After a long time, Namecheap has announced that its API is now available to anyone interested. NameCheap API makes it possible to write your own application to manage your domains or integrate domain registration with your billing solutions like Modernbill or Ubersmith.
They also have a separate testing environment which you can use to test your […]
The March 2008 Domain Name Industry Brief released by VeriSign reports that “the Domain Name Industry closed 2007 with more than 153 million domain name registrations worldwide across all of the Top-Level Domain Names (TLDs), an increase of nearly 33 million domain name registrations since the close of 2006.”
PDF copy of the Domain Name Industry […]
GoDaddy now allows IDN registration:
Looking for a domain name expressed in a foreign language? With GoDaddy’s Internationalized Domain Name search capabilities, you can register .COM and .NET domain names in over 100 native languages (non-ASCII characters) such as Chinese, Japanese and Arabic or in standard ASCII character format. For example: ??????? (Russian word for “desert”) […]
Domain registrar Network Solutions has come under fire this week for what some believe is “domain name frontrunning.”
Network Solutions has been heavily criticized for its new policy that automatically registers domains to itself once a user searches for it. The company has now responded, saying that the policy is a “security measure” meant to protect […]