A British fan of the classic sci-fi story War of the Worlds has sold his domain name to a Hollywood studio. Rob Kinder, who became hooked on the story at the age of six, has accepted an undisclosed sum for the domain waroftheworldsmovie.com from filmmakers Paramount Pictures who want it to promote Steven Spielberg's 100-million-dollar remake of the movie which will star Tom Cruise.
3M and Register.com, Inc. (www.register.com), a leading provider of global domain name registration and Internet services, announced on September 30 that they will be hosting a corporate domain name seminar for some of the world's most valuable brands. The one-day seminar will be held on September 30 at 3M's corporate headquarters in St. Paul, Minnesota, and will feature presentations from leading industry experts on corporate domain name issues, Internet policies and domain name dispute resolution.
The China Internet Network Information Center (www.cnnic.net.cn) announced on September 30 that China's domain name .cn had hit 402 291 by the end of August. China's state-level domain name .cn has grown the fastest in the world increasing by 89% in 2003.
The Associated Press (www.ap.org) announced on September 29 that Colorado Congresswoman Marilyn Musgrave's old campaign website www.musgrave2002.com has been taken over by pornographers. A Florida company now owns the rights to Musgrave's former domain name and has been using it to show pornography.
Scottsdale, Arizona-based Go Daddy Group, Inc. (www.GoDaddy.com), parent company of GoDaddy.com, the number one registrar of new domain names, announced on September 29 the acquisition of Innerprise (www.innerprise.net), a privately held company specializing in the development of information cataloguing and searching software.
In connection with the forthcoming third anniversary of real-time domain registrations, global provider of domain name registry services - Afilias, has
made publicly available a three-year analysis of the .INFO domain as the most renowned among the company's TLDs released in the course of this period. This
domain name analysis will serve as a clearly illustrative demonstration of the Internet name space expansion lately.
Telegraph.co.uk (www.telegraph.co.uk) announced on September 27 that the Tories have accused Labour of preparing a "desperate dirty tricks campaign" after finding out that the party has registered three Internet addresses in Michael Howard's name. The domains michaelhowardmp.org, michaelhowardmp.net and michaelhowardmp.org.uk bear a striking similarity to the Tory leader's official site http://michaelhowardmp.com.
Baltimore, Maryland-based BulkRegister (www.bulkregister.com), a leading ICANN-accredited business domain registrar, announced on September 27 an industry breakthrough called TransferXpress(SM) (www2.bulkregister.com/transfers.php), a process which combines engineered automation with live, hands-on Transfer Agents who guarantee that transfers into BulkRegister are one-step and easy. BulkRegister developed TransferXpress(SM) due to requests from its members for an easier system for transfers. BulkRegister is offering special pricing for the launch of TransferXpress(SM) of $8.99 for .com, .net, .org, .biz, .info and .us domain transfers to encourage new users to experience the ease of TransferXpress(SM).
BRS Media (www.brsmedia.fm), an e-commerce firm and a domain registrar of premium multimedia .FM, .AM and .TV domains as well as boutique domains such as .md, .la, .bz, .cc and .ws, announced on September 25 that its iDotz.Net (www.idotz.net), a full service multi-domain registrar, is offering a "New Fall Season .TV Special" on domains.
Dedicated to protect trademarks on the Internet, .TM Domain Names (www.Domain.TM), already used by more than a third of the world's 100 most well known brands including Google and Microsoft, reported on September 24 a significant domain name registration growth as more and more companies endorse their support of Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) and their special tools to boost customers' confidence in e-Commerce.
