VeriSign launches campaign to celebrate 25 years of .com.
.Com registry VeriSign has launched a new campaign to celebrate 25 years of dot com domain names and the emergence of the web. The campaign — found online at 25YearsOf.com — will celebrate a number of the milestones and important individuals that have made .com what [...]

Dynadot extends data use to customers.
Last year VeriSign quietly started offering its Internet Profile Service (IPS) to domain name registrars. The service provides traffic data on pending delete domain names. Since VeriSign runs the DNS for .net and .com, it has access to data that most other sources don’t have.
Now domain name registrars [...]

Domain registrar shut down after not paying accreditation fees.
ICANN has sent a notice of termination to New Orleans-based domain name registrar DomainCannon, citing a number of infractions. The registrar apparently owes $186,598.39 in past due accreditation fees. Additionally, it’s web site is not available, and it has failed to escrow whois data, the [...]

by Aaron Krawitz, Gary Males & Patrick Carleton
[Editor's note: this is a guest article about the potential of IDN geo domain names.]
We’ve long been believers in GeoDomains and continue to be on the lookout for new and lucrative niches, which is why we have each individually made substantial investments in IDN GeoDomains.
With the fog [...]

Live report from DOMAINfest in Los Angeles.
DOMAINfest 2010 kicked off this morning in Los Angeles with the first of two PITCHfest contests.
The judges were Eric Liaw (Technology Crossover Ventures), Adam Rioux (OCTANE360), Frank Schilling (Name Administration, Inc), and Ron Sheridan.
Updated: AdMarketplace won the competition.
Here are the presentations:
Samantha Frida from VeriSign – discussed VeriSign’s [...]