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Search Engine Watch
December 6, 1999 |
RealNames Slipping Generics Into Specifics RealNames has had a long-standing and laudable policy of not selling a generic term to any one company. But in the past two months, the company has cut two significant deals that go against this policy, enabling both its partners and RealNames itself great benefits.   |
Search Engine Watch
January 4, 2000 |
RealNames Temporarily Suspends Registration Of Generics Last month, I reported how RealNames had been allowing some companies to register generic terms as RealNames Internet Keywords, a significant change in its previous policy against generics. Now RealNames has temporarily suspended the registration of generic terms altogether. |
Search Engine Watch
July 27, 2000
Danny Sullivan |
New Domain Names Coming Yes, it looks like new top level domain names may finally be coming -- but what they will be, how they will be assigned, and whether they will actually be used remains undecided. So, don't panic. |
Search Engine Watch
June 3, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
RealNames To Close After Losing Microsoft RealNames, which provided a pioneering alternative to the domain name system, announced last month that it would cease operations as of June 28 after failing to renew an important distribution partnership with Microsoft |
Search Engine Watch
March 15, 2000
Danny Sullivan |
Microsoft Takes Stake In RealNames Microsoft has taken a 20 percent share in RealNames and is promising native support of the system within its browser by the spring of this year. |
Search Engine Watch
January 4, 2000 |
Longer Domain Names Arrive Several domain name registrars are now selling names of up to 63 characters long (67 if you include the .com, .net or .org portions), which has sparked a wave of speculation that these longer names pose new opportunities with search engines.... |
Salon.com
July 24, 2000
Damien Cave |
I want my own .tv The CEO of a company that administers the domain name for the island nation of Tuvalu thinks it could be more profitable than .com. |
Information Today
March 12, 2001
Wallace Koehler |
Recent Trends Result in a New Status for VeriSign On March 1, VeriSign, Inc. announced an agreement with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers that will redefine VeriSign's role as an Internet registrar and registry... |
Search Engine Watch
October 1, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
RealNames Clones Causing Confusion RealNames is dead, and contrary to rumors, companies seeking to take its place in the namespace world have no ties with Microsoft. |
InternetNews
February 26, 2010 |
Domain Name Registrations Kept Growing in 2009 There are now over 192 million domain name registrations as year-over-year growth continues despite the recession. |
ONLINE
Jan/Feb 2002
Greg R. Notess |
The Top-Level Domain Game Had some omniscient librarians been involved, they certainly would have come up with sensible group of top-level domains which could be divided fairly among the throngs of today's and tomorrow's Internet users. Such an event never happened... |
InternetNews
May 27, 2011 |
Internet Domain Names Top 209.8 Million The base of Internet domain names grew by 7.9 percent in the first quarter of 2011. |
CFO
February 1, 2009
Vincent Ryan |
Masters of Their Domains? Companies soon may be able to create their own top-level domains -- like ".ibm" -- but the costs of making the switch are raising some eyebrows. |
PC Magazine
August 29, 2007
Brian Heater |
Eminent Domains Businesses seek the country codes of far-off places for their Web domains. |
InternetNews
June 9, 2005
Sean Michael Kerner |
Global Domain Names on a High The number of worldwide domain name registrations continues its climb on the basis of a strong global economy and an increase in Internet users. |
InternetNews
June 8, 2004
Susan Kuchinskas |
A Name For All Domains Updated VeriSign reports more domain name registrations and more active names than during the tech bubble. |
InternetNews
April 26, 2005
Jim Wagner |
GoDaddy.com Tops Registrar Ranking It took nearly five years, but the domain name registrar has surpassed long-time industry leader Network Solutions. |
InternetNews
March 7, 2008
Sean Michael Kerner |
Those Expanding Internet Domain Names 33 million new domains were registered in 2007. Did you get one? |
Salon.com
September 21, 1999
Scott Rosenberg |
Domain name dunces Network Solutions fumbles its free e-mail scheme. Can we trust it with our Net addresses? |
Search Engine Watch
April 2, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
Searching & Navigating Via Internet Explorer Everyone knows that the Internet Explorer browser lets you surf the web. But did you realize that Microsoft's popular browser also has some search capabilities built into it? This article explores how IE lets you search and navigate on the web... |
Searcher
February 2001
Wallace Koehler |
ICANN and the New 'Magnificent Seven' A look at the 7 new top level domains and how they were chosen. |
InternetNews
September 14, 2004
Jim Wagner |
Domain Name Registry Spots Country Trend Dot-com remains king, but country-specific domain names grow rapidly in Q2, a new report states. VeriSign reports second quarter 2004 financial results. |
InternetNews
August 17, 2005
Jim Wagner |
Alternative Domains Surge A VeriSign report points to renewed interest for .name, .info and .biz on the Internet. |
Search Engine Watch
November 12, 2003
George Plosker |
