Skip to: Content
Skip to: Site Navigation
Skip to: Search
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2009
| Subscribe to Newser's RSS feeds RSS | Follow Newser on Twitter Twitter

NEWS ABOUT: domain names

domain names stories: 19 news summaries

Web Addresses Will Gain International Flavor

Chinese, Arabic, Hebrew domains, among others, will have support by 2010: ICANN

Oct 26, 09 5:12 PM CDT
(Newser) - In the biggest change ever to the system, Web domains will soon be available in the native scripts of Chinese, Arabic, Hebrew, and other non-Latin-based languages. A proposal expected to be approved this week means “Internationalized Domain Names” could be up and running as soon as mid-2010. China and... More »

MORE ABOUT:
China • Internet • Thailand • globalization • domain names • Chinese • Arabic • Internet domains • ICANN • World Wide Web • web domain • Hebrew • communications

One Susan Boyle Cashes In on Another

US Boyle offers URL
for $25K after flood of visitors seeking singer

May 29, 09 10:41 AM CDT
(Newser) - Susan Boyle is selling susanboyle.com for $25,000. A possible purchaser? Singing sensation Susan Boyle. The Boyle who currently owns the site is an American painter who bears the same name as the British star, Mashable reports. The US Boyle has been getting a lot of visitors to her... More »

MORE ABOUT:
entertainment • music • domain names • singing • painter • website • singer • Susan Boyle

(Newser) - A Web company has profited off the George W. Bush Presidential Library to the tune of $35,000, the Dallas Morning News reports. The Internet firm that was contracted to develop the library’s website and had purchased www.GeorgeWBushLibrary.com in 2007 unknowingly let the domain license lapse,... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Internet • Dallas • domain names • presidential library • George W. Bush • Web development

Patch for Major Security Flaw
Is Ineffective

Widely distributed fix for Internet failing only slows the damage

Aug 9, 08 11:57 AM CDT
(Newser) - A fatal flaw in Internet security has a patch, but it’s a leaky one, the New York Times reports. Yesterday, a Russian scientist demonstrated an attack that secretly redirected web traffic. It took him just hours using standard equipment; before the patch, it would have taken seconds. Thieves... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Internet • domain names • identity theft • software • data theft • online crime • Dan Kaminsky

'Every Network Is at Risk' Thanks to Bug

Security expert says DNS flaw could cause Internet-wide chaos

Aug 7, 08 8:05 AM CDT
(Newser) - Security researcher Dan Kaminsky outlined what he calls the biggest Internet security hole since 1997 to a gathering of experts yesterday, and it's a lot worse than had been understood, Wired reports. “Every network is at risk,” Kaminsky said at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas. "... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Internet • domain names • Internet security • phishing • Internet domains • cybercrime • Dan Kaminsky

Domain Name Bug Worries Web Providers

Firms race to fix flaw in Internet's architecture before crooks find it

Jul 30, 08 9:33 AM CDT
(Newser) - ISPs worldwide are racing to patch a flaw in the design of the Internet that could allow criminals to steal personal and financial details of Web users by diverting them to fake sites. The flaw resides in the procedures of the Domain Name System, which translates URLs into numerical Internet... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Internet • Microsoft • domain names • Internet security • ISP • DNS • World Wide Web

 Brangelina Babies
 Off to Busy Start 

Domain names, photo shoots on the agenda for hot-ticket twins

Jul 14, 08 9:35 AM CDT
(Newser) - At just 2 days old, Knox Leon and Vivienne Marcheline are the world's most sought-after celebrity pair—and parents Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are in managing mode. Just Jared reports the Brangelina lawyers bought out all domains with the bambinos' names—and experts tell USA Today that a photo... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Angelina Jolie • Brad Pitt • twins • France • domain names • photograph • People Magazine • celebrity pregnancy • magazine industry • celebrity parents • Vivienne Marcheline Jolie-Pitt • Knox Leon Jolie-Pitt

Domain-Name Rule Change 'Brand Owner's Nightmare'

Firms must guard against squatters

Jul 1, 08 5:45 PM CDT
(Newser) - The decision of an internet oversight body to allow more domain names opens the playing field to cybersquatters—who register domain names in the hopes someone else will have to purchase them later, BusinessWeek reports. No more is it a matter of simply .com or .net: Squatters may now buy... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Internet • domain names • ICANN • World Wide Web • infringement • web domain

(AP) - The Internet's key oversight agency relaxed rules today to permit the introduction of hundreds, perhaps thousands, of new Internet domain names to join ".com," making the first sweeping changes in the network's 25-year-old addressing system. The panel, meeting in Paris, unanimously approved new guidelines to streamline review of... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Internet • domain names

