News Stories and Events Relating to Domains

Kore Domains Launches Revolutionary New "4GH" Web Hosting Solution
NEW YORK, May 7, 2012 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- Kore Domains is reshaping the Web hosting landscape with its 4th Generation Web Hosting (4GH). Set up in a cloud environment, the new 4GH hosting platform provides ...

Kore Domains -- The #1 Domain Price Leader Announces Huge Savings on Domain Name Registration Pricing.
NEW YORK, May 15, 2012 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- "This aggressive pricing, coupled with excellent customer service and an array of additional domain related products, provides Kore Domains ' customers ...

Is anyone actually going to .XXX domains?
An analysis suggests that only 61 .xxx domains are in the top 1 million visited sites in the world. The highest is at number 51,549 in the Alexa rankings.

Google Wins 750 Domains in Cybersquatting Case
The National Arbitration Forum (NAF) has awarded Google the rights to over 750 domain names that a cybersquatter had purchased and tied to other known brands and celebrity names. Between February 29 and March 10 of this year, defendant Chris …

Internet group: Quality over speed in new domains
The organization in charge of expanding the number of Internet address suffixes — the ".com" part of domain names — is apologizing for delays but says it's favoring "quality, not speed."Three ...

Namecheap Reaches 3 Million Domains Under Management
Less than a year after Namecheap reached its 2 million milestone, the company has grown 33% in domains under management.Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) May 09, 2012 Namecheap is pleased to announce that it now has 3 million domains under its management. This milestone was achieved less than a year after it reached 2 million domains at the end of June 2011. "We're ecstatic to have reached this ...

Summary Box: Quality over speed in new domains
TAKING ITS TIME: The organization in charge of expanding the number of Internet address suffixes says it's favoring "quality, not speed" in bringing back a system after a software glitch.

Half of all new top-level domains will fail, CIRA says
Internet domain name managers and corporate branding gurus alike are waiting with baited breath for the Internet’s first batch of new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) to be released after a technical glitch delayed the unveiling planned for the beginning of May.

Google shoves cybersquatter off 763 Googletastic domains
'Gay network' owner had splashed over £6k on names Google has seized over 750 domain names from a cybersquatter who used them to drive traffic to a series of "gay interest" websites and now wants Google's trademark cancelled.…

Synchronized Clocks
Researchers identify the first circadian clock component conserved across all three domains of life.