« Nominet Issues Annual UK Domain Name Industry Report »

LONDON. 19th November 2008, Nominet, the national registry for .uk domain names, issues its latest annual Domain name industry report revealing the importance of a .uk domain to small and medium sized businesses (SMEs) as their primary web address. The report also shows the continued increase in popularity of country code domain names driven by strong growth in countries such as China and Russia. This has pushed the market share of country codes to 40% of the global domain name market...

« October 2008 issue of 'The Browser' out now »

The October 2008 issue of 'The Browser', InternetNZ's monthly newsletter, is out now. Issues covered include:

« dotMobi Releases DeviceAtlas Version 2.1 Mobile Device Database »

dotMobi, the company behind the .mobi Internet domain and the mobiForge mobile web developer forum, today announced that the 2.1 version of DeviceAtlas™—the world's most comprehensive mobile development database—is now available...

« Kentucky Court of Appeals Blocks 141 Gambling Domains LawSuit »

In an interesting turn of events, the Kentucky Court of Appeals yesterday blocked Franklin Circuit Court from proceeding with Gov. Steve Beshear's lawsuit against 141 gambling Web sites until appellate judges hear oral arguments and rule on the matter...

« 3rd Annual SedoPro Partner Forum Highlights Announced »

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., _ Sedo, the leading online marketplace for buying and selling domain names, today announced highlights of its recent 3rd annual SedoPro Partner Forum, which was held at the Côte d’Azur in the South of France on October 26 through 28. Global domain industry professionals participated in discussions on marketplace roadmap, and best practices and techniques for success...

« Successful opening for .CO.NL »

Amsterdam 19th November 2008 – The .CO.NL Grandfather phase opened successfully yesterday at 10:00 am GMT and the first day of registrations has shown some great interest in the new extension. The numerous official registrars that partner with the Operator have already submitted a high number of requests and the numbers will increase in the coming days.

« Diffusion and Adoption of IPv6 in the Arin Region »

by Hillary Elmore, Brandon Stephens L. Jean Camp [Indiana University Bloomington - School of Informatics] Abstract: In the near term there will be no available, unallocated IPv4 addresses. From original estimates of IPv4 exhaustion in 2037, the most widely-cited current estimates for ARIN IPv4 address depletion is now at 2013. This deadline gives a particular importance to IPv6 adoption. The goals of this work were to identify valid measures of IPv6 diffusion and use classic diffusion models to bound the uncertainty in those measures.

« DENIC to Offer Provider Change with AuthInfo - Fast, Secure, and Reliable »

As from December 2008, DENIC and the DENIC members will make available a new procedure to domain holders who want to change their provider. The central feature of this new procedure is the transmission of a password, which is called AuthInfo. The AuthInfo is valid exclusively for this specific action and is related to one specific domain.

« Casino.ru Largest .ru Domain Name Sale »

Casino.ru was purchased by Game Media Inc. for US$250,000 to become the largest sale of a .ru domain name to date.

« Registrar sues auDA for deleting domain name »

[news release] Domain Directors, an associated company of Instra Corporation, an auDA (Australian Domain Name Administrator) and ICANN accredited registrar, yesterday commenced legal proceedings in the Supreme Court of Queensland against auDA, the Australian domain name policy and regulatory body.