The Wall Street Journal covers the “scourge” of the domain business, domain theft. Check the article out here. DomainNameNews contributor and “domain consultant” Richard Lau encourages domain owners and businesses to layer on the security when protecting your valuable domains: “The more valuable your domain name, the more you need to sacrifice convenience for security” Other notable [...]

A global major in domain name registration, web design and management services, Register.com has announced the expansion of its domain name searching capabilities. This move is expected to make it easier for the customers to purchase the website name required to generate a powerful online brand. The company has established key partnerships with some of the [...]

We noticed that during a recently updated list, Sedo is now amongst the ICANN accredited registrars. We contacted Mark Klein, Director of Business Development for some more information. “We are very excited about being ICANN accredited. Our goal is to support and represent our partners more effectively.” Mark Klein further stated that Sedo has no intention [...]

In an email to their resellers, Tucows announced a change in their pricing model yesterday. As of August 4th, the billing is now based on a cost + maintenance fee model. That means that Tucows resellers will now be charged the registry fee, the ICANN fee and a “Tucows Maintenance Fee” of $3.00 separately. So here [...]

Joe over at Vpop sent this link: Tucows (AMEX:TCX, TSX:TC) purchases It’s Your Domain (also know as Innerwise), a registrar with wholesale focus and 700,000 domains under management. Tucows will pay US$10.35 million in cash for IYD with the opportunity for IYD to realize a further US$1.05 million based on specific targets. The acquisition is expected [...]

Continuing on the theme of personal names as .com domains, it appears that there was a recent auction for the domain name DanWarner.com at Enom.com’s Club Drop auctions. Based on the DomainTools whois history, it appears the domain was registered at Register.com to a Dan Warner from New York, not to be confused with the [...]

Frank Michlick, of Domain Name News fame, is speaking at HostingCon tomorrow (Monday) at Navy Pier (picture) in Chicago, so I drove up here to heckle him. It’s also my understanding that there are people here from Demand Media, Dark Blue Sea, Tucows, Dotster, Oversee.net, Sedo, DNZoom and other domain companies. It seems like the [...]

OneClickReg.com allows you to register domains via SMS (to/from a European number) and from an easy to use web interface, which includes a domain name suggestion tool. The site registers it’s domains via Tucows/OpenSRS. As a special OneClickReg has promised to give everyone who signs up via DNN (make sure to use one of the links [...]

We all know that registrars have started taking ownership of names that registrants let lapse. Registrars even go through their non-resolving names and change them to point their own parking pages instead. So it is always an important task for the domain portfolio manager to keep an eye on their names and where they are [...]

As a result of the Registerfly disaster, ICANN has been collecting proposals for Registrar Data Escrow Services that ensure that if a registrar goes out of business, the registrant’s and doman data is protected and available to ICANN. Let us take a closer look at what actually happened at RegisterFly that caused ICANN to issue [...]