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ANA Fears Confusion, Brand Squatting in ICANN's New Domain Plan
August 4, 2011 @ 6:20 AMThe Association of National Advertisers (ANA) hopes to throw the clout of its 10,000 global brands – and their $250 billion annual marketing spend – against a new plan to open registration of top-level domains to all comers.
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Verisign Looks for Growth From Registering .anything
August 4, 2011 @ 5:31 AMVerisign posted solid earnings on continuing growth in its user base despite the rising popularity of other top level domains. The company recently renewed its contract with ICANN to be the authoritative registry operator for .net domains for 6 more years. It also announced an anticipated price hike for .com and .net domains, which we have already factored in our model. Upside to our forecast could arise from market share gains as new rules will allow businesses to register any domain name. This could lift our forecast for total user base of .com and .net domain names that we currently expect to increase from ~120 million this year to around 350 million by the end of our forecast.
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Rock On! Queen Awarded Domain Name WeWillRockYou.com
August 4, 2011 @ 1:06 AMArbitration panel awards WeWillRockYou.com to rock band. Here’s a follow up to a story I first reported in June. The rock band Queen filed a domain name dispute over the name WeWillRockYou.com. We Will Rock You is one of Queen’s greatest hits. The song later became the name of a musical that still tours the globe to packed houses.
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Network Solutions Fetches $560 Million
August 3, 2011 @ 3:48 PMWeb.com agreed to acquire Network Solutions, one of the largest Internet domain-name registrars, for about $560 million in cash and stock.
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Register.com Owner to Acquire Network Solutions
August 3, 2011 @ 6:25 AMRegister.com and Network Solutions to get married. Two of the highest priced and oldest domain name registrars are getting married. Web.com, which owns Register.com, will pay $405 million plus 18 million shares of Web.com stock as well as take on Network Solutions’ debt. The cash portion of the deal will be funded with new debt: $600 …
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France Legalizes 30,000 Banned Internet Domain Names
August 3, 2011 @ 1:13 AMFrench Internet authorities have been swamped by demands for domain names since a new law authorised the use of around 30,000 previously banned website addresses such as islam.fr and internet.fr. The decree authorizing the new law was published on Wednesday, and French authorities say they now have to deal with over 6,000 requests that have been made since the law was passed a month ago.
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Is .ngo The First Defensive TLD Registration Announcement?
August 2, 2011 @ 11:32 PMRegistry behind .org wants .ngo. This week Public Interest Registry (PIR) announced it will apply for the .ngo top level domain name when ICANN opens up its application process next year. Could this be the first example of a "defensive" TLD registration? PIR runs the .org registry, and .ngo for non-governmental organizations is …
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First Smut Site Erected On .XXX Address
August 2, 2011 @ 9:04 PMThe first porn site to use a .xxx web address has gone live, and domain manager ICM Registry has announced another way to make internet perving a safer experience. Casting.xxx (NSFW, incredibly) started doing its bit to feed the world’s appetite for “adult entertainment” last night.
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With New Domain Names On Market, .Org Guns for .Ngo
August 2, 2011 @ 6:01 AMPIR, the non-profit that runs the .ORG domain name has officially announced its intention to grab the soon-to-be-released .NGO domain name.
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Tucows Buys German Registrar EPAG
August 2, 2011 @ 1:08 AMAs announced in a press release published today, Tucows (NYSE AMEX:TCX, TSX:TC) has purchased all the shares of German registrar EPAG for approximately US$2.5 Million (€1.5 Million to purchase the shares and the settlement of a working capital adjustment of €0.25 Million) through an all-cash transaction.
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