Domain Names News Archive

'China creates own domain names (Computerworld Singapore)China's Ministry of Information Industry (MII) has established a set of new top-level and second-level domain names, according to People's Daily Online, the Web site of the official People's Daily newspaper.

'China's New Domain Names: Lost in Translation (CircleID)This morning I got a bunch of alarmist messages from friends asking about this English-language People's Daily article titled: China adds top-level domain names. The paragraph that's freaking people out is: "Under the new system, besides "CN", three Chinese TLD names "CN", "COM" and "NET" are temporarily set. It means Internet users don't have to surf the Web via the servers under the management

'VeriSign gets OK to hike fees for domain names (The Buffalo News)NEW YORK (AP) - The board of the Internet's main oversight agency has approved a deal under which VeriSign Inc. must meet some conditions in order to raise fees for ".com" domain names.

'GoDaddy.com Outraged Over ICANN Giving VeriSign Monopoly (W3Reports)GoDaddy.com, the No. 1 registrar of domain names worldwide, is outraged by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers' (ICANN) 9-5 vote last night to approve a new .COM registry agreement with VeriSign. The agreement grants VeriSign...