• 10 Ways To Ruin Your Online Business with an Inferior Domain Name
  Since every website needs a name, Dr. Steve Baba has written a free ebook that explains how to select domain names
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• Free Iraq asks for its domain name
  The .iq domain currently owned by Texas company
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06/29/2004

• Domain name boom fueled by small biz
  Fueling the boom was the registration of more than 4.7 million new domain names in the first quarter, the highest quarterly number in the history of the Internet, VeriSign said. Also contributing were record rates of renewals, with 70 percent of domain-name owners renewing their expiring registrations in the past two quarters
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06/28/2004

• Iraq Internet presence in Limbo
  WHILE THE AMERICANS might be turning over rulership to an interim government in Iraq, it will be some time before the country gets its domain name back.
  This time it is not because of any attempts at US control, the .iq owners are facing a criminal indictment and can't pass the Internet suffix on
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06/23/2004

• Domain names come of age
  We are still in the Bronze Age of the Internet, according to the man who created the Domain Name System 21 years ago
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• Vote for who should run the UK's Internet
  Two spaces on the board of the UK's Internet registry are up for grabs - and three horses are in the running. Every year, two of Nominet's four non-executives on the six-person board are put up for election
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06/22/2004

• Rooney sparks net names scramble
  Wayne Rooney may be hitting the back of the net on the field in Euro 2004, but he is also hammering it home when it comes to domain name registrations
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06/21/2004

• Politically Motivated Domain Name Speculation
  Combine the return of high prices for domains from speculators with the latest election season, and it should be no surprise that people everywhere are trying to pick up domain names for the Presidential candidates
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06/17/2004

• Going Google Over Domain Names
  As Google is lining itself up for big IPO and media mogul status, the rest of the world is scooping up what they hope will be big investments with Google-fied domain names
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06/16/2004

• Should WHOIS Database be Entirely Public?
  In a recent CircleID article, Rod Dixon says: 'Each [WHOIS] Task Force recently published a report posted on ICANN's website on recommendations for modifications or improvements to WHOIS
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• Network Solutions Gaining Hostnames After Long Slide
  After years of decline, the Internet's original domain name registrar is growing again, and finding plenty of folks willing to pay $34.99 for a domain. Network Solutions Inc. (NSI) gained 15,766 hostnames in May, the 14th-best gain out of more than 1,500 major providers tracked by Netcraft. NSI added 60k new hostnames in May
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06/11/2004

• Web Site Pushes .xxx Top-level Domain
  Child protection advocate Mary Conyers' Web site Protecteverychild.org (protecteverychild.org) is pushing the movement to create a separate .xxx domain for Web sites that feature adult content. Protecteverychild.org, with members in 39 US states as well as in Puerto Rico, Zambia, Israel, China, Canada, and Australia, has received grassroots support from a number of child advocacy groups as well as the US Internet Crime Task Force. Adult entertainment giant Vivid Video has also endorsed the idea
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06/10/2004

• NY Court nixes class action against Register.com
  Michael Geist's BNA Internet Law News reports "the Supreme Court of NY, First Appellate Division has dismissed an attempt to expand a class action launched against Register.com over its domain name registration renewal practices," and noted that "of interest is the court's conclusion that "a domain name that is not trademarked or patented is not personal property, but rather a contract right that cannot exist separate and apart from the services performed by a registrar."
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06/09/2004

• Domain name registration again in vogue
  Domain name buying is back in fashion once again--with registrations reaching levels last seen in 2000
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• Domain name registrations hit all-time high
  More than 4.7 million new domain names were registered during the first quarter of 2004, according to VeriSign, the global registry for web addresses ending in .com and .net
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06/07/2004

• Network Solutions Adds Offer Service
  Domain name registrar Network Solutions (networksolutions.com) announced on Friday that it has launched its patent-pending Certified Offer Service, a convenient method for Internet users obtain already-registered domain names
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06/02/2004

• RegistryPro Launches .Pro Domain
  Domain registrar RegistryPro (registrypro.com), operator of the .pro top-level domain, announced on Tuesday the launch of the .pro domain, the Internet's first top-level domain since 2002. The .pro extension is only available to licensed doctors, lawyers and accountants who must first submit verification of their professional status before being able to register a .pro domain
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