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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
.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 [...]
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 [...]
Network Solutions sued for domain registration practices
Network Solutions is now facing a class-action lawsuit which claims that the company unfairly profit by forcing customers to buy domains from them for high prices compared to rival domain sellers.
This lawsuit is related to their recently implemented policy which sees them reserving a domain which is searched by [...]
.asia domain launched
People wanting to buy a domain for their Asian specific businesses would soon be able to get access to .asia domain names.
The launch of .asia comes after .eu was released for European Union countries.
Edmon Chung from DotAsia said in a statement: “The .asia domain acts like a channel or a portal, showing [...]
Millions of domain names registered with false information
US Government Accountability Office (GAO) has reported that millions of domain names currently registered with the authorities are filled with false or junk information. As per the released report, Approximately 2.3 million domain names have been registered with obviously false information and another 1.6 million were registered with [...]
