Category Archives: domain name

VeriSign DNIB – Internet Bulging With Over 225 Million Domain Names

As per the latest Domain Name Industry Brief (DNIB) published by VeriSign, 5.9 million domain names were added in the last quarter of 2011, pushing the total worldwide count across all domains to over 225 million. The 5.9 million names … Continue reading →

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ICANN Finalizes Draft on New WHOIS Policy

ICANN, Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers has finalized its draft on the new whois policy that will reduce inaccurate whois registration up to 50% in just 12 months. ICANN is very committed in their responsibilities in making the internet … Continue reading →

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Nominet Overhauls Its Procedures

  Nominet, a popular registrar of .co.uk domain names, recently outlined a comprehensive set of changes to its services, which it will implement beginning in May of 2012. The biggest change is that a single-year registration of a .uk domain … Continue reading →

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Domain Registrars Protest SOPA/PIPA

On January 18, 2012, several websites, including domain name sites, went dark to protest the proposed legislation restricting the use of copyrighted material on the internet. This legislation, in the form of two linked bills, the Stop Online Piracy Act … Continue reading →

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DOMAINfest Global Fantasy Domaining Contest

Each year, Oversee.net hosts an event in Los Angeles called DOMAINfest Global. It has expanded through the years to include just about anyone who has an interest or investment in domain names and “domaining”, and in 2012 the event will … Continue reading →

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German Company Sues Facebook Over Page Name

Domain name squabbles aren’t just restricted to .coms, it seems. A German pharmaceutical company doing business as Merck evidently entered into an agreement with Facebook in March of last year to hold rights to the page at www.facebook.com/merck. However, the … Continue reading →

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.xxx for Colleges

.xxx became available to trademark owners on September 7, 2011, and will become widely available to general domain name buyers on December 6th. In the meantime, an unlikely group of buyers has been snapping up the domain names ending in … Continue reading →

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Should You Worry About UDRP?

The Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution Policy (UDRP) is a policy established by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to put some order to disputes between people who have purchased certain domain names and people who want the rights to those … Continue reading →

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What’s in a CNAME?

As described in RFC 1034 and detailed in RFC 1035 back in 1987, a CNAME, or Canonical Name, DNS resource record is an alias for a host.  By example, let’s take a look at a fictitious host (sigma) in a … Continue reading →

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Website Speed and Its Relevance in Google Rankings

One particular aspect not to be overlooked by web developers is to make sure that the website loads fast. It is a common problem for eCommerce sites such as those developed using the Magento framework. I recently worked with a Magento web … Continue reading →

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