Look out! The new domains are coming! “Dot-biz is going to be the next coming of dot-com,” I recently read in an article in the Denver Post. The buzz has begun. Seven new top-level domains have been approved by ICANN, the organization that governs domains, and could be available as early as [...]
Domain name growth is starting to recover, but we are a long way from the rapid growth we saw in 1998 –2000.
I am confident that the market for domain names will move back into a growth phase in the next two or three years time, its true that the dot com boom was a “bubble”, [...]
Are you getting the service that you require from your domain registrar? Actually, thinking about it for a minute, it might be a better question to ask, do you even know what services are available? Are you aware that you can shop around and get better prices, more features and far better customer service?
Guess what? [...]
The following are some of the important organisations in the domain name industry.
ARIN
American Registry for Internet Numbers is a a not for profit organisation established to handle the administration and registration of Internet Protocol (IP) addresses in North America, some of the Caribbean, and sub-Saharan Africa.
CORE Internet Council of Registrars is a not for profit [...]
The story of the domain name dispute between etoy.com and eToys.com uncovers an important issue facing all webmasters, should we register domain names that are similar to ours? In the eToys debacle, a group of artists registered the domain name “etoy.com” in 1995. Then in 1997, an online toy store bought the domain name “eToys.com” [...]
As a worker in the domain industry, I was surprised by the difference between this year and last in the Super Bowl. No, I didn’t necessarily care about the teams involved, but I am an avid watcher of the commercials every year, and took note of the fact that it seemed about half of the [...]