Who Runs the .gov and .edu Domains? Unlike most other top-level domains, .gov and .edu are restricted to government and educational institutions. Who's in charge of these protected domains? |
InternetNews
March 23, 2004
Jim Wagner |
.Mobi's Case For Mobile Domains Industry consortium explains plan to push a mobile-centric domain extension apart from .com and .net. |
InternetNews
December 3, 2008
Erin Joyce |
Trademark Protection Underway For .TEL Domain Will the next TLD be as big as .com? Some mobile marketing seers think so. |
Information Today
July 3, 2008
Barbara Quint |
Dot-Mania: ICANN Opens the Domain Door The Internet Corporation For Assigned Names and Numbers has expanded the number of generic top level domains only rarely. But by 2Q 2009, adding new dot domains could start expanding rapidly. |
PC Magazine
June 26, 2008
Mark Hachman |
Update: ICANN Approves Huge Domains Expansion The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is expected to approve a plan Thursday that would broadly expand the number of top-level domains (TLDs), that, for now, have been restricted to a few choice designations. |
InternetNews
December 5, 2008
Sean Michael Kerner |
Of China, Growth and TLDs China's .cn moves up the ladder to become the second most popular TLD. |
InternetNews
June 5, 2009
Sean Michael Kerner |
Is the Domain Name Biz Recession Proof? As the total number of domain names reaches 183 million, can China's .cn surpass .com? |
ONLINE
May/Jun 2003
Mark Goldstein |
Who Was, WHOIS, and Who Will Be: Domain Name Ownership Research Tools Reasons for researching domain names range from the simple, to the complex. The range of rationales for doing domain name searches is matched by the range of products. |
InternetNews
September 22, 2009 |
Domain Registrations Slow to Top 184 Million VeriSign report shows single-digit growth in total number of domain names amid global recession. |
InternetNews
March 31, 2004
Jim Wagner |
ICANN Reports On WHOIS Inaccuracies In the past 18 months, the Internet governance organization has received complaints on 16,045 different domain names. |
InternetNews
September 24, 2010 |
Verisign Details Rising Demand for Domain Names The total number of domain registrations tops 196 million, but why a drop off in China? |
PC World
January 24, 2001
Cameron Crouch |
Are Hackers Hounding Microsoft? Software giant's sites fall in domain name snafu, but cause of crash remains undetermined... |
InternetNews
March 4, 2011
Sean Michael Kerner |
Behind the Uptick in Internet Domain Names Verisign reports the number of Internet Domains grew to over 205.3 million in 2010, but some segments didn't grow much at all. Why? |
Salon.com
March 14, 2001
Damien Cave |
A Web of Babel Former ICANN chairwoman Esther Dyson says a new domain name system threatens to disrupt the Internet... |
InternetNews
February 3, 2005
Jim Wagner |
Google The Registrar The ever-expanding strategy behind better search results leads to domain registrar status. |
Reason
December 2001
Rhys Southan |
Web Playgrounds Some congressmen have decided that one top-level domain rejected by ICANN should is a moral (or at least political) imperative: .kids... |
CRM
December 19, 2012
Judith Aquino |
ICANN Reveals Results of Domain Name Auction New domain names like .food, .energy, .city, and others could be launched next year. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, which oversees the Internet's addressing system, is leading the expansion. |
CIO
September 1, 2001
Meg Mitchell Moore |
The Name Game Move over, .com. there are two new suffixes in town, and they're generating some serious buzz. This month .info went live, and the beginning of October brings .biz to an Internet near you... |
Search Engine Watch
September 9, 2008
Mark Jackson |
Domain Acquisition -- How Much is Too Much? Think you can't afford to spend the money to buy an existing domain name? If you do the math, the cost savings you gain may surprise you. |
InternetNews
February 27, 2004
Jim Wagner |
VeriSign Files Suit Against ICANN The lawsuit contends ICANN broke its contract with VeriSign when it prohibited and delayed the registrar from providing valuable Internet services like its SiteFinder and waiting-list service (WLS), according to the suit filed at the U.S. District Court, Central District Court of California, Los Angeles. |
Information Today
July 9, 2007
Wallace Koehler |
ICANN Moving to Adopt Internationalized Domain Names The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) announced its plan to allow the use of non-Roman characters after the final "dot" in an Internet address. |
CRM
April 2013
Judith Aquino |
What's in a Domain Name? Here's what you need to know about the new Internet landscape. |
InternetNews
November 25, 2009 |
ICANN Decries DNS Redirect Practices The Internet authority says current DNS redirect practices compromises Web security, efficiency. |
InternetNews
May 19, 2004
Ryan Naraine |
Sir Tim: 'No New TLDs Please' The man credited with creating the World Wide Web is not too keen on some domain name ideas, especially for wireless devices. |
InternetNews
December 8, 2005
Jim Wagner |
False WHOIS Data Still Bedevils The database holding the contact information for registered domain names is still plagued with inaccurate entries, a problem that's the root cause for much of the Web-based trickery on the Internet. |
InternetNews
October 28, 2005
Jim Wagner |
ICANN's Deal Could Prove Costly ICANN's proposed agreement with VeriSign could result in fee hikes that will likely get passed to .com domain owners. |
Entrepreneur
July 2002
Mike Hogan |
The Pull for Pull ICANN is tightening its grip on uncontested control over Internet domains. |
