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” [...]

NPR did a story recently on businesses choosing domains and the lack of “available domains”. Give it a listen at this link.

Sedo is all set to offer some of the latest exclusive domains that include licenseplates.com for $54K. Here are Sedo’s figures for sales a week up to September 24th: .COM Sales licenseplates.com 54,666 USD (@Great Domains) surabaya.com 50,000 USD nmi.com 28,055 USD jiapu.com 25,000 USD ninjitsu.com 15,001 USD westnile.com 11,095 USD noisy.com 10,900 USD figurine.com [...]

NameBio.com has re-launched its site with a new layout and advanced functionalities. The site established in 2006, presents domainers with domain sales and comps history. The redeveloped site stresses on inaccurate, transparent and duplicated data. Moreover, with a new design the site offers its users increased search capabilities in addition to a cleaner interface. The [...]

In most business sectors, announcements and press coverage usually begins to roll out ahead of major tradeshows. With the next TRAFFIC show right around the corner, I expect more releases in the coming days . Until then check out these: Richard Rosenblatt and Demand Media coverage in Forbes. .raises another $100 million, bringing grand total [...]

Please welcome North Korea (aka Korea, Democratic People’s Republic) (.KP), Montenegro (.ME), and Serbia (.RS) to the root zone.Delegation was approved at the recent Special ICANN Board of Director meeting on September 11. My compliments to Kim Davies and David Conrad at IANA on a smooth process from board approval to root addition. It appears [...]

The ICANN Nominating Committee announced that they have nominated 3 new candidates for ICANN Board Member positions as well as several positions on the GNSO Council and At Large Advisory Council. Harald Tveit Alvestrand, Dennis Jennings and Jean-Jacques Subrenat were selected for the board seats. The new board members will serve 3 year terms. The [...]

Iraq.com is currently on auction at Sedo/GreatDomains. If the sale closes, Sedo will donate a portion of their revenue to Unicef. The current bid at 600,000 EUR has not reached the reserve price. The auction is running for 1 day, 2 hours and 40 minutes.

Moniker releases preliminary domain auction list for the Targeted T.R.A.F.F.I.C. conference which will be held in Florida from October 9th to 13th, 2007. The auction will be taking place on October 12th. WallStreet.com Taxes.com StockQuotes.com Computer.com Photographers.com Ethanol.com Estate.com Elections.com Kuwait.com Copiers.com ScienceFiction.com SportingGoods.com MartialArts.com Cowboys.com CrosswordPuzzles.com GasPrices.com Debit.com Podiatrists.com MiniatureGolf.com Communication.com House.net Technology.org Manufacture.com [...]

Apparently the .PL registry has introduced a traffic tasting service allowing registrants to register a name for up to five days in order to see if there is any traffic on it. The registry writes: Thanks to New Domain Name Tasting (DNT) service you can check profits and possibilities which an own domain gives as [...]