Domain names, the Internet's 'real estate', have continued to grow in popularity and users are now buying and selling the names at more than 10% profit (traditional real estate approximations are 6%). Now, innovative domain name brokerage services are popping up online serving as virtual lots for domain owner's to sell their names. [...] Continue reading →

Procter & Gamble, who owns more than 100 domains related to its brands, unveiled a new site dedicated to their pampers brand at TotalBabyCare.com. This is the first from P&G, the company who registered the majority of their names for free before InterNIC began charging for registrations. [...] Continue reading →

The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) announced today that they plan to modify their recently announced plan to create new top-level domains (TLDs) as a way to alleviate over-crowding of .com domain registrations. [...] Continue reading →

CMG Worldwide sued Marilyn Monroe Western Limited for trademark infringement using the domain marilynmonroe.com, which Western Limited uses to sell photos of the late Monroe. [...] Continue reading →

Network Solutions, the company in charge of domain name registrations by way of a government contract, announced today that it considering an initial public offering. [...] Continue reading →

In a recent court battle, the judge sided with American Standard and ruled that the company take the domain americanstandard.com. The name had been registered by Dennis Toppen for $100, but the company saw the move as trademark infringement. In addition to americanstandard.com, Toppen also registered aircanada.com, allsteel.com, deltaairlines.com, eddiebauer.com, and neiman-marcus.com. [...] Continue reading →

A new proposal by InterNIC calls for up to 50 new TLDs (e.g. .inc) to be created. The proposal comes on the heels of announcements by alternative companies that they will sell alternative TLDs such as .biz. While alternative companies are selling additional TLDs, InterNIC controls the most popular, .com and .net. [...] Continue reading →