Domains & Hosting News

The Australian Domain Name Administrator board ( auNA) has approved a change in the new transfers policy which will be relaxed to allow a registrant to transfer their domain name licence to another eligible registrant.
Registrants will not be allowed to register domain names for the sole purpose of resale and transfer and wont be able to […]

The Domain Name registration industry is still growing at a huge rate.  At the end of 2007 in excess of 153 million domain names are registered worldwide across the Top Level Domain Names, with an increase of around 33 million registrations during the 12 moinths.
In the last quarter of 2007, Domain name registrations were 27 […]

Domain name registration for the new .asia domains went live at 11pm last night Australian time with a big rush to register as expected. Many internet investors buy domain names that they think are commercially valuable for their own later use or for resale at a profit, so Australian internet content publishers were burning the […]

ICANN, (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) has now signed off on the .asia registry agreement, so Asian/Pacific region businesses will be able to register a .asia domain extension. The top level domain registry will be managed by the DotAsia Organization (dotasia.org).
The DotAsia Organisation is a Hong Kong based not-for-profit community-based organisation, with […]

A domain name registration provider or registrar is a company accredited by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to sell Internet domain names. ICANN has authority over gTLDs, or Generic Top Level Domains. Examples of gTLDs include .com, .net and .org. ICANN does not have authority over ccTLDs, or Country Code Top-Level […]