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All aboard for record-breaking domain sale

By John - February 11, 2008

We’ve written before about the most expensive domain names ever. And just last week, a new price record was set for a .co.uk domain. As the Register notes, the domain name cruises.co.uk changed...

A must for any domain geek’s office wall

By 123 Reg - February 8, 2008

Whilst surfing the typography forums in a bid to find the perfect logo typeface, I stumbled across a very interesting example of map making. A stroke of design genius, the Country Codes of...

MySpace awarded myspace.co.uk

By John - February 1, 2008

A high-profile domain name dispute came to an end earlier this week. MySpace, the News Corporation-owned social networking site won the right to have the domain name myspace.co.uk transferred to it. The ruling was...

Is your name on the web?

By John - January 4, 2008

I don’t generally read Canadian news sites on a regular basis, but I just picked up a story on CTV.ca about Canadians who are buying up personal domain names. One of the story’s points...

Total domains now 146 million – VeriSign

By John - December 12, 2007

Hot on the heels of the November report from Nominet, VeriSign – the global registry operator for .com and .net domains – has released its quarterly report into the state of the domain...

140,000 a month? Nominet report reveals all

By John - December 11, 2007

Towards the end of November, Nominet – the organisation which runs the .uk domain registry – released its domain name industry report. This is the first one they’ve produced – the stated...

The first .com domain names

By John - December 3, 2007

If you went back in time to the internet in 1985, you probably wouldn’t recognise it. At first glance, there wouldn’t be much in common with the mp3’ed up,  socially-networked, anyone-can-have-a-website internet that we...

Changes to nameserver settings

By John - November 22, 2007

As a result of the weekend’s problems, we received lots of feedback about how you’d like to be able to manage your nameserver settings. Our dev team has been working to make sure...

It’s always first come, first served

By John - November 2, 2007

Have you ever thought up a great domain name, punched it into our domain search tool and found – to your surprise – that it’s available? If so, I’ve a cautionary tale for...