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Friday October 8th, 2004

Germany's .de ccTLD breaks 8 million mark

Germany now has the largest country code TLD in the world with 8 million registrations, followed by 3.7 million for England.

Denic reports eight millionth .de registration
.de Denic received the eight millionth application for the registration of a domain. Denic has further improved the position of .de as the world's favourite Country Code TLD, ahead of .uk, which has around 3.7 million registrations.
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Only one TLD - .com, with more than 30 million domains - is more intensively used than .de.
 

Domain Name Wire

Update: Selling Domain Names on eBay dotMobi Buys Mowser From Guy Who Doesn’t Believe in Mobile Web .Org Domain Name Prices to Jump 10% Maybe $2.6 Million for Pizza.com Isn’t that Outrageous Afterall Qwest Snags QwestVerizon.com…Just in Time Media Confusion Over a Parked Domain Name Survey: SnapNames Still King of Expired Domain Names

Nom de domaine !

Retour sur l'affaire champagne.ch On ne parlera plus JAMAIS de cybersquatting en France... FutuR du .FR : à vos claviers ! New ADR proceedings over googles.eu Sauve qui pneu ! Règlement de compte par nom de domaine interposé Droit du .fr Atteinte aux marques sur internet Nouvelles décisions UDRP protectrices de noms génériques
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CaveBear Blog

Comcast - Euphemism City My comments to NTIA's "mid-term review" of its ICANN "JPA" agreement. What would the internet be like had there been no ICANN? Bad Day ICANN - New TLD Policy - The Anti-Innovation Act of 2007 On my way to the ICANN Meeting in LA. DeBushification of the judiciary - The early retirement bonus plan In Today's News Have ICANN's directors placed their personal assets on the IRS chopping block? ICANN Begins To Add Yet Another Layer of Complexity
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icann.Blog

Greedy Domainer Slime Revisiting the Registry-Registrar Split? TWiL does Domain Name Law Fantastic Presentation on YouTube/Pakistan Debacle Anti-Phishing Consumer Protection Act

Whois-Search News

Jolie secures web domains for daughter NFL, Fox pull Godaddy Superbowl ad Google becomes domain registrar FMA wins kiwi.com case ICANN Follow-up on PANIX.COM Hijacking .Net Bids to Close at Midnight SnapNames Sues ICANN Over WLS Delay Apple in cybersquatting fight over iTunes.co.uk NameWinner auctions off Dotster names Pool launches 'OLS'
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ICANNWatch

.br Relaxes Registration Rules Domain Sub-Letting Raises Hackles ICANN Preliminary Vote Against Domain Tasting Avast, Earthlink How many TLDs safely fit in the DNS? GoDaddy feels the heat We're Back NAF Accused of Failure to Refund ICANN Supports an End to Domain Tasting Is NSI FrontRunning?

icann.org: Recent

Board Rejects .XXX Domain Application How To Interact With The ICANN Public Forum in Lisbon, Portugal ICANN Formalizes Relationships with ccTLD Managers for Côte d'Ivoire and Russia ITU Secretary-General Hamadoun I. Touré Will Address ICANN Friday in Lisbon, Portugal International Telecommunications Union (ITU) Secretary General to Attend ICANN Lisbon Meeting ICANN Formalizes Relationships with ccTLD Manager for Libya Updated Contractual Compliance Program Draft ICANN Operating Plan For Fiscal Year 2007-2008 Now Available For Review Registrar Accreditation Policy and Process Must be Reviewed Final Task Force Report On Whois Services ICANN Public Participation Site Launched

ICANN: Submissions

Old TLD space, New TLDs Some interesting considerations about Trademark Rights Open Evaluation Process needed to develop objective criteria ALAC Response to the Proposed sTLD RFP and Suggested Principles forNew TLD Processes New sTLD Application Acceptance Request More comments regarding the sTLD and Future TLD Application Calls !!!! Sponsored TLD Application Name.Space's application for the Top Level Domains it publishes and operates Support to accept new applications for sTLDs Name.Space TLD application for .NYC
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GNSO registrars

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Recent GNSO Council

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RegistrarStats: TLD growth