Will the Public be Successful in Preventing the .XXX Web Domain?

A former employee of U.S Department of Justice located in Nashville, Tennessee is asking individuals to protest against the use of domains that will be used solely for the purpose to promote pornographic websites.

This will be approximately the 3^rd time that the idea for the establishment of .XXX domain has come about. If you have an opinion on this domain you will have until exactly May, 10th to express them before ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names & Numbers) will decide whether or not to allow the establishment of the domain. They are reviewing all input from a variety of sources to determine what the appropriate action would be when it comes to the .XXX domain extension.
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Only Time Can Tell

The way that we currently search the Internet will dramatically be changing in the near future. Non-Latin characters are scheduled to be introduced to the web in the next year, which will turn online use for millions of people into World War II.

The system that is used to translate network addresses from user-friendly names for locating resources on the Internet, the Domain Name System, is restricted to only using ASCII characters. This limitation is what first set standard for domain names that are acceptable. Countries that do not use the ASCII characters include Hangul, Arabic, Kanji, and Hiragana. The first implementations that are most likely expected to be made are the Russian, Chinese, and Arabic domains according to ICANN.

The Internet is like a brain, made up of many different parts that allow each section of to communicate with each other. Just like the many people from all over the world that communicate with each other via the web. The introduction of the non-Latin characters could possibly cause each culture to create their own unique system which will in-turn cause the Internet to become non-interacting or non-functioning. What will would we do if one of the most used communication device between different cultures was lost? This is a question that can only be answered by time.

Alibaba.com Broadens Horizons

Alibaba.com has recently completed a share purchase agreement for a local domain name registrar website, while China is in the midst of a clampdown on domain name registrations.

Before the announcement was made, the central television station in China criticized the services for domain name registration services, saying that the services had inaccurate, incomplete, and even false information included in the registration process. To respond to the criticism, CNNIC did an examination and punished three domain name registration agencies and providers.

A Cyber Crime Boost May be in the Near Future

Experts have warned that introducing non-Roman scripts to the Internet could boost the amount of cyber crime.
In the next year to come the Interne Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers will accept the non-Roman scripts for the first time. The domain name comes after the “dot” in the web address. These new domains will open up the Internet to those users whose native languages do not include the Roman alphabet as never before.

How the big companies are going to handle this matter is still to be determined.

VeriSign Announces Increase in .com/.net Domain Name Fees

More information on VeriSign is available at www.verisign.com.

Rick Latona: Big Man Big Domain

Have you ever had that one specific domain name that you just wished could be yours or at least one that you could help sell? One that you would be willing to give just about anything for? Well every once in a while the perfect opportunity comes along to make just that happen. Rick Latona was lucky enough to take advantage of a perfect opportunity such as this.

Mr. Latona has recently secured the brokerage agreement for domains.com. Even though the business does not come with it and the name will definitely not come cheap he plans to put together marketing materials and attempt to personally sell the name for everyone to see.

Although it is definitely not an easy keyword to obtain, domains.com holds the second highest ranking position on the Google search engine for “domains”. Mr. Latona is not in a hurry to sell the site but he hopes that in the first half of 2010, if the right buyer is found, that he can cut a deal with them to get this gem sold. Currently there is not a set price for domains.com, but with it’s high ranking number in search engines it’s safe to say that  it won’t go for cheap.

What a Loss for Big G (Google domain dispute)

Recently there was an argument over a domain name that was reported to be very close to Google.com. The battle over the disputed Groovle.com domain name was lost by Google.

A complaint was submitted by Google to the National Arbitration Forum, asking that Groovle.com be switched to the complainant by the respondent, 207 Media. Google remarked that the domain name was way to similar to its own trademarked name. The similarities between the two names are not eliminated by minor misspellings or alterations. They felt that the domain name was being used in bad faith by the respondent.

The respondent insisted that they could prove a noticeable difference between the two domains. The disputed domain contains an “R” and a “V” which is important to distinguish the appearance, sound, connotation, and meaning from the trademarked Google. With the “V” and “R” present it is clear the the meaning of the predominant word isn’t Google at all but in fact groovy or groove.

The disputed domain was decided to remain with the respondent by the Panel, considering that Google could not show all of the elements  that they needed. Even the best of the best don’t always get what the want in the end.

 Here you can see the details on the final decision.