DomainNews reports that eighteen months after launch there are now more than 2.5m .eu

We’re very happy to be able to add several new Ukraine (.ua) domains to our portfolio here at e3internet. All of these are available without trademark documentation so present an attractive option for international companies wanting to make a presence in the country.
Ukraine has 3m internet users currently and with 43% of the population [...]

dotMobi, the company behind .mobi announced this week that more than 500,000 .mobi domains have been registered in 104 countries since the domain’s commercial launch in October 2006.
The continual growth of .mobi registrations illustrates that content developers are focused on delivering quality sites and applications to mobile phones for consumers to use. Millions of [...]

NeuStar the Administration company for the gTLD .biz have announced that IDN (International Domain Names) orders can be made in Japanese and Chinese character sets.
Currently .biz also accepts the following language sets, German, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Icelandic and Spanish making it one of the most internationally accepted IDN domains.

“China and Japan are two [...]

According to Compulenta.ru, the Russian Registry (Ru-Center) is considering plans to allow .ru domain owners to maintain anonymous registrations, otherwise known as WHOIS privacy. This will allow them to hide their personal details from public access.
According to Andrei Vorobiev, head of the Public Relations at Ru-Center, they planned to maintain public access only to the [...]

Doma.in reports that ICANN have unamimously approved the .tel domain and have added the sTLD to the Internet’s root nameservers.
The domain will be adminstered by Telnic, and they are expected to publish a timetable for the rollout of the domain in the coming weeks.
The .Tel domain will provide seamless integration of existing methods of [...]

The landrush period for .kr (Korean) domains has now been extended until the 18th of April. Until now the .kr domain was only available in the second level, i.e. mydomain.co.kr but first level .kr registrations are now open for registration.
Over 70% of South Korea’s population is reported to use the Internet on a regular [...]

Domain News reports on a Wall Street Journal article (subscription only) about the success of .mobi domains for small businesses.
One hotelier said he gets 30 to 40 new calls a month from his site http://www.kilburnie.mobi, which is probably a positive return on the investment.
.mobi is one of the most interesting sTLD’s to get released [...]

DNJournal has an interesting article by Dan Warner (COO Fabulous.com). He points out the motivating factors for domain buyers looking to purchase in the secondary market.
Consumers purchase domains for a variety of reasons. These unique motivating factors shape the value which is attributed to domains by individual buyers. It logically follows that a domain’s [...]

Verisign, the Registry in charge of .com/.net gTLD’s will be raising the prices of these domains on October 15 2007. There will be a 7% increase on .com and a 10% increase on .net domains. We are still waiting for news on how our suppliers will act on the news from Verisign but I would [...]