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Verisign Could Get Whacked A Quick 20% If Monopoly CrumblesWednesday, July 21, 2010 @ 3:19AMA CFIT victory would attract new players to the market, creating competition and potentially forcing

DotCo Launch: Over 90 Thousand Domain Names in 15 Minutes!Wednesday, July 21, 2010 @ 3:15AMDotCo, which is the ccTLD for Colombia, is opening up to general public registration today. According to official sources from both Neustar and CoInternet the registry has handled over 90 thousand registrations in the first 15 minutes!

Pappas Group Marketing Campaign for .CO Domain Extension Celebrates a New Era of the InternetWednesday, July 21, 2010 @ 3:15AM.CO Internet opens registration to the worldwide public

Overstock buys the O.co domain nameWednesday, July 21, 2010 @ 2:52AMThe $350,000 purchase is part of building its brand around the single letter O.

Moving DNSSEC Forward: Help for Registries, Registrars, ISPs/Hosting, Enterprises, and Name OwnersWednesday, July 21, 2010 @ 2:00AMDNSSEC adoption has been slow, but is now picking up speed, thanks to organizations leading the way. In October, 2009 the .TM registry signed with DNSSEC . In June, 2010 both .ORG and .EURid both announced the signing of their registries with DNSSEC. Before .TM a handful of other registries also signed with DNSSEC, those being .SE, .BR, .BG, .CZ and .PR. Last week there were several press ...

VeriSign Threatened by Antitrust SuitWednesday, July 21, 2010 @ 12:14AMVeriSign shares could be worth substantially less it loses a ruling in an important anti-trust case against it.

eNom Announces the Launch of .CO Domains to All Resellers at HostingCon 2010Tuesday, July 20, 2010 @ 7:00PMSANTA MONICA, Calif.----eNom, Inc., the world’s largest ICANN accredited domain name wholesaler, announced today at HostingCon 2010 the availability of .CO domain names to all eNom resellers.

NameCheap Offers .CO Domain Name RegistrationMonday, July 19, 2010 @ 10:35PMNameCheap, an ICANN Accredited Domain Name Registrar, is offering .CO domains at a super low price on top of its affordable offerings of .COM, .NET, .ORG, .BIZ, .INFO, and other domain name TLDs. NameCheap is a highly preferred domain name registrar with superior customer service.

Internet domain riches fail to arrive in TuvaluSunday, July 18, 2010 @ 6:17AMThe tiny South Pacific island state of Tuvalu, where the average income is little more than £12 a week, has taken on one of the giants of cyberspace by demanding a greater share of the lucrative earnings generated by its unique domain name suffix.

Porn sites closer to .xxx Web addressSunday, July 18, 2010 @ 4:45AMThe agency that controls domain names says it will consider adding .xxx to the list of web suffixes.