Domain Name for Sale One careful owner

If the result of a recent survey by Nominent is to be acted upon, a new domain name extension will be born in the .UK domain name space or even and entirely new TLD; .wales or .cym. A recent survey of Welsh businesses and individuals revealed that they would like to have a domain name extension for Wales which is separated from .uk extension all the businesses and individuals in UK use. Give the way things are heading with the .cym campaign, they may well have a separate domain name extension for Wales by 2012.

The .xxx campaign took several years but it eventually succeeds and registration process for this adult domain extension is well on its way now. There are several dozens of other TLDs and SLD being processed, most of them will eventually make it to being approval and available online to register.

With all this new extension that are coming on the market and more still that will be joining them in the new year, the question some people are asking is what about million of domain name that are registered but are not used? that is where the title of this article come into play. There are million of premium and not so premium but yet desirable domain name extension being offered for sale by cyber squatters.

A recent experience when an associate was looking for a domain name to register for a new dating project revealed that there is actually no shortage of domain names , even very good domain names, the problem is that there are just so many cybersquatters and speculator registering domain name and sitting on it in the hope that they may one day sell the domain name for vast sums of money.

The project the associate was looking for a domain name for was a dating site, he came across several dozen of domain name that is suitable for his project available on sale from speculators asking for vast sums of money, eventually he bought flirt online from one of the speculators.

The saying goes that if you buy cheap you buy twice, what if you get it free? well, it seem you do buy two as well giving the fact that Google has just wiped off all sub domains of the ccTLD .cc .
.cc domain name extension is one of the very few domain name extension you can register free of charge which naturally makes that domain extension attract a lot of poor quality website, not to mention that domain name extension being the domain name of choice for spammers, malware peddlers, spammers and fraudsters phishing for credit card and other valuable personal information.

The concept of renting or leasing sub domain name of a domain name is not new, most of the domain name sold by Centralnic such as .uk.com , .gb.com and other are actually sub domain name of a 2 character domain name extension but Centralnic domain name (to be more accurate sub domain names) actually cost more than buying a .com or .co.uk domain name.

The removal of .cc domain extension, mostly .co.cc from Google search engine result page will affect about 11 million or so website hosted by Korean company. Google found an extremely high quantity of spamming and other undesirable site when the perform a scan of the 11 million of so site hosted under the .co.cc domain extension, the alarming quantity of spamming and malware site promoted Google to take the unprecedented step of deindexing the entire .co.cc second-level domain (SLD).

Some Google critics said the ban does not solve the problem nor can Google maintain the ban on .co.cc domain name in the long term.

UK Domain Name Registration up to Ten Years

The most successful ccTLD in the world by many miles is .UK domain name under the careful stewardship of Nominet, the body responsible for overseeing the .uk domain name space. For a long time, perhaps more than a decade Noniment seem to use the Ford dictum of having a car in any colour as long as its black to the duration for which a domain name can be registered; 2 years.
Nominet being principally an non profit making organisation which tends to consult with stakeholders in the .UK domain name space before new policies are implemented is currently seeking input from its member about charging the maximum number of years a .uk domain name can be registered and the price of the new variable domain name registration.

One of the most interesting things about Nominent and its administration of the .UK domain name space is the fact that it has not increase the cost of .uk domain name registration to its members for many many years, contrast that with .com TLD which has had a number of price rises over the years. In its new proposal about variable domain name registration, the consultation page suggest domain names should be registered from between 1 year and 10 years, the noticeable thing about prices is the fact that the price for 2 years remains its current £5+VAT.

Suggested Registration Period
Currently, Nominent is seeking feedback from its members on 4 domain name registration period, they are:
1. Introduce variable registration periods of 1, 2, 5 and 10 years
2. Introduce variable registration periods of 2, 5 and 10 years
3. Introduce variable registration periods of 1-10 years
4. Introduce variable registration periods of 2-10 years

You can discuss the above post and other domain name registration related issues at UK domain name registration forum.

If you have always dream of having your own gTLD, a dream that was virtually impossible before, your prayers have been answered because it is now possible to have your own gTLD, so technically, I cam have my very own .temi domain extension name space. This landmark in domain name gTLD naming is made possible by the The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann), members of ICANN voted to allow this free for all in gTLD creation.

From next year, provided you have £114,000 to bung ICANN, have technical capacity to run your own TLD including policy to protect trademark and copyright owners interest, you could be allowed to run your own gTLD. The new deregulation by ICANN is sure to increase the number of existing gTLD domain name extension far beyond the 22 that currently exist. One should spare though for the owner of .xxx gTLD domain name who campaign and spent tons of money to have the domain extension approved by ICAANN, they could have waited till next year and get it on the cheap.

Before you start raiding your piggy bank in the hope that you will fnd £114,000 to start your own gTLD you should consider the cost of putting a proposal together or ICANN, setting up the infrastructure, having an abuse department that run 24-7 , 365 days a year and you will realise that ICANN fee is probably the lower of the cost you need to think of if you want to run your own gTLD.

You can discuss domain name registration issues at the doman name registration forum or Webmaster Serve.