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How do you buy a domain name?Divyank Turakhia, founder & CEO, Media.net, and co-founder, Directi was just this one question. Here's what he said.
RIL to move from '.com' to '.JIO' as group domainRIL, owner of the JIO brand name, will have a direct control over second-level domain names & use the ones that are most appropriate for th...
Internet grows to 280 million domain names in Q2 of 2014The increase of four million domain names globally equates to a growth rate of 1.4 per cent over the first quarter of 2014.
NGOs will get exclusive domain extension '.ngo' from JanuaryAfter launching the .ngo domain, PIR will offer a "sunrise period" for trademark holders to preregister themselves to prevent cybersquattin...
Traditional generic top-level domains to take back seat with rush to get new domain names registeredIn the past two months, a wide range of new gTLDs bearing dot-suffixes such as: bio, mortgage, investments, tax, market have been introduce...
Web gets new domain addresses like .guru, and .bikeInternet users will now be able to register in targeted and specific domains ending in .guru, .bike, .singles, .plumbing and .clothing amon...
Over 6 mn new website names added to Internet in October-December 2012The .com and .net TLDs reached a combined total of approximately 121.1 million domain names in the adjusted zone for .com and .net, it adde...
Internet grows to more than 246 million domain names in Q3 2012The .com and .net Top-Level Domains (TLDs) experienced aggregate growth in the third quarter of 2012, reaching a combined total of 119.9 mn...
Internet grows to more than 246 million domain names: VeriSign"Worldwide registrations have grown by 26.4 million, or 12 per cent, since the third quarter of 2011", a VeriSign statement said.
RIL, Infosys, Tata, Bharti Airtel and others log on for new web extensionsBharti Airtel has been allotted .airtel and .bharti. Infosys has .infy and .infosys. Other cos with their own generic domain names include ...
- 21 Indian companies including RIL, Airtel apply for domain names priced over Rs 1 crore each
Leading corporate houses like RIL, Airtel have applied for use of word of their choice to replace .com & the other usual suffixes on their ...
- Dubai-based Directi applies for 31 web suffixes
With internet addresses moving from most common '.com' to literally .anything, Dubai-based Directi today said it has applied for 31 such we...
- Number of registered domain names cross 225 million-mark
The '.com' and '.net' which are called Top Level Domains had an aggregate growth in the fourth quarter, reaching a combined total of 113.8 ...
- IDNs to enable internet to help realize its potential
IDNs are one of the most significant developments to the Internet since its inception.
- New algorithm weeds out malicious look-alike Internet domains
Experts at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have developed an algorithm that can check whether a proposed domain is simil...
- Vanity portals set cash registers ringing
Stupidity talks, vanity acts,” said 19th century famous French romantic writer Victor Hugo. And now many countries seem to be following Hug...