Recent domain name news from the last week: UK firm buys Top10.com domain in record £1m deal A UK price comparison company announced today that it has bought the domain name Top10.com from Idealab, the US-based company founded by Bill Gross and behind many successful technology companies including Picasa and GoTo.com. The cash and equity deal values the domain name at over…
Posted: April 1st, 2010 Read More →
Recent domain name news from the last week: .Tel Enters First Renewal Period The folks at .tel registry Telnic are certainly sweating this week: .tel domain names registered during general availability are hitting their first renewal period. I call this period — when new top level domain names hit there first renewal period — the “valley of renewals”. Renewal raters during this…
Posted: March 26th, 2010 Read More →
Recent domain name news from the last week: Dotcom turned 25 on Monday Twenty five years ago last monday, the first dotcom name was registered by Symbolics computers of Cambridge, Massachusetts. In 1985, a further five companies jumped on the dotcom bandwagon, which travelled at a snail's pace - it took 12 years for the one millionth dotcom domain name to be registered. This…
Posted: March 18th, 2010 Read More →
Recent domain name news from the last week: Nominet consults on short .uk domain names Nominet has announced a three-month consultation to decide how it should release one-letter, two-letter and single-number domains for registration. The organisation, which owns the national registry for all .uk domain names ending .co.uk, .org.uk and .me.uk, is currently unable to offer the short domains owing to the rules…
Posted: March 11th, 2010 Read More →
Recent domain name news from the last week: UK domain gets DNS Security Protocol protection Internet registry Nominet has begun introducing DNS Security Extensions, or DNSSEC, a security protocol that should help protect the UK's domain-name system from malicious misdirections. On Monday, the company began applying the protocol to the top-level .uk domain. DNSSEC, also known as encrypted DNS, uses digital signatures to…
Posted: March 4th, 2010 Read More →
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