Not only is Microsoft fighting cybersquatters in court these days quite successfully but they are making sure that cybersquatters will not affect their business in the future. They have come to realize that it is not enough to own .com domains and that is why Microsoft is actively acquiring  domains which could potentially damage their business reputation.

Here is a list of the latest top level domains Microsoft acquired: (more…)

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The Delhi High Court has issued a restraining order against the US-based India Broadcast Live from using a website using the domain name indiatvlive.com to broadcast Indian TV programmes in their original form. In its petition, India TV alleged the domain name, indiatvlive.com, used by India Broadcast Live, was similar to its trademark and that the plaintiffs had no legitimate right over the domain name. (more…)

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Investing money in domain names, along with farmland, are The India Daily’s recommendations for additions to investment portfolios. With the internet economy continually growing, domain names is one area for making money. (more…)

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Lauren Simonds, managing editor of Small Business Computing discusses dot mobi and whether or not you should take this trend seriously in an article published today. Here is what he had to say:

“The latest trend working its way into the small business world concerns mobile phones and Web sites. If you’ve ever tried to access your favorite site with a handheld mobile device, you’re familiar with how bad most Web sites look and how hard it is to use them. That’s the problem dotMobi was created to solve. (more…)

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It’s a bit hard to know where to start with this massive publication – The OECD Communications Outlook 2007. It presents the most recent comparable data on communication sector performance and provides information on policy frameworks in OECD countries. The report also provides detailed time series data of up to 10 years for a number of key indicators. In addition, for the first time, the 2007 edition includes analysis of the communication sector in five large non-OECD countries: Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa.

Regarding domain names, the report includes information and statistics on internet subscribers, internet hosts, domain names, web servers, secure servers, national and regional internet development and peering. (more…)

Those of you who have been reading DomainNews faithfully, it comes to no surprise when we tell you that these are booming times in an estimated $2 billion domain name industry.

The buying and selling of domain names and pay-per-click advertising revenue for the owners of premium domain names has been growing like wildfire. Verisign claims that worldwide, an estimated that 90,000 new domain names are being registered every day.

According to industry experts, the domain industry’s market value could reach $4 billion by 2010.

At least 128 million domain names had been registered worldwide by March 2007, a 31 percent increase over the previous year, according to VeriSign.