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Historic Domain News Articles

Between July 2002 and November 2004, Whois.sc (Whois Source) published a series of news articles about the domain industry. These articles have been resurrected for your enjoyment.

Domain News Archive
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
2002 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 3 14 9 27
2003 13 10 13 10 12 7 4 1 14 9 1 5
2004 12 17 3 1 3 1 0 0 0 0 1 0
NZ.gov coughs up NZ$1m for NewZealand.com domain (April 30, 2003)

The New Zealand government has come under fire for spending $1 million of tax-payers money on buying the domain NewZealand.com from previous owners Virtual Countries. That's one million New Zealand dollars, but it still eq...

Icann changes puts domains at risk (April 24, 2003)

Companies must supply full contact details - or else IT managers with any of the 14 generic top level domains, such as .com, .org and .biz, in their portfolio risk losing them if they don't keep their registrar inform...

Earthlink selects Melbourne IT as domain registrar (April 24, 2003)

EarthLink announced on Wednesday that it has selected Melbourne IT as its new provider of domain name registration services. Utlizing Melbourne IT's technology, EarthLink subscribers will be able to conduct domain name ava...

Nominet UK to charge for domain transfers (April 22, 2003)

Nominet UK is to start charging punters 35 a time to transfer .uk domain names from one person or organisation to another. The .UK Registry insists the charge is being introduced to cover the administrative cost of tra...

.ORG THROUGH THICK AND THIN (April 22, 2003)

Confused by queries on .org domain names? Demys explains what's happened to the .org WHOIS service since January this year. Seasoned domain name watchers may have been wondering what has happened to the .org WHOIS syste...

Iraq, its domain and the 'terrorist-funding' owner (April 9, 2003)

The war against Iraq may be drawing to a close but the war over its Internet future is just beginning. As with the overthrow of the Afghanistan regime by US forces, it is widely thought that the removal of Saddam Husse...

ICANN seeks volunteers (April 7, 2003)

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) as part of its transition into what it calls ICANN 2.0 is looking for volunteers to fill a number of key positions, it said Monday. ICANN seeks experience...

GSA Might Charge for .gov Domain (April 6, 2003)

The General Services Administration (GSA), which administers the .gov domain, issued a rule Friday that it reserves the right to "charge for domain names in order to recover costs of operations." The government currently d...

Al Jazeera domain (April 5, 2003)

VeriSign says that security at Network Solutions was bypassed by an individual or individuals who changed the domain details for Al Jazeera in order to point the site to a spurious address. The company also said there w...

Melbourne IT admits domain breach (April 1, 2003)

AUSTRALIA'S biggest and oldest domain name registrar, Melbourne IT, has been rapped over the knuckles for breaching its agreement with the domain name authority, auDA. The .au Domain Authority (auDA) also actions by Mel...

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