This week sees a number of changes to web domain naming conventions, heralding a more diverse future for URLs globally. Icann, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers have now approved web domains which include Chinese characters. This new ruling will make it much easier for Chinese speakers to navigate the web. (more…)

Savvy internet users have taken the opportunity to snap up iPad related domain names way ahead of time and they are now reselling them for millions. It seems a fairly simple idea, one that many of us are probably thinking we could have and perhaps should have thought of, but domain name speculation is not an easy business. (more…)

The theory that sex sells has never been disproved, many of the most visited sites on the internet that do not have any affiliation to searching or social networking have something to do with sex. So it doesn’t come as a surprise that the domain name ‘Sex.com’ is the most expensive in internet history. Well, get your chequebooks out because it is going up for auction. (more…)

Despite the global economic downturn causing mass panic as we plunge into recession the ever reliable internet has been quietly going about its business and making some very good progress at the same time. (more…)