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After many years without ICANN specific fees, domain owners will now have to pony up an additional 75-cents per year for each .net domain they own. Many are worried that ICANN will up the fee in the future and that other domains, specifically the popular .com, will become fee targets in the future. [...] Continue reading
A new domain name fee proposed by ICANN will require .net owners to pay an additional 75-cent annual fee next year. The fee is expected to go to projects that the organization deems to have merit. While no other fees have been announced, it’s expected that other TLDs will soon have ICANN annual fees attached [...] Continue reading
ICANN announced a unanimous vote to begin discussions for several new TLDs. Several companies have submitted applications (at a cost of $45,000 per application) to operate new TLD Registries. Preliminary approval was given to the .post and .travel TLDs. Other TLD applications include .cat, .xxx, and .mail. These would be the first new TLDs since [...] Continue reading
VeriSign reported this week that domain name registrations are at an all time high with 64.5 million names registered. The number of registrations represents a 7% increase over last year. The report shows that while .com’s are still the top TLD, ccTLDs come in second, taking 39% of the domain market. [...] Continue reading
After their case against ICANN was dismissed in a federal district court, VeriSign is now taking their case to the California Superior court. The case against ICANN faults the organization for banning VeriSign’s new SiteFinder service through their Network Solutions division. [...] Continue reading
A federal judge dismissed VeriSign’s case against ICANN, which alleged that ICANN’s ban on VeriSign’s SiteFinder service a violation of U.S. antitrust law. The SiteFinder service redirects invalid .com’s to VeriSign’s specially designed page. [...] Continue reading
ICANN announced that it’s ready to start assigning domains and IP addresses using the newest version of Internet Protocol. The organization, which is in charge of allocating IP addresses, says that the newest version of Internet Protocol has been added to the Internet’s DNS root severs. [...] Continue reading
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