Sedo and .ME Registry Partner to Auction Previously Unreleased Premium .me Domain Names

Sedo, the leading online domain marketplace and monetization provider, today announced an exclusive auction of premium .ME domain names. The .ME top level domain has become a primary alternative to .com domain names, and a distinctive way to promote your business or build your online brand.

Demand for new domain names 'strong'

Demand for new internet domain name suffixes is very strong, says one of the companies handling a flood of requests from firms eager for a change.

100 MEEELLION .com domains now registered

Ready for those new gTLDs yet? There are now over 100 million .com domain names on the internet.…

Domain names: Internet takes big step toward end of .com era

The group that regulates domain names is now accepting applications for new Internet suffixes beyond .com and its cousins. The new domain names could be operational by the end of 2012. 

Website domain names in Canada to go officially bilingual

Domain names in Canada will soon go bilingual. The Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) is preparing for the addition of accents that would allow operators of French-language websites to be able to direct Internet users to their .ca domain names in proper French. For example, the website for Quebec City would be accessible from both ...

Africa: Internet - Region in the Threshhold of New Domain Names

Leadership (Abuja)-The age of the Internet is here with us as the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the regulator of the internet, opened the floodgate that would allow for hundreds to thousands of new domain names to be registered thereby empowering emerging economies from Africa to Asia and Latin America to have their own domain names.

Saving face: OU buying .xxx domain names

In an effort to protect its online reputation and trademarks, OU administrators have begun to purchase .xxx domain names that would otherwise be open to companies and individuals involved in the adult entertainment industry. These new domain names became available in March, after the not-for-profit corporation Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers authorized their sale solely by a ...

Eight Clever Things You Can Do with Your Underused Personal Domain Name [Domain Names]

# domainnames You've registered a personal domain name because you thought you'd create a web site and never did. Or maybe you're just hosting a custom email address and you wish you were doing more. There are plenty of clever ways you can use your custom domain name to promote yourself, provide yourself with quick information, or just do something cool. Here are our favorites. More »

ICANN to start accepting applications for new web domain names

The fee to apply for a top-level domain name starts at $185,000. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN, will begin accepting applications for new generic top-level domain names tomorrow.

Wayne man makes killing on domain name

Sometimes risks pay off. For Glen DiGirolamo of Wayne, it paid $250,000.The story behind DiGirolamo's recent quarter-million-dollar windfall is a window into the weird, arcane and occasionally profitable world of Internet domain names. It began with a bad loan to a billiards player.