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An opportunity for a bit of Christmas in the New Year! The domain name registry for the Christmas Islands now has a country-code shared-registry system (CCSRS), which only allows registrations through an accredited registrar. However the very first registrar, CITC, is now up and running and will start accepting applications for .cx domain names from January 8, 2001. The registrar expects that the .cx ccTLD will become very popular as it will be available to anyone, unlike the sub-domains that currently exist such as com.cx, net.cx and org.cx which require a local presence within the Christmas Islands.
Nissan Motor Co Ltd goes to court to rescue nissan.com Uzi Nissan, a North Carolina based software developer, has been operating his small business through nissan.com since 1994. In 1999 the Nissan Motor Co Ltd decided that it wanted this domain name to promote its automobile business and rather than attempt settlement through ICANN's Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP), despite it's many successful disputes being resolved, attempted to fight through the courts. Nissan Motor Co Ltd have recently appealed against the preliminary injunction which stated that Uzi Nissan could keep nissan.com live, by ensuring he displayed a disclaimer that his site was not associated with the car manufacturer and that he did not allow automobile advertising on his site. They claim that thousands of visitors to nissan.com are misled and are not looking for Nissan Computer or Uzi Nissan and that Uzi Nissan generates revenue by diverting these visitors to numerous advertisers, who pay per click through. The case continues. ICANN delay launch The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has rolled back its target date for contract completion with the new registry operators according to Newsbytes. The ICANN President, Mike Roberts, said this week, "We're close, but that doesn't mean we are ready to announce anything yet, in mid to late January we will announce that we have completed contracts". It is likely that the new domain suffixes will be made available to all in the summer period. At present Roberts will not put a date on when the new registries will come online.
NetNames market surveillance team has reported increasing demand for information relating to the new domain name suffixes. The company has now set-up a new suffix news and information portal at http://www.gtld.co.uk and http://www.gtld.com to allow enquirers to keep up to date on when the new top-level domains will become available and how to apply. The new domains will enable greater ease of navigation on the web and put an end to the artificial shortage of domain names.
When registering your product, service or brand as a domain name think about the different types of typographical errors. As well as missing repeat letters in the middle of a domain name, the latest research shows that a common typo mistake is to miss the dot following the "www" in the Internet browser address line. Register wwwyourname.com and its variants (note the missing dot) and you will help to ensure that your visitors reach you every time, and will also combat the threat of cybersquatters and typosquatters.
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