Internet.bs Corp creates special pharmacy policy for domain registrations Recently offshore domain registrar Internet.BS was called out by KnujOn as one of the registrars that “see no evil” when it comes to supporting online pharmacies and according to KnujOn’s report (PDF) does not enforce the ICANN rules for invalid whois. Following the release of the ...
How should registries price their new domain registrations? We’ve seen many new top level domains (and some commercialized country code domains) hit the market over the past decade. They’ve taken various pricing strategies — from sell-if-for-a-low-price-to-boost-registrations to .com equivalent pricing to premium pricing. We’ve even seen variable annual pricing on premium domains. How should you ...
Online is a commonly registered keyword — and most commonly sold. If you’re looking to hand register domain names and list them for sale, here’s some simple advice: take a popular term and add “online” to it. “Online” is consistently one of (if not the) most common words used in domain names. VeriSign’s updated DomainView ...
A. The advice you’ll often get goes something like “pick a domain-name registrar, then pick your host” based on developer-centric technical considerations like server and bandwidth quotas. Those are good criteria if you’re launching your own Web company, but for personal blogging they represent way too much work. Domain names, for the uninitiated, are the ...
I was saddened to learn about the death of Whitney Houston. I think her performance of the national anthem before Super Bowl XXV was probably one of the best renditions in recent memory. Unfortunately, it’s being reported that many people have taken to hand registering Whitney Houston related domain names. Although some might become memorial ...
A number of organizations track the .com domain registrations by simply reading the Verisign daily zone file, a methodology that underestimates the current count. According to DomainTools, their research shows that the .com count is already well past 100 million. Seattle, Washington (PRWEB) January 26, 2012 DomainTools, the recognized leader in domain name research and ...
Australian domain names (using ‘.au’) contributed $474.7 million to the economy last financial year, according to a new report from Deloitte Access Economics. Deloitte’s probe found that 60,000 new domain names are being registered each month, compared to just 6,552 back in December 2002. The sector employs 4,330 people in full-time work, and pays out ...
Verisign‘s (NASDAQ:VRSN) primary business is .com and .net domain registrations for which it acts as the exclusive domain registrar. It competes primarily with domain name registry providers such as NeuStar, Employ Media, and Afilias to win new and maintain existing registry rights. Verisign’s stock was up slightly in the last couple of weeks as the ...