- Tue Mar 2 1999 ICANN to vote on domain registration policy
A nonprofit corporation holds a public meeting in Singapore tomorrow to vote on how to spur competition in the ".com" registration market.
- Fri Aug 6 1999 Domain registration test phase extended
NSI and the Commerce Department agree to lengthen the testing of a competitive system for registering the most popular form of domain names by five weeks, and to allow another 52 accredited registrars to join in the trial.
- Fri Jun 27 2008 Yahoo ups annual domain registration fees
Users are notified via e-mail that the annual service fee for Yahoo's small-business site had increased by $25.
- Thu Feb 5 2004 Washington Post lets domain registration lapse
The company neglects to pay the $19 annual registration fee for its corporate domain name, an oversight that caused the company's internal e-mail system to crash for part of the day.
- Thu Oct 19 2000 Short Take: Yahoo Mail offers domain registration
Yahoo Mail has launched a service to help account holders reserve domain names. Yahoo's Personal Address service lets account holders reserve and manage up to five email addresses under a given domain. The service costs $35 per year, regardless of whether the account holder already has reserved the domain through another registrar. Yahoo is registering domains through Network Solutions, a unit of VeriSign.
- Tue Sep 14 2004 Domain name registrations hit record
VeriSign says the growth in registrations last reached this level in the late 1990s, during the height of the dot-com bubble.
- Wed Jun 9 2004 Domain name registration again in vogue
VeriSign's figures indicate that more people than ever are registering domain names--with .com leading the way.
- Fri Feb 6 1998 Short Take: Register.com offers deal for domain registration
Register.com has announced it would not charge users to register domain names with the InterNIC to lure people to its advertising-supported site and Web-hosting services. Most companies charge a premium for registration services, although they are often waived when customers also sign on for Web hosting. Register.com will waive the charge either way. Those who register will still be charged the standard $100 for two years of domain name use by Network Solutions, which runs the InterNIC.
- Thu Jan 20 2000 Domain customers chagrined by registration glitches
Having complained about the lack of competition in the domain registration business, many entrepreneurs are discovering that market choice alone doesn't guarantee better service.
- Wed Sep 22 1999 Tonga to offer 100-year domain name registrations
With competition heating up in the Net name registration market, the kingdom of Tonga is pushing a new gimmick to popularize its ".to" domain--lifetime leases.
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