As seen in this Washington Post article, and PC World, Microsoft is suing the domain name registrar Red Register for trademark violation. Microsoft has made similar suits over the years against registrants. This marks the second recent suit for cybersquatting against an ICANN accredited registrar, as Belgium Domains, DomainDoorman.com and Capital Domains were recently accused [...]

Domain Name News has received an email from domain registrar Belgium Domains informing their clients and customers that the registrar has been locked out of the registry at Verisign. The lockout was spurred by the ongoing legal battles between the registrar and plaintiffs claiming trademark infringement. Plaintiffs, including Dell and Yahoo, received a court order [...]

A legal battle between Verizon and domain portfolio owner Internet REIT has ended with a settlement between the two parties..  According to a report on  Fox Business : The settlement between the parties includes a monetary payment to Verizon and the issuance of a permanent injunction prohibiting Internet REIT from registering, trafficking in, or using, as a [...]

The three largest internet companies – Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo – have agreed to pay $31.5 million to settle federal civil allegations claiming that they took ads for online gambling, which is illegal in the United States. The U.S. has closely monitored online gambling for a long time and kept a close eye on any companies [...]

Godaddy.com announced a sponsorship deal with Hendricks Motorsports to be the primary sponsor for the #5 car for six events in 2008. The car will make it’s first race appearance in April driven by one of Nascar’s most popular drivers, Dale Earnhardt Jr. The car will late be driven by legendary driver Mark Martin and [...]

The domain industry continues to grow, as demonstrated by the latest Domain Report by VeriSign, the global registry operator for .com and .net. VeriSign reported that the third quarter of 2007 had 31% more domain registrations than the same time period from last year, ending with a total base of 146 million domain name registrations worldwide [...]

.ca domains have often been called the “hidden gem” by Canadian Domainers. The drop process for the registry takes place once a week, and most of the bidders at the drop-catch registrars know each other personally. Population-wise, Canada is a rather small country with only about 33 million people. It’s TLD, “.ca” is more popular [...]

Afternic Domain Listing Service announced on their blog that they will begin auctioning expiring domain names on the Afternic site Auctions will run 7 days and bidders will have to pre-order a domain name before it is put in to the auction cue. Pre-orders can be made up to 35 days ahead of a domain name [...]

On December 11, staff from Oversee.net helped to make one boy’s holiday dream a reality. Ryan Post, an 11-year-old that was born with arthrogryposis and severe scoliosis, had been hoping for a wheelchair-adaptive Spider-Man pinball machine for some time. He had found out about the machine in June, 2007, when he went to the Abilities Expo [...]

Step aside Playboy, Penthouse is making moves to become the world’s largest adult entertainment company in the world. Penthouse Media Group Inc., parent to Penthouse Magazine, announced last week that it has acquired the internet social networking giant Various, Inc. and its subsidiaries for $500 million in cash and securities. Various operates more than 25 online communities, [...]