Domain Names

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...

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" relea...

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 techni...

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....

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 you...

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, ...

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....

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 subscrip...

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 Kafk...

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 "Regist...