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As of 6th January, 2010, CNNIC has temporarily put a stop to all .CN registrations by non-Chinese registrants. This move has been brought about to clean up the extreme abuse and mis-use of .CN domain extension in the domaining namespace. Though this move is cited as temporary, overseas domain regis...

ICANN recently dismissed an attempt by Google to stop Groovle.com from operating using its domain name. The dispute was filed by Google in November, 2009, on the grounds that Groovle sounded too “confusingly similar” to its trademark name, Google. National Arbitration Forum (NAF), which...

I have been in the domain name industry for quite a long time now (well before this blog came into existence) and have been dismayed every time a self styled SEO guru proclaimed that domain names had negligible or no effect on the success of your online business. Let no one dictate to you different...

Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has always been identified as an arm of the United States Government, even though it had always pointed out being completely independent. This association, though not very strong, was still an aggravating factor to non-US entities, especia...

Gone are the days when domain tasters used to take benefit of the five day domain registration grace period to register domain names for spam, scams, and cyber-squatting. ICANN used to charge a measly 20c for new domain registrations, which was not refundable in the event of domain cancellation. Th...