Industry News

• Domain Name Prices to Rise Red Herring (March 1, 2006)

• How Click Fraud Could Swallow the Internet
  Pay-per-click advertising is big, big, big business. So are bogus hits on Internet ads. It's search giants against scam artists in an arms race that could crash the entire online economy.
  By Charles C. Mann, Wired (January 2006)

• Wanna Buy A Vowel? Forbes (December 1, 2005)

• Masters of their Domains
  Forget condos and strip malls. Domain names, the real estate of the Web, have been delivering far greater returns. How some of the savviest speculators on the Net are making millions from their URL portfolios.
  By Paul Sloan, Business 2.0 (December 1, 2005)

• Firm wants to rid Net of suffixes Yahoo! (November 25, 2005)

• US to keep control of domain names Yahoo! (November 16, 2005)

• Thanks to Web Ads, Some Find New Money in Domain Names by David Kesmodel Wall Street Journal (November 1, 2005)

• .eu Investment Fund Launched DomainMart (October, 10, 2005)

• ICANN Delays .XXX Again DomainMart (September 15, 2005)

• .cat Approved (September 15, 2005)

• Domain Report VeriSign (August 2005)

• The Domain Name Industry Brief VeriSign (August 2005)

• .mobi Domain Suffix Approved (July 12, 2005)

• Report of the Working Group on Internet Governance UN's WGIG (June 2005)

• New .xxx domain will be reserved for porn Computerland (June 1, 2005)

• WIPO publishes case book of domain name decisions WIPO (April 2005)

• Domain Owners Lose Privacy Wired (March 4, 2005)

• Registrars End Effort to Block WLS Service eWeek (February 11, 2005)

• Experts: International domain names may pose threat Computer World (February 8, 2005)

• Google becomes domain name registrar The Register (February 1, 2005)

• Domain-Name Inheritance Planning Launched DomainMart (January 3, 2005)

• VeriSign Issues Quarterly Domain Name Industry Brief; Overall Domain Name Registration Tops Past Record at 66.3M VeriSign (December 1, 2004)

• ICANN Registrar Announces Pre-Registrations for .PW Spam-Free Email and Domain Names Yahoo! (December 1, 2004)

• Domain names in Arabic on way Gulf News (November 28, 2004)

• Third-level Domain Name Hijacking DomainMart (November 26, 2004)

• Hotmail Fights Fraud and Gmail with New Domains E-commerce Times (November 19, 2004)

• ICANN Domain Name Transfer Policy Becomes Effective Worldwide Today Yahoo! (November 11, 2004)

• Growth of Web Use in China Slows Wall Street Journal (July 20, 2004)

• CreditCards.com Domain Name Purchased for $2.75 Million Marketwire (July 20, 2004)

• Generic Top Level Domain Names: Market Development and Allocation Issues OECD (July 13, 2004)

• WLS is Anti-consumer, Anti-efficiency, Anti-shareholders DomainMart (March 23, 2004)

• .mobi: A Location-sensitive, Numeric Domain Names Bonanza DomainMart (March 23, 2004)

• Who should govern the Net? CNET (March 18, 2004)
  

• .CN domain name registration outnumbers .COM registration in China during 2003 Interfax (March 9, 2004)

• New Regime for Registration of .FR Domain Names Demys (March 2, 2004)

• VeriSign Seeks To Overhaul Oversight Board Forbes (March 1, 2004)
  

• Google’s Number of Search Results Can Undervalue Domain Names DomainMart (February 28, 2004)

• Google Is Not Best DomainMart (February 28, 2004)

• Man sentenced for registering Web names that tricked children into visiting porn sites San Francisco Chronicle (February 26, 2004)

• Dot-com Is King with No “Adult Effect”! DomainMart (January 14, 2004)

• .eu domain name goes live in November - The Register (January 7, 2004)

• Domain names once again fetch top dolla - CNN (December 25, 2003)

• Large-Scale Registration of Domains with Typographical Errors Benjamin Edelman, Harvard Law School (September 3, 2003)

• Domain Renewal Scams Jump - PCWorld (July 7, 2003)

• Feds Nab Internet Domain Names in Raids - Associated Press (Mar 5, 2003)

• Supreme Court curbs trademarks' reach - CNET.com (Mar 4, 2003)

• Warning over net sales tactics - BBC (Feb. 25, 2003)

• Method of Resolution in Domain Name Case Not True Arbitration - Law.com/Yahoo! Finance (Feb. 21, 2003)

• Battle for the heart of the net - BBC (Feb. 15, 2003)

• Domain Re-Registration Activates Cybersquatting Law - Law.com/Yahoo! Finance (Feb. 12, 2003)

• Commerce Dept Expands '.edu' Internet Domain - Reuters (Feb. 11, 2003)

• The Case of the Mysterious .gov Site - PC World/Yahoo! News (Feb. 10, 2003)

• Who Should Run the Internet? - osOpinion (Feb. 6, 2003)

