Bonehead Biz: $1.1 million for the letter 'S'

And you thought the dot-com bubble burst years ago: A British travel company has paid $1.1 million for the Internet domain name cruises.co.uk, a price that is effectively a million bucks just for the letter "S" since it already owns the address cruise.co.uk.

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Inside Rebel Pakistan Cleric's Domain

Long-haired militants with assault rifles and walkie-talkies guard the approach to the stronghold of Maulana Fazlullah, the radical cleric whose mission to spread fundamentalist Islam has provoked a bloody showdown with Pakistan's government.

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Court Won't Hear Eminent Domain Case

The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to consider a property rights case involving a redevelopment project in New York state where businessmen are fighting local government efforts to take their land.

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Company Appeals Decision on Porn Domain

The battle over a virtual red-light district is entering another round.

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Internet Agency Weighs New Domain Name

Reaching out and touching someone used to be as simple as dialing a string of numbers. But now there are home, cell and work phone numbers from which to choose, and sometimes work extensions to remember.

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Europeans Rush to Get '.eu' Domain Names

Some 300,000 Europeans rushed to register their new ".eu" domain names in the first hour of being able to sign up for the new Internet addresses, officials said Friday.

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The Universal Postal Union (UPU), the world's second-oldest international organization and one of the few United Nations agencies to pre-date the creation of the mother organization, moved a step closer today to becoming the first to have its own domain name on the Internet – …

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POLITICAL power is rarely ceded without good reason.

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The US will still be involved; every three years, ICANN's work will be evaluated by a committee, one member of which will be from the Dept. of Commerce.

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A domain name that coincides with your brand name is crucial. It means that clients and prospects can remember and type it into their browser address bars more easily.

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GOOGLE is facing the greatest challenge yet to its might in Australia as two of its largest media customers threaten to pull their business in retaliation against the internet company's decision to enter the real estate listings market.

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AN ONLINE scam in which prospective tenants are asked to transfer money to an overseas bank account in return for keys to a rental property has prompted a security crackdown on real estate websites.

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GOOGLE wants Australia's biggest property listing websites Realestate.com.au and Domain.com.au to join its newly launched real estate maps service, despite neither player showing any sign it is willing to partner with the search engine.

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THE international community fears that major changes to the world's internet addressing system being attempted by its peak regulator will destabilise the global network.

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VeriSign has just put out its quarterly report on the web domain industry stating that there are now just about 183 million domain names in existence. This represents a 3% increase from last quarter and a 12% increase from last year.

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On April 2 the giant domain name registrar Register.com suffered an hour or two's worth of DNS problems. Now its confirmed that all thier servers are down, including the www.register.com website itself. Employees of Register.com are still in denial. A DDoS attack may be to blame.

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Having your own hosted web domain has never been cheaper, or easier, with the vast array of free resources out there. Here are our ten favorite tools to help anyone launch and maintain their internet presence. (via American Libraries Direct)

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Anti-piracy organizations are known for their excellent lobbying skills. However, knowledge of the Internet and technology doesn't seem to be a prerequisite. Recently the Lithuanian anti-piracy outfit changed its name, but forgot to register the new domain.

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A vulnerability in Gmail that lets the bad guys access and manipulate filters in your Gmail account has once again reared its ugly head according to a recent post on GeekCondition.

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The ICANN has released a draft report about their plans to open up new generic top level domain names (such as microsoft.microsoft or search.google), at a cost of US$185,000 per domain name.

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A man who mistakenly walked into the wrong house during a power outage at his duplex was shot and critically injured by his neighbor. See more irresistible headlines

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The lapsed website of the UK's National Hi-Tech Crime Unit has been snapped up by an opportunistic German marketeer.

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Dan Kaminsky said that the systemic Internet Domain Name System (DNS) vulnerability he discovered some months ago is much more dangerous than most have appreciated. "Every network is at risk," Original Article seeded on this topic. More Articles

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Fairfax may be the master of its own "Domain", a real estate website that it owns, for which it promoted "free" mobile alerts that turned out to cost 55c each.

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The flaw in the Domain Name System could allow hackers to steer most people using corporate networks to malicious Web sites, The Los Angeles Times reported Wednesday.

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Companies that assign addresses for Web sites appear to be cutting corners on security more when they assign names in certain domains than in others, according to a report to be released Wednesday by antivirus software vendor McAfee Inc.

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Finding a good dotcom domain name (without paying a hefty premium for it) has long been a virtually impossible task, leading otherwise obscure countries to offer up domain extensions like .tv, .to, and .fm.

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Move over .com and .org. Get ready for a nearly infinite variety of new web addresses ending in words such as .perfume, .sports and .paris. On Thursday the internet's main oversight agency approved the most sweeping changes to the network's address system since its creation.

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Rather than typing .com or .net at the end of a web address, internet users searching for cheap flights or holiday accommodation might find they are visiting sites that end with .flight or .hotel.

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Webbies now have more freedom in their domain extensions...

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When Internet regulators started gathering in the French capital last week for a global conference that starts here Monday, the marquee event was a quirky catwalk for cities and regions competing for domain names like .berlin, .paris, .quebec and even .cat - for Catalonia.

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