Great news for our Aussie friends. The AU Registry (auDA) have relaxed the registrant policy to allow a registrant to transfer their domain name licence to another eligible entity, for any reason. This move effectively creates the marketplace for AU domaining .

There are increased calls for underage domainers to be stopped from participating in the industry. What are the arguments for and against? How should the industry react to this underclass that exists outside the law.

Sedo has published a study into the secondary market in 2007. You can download the free nine-page report here

Domainers have been shocked by the information which is now available on their portfolio and activities. However this issue has wider implications which should be considered by all domain owners, businesses and privacy advocates.

The accusation being made is that domain availability searches are not being kept private and this data is either being sold or somehow obtained by bulk registration companies.

The very last free 4-letter .com domain was purchased last night. Yes, that’s right folks - all possibly combination of letters have now been taken (456,976).

There’s a lot of coverage of this incident across the domain world but here are my 5 reasons why the Dallas Cowboys made a big mistake.

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ICANN are faced with a tough fight to remove .SU (Soviet Union). Deletion of the extension has been widely discussed this year, with ICANN holding a

DNHour is dedicated domainer news portal based on the popular Pligg software. Users are free to submit their own articles or ones they have found interesting, and comment/vote on them.