In 2010, trademark holders filed 2,696 cybersquatting cases covering 4,370 domain names with the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center (WIPO Center) under procedures based on the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP), an increase of 28 per cent over the 2009 level, compared to an increase in domain registrations of 6.3 per cent in 2009, and of 16 per cent over the previous record year, 2008. The WIPO Center is the organisation that deals with the largest number of dispute resolutions dealing with domain names

[news release] Hong Kong Internet Registration Corporation Limited (HKIRC) today announced the official launch of the full Chinese .香港 Internationalised Country Code Top Level Domain (.香港 domain name). HKIRC has received positive response during the half-month soft launch period, with about 20,000 .香港 domain names activated

WordPress Suffer Chinese DDoS Attacks Monday, March 07, 2011, 5:47:01 AM WordPress.com was the latest site to suffer at the hands of a vicious DDoS beating when an attack “multiple Gigabits per second” strong hit it last week. In a statement released to its users, WordPress said it was “currently being targeted by a extremely large Distributed Denial of Service attack which is affecting connectivity in some cases […] The size of the attack is multiple Gigabits per second and tens of millions of packets per second.” It took around 4 hours to sub-side the attack and sustain the site, which is now completely stable. Sara Rosso, a representative of WordPress owner Automatic has said that WordPress is now working with it upstream providers to prevent and better deal with this kind of attack in the future

Press8 Telecom: Affordable VoIP with a la carte extras.

A screenshot of Host1Plus Mandarin-language website (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) – UK Web hosting provider Host1Plus ( www.host1plus.com ) announced on Friday that it has expanded its operations to China with colocation in Singapore and a new Chinese version of its website.

Developments over the last 12 months in the Chinese and Hong Kong ccTLDs are outlined in this article by lawyers from the Hong Kong-based law firm Mayer Brown JSM. The article also gives a quick overview of the new measures and policies adopted by the China Internet Network Information Centre (CNNIC) and Hong Kong Internet Registration Corporation Limited (HKIRC)

Stolen ITunes Accounts for Sale in China Thursday, January 06, 2011, 11:31:22 AM After thousands of ITunes users had their accounts hacked back in July last year, Apple promised to step up its security. However, 6 months on ITunes users have once again found themselves victims of fraudulent activity as a reported 50,000 accounts have been compromised.

Telnic Limited, the Registry Operator for the award-winning communications focused .tel top level domain (TLD), announced that Directel Macau Limited the  official  Yellow  Pages  for  Macau  for  the  past  21  years,  is  the  first  Yellow  Pages organization in Asia to provide .tel to all of its customers. Directel  Macau,  which  runs  Macau  Yellow  Pages,  one  of  the  most  visited  websites  in  the  country,  will  provide localized .tel  services  to all  of  its customers.   The solution  will  include  a  Macau  Yellow  Pages‐branded  .tel  proxy page  and  both  simplified  Chinese  and  English  versions  of  the  content.  This  will  provide  its  customers  with  an integrated and branded online presence to use as a central point of contact, all managed by Macau Yellow Pages, and which is automatically optimized for mobile and traditional web access

The two email addresses used in the test, and the .alordon domain, rendered in Arabic (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Internet infrastructure provider Afilias ( www.afilias.info ) reported this week that it is, in partnership with the National Information Technology Center of Jordan, producing the first public demonstration of an email message between two internationalized email addresses in the Arabic language, using Afilias’s new IDN email technology and the IDN TLD from the .jo registry. “With the 83 percent of the world’s population estimated to be non-English speaking, this is an important first step in bringing a useful Internet to the majority of the world’s Internet users, which were previously shut out of using the Internet in their native language,” says John Kane, vice president of corporate services for Afilias, quoted in the company’s press release. “The adoption of IDN domain names has been inhibited by the lack of technical support within email programs for internationalized addresses which would still be compatible with the global DNS system

The Italian ccTLD, .IT, has passed the two million active registrations mark this week with there being 2,001,192 registrations as of today. The registry has announced that in the past five years, the number of .IT domains has doubled with .IT remaining the fifth largest ccTLD in Europe after .DE (Germany) who has 13,905,243 registrations, .UK (United Kingdom – 8,802,095) and .NL (The Netherlands – 4,094,078) while .EU (European Union) has 3,285,310.