UK domainers start up industry association
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Ready to launch at first UK domain channel conference A new association representing UK domain name resellers is due to be launched this Friday.â¦
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The number of domain name registrations worldwide reached 138 million midway through 2007, a 31 percent increase from a year earlier, according to the company that operates much of the Internet's core address directories.
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A controversial practice enables some domain name registrars to make short-term gains from registering domains that others might want. Now Google -- the vehicle for their revenue -- says it wants to do something about that.
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Domain registrars are getting ready for what they hope is a high-demand, frantic "landrush" of domain registrations, beginning today as .asia moves toward becoming the Internet's second regional top-level domain.
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The irony that during the Search Engine Strategies Show, which is sponsored by Search Engine Watch and hosted by Danny Sullivan, that Mr. Sullivan uses the opportunity to spin off his own new Search Engine Land blog and new conference Search Engine Expo, is amazing. Although I have not heard Danny officially discuss his new ventures [...]
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Internet addresses ending in ".asia" will be open to governments and trademark owners starting in October, with general registrations to begin next February.
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The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers is meeting this week to address critical issues like new generic top level domains, internationalized domain names, and other subjects.
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The internet could soon have two new domain names, aimed at mobile services and the jobs market.
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Network Solutions is standing by its controversial policy of automatically registering some domain names that are the subject of searches on the company&#39;s Web site.After testing the concept in December, the domain name registration company quietly began doing this over the past weekend. Potential customers who used the company&#39;s &quot;Find a domain&quot; search engine would suddenly find the domain names they had been searching for were registered to Network Solutions itself, making them temporarily unable to purchase the domain from another provider.Industry watchers were quick to blast the new policy, saying that it either forced searchers to become Network Solutions customers, or exposed their ideas to scammers, who would be able to snatch up the domains the second they were released. &quot;It is a deplorable action that Network Solutions would announce potential domain names to the entire world,&quot; wrote Jay Westerdal, on the DomainTools blog.If cutting down on domain name scamming was the goal, &quot;someone should be fired over the implementation,&quot; wrote Andrew Allemann, a blogger with Domain Name Wire .On Wednesday, Network Solutions CEO Champ Mitchell said that his company planned to change the site&#39;s design to ensure that users are notified of this policy. The company is also looking into adding a feature that would make give users the option of keeping their searches un-registered, although that would require cooperation from domain name registries, he said.Ironically, Mitchell said that Network Solutions came up with the search registration process in an effort to cut down on the scamming that has plagued the industry over the past two years. &quot;We are not trying to make a bunch of money off of this,&quot; he said.By registering the domains immediately, Network Solutions is keeping them out of the hands of scammers who take advantage of a loophole in the way names are registered. It has become increasingly common for scammers to register large number of domains for a short period of time and then to keep the ones that generate Web traffic, a practice called domain tasting. Because a domain can be held without charge for up to five days, this practice costs the scammer almost nothing, but it can be lucrative.In another practice, called front running, scammers have found ways -- some of them illegal -- to keep track of domain name searches and then hold onto those domains themselves, hoping to sell them to the people doing the searching.Some critics have said that Network Solutions&#39; new practice amounts to front running, but Mitchell disagrees, saying the point of the system is to protect customers from the front-runners.His company has developed an algorithm, designed to identify legitimate domain name searches and then automatically register the domain names being searched for on behalf of Network Solutions. These domains are held with a Web-page notice saying that they are available for sale for a four-day period. This gives the Network Solutions customer a window of opportunity to purchase the domain before it snatched up by a scammer, Mitchell aid.Mitchell added that if ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), the organization that oversees the domain name system, would move to cut down on these type of scams, then his company wouldn&#39;t have to engage in this kind of automatic search registration. &quot;We would be perfectly happy to end this process if ICANN or the registries would do something to protect small businesses or other small users,&quot; he said.A $0.25 non-refundable domain name registration fee would probably be enough to make domain tasting or front running unprofitable, he added.
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A proposal by the overseer of the Internet&#39;s addressing system could make it a lot easier for people to reserve the domain name they want for their Web site.
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Written by Net 4 Nowt The Internet Services Providersâ Association (ISPA UK) is highlighting significant fears for its smaller members and broadband Britain following price rises introduced by BT to their IPStream products in order to comply with an
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Stuart Herbert has posted about an opening with the company he works for in the UK that's looking for developers/managers/etc to help fill out their new expansion:   We're expanding the team in our Cardiff city-centre office (right in the heart of Europe's youngest capital city). We're looking for exceptional people with a proven track record in designing, delivering, and managing web-based solutions to large organisations. If you're a project manager, software developer, web site designer with XSL experience, or a systems administrator, maybe we have the right opportunity for your next role.   You can get all of the details about the company from from their website.
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Cosmos Nicolaou said Froogle&#39;s UK intro is part of the company&#39;s plan to actively pursue overseas expansion. &quot;As Google continues to explore opportunities to bring more of the world&#39;s information
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iCrossing announced today that they will be acquiring Spannerworks, a UK based search engine marketing firm, for $18 million.  Spannerworks is a 10 year old SEM company and is quite popular in the UK.  I was talking with an SEO from the UK last month and they were telling me how the agency landscape was [...]
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Today is the day that designated domain name registrars have been given the green light to open up the application process for new .mobi top-level domain Web addresses to anyone seeking to establish a name in the burgeoning mobile Web space.
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Telecoms standards group seeks developers
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The user-gen site is opening up its âpartner program,â giving all users in the U.S. and Canada the chance to compete for tapping the revenue from its overlay system.