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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
John Zuccarini jailed for scheme to lure children to porn (Feb. 27, 2004)

A Florida man has been sentenced to 2 years in prison for registering misleading domain names on the Internet so that children looking for popular sites such as Disneyland would find pornography instead. John Zuccarini,...

Domain registrars sue ICANN, VeriSign (Feb. 27, 2004)

One day after being sued by VeriSign Inc. over delays in approving a new service for back-ordering Internet domain names, the organization that controls the Internet's domain naming system is now being sued by a group of e...

Verisign to sue ICANN over Anti-trust (Feb. 26, 2004)

In a move that could spur changes in how important aspects of the Internet's technical workings are managed, VeriSign Inc. said it plans Thursday to file a broad antitrust lawsuit against the Internet Corp. for Assigned N...

Decision Nears on Contentious Domain Name Service (Feb. 25, 2004)

The overseer of the Internet's domain naming system is closer to approving a controversial service for back-ordering Web addresses. The subject of past lawsuits and congressional hearings, the wait listing service, or ...

Melbourne IT reboots its bottom line (Feb. 23, 2004)

The company that epitomised the rise and fall of the dotcom sector in Australia, Melbourne IT, has put its past behind it and returned to profitability, announcing a final dividend of 2 and promising better times ahead. ...

2003 sets record for domain registrations (Feb. 18, 2004)

Renewal volumes and overall growth drive up domain name business Strong growth in domain registrations saw 2003 end as a record year for web domain registrations, according to domain name registry VeriSign. Total dom...

Letter to ICANN regarding WLS (Feb. 17, 2004)

Dear Dr. Twomey: This firm represents an ad hoc coalition of ICANN-accredited registrars organized for the purpose of challenging Verisign's proposed Wait Listing Service ("WLS"). The WLS purports to offer consumers a ...

Register.com to Sell .pro Domain Registry (Feb. 13, 2004)

Register.com Inc is to dispose of its right to operate the long-delayed .pro top-level internet domain, under a sale for an undisclosed sum to Registry Services Corp, a wholly owned subsidiary of HostWay Corp, a Chicago-ba...

ex-SnapNames empoyees start Market Mechanix to ride Google (Feb. 12, 2004)

A few ex-SnapNames employees Ron Wiener (former CEO), Len Bayles (former CTO), and Cameron Powell (former VP of business development) have joined forces with Charlie Kawasaki the former CEO of Portland's Rulespace. Their c...

Domain hipe because of 1.3 Million dollar sale (Feb. 11, 2004)

Late last year, one exceptionally lucky guy in Florida managed to sell his domain name for $1.3 million (he bought men.com in 1997 for $15,000). Now folks are thinking the dot-com gold rush is back on, and they're ready to...

WhiteHouse.com domain name up for sale (Feb. 10, 2004)

The owner said he won't sell it unless he knows who's buying The domain name for the pornographic Web site WhiteHouse.com, which is often confused with the government site whitehouse.gov, is now up for sale. "[The o...

German web host slams ex-partner NSI in domain dispute (Feb. 10, 2004)

German web host Strato is battling with its former partner, US-based domain name registrar Network Solutions (NSI), over 240,000 web site addresses. Strato formerly had a resale agreement with NSI, and registered all i...

VeriSign Reconsiders SiteFinder (Feb. 9, 2004)

"Site Finder was not controversial with users, 84 percent of whom said they liked it as a helpful navigation service," said Tom Galvin, VeriSign's vice president of government relations. "We continue to look at ways we can...

Illegal Whois Records may be against the law (Feb. 9, 2004)

A proposed new law, The Fraudulent Online Identity Sanctions Act, designed to combat identity theft, will bring down harsher penalties on perpetrators of domain name fraud, according to a report published last week by Medi...

.EU delayed until Q1 of 2005 (Feb. 9, 2004)

The EURid, the consortium appointed by the EU to manage the .eu domain, tries to keep smiling. Still, Fay Howard, project manager of the registry, could not restrain herself at last week's Digitial Pulse conference in Zuri...

Washington Post email went down (Feb. 6, 2004)

The e-mail system for writers and editors at The Washington Post failed Thursday for hours because the newspaper did not renew its Internet address, the company said. Network Solutions, which handles domain-name registr...

PLDT loses dispute over pldt.com domain name (Feb. 4, 2004)

The first and longest domain and trade name dispute in the Philippines between the country's biggest telecommunications company and Gerry Kaimo, registered owner of the "pldt.com" domain name, ended Tuesday as the courts d...

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