Daily Domain Name Registration Blog

24hrs is not that long (although Jack Bauer would disagree and don’t disagree with him) and only 24hrs after the .Asia domain name landrush started over 300,000 applications were made for the new domain name. Perhaps i was wrong to be skeptical about the new domain name but its still early, ask me after […]

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A catchy name in my view , Domain Pulse is over for this year having been held in Austria (Vienna) 21 and 22 February. Folks from all over the world flocked to Vienna for day one of event (350 from Russia). Key issues being raised were DNS, security issues and the role […]

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Build a business, get a domain name, become well know, establish a trademark = success (perhaps not in that order).
So an Australian property company (propertymatch.com.au ) had done just that only to be told by the Australian domain name administration authority that the domain name was mistakenly sold to them. OK fair enough you […]

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A domain name stock exchange sounds like a great idea to me and i am surprised it hasn’t been thought of before. Ever fancied a share in flowers.mobi ? (i haven’t) well that’s exactly what 37,500 people did and bought shares in the domain name. Like Ebay , Fusu aren’t mugs and make […]

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.Com, .Net,.Co.uk,.EU and now the new kid in town is . Asia.
As the name suggests the .Asia domain name is specific to the Asian region. This market is potentially huge with Internet usage in Asia at a very high level. .Asia has been available to companies, governments, trademarks since October but only yesterday […]

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Documents about corruption in government, bank details and other confidential information is not the kind of thing you want to be broadcast on the Internet. This is precisely what the purpose of Wikileaks was (and still is as its still active today). Despite being pulled by the US district attorney, the origins […]

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Ah the Olympics , remember Greece, Sydney and Atlanta (that’s as far as i go i am not that old you know). Well this time its the turn of Beijing (China) and in this modern age the athletes have been given the right by the IOC to blog. There are a number […]

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The Bahamas a tropical paradise in the Caribbean destination of the stars and those with more money than sense (so i have heard). Also a resident there is Indigo Networks a telecommunications company who is at the center of a row over the domain name OnePhone.com.
The other side of the ring is a Swedish […]

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For me web browsing on a mobile (well mine at least) doesn’t fill me with much joy. Before today the developers of sites to suit mobile phone browsing would tend to agree with me. Until today developers and enterprises had to sift through hundreds of handset specs to develop sites to fit each. […]

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Well myspace.co.uk has been around longer than you think. Everyone and their dog at some-point has had a myspace account however myspace.co.uk has only recently been acquired by the real myspace.
Six years before myspace existed myspace.co.uk was a parking page for adverts and links to social networking sites including myspace.com. The domain name […]

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