In the first three months of ‘08, 14 million domain names were added to the internet, according to the first quarter 2008 Domain Name Industry Brief published by VeriSign — via MarketingCharts. That’s a 17 percent increase over the fourth quarter of 2007, and 15 percent over the year-earlier period.
At the end of the first [...]
法律.com just went to auction at snapnames and went for (a bargain) $9,638.00.
法律.com translates as ‘law.com’ in Chinese (and Japanese?). It is definitely one of the top keywords in Chinese in a great niche, with great development potential. Will be interesting to see what happens with this domain, and hopefully it does not just [...]
The dispute was over a French IDN: matériel.net translating as equipment in English.
The Complainant is a French company who had operated a French-language website at “www.materiel.net” through which it sells computers, computer peripherals, and other electronics products. The Complainant owns French national trademark number 01 3 086 049 for the mark MATERIEL.NET, which was registered [...]
ICANN will press ahead with plans to introduce new top-level domains, including some so-called Internationalized Domain Names written in Chinese and Arabic scripts, its board decided unanimously Thursday.
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) began discussing extending the number of gTLDs (generic top-level domains) in 2005. Existing gTLDs include.com,.org or.biz.
Thursday’s decision will not, [...]