EURid opened its systems to receive applications for .eu domain names from anyone within the EU claiming prior rights to a certain domain name. During the first 15 minutes after 11:00 today EURid received 27 949 applications. After an hour, at 12:00, the number was 71 235.
Category Archives: Domain Names
au: Pest gives himself a sporting chance
au: Pest gives himself a sporting chance
NOTORIOUS cybersquatter Brad Norrish, certainly has a never-say-die attitude. After having his deceptive antics reined in by several Australian courts, Perth-based Norrish has taken on US sporting channel network ESPN.http://theage.com.au/news/business/pest-gives-himself-a-sporting-chance/2006/02/08/1139379572320.html
cn: Rule change aids China cyber-squatters
A Pragmatic Report on IPv4 Address Space Consumption by Tony Hain, Cisco Systems
uk: Nominet’s Raising Industry Standards consultation deadline extended
We have made a commitment to raising standards in the Internet industry. To achieve this, we are proposing to make a number of important changes to the terms of the registrar contract. The changes set out in this consultation paper will affect both registrars and registrants, so it is important that you tell us what you think.The consultation period has now been extended to 31 May 2006. If you have not already sent us a response we would really like to hear what you think.The consultation paper is available to download as a pdf file. Please send your response to standards-consultation@nominet.org.uk with the subject header ‘standards consultation’.We look forward to receiving your comments.The consultation responses will be published here. We reserve the right to remove any materials that in our reasonable opinion are defamatory, offensive or unintelligible.http://www.nominet.org.uk/news/latest/2006/?contentId=2737
First results in: People not happy with new dotcom contract
Deal places limits on .com fees
Deal places limits on .com feesICANN has put forward a revised deal to settle a long-running dispute over the crucial .com domain name.http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4664906.stm
Sex.com fetches $12 million as domain name
Sex.com fetches $12 million as domain name
So you want to buy sex.com? Too late. What is arguably the most valuable piece of real estate on the Internet has been sold for a reported $12 million U.S. in cash and stock by San Diego website developer Gary Kremen.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=5&ObjectID=10365244
http://www.dnjournal.com/archive/domainsales/2006/domainsales01_31_06.htm