Tagged: Top Level Domains
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Internet player Demand Media to create up to 40 new jobs in Dublin News
20.03.2013 Domain services company Demand Media is to open an international office in Dublin that will employ between 20 and 40 people in Dublin by next year. The opportunity was made...Categories: Web, Software & Web Development, Media, Marketing, Internet, Economy, eCommerce, Digital Media, Digital Marketing, Digital Business -
Generic top-level domains will divide the internet, warns IIA CEO News
07.03.2013 The advent of generic top-level domains (gTLDs) like .blog or .hair will only facilitate the division of the internet into territories, the Irish Internet Association has warned... -
Saudi Arabia objects to .gay internet address News
15.08.2012 Saudi Arabia’s Communications and Information Technology Commission has filed an official objection with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to the... -
IEDR revenues up 3.8pc to €2.6m as new domain registrations grow News
25.07.2012 The growth in new domain registrations helped to drive a registration fee income of €2.66m for Ireland’s .ie Domain Registry (IEDR), which manages the .ie top-level domain....Categories: Private Irish Business, Online Business, Internet, Economy, eCommerce, Digital Media, Digital Business -
From .LOVE to .SEX – ICANN publishes list of new gTLD applications News
13.06.2012 In what has been termed in some quarters as the biggest land grab in internet history, ICANN has published the list of the various entities that have applied for generic... -
Google plans to bring out new internet domains, including .lol News
01.06.2012 Vint Cerf, one of the internet’s founding fathers, has revealed that Google is planning to bring out new top-level domains (TLDs), including .google, .docs, .youtube and,...Categories: Web, Software & Web Development, Software, Search Engines, Search, Internet, Intellectual Property, Consumer Tech -
Porn publishers sue ICANN over .XXX domains News
18.11.2011 Two major online porn publishers have filed a lawsuit against ICANN over the .XXX domain name that ICANN approved this year. The publishers accuse ICANN of behaving in a... -
Scots and Welsh want their own top-level domains News
26.09.2011 Is the Union breaking up? No, not really, it just seems that the Scots, the Welsh and may be even the Londoners want to have their own regional suffixes instead of the catch-all... -
.XXX domain registration begins today News
07.09.2011 Described by some as the ‘internet’s red light district’, it will be interesting to see if the launch of registrations for the .XXX domain today will indeed help to separate the... -
Mass expansion of TLDs not a threat to national domains – IEDR News
14.07.2011 Trademark owners rather than national top level domains are the ones who will be most challenged by the impending expansion of generic top level domains (gTLDs), the CEO of the... -
ICANN approves massive expansion of domain names News
20.06.2011 The board of directors of ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) has approved a plan to usher in one of the biggest changes to the internet’s domain name... -
ICANN approves .XXX adult domain News
19.03.2011 Internet domain regulator ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) has approved the .XXX top-level domain for adult entertainment sites. It is likely major... -
Irish hosting player gears up to sell .xxx domains News
18.02.2011 A major domain name reseller based in Carlow, Blacknight, is accepting expressions of interest from the adult entertainment industry for registering .xxx domains in anticipation...Categories: Software & Web Development, Multimedia, Internet, Hosting Services, Games/Entertainment, eCommerce -
.xxx debate puts spotlight on ICANN’s accountability News
07.05.2010 The ongoing struggle between ICM Registry, the company pushing to get a .xxx domain for online adult entertainment, and ICANN, the independent body responsible for managing...Tags: ICANN, Top Level Domains, -
Branded web domains could lead to widespread trademark battles News
30.10.2009 The head of a leading online trademark-protection firm has warned that the introduction of unlimited top-level domains (TLDs) such as .gucci or .cocacola could lead to...Tags: ICANN, Top Level Domains, -
dotMobi launches major foray into Chinese mobile market News
13.10.2009 The Dublin-headquartered mobile top-level domain dotMobi has launched into the Chinese market, one of the fastest-growing mobile web-user populations on the planet.