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 Brief, March 2008 can be downloaded here.
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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”) is equivalent to xn--m1adged4c3a in ASCII.
Start your Internationalized Domain Name Search with GoDaddy:
https://www.godaddy.com/gdshop/registrar/idn.asp
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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 customers from real domain frontrunners.
In a statement sent to CircleID, Network Solutions VP of Policy Jonathon Nevett described the new policy as a “security measure” meant to protect customers. He acknowledged that the company does, indeed, put a hold on the domain name after a search is performed and reserves it for four days, but that if a customer searches for the same domain within that time at networksolutions.com, it will be available to register. After the four days is up, the domain is released.
“This protection measure provides our customers the opportunity to register domains they have previously searched without the fear that the name will be already taken through Front Running,” Nevett wrote. “Some folks may not agree with our approach, but we are trying to prevent this malicious activity from impacting our customers.”
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