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The dotMobi registry recently lowered the minimum registration term for .mobi domains from 2 years to 1 year. This move was necessary and expected as it will attract new domain investors to the .mobi extension. As of right now, at least GoDaddy ($14.99/year) and Moniker ($12.95/year) allow you to register .mobi domains for 1 year [...]

Richard Starkey, the artist known as Ringo Starr, won control of the domain RingoStarr.mobi in a highly interesting arbitration case that illustrates the apparent differences between the UK and US legal apprach towards domains that consist solely of a trademark plus a domain extension (trademark.tld). To obtain the rights to a domain name under ICANN's [...]

DNJournal's latest weekly top 20 list of reported domain sales is shown below (for the complete list go here). This week's top sale, Tandberg.com, is an example of the type of domain sales that normally remain private. The domain was sold in late 2006 from one Norwegian company, Tandberg Data, to another Norwegian company, Tandberg, [...]

dotMobi today announced an exclusive partnership with Telecom Italia Mobile (TIM), making them an official worldwide registry for the dotMobi domain. TIM will become the first mobile operator in the world to sell .mobi domains exclusively to customers, and to extend their mobile Internet offerings to subscribers through new TIM .mobi sites. This will create [...]

It's no secret that domain prices are on the way up. But what happened this weekend caught even the hardened domainers among us by surprise: The domain auction for xn--fx-kja.com attracted 102 bids from 26 bidders – and closed with a final bid of $46,001! These domain investors must know something that we don't:

Ten months after .eu domains became available to the public the EU Registry (Eurid) celebrates the registration of the 2.5 millionth .eu domain. The .eu extension has long surpassed .us (1.19 million active domains) and .biz (1.6 million active domains) as well as all European country extension except .de (10.65 million active domains) and .uk [...]

DomainTools.com released a new domain tool called Psychic Whois. The tool auto-completes your domain inquiries with suggestions and checks the availability of domain names while you type. A big drawback is that the tool apparently generates its ideas from existing domain names. This means that most (but not all) suggested domains are already taken in [...]