« Market Lodge Promises new Revenues for Domain Name Owners »

Another new player in the domain industry is Market Lodge (http://www.themarketlodge.com/)™. With much talk about creating content for your domain portfolios, MarketLodge is a totally free service that empowers domain owners to create personalized, e-commerce market places in less than three minutes. With more than 11,000 products from vendors across North America it is possible to create niche market places on almost any imaginable topic...

« New private AQDN.com Marketplace offers affordable Quality Domain Names »

We like to inform you when new domain industry websites pop up that may have valuable content for our readers. One such website is newly launched AQDN.com (http://aqdn.com/). AQDN is a private marketplace for affordable quality domain names, striving to provide web developers, domainers, businesses and individuals quality domain names at very reasonable prices. Their FAQ page (http://aqdn.com/faq/) contains additional information about the AQDN website. Source: DomainNews.com on October 10th, 2008 - Posted by Roland G. Buck - Chief Editor

« Funny DomainDollarStore Domain Name Video »

On a funny note. We came accross a funny video we thought you may enjoy... Are all the good domains taken? 7FZ1M_UmQes Source: DomainDollarStore Video (http://www.domainnamedollarstore.com/) - Posted by Roland G. Buck - Chief Editor - October 10th, 2008

« Video Interview with Seth Coman Announcing the Domainer Mardi Gras Conference »

We had the opportunity to sit down with Seth Coman, Director of Advertising Sales and Marketing for Modern Domainer Magazine (http://www.moderndomainer.com/) at the recent TRAFFIC East Conference in New York. We talked about the much anticipated Domainer Mardi Gras Conference (http://domainermardigras.com/) in New Orleans on February 19th - 21st, 2009. More details about Seth Coman can be found below... DomainNews.com Interview with Seth Coman

« New Policies Mean .info gTLD to be Safer »

Afilias have announced policy changes to make .info they hope will be an effective deterrence to abuses such as phishing and spam and make surfing the internet a safer experience. The new policies come into effect on 6 November.

« Bengali and Khmer Added to IDN Testing Process »

MARINA DEL REY, Calif.: The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers efforts to bring the languages of the world online have expanded with the addition of two new languages — Bengali and Khmer — to the global testing process. Each time we add a new language to the wiki, we open up the chance for more characters to be tested, and for more people to be involved and offer us input and ideas, said Tina Dam, Director of ICANN's Internationalized Domain Name Program Since we launched the wiki with 11 languages in October 2007, we have added six new languages. We will continue to add languages whenever language communities come forward that can support a wiki.

« Proposal To Sign the Root Zone Made Public »

A proposal (http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/dnssec-proposal-09oct08-en.pdf) [PDF, 276K] to sign the root zone file with Domain Name System Security Extensions, or DNSSEC, technology was released by ICANN today. DNSSEC provides a way for software to validate that Domain Name System (DNS) data have not been modified during Internet transit. This is done by incorporating public-private signature key pairs into the DNS hierarchy to form a chain of trust originating at the root zone. Importantly, DNSSEC is not a form of encryption. It is backward compatible with existing DNS, leaving records as they are – unencrypted. DNSSEC ensures record integrity through the use of digital signatures that attest to their authenticity.

« Looming IPv4 Shortage Addressed at EU Ministerial Conference »

The looming shortage of IPv4 addresses, and the need to start using IPv6 addresses, is a frequent topic these days, and it was addressed this week at an EU ministerial conference in Nice, France, a conference organised as part of the French presidency of the EU.

« ICANN Opens Washington DC Office Amid Accountability Concerns »

The opening of ICANN's Washington office is the focus of this article from NextGov. The office has been opened as a very deliberate attempt to engage in a practice of listening, dialogue and access, said ICANN Vice President Paul Levins. We have had a fly-in, fly-out relationship with this town and that's ... no way to maintain a relationship.

« US Govt Starts Moving on Net Security Hole »

Starting Thursday morning, the U.S. government is seeking comment on who should create and vouch for the internet's most crucial document -- the root zone file, reports Wired. The article notes that ICANN, VeriSign and the Commerce Department all have different answers to this long-standing, and geopolitically charged internet governance question.