Nominet held their second annual .uk registrar conference at Wembley
Stadium last week where they released their Domain Name Industry Report
2008 that highlights some interesting statistics about domain name
registrations both in the United Kingdom and all through the world.
The report additionally shows the importance of a .uk domain name to small and
medium sized businesses (SMEs) as […]

The word is out: The domaining bubble has finally burst. Many domainers are short on cash and prices are falling across the board. What created the bubble, how did it end, and is there a way to profit from the slowing economy and financial crisis?
The Components of a Seductive Bubble
A significant percentage of the domaining […]

Microsoft has charged a Florida company with cybersquatting in a new lawsuit filed Wednesday reports IDG. In the lawsuit, Microsoft listed 23 domain names that it says are registered to Domain Investments and contain Microsoft trademarks or intentional misspellings of such names.
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US government urged to deploy DNS safety measure measures, but through ICANN not VeriSign
Net shield gurus and leading vendors are urging the US federal
government to rapidly deploy defense and authentication mechanisms at
the top level of the DNS hierarchy - the root zone. The comments are
the aftereffect of a signal for public comments regarding the deployment […]

AFNIC have published their annual report on the French domain name industry gaining wide coverage in the French press. Today there are nearly 1.3 million .fr names registered, making .fr the 16th largest TLD.
The number of registrations is growing rapidly with 300,000 more registrations in 2008, a 36 per cent year-on-year increase which compares favourably […]

DNJournal's latest Top 20 chart of domain sales prices is shown below.
Kredit.de (German for "credit" or "loan") leads the list with an amazing $1,169,175 sale. The domain was bought by Unister GmbH of Leipzig, Germany, a company which plus owns Geld.de ("money") and Auto.de.
Other noteworthy sales include:

LOTO.com for $91,331 (LOTO is both a typo of, […]

According to Anti-Phishing Alliance of China, by October 30, 2008 it
had suspended the domain names of more than 300 Chinese phishing
websites with the help of the anti-phishing system based on the .CN
domain names reports ChinaTechNews.com.
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In early 2009, the Web Engineering Task Force (IETF) plans to
adopt the update for worldly domain names discussed since the
beginning of that year reports Heise. The issue was discussed at the
IETG meeting in Minneapolis last week. The report notes there were
ongoing discussions up until the last moment on the extent to which
registries […]

Whether the IETF should use its resources to energize DNS registries,
ISPs and enterprises to upgrade to the ultimate DNS safety measure solution,
DNSSEC, or whether it should tweak the DNS protocols to address the
so-called Kaminsky bug as an interim step is being debated at a meeting
of the IETF held in Minneapolis last week reports Network World.
Original […]

An initiative to inspire Australian localities to develop websites
that represent their community has reached its 100th domain name
registration with Talgarno, a town in the state of Victoria, reaching
the milestone.
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