Give Domain Registration Information a Second Though
| by Lee Hodgson | August 13, 2003 |
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Enter Honest and Complete Registration Information
WHOIS data is very poorly protected by privacy laws, and is in fact available for any company to buy for $10,000 or less. So many people are tempted to enter bogus registration information to avoid getting spammed. |
Domain Goldrush Part 6 - Snap-Back To The Future?
| by Lee Hodgson | August 12, 2003 | |
Verisign Inc. have announced the details of a new system that will completely change the way deleting domain names are re-registered. Although the proposal has still to be commented on by the "Registrar Constituency", chances are that by March 20th, we'll all use this new system if we want to register expiring domain names.
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Help! I've Lost My Domain Name!
| by Lee Hodgson | August 12, 2003 | |
Imagine this: you wake up one morning to find your web site has disappeared, your e-mail has stopped working and a person you've never heard of is listed as the owner of your domain name. Such a Kafkaesque loss of digital identity is actually surprisingly common. |
Domain Goldrush Part 7 - WLS Gets ICANN Approval
| by Lee Hodgson | August 12, 2003 |
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After a long delay, ICANN recently approved the introduction of VeriSign's "Wait Listing Service" (WLS). For those of you not familiar with WLS, it is a registry-level first-come first-served subscription service for the automatic registration of deleted domain names.
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.US Domain Name: Born in the USA
| by Lee Hodgson | August 12, 2003 |
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Quiz question - what is the domain name for the United States, is it .com perhaps? You would be forgiven for thinking so, since practically all US-based commercial web sites use the .com domain. |
Domain Goldrush Part 3 - Wild Wild West
| by Lee Hodgson | August 12, 2003 | |
The expiring domains goldrush, previously described in Part 1 of this series, is over - at least as far as the average domain speculator is concerned. As recently as six months ago anyone with a PC, a browser, and a good idea of when a hot domain name was going to expire, had a good chance of grabbing it, and often they'd make a small fortune in the process. |
Benefits of Free Paid Domain Parking
| by Lee Hodgson | August 12, 2003 | |
Want to get paid to park your spare domains? Fancy knowing in real-time how many visitors these names receive? If you have answered yes to either of these questions, you should consider setting up your names with a domain parking service. |
.Biz Has Launched!
| by Lee Hodgson | August 12, 2003 | |
After a variety of delays, the .biz domain name goes "live" today. From 00:00:01 EST November 7th, .biz names can be registered in real-time at domain registration sites across the Net. |
Domain Goldrush Part 5 - Mother of All Drops
| by Lee Hodgson | August 12, 2003 | |
As fast as Verisign Inc., the corporation that controls the .com shared registry, put the brakes on the expiring domains industry, it has taken them off again. They have announced a short-term technical solution which will allow for the immediate resumption of batch domain releases.
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Domain Goldrush Part 4 - Expiring Domains Industry on Hold
| by Lee Hodgson | August 12, 2003 | |
On the 10th August 2001, Verisign Inc., the company responsible for running the .com shared registry system, dropped a massive bomb-shell. They announced the immediate suspension of the "batch" release of deleted domain names. In one swift action, they put the entire expiring domains industry on hold until further notice. |