• Domain name selling tactics - NetImperative (Nov. 19, 2002)

• Latin America Starts Internet Registry - Associated Press (Oct. 30, 2002)

• ICANN critics may create rival Internet administration group  -  Computerworld  (Oct. 29, 2002)

• Domain name scams hit the NHS vnunet (October 24, 2002)

• Assault on Net servers fails - News.com (October 23, 2002)

• Internet Society wins control of ".org" domain - CNN (October 15, 2002)

• Fight for Control Over Web Names - ABCNews.com (Aug. 13, 2002)

• Abortioniscybersquatting.com - Wired News (July 19, 2002)

• ICANN Timeline - Associated Press (Jun 16, 2002)

• To Dot-Sex, or Not To! DomainMart

• They've given you a number, and taken away your name - ICANNWatch (May 14, 2002)

• RealNames' final keyword: Gone - C|NET/Yahoo! News (May 13, 2002)

• Porn sites take over domains - news.com.au (May 7, 2002)

• Cybersquatters claim victory in domain battle - ZDNet/Yahoo! News (Apr 30, 2002)

• Verisign accused of DNS slamming - The Register (Mar 26, 2002)

• Elephant's 'E' Irks G.O.P. - NY Times (registration req'd) (Feb 16, 2002)

• Web site goes from religious to racy - Indianapolis Star (Jan 29, 2002)

• EFF Wants VeriSign Held Responsible In Sex.com Case - NewsBytes (Jan 24, 2002)

• Domain Idea Sparks Spat - Wired News (Jan 21, 2002)

• Dot-Biz Is Finally in Business - Wired News (Nov 7, 2001)

• The Tiniest Dots on the Web - Wired News (Nov 5, 2001)

• U.S. Shuts Down 5,500 Web Sites in Cyberscam - NewsFactor Network (Oct 2, 2001)

• Will the Internet's address system be used to collect taxes? - The Economist (Sep 20, 2001)
  

• Huge damage award in Sex.com case - MSNBC (April 4, 2001)
  
  
• Domain Name Politics Beats Economics Rationality - DomainMart (March 28, 2001)
  
  
• Nix the ICANN-VeriSign Deal - DomainMart (March 20, 2001)
  
  
• Show Me You're First! - DomainMart (March 19, 2001)
  
  
• XXX Domains May Be Hard Sell - Wired News (March 6, 2001)
  
  
• Sex.com's sordid story - CNNfn (Mar 6, 2001)
  
  
• Gutsy New Web Extensions Could Be Very Lucrative! - DomainMart (March 5, 2001)
  
  
• What's Dot and What's Not: Domain Name Registration Scams - FTC Consumer Alert
  
  
• Modify ISP Info; Not The Registrar - DomainMart

• Demographic dotcoms dividing, but not conquering - Upside

• What To Do With Domain Disputes? - Wired News (Nov 13, 2000)

• ICANN's Net Obligation - Online Journalism Review (Dec 13, 2000)

• Not Just Silly, but Also Useless - NY Times (registration Required)

• Hijacking on the Infobahn (Time.com, 3/4)
• Porn site Whitehouse.com threatens Netscape, may sue (Cnet, November 25, 1998)
• Master of Celebrity Domains (ABCnews.com)
• Who Owns Hate on the Net? - The trademarked name of a respected online watchdog organization, HateWatch, is at the crux of a heated dispute between two Web sites with similar Net addresses, nearly identical front-page graphics, and very different outlooks. (Wired, June 5, 1998)
• Government Parasites "Stealth" Web pages feed off addresses (SF Chronicle, June 3, 1998)
• .The Trouble with Tiny Domains (Wired, May 11, 1998)
• Handsome Returns on Sex Scandal Domain Names (morevalue.com)
• Clinton Scandal Domain Names Grabbed (techweb, January 26, 1998)
• The Real Dot Com (Excite.com)
• Net Addresses Sold Like Real Estate Cybersquatters stake claim on famous names, seek sale (SF Chronicle, May 6, 1997)
• Change Your Web Site Address to Your Phone Number (PC World, April 18, 1997)
• I got here first (Forbes, December 16, 1996)

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Legal: Intellectual Property, Trademarks, etc

• Large-Scale Registration of Domains with Typographical Errors Benjamin Edelman, Harvard Law School (September 3, 2003)

• Lawyer Tells Sex Sites How to Stay Legal (NY Times, June 26, 1998)

• Who Owns Hate on the Net? - The trademarked name of a respected online watchdog organization, HateWatch, is at the crux of a heated dispute between two Web sites with similar Net addresses, nearly identical front-page graphics, and very different outlooks. (Wired, June 5, 1998)

• The Domain Name Currently Called Prince (techweb, July 31, 1997)

• What's In A Name? (law.georgetown.edu)

• INT Top Level Domain Name Registration Services

• Common Law Trademark (TM) Search & Registration

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