Free Expression Comes to Domain Names

Policy would allow custom URLs for businesses, people

Jun 24, 08 4:25 PM CDT
(Newser) - Domain names may soon be open for anyone to create, providing companies and individuals with unprecedented freedom to carve out their own corner of the Net, the BBC reports. The Internet's biggest shakeup in decades "will allow groups, communities and business to express their identities online,” sad the... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Internet • domain names • Internet domains

 Pizza.com Name Sells for $2.6M 

1994 buyer (for 20 bucks) cashes in

Apr 4, 08 8:55 AM CDT
(Newser) - The domain name pizza.com sold at auction yesterday for $2.6 million, netting a tidy little profit for a Baltimore man who bought 14 years ago for $20, the Baltimore Sun reports. Seller Chris Clark held onto the name over the years, making sure to keep up with the... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Internet • domain names • website • pizza • web domain • pizza.com

Domain Snatchers Hit With Lawsuit

ICANN also named for allowing frontrunning practice

Feb 26, 08 12:10 PM CST
(Newser) - A class-action lawsuit filed yesterday targets a top purveyor of domain names and its alleged practice of “frontrunning,” Network World reports. Network Solutions essentially registers a domain name the second a customer searches for it, forcing the customer to pay the company’s above-market rate of $35 for... More »

MORE ABOUT:
domain names • lawsuit • ICANN • Network Solutions

Google Sours on
'Domain Tasters'

Cuts ad revenue for registrants tying up millions of domains 5 days at a time

Jan 26, 08 10:23 AM CST
(Newser) - Google aims to stop entrepreneurs from "domain name tasting," the AP reports. The practice exploits a 5-day grace period during which registrants can return a domain for a full refund; meantime, the buyer puts up ads and evaluates whether the site would bring in enough revenue to keep... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Google • online advertising • domain names • Internet domains • AdSense

Latest Domain Name Hack Disguises
Its Danger

Can secretly steer Windows users wrong

Dec 11, 07 8:48 PM CST
(Newser) - The misdirection of “open-recursive” DNS servers, which facilitate web-surfing by translating verbal domain names into numerical IP addresses, is the new, more covert face of cyber-criminality, and could explode into a new wave of phishing attacks, IDG News reports. Hackers can use these types of DNS servers to redirect... More »

MORE ABOUT:
domain names • phishing • Internet domains • cybercrime • DNS

Foreign Domain Names Coming to Net

After years of complaints, ICANN fast tracks non-Latin web addresses

Nov 15, 07 3:45 PM CST
(Newser) - Soon, Chinese domain names can at long last be in Chinese. Addressing one of international critics’ longest-standing complaints, ICANN, the independent non-profit that regulates the Internet, is putting internationalized domain names on the fast track, ZDNet reports. Studies are already underway on how to integrate domains with non-Latin characters into... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Internet • domain names • ICANN • Vint Cerf • Peter DengateThrush • URL

Insider Trading May Have
Net Variant

Agency investigates claims of shady profits from domain names

Oct 24, 07 1:39 PM CDT
(Newser) - Someone call Michael Milken: Insider trading trailblazers may have found a new perch online. ICANN is investigating a poaching practice it's calling “front running,” in which buyers with inside information grab desirable domain names before others can register them. Speculation on the shadowy URL snatchers runs to viruses... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Internet • insider trading • domain names • computer virus • Michael Milken • ICANN

NFL Team Yanks $275K Bid for Cowboys.com

Dallas claims it
intended to offer
just $275 for domain

Oct 23, 07 4:32 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Dallas Cowboys wanted the domain name Cowboys.com, but not that badly. The team had to withdraw a winning bid of $275,000 after realizing how much it had offered; the 'Boys claimed they intended to bid only $275 in a URL auction conducted by phone this month, ComputerWorld... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Dallas Cowboys • domain names • football • auction • bid

Is It a Top?

Domain name SEO.com sells for $5 million,
raising the specter of
a virtual real estate bubble

Jun 26, 07 7:01 AM CDT
(Newser) - WashingtonVC has purchased the domain name SEO.com (as in "search engine marketing") for $5 million for its portfolio company Web Targeted.  With a large percentage of Web traffic now coming from search engines, optimizing Web sites for visibility to them has become one of the hottest... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Web 2.0 • domain names • search engine marketing • web traffic

Web Mogul Controls $300 Million in URLs

Meet Kevin Ham, the Donald
Trump of virtual real estate

May 23, 07 6:05 AM CDT
(Newser) - Kevin Ham rules the shadowy Internet domain name market, having amassed an online real estate empire worth over $300 million, Business 2.0 reports. The doctor-turned-tech tycoon began buying and selling URLs in the nascent days of the web; today he trades hundreds of addresses a day, sometimes for as... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Internet • web surfing • computer programming • domain names • web • Kevin Ham • computer

19 Stories


from our news partners