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Today:  Who owns your first name in .COM? / What Content Strategy To Follow For Getting Organic Traffic? / New logo for my domain business. Any ideas? / And more. Here are the new discussions and domain news that caught my eye today: Copyrights.site – Do you think that new gTLD’s like this one hold any [...] Continue reading →

Humanity continues to find itself at a crossroads. Ahead of us lies an uncertain future filled with predictions of imminent doom and ominous prospects along with the wonders of science and technology. Behind us lies a century marked paradoxically by both devastating global conflicts and unparalleled global collaboration. As societies continue to globalize, we are [...] Continue reading →

Commercial Connect’s lawsuit against ICANN appears to be on its way out, as ICANN claims the .shop applicant has “abandoned” the case. The company sued ICANN in January in an attempt to prevent .shop gTLD being sold off via an ICANN last-resort auction. It failed, and the auction raised a $41 million winning bid from [...] Continue reading →

While new gTLD registries Rightside and Minds + Machines have faced board-room challenges by activist investors in recent months, it seems industry heavyweight Verisign is contended with a similar problem. John Chevedden, once described as an “economy class” activist due to his relatively small stakes, is attempting to give smaller Verisign shareholders the ability to [...] Continue reading →

Company warns Q4 might see a drop, says more IDNs on the way. Verisign held its quarterly investor call yesterday after announcing another quarter of better-than-usual results. The company added 2.65 million net additions in .com and .net, above its predicted 1.5 to 2.0 million net adds. After predicting normalization of registration numbers from [...] Continue reading →

Group that operates .CN will assist Verisign with identity verification of .com and .net registrants. Verisign has signed an agreement with China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) for real name verification. Back in December, I wrote about how the Chinese government was going to begin enforcing real name verification on registrants of .com and .net [...] Continue reading →