiative: “The LGBT community has always supported itself and its causes–no one was there to help us. We’ve made amazing progress [...]
GoDaddy trying to patent enhanced WhoIs and DNS Record display system!
Domain Name Wire has reported that GoDaddy has filed three patents related to enhanced display of Whois and DNS Records!
All of these patent applications are currently with the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
These patents relate to technologies used to display enhanced [...]
Call.com sold for USD 1.1 million!
Recession might still be a buzz word in news but domains are still selling for hot prices.
Call.com is the latest domain making the news. It has been sold for a cool USD 1.1 million.
The sale was made by the popular domain selling service Sedo.
The reports online claims [...]
Jennifer Lopez gain rights to jenniferlopez.net and jenniferlopez.org
US based singer and actress Jennifer Lopez has won rights to two domain names which were being used to mislead fans to pages filled with advertisements.
She has now won the ownership of jenniferlopez.net and jenniferlopez.org domains.
The case was decided by the World Intellectual Property Organization which [...]
Cybersquatting still a major issue on the web
World Intellectual Property Organization has revealed that cybersquatting remains a major problem on the web.
WIPO revealed that they received a record number of complaints on cybersquatting last year.
They received 2,329 cases which is up eight percent from 2007.
majority of these cases were connected to English language [...]
.tel domain names to go on sale
.tel domain names are all set to go on sale.
This new domain name formats are designed to enable businesses and individuals to put their information online at a centralized location.
They can put on information like their phone numbers, websites, postal addresses, e-mail addresses and other details.
Kash Mahdavi, [...]
ICANN could approve new types of domain names
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is set to open its annual general meeting.
They are going to decide on whether to allow new form of domain names.
ICANN president Paul Twomey said in a statement: “Apart from the .com, .net or .org, the 1.3 billion web users [...]
.org domains to become expensive
Public Interest Registry has revealed that they are now increasing the fees of the .org domains.
They had disclosed this in a letter sent to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers.
They do not require the approval for this price increase however.
This fee increase is for the reseller of these domain [...]
Pizza.com sells for $2.6 million
Chris Clark has sold Pizza.com domain he had owned since 1994 for a cool price of USD 2.6 million.
The domain was sold after a weeklong auction process.
He spoke about selling the domain: “It’s crazy, it’s just crazy. It will make a significant difference in my life, for sure.”
When he had originally [...]
VeriSign increasing registration fees for domains
Internet services company VeriSign has announced that they are now increasing the registry fees for .com and .net domain names.
The company added that this increase is as per their agreements with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).
The new increased rates would be valid from October this year.
The [...]
