Domain Name Blog

According to the post on the official Public Interest Registry blog, PIR has sent a joint letter with Non-Commercial Users Constituency to ICANN with a plea to consider the end-users’ interests to implement Internationalized Domain Names (IDN). It means that if the proposal is eventually filed and it gets accepted we will have a possibility [...]

Just a couple of days after the .ORG 7 million milestone, Nominet has announced that UK domain name has reached the 7 million registrations mark, too. Congratulations!
Michelle Taylor, the owner of Toots Driving School in London, who registered the 7 millionth domain name tootsdrivingschool.co.uk, explained that she

I still got a feeling that some webmasters spend too much time submitting their sites to endless free web directories. In order to perform any task, you need to set a goal. If your goal is to gain PR, you will not submit links to PR n/a or PR0 directories. If you want to get [...]

For the past few months the webmaster community (at least a part of it) is buzzing with the new Microsoft BrowseRank concept. It is a new (well not than new) page importance ranking principle set to outsmart Google PageRank. Despite all the uneducated criticism people address to Microsoft, I will say that BrowseRank can prove [...]

Another anniversary! .ORG Domain just reached 7,000,000 registrations maintaining its status as the third most popular international top level domain.

I just had a pleasant opportunity to interview Justin Hayward, Communications Director of Telnic Limited – the Registry Operator and Sponsoring Organization for the new .TEL domains. For starters I would suggest you read this post to learn what is .TEL domain. If you already have, let’s crack on!
3APP: I have already heard [...]

The volume of the domain zone of China continues to increase. It was revealed by CNNIC that during the 2nd quarter of 2008 the Chinese domain .CN has added to the number of registered domain names by 18%. CN is the fastest growing internet zone in the world to date. With 12,264,615 registrations it has [...]

Limited IDN (international domain names) applications available in Argentina. From Monday September 8th 2008 and until December 16th inclusive the registration will be allowed for domain names with international characters like Ñ, accents and even Portuguese characters.

How would you like to own and run a multi-functional web-site without knowing a thing about coding and design? Soon it will be possible.
The idea behind .TEL domain name is to create a single publishing hub for different channels of communication, providing a new kind of contacts directory service. All types of contact information [...]

Do you like testing new things? I mean testing like program testing not wine tasting. It is different. A new testing community has opened its services. It is called uTest and if you sign up as a tester, you will actually get paid for your services.