It was recently announced that .com.ru will now be offered again by the registry, RU-Center. This extension was previously offered but is now being re-launched.
This extension will be launched in two phases:
Pre-reservations phase (October 5, 2011 – October 25, 2011): This phase is open to all interested individuals and institutions. If more than one application …
For a limited time only, businesses have the opportunity to prevent their brands being used alongside a new .xxx domain name.
Writing for Lexology.com, Timothy Meagher explained that stakeholders have until October 28th to file a request to block their trademarks from being registered with the new extension.
He explained that trademarks and …
The Malaysian domain names registry has recently announced further details regarding the launch of Jawi, Chinese, and Tamil IDN.my domain names.
• Phase 3 (September 20, 2011 – November 30, 2011): Please note that because of the time difference, this launch begins at 9pm on Monday September 19th EDT. This phase includes Jawi, Chinese, and Tamil …
The number of .org domain names has now passed the nine million mark, it has been reported.
According to The Dashboard — a biannual report on .org domain names — there were 9.2 million organizations using the Web address extension at the end of June 2011.
This represented a net gain of around 350,000 registrations during the …
Now is the time for corporations and organizations to embrace Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC), it has been claimed.
Speaking recently at the Black Hat Technical Security conference in Las Vegas, Jeff Moss, vice-president and chief security officer at the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), urged firms to take fewer online risks.
“If …
There have been close to one million expressions of interest in the .xxx generic top-level domain name, it has been reported.
According to TheDomains.com, 900,000 individuals and companies have contacted the firm behind .xxx during its pre-reservation process.
Between them, the applicants expressed interest in more than 650,000 individual domain names using the .xxx extension.
The controversial top-level …
CentralNIC, a popular provider of alternative domain extensions, recently announced that they are expanding their offerings by introducing a new domain extension: .COM.DE.
Sunrise (June 20, 2011 – July 22, 2011): This phase is open to owners of a trademark or a commercial firm name registered with a German Commercial Register. The name applied for …
Domain names associated with ten gambling websites have been seized by U.S. authorities, it has been revealed.
Some 11 bank accounts located in Charlotte, North Carolina, as well as in Guam, Panama, Malta, Portugal and the Netherlands, have also been locked down.
A federal grand jury has found three defendants guilty of conducting an illegal gambling business …
The Cleveland Browns have secured the domain name browns.com, in a significant triumph for the American football franchise.
The World Intellectual Property Organization’s (WIPO) Arbitration and Mediation Center ruled that the domain name must be transferred from an Italian cybersquatter who was in possession of the Web address.
Back in March, the NFL outfit filed a complaint …
The introduction of new generic top level domains (gTLDs) could make the Internet more accessible to a global audience, it has been suggested.
Relaxing restrictions on domain name suffixes could help make the web more accessible to individuals who use non-Latin characters, said Mei-Lan Stark, a member of the Board of Directors of the International Trademark …