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The New Zealand Domain Name registry is reducing the wholesale domain name fee for .nz domain names by 16% as of the 1st of July. This reduces the annual wholesale fee for the 400,000 active .nz domains from $18 to $15 per domain.

Overstock.com Announces Launch Date of O.BIZ Website Website to Go Live on October 31, 2009 SALT LAKE CITY, Sept. 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Overstock.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:OSTK) announced today that it is building a new website called O.BIZ where businesses and customers can buy bulk merchandise. O.BIZ will launch on October 31, 2009. The online retailer will be working with Neustar, the domain name registry for .BIZ, to launch the new site. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20030

The .cm domain name registry announced , today, that the landrush (first come, first served), domain registration for .cm domain names, originally due at 00:00 UTC tomorrow, has been postponed due to technical problems. “”Unrelated to the widely reported cable fault affecting Internet access in West Africa at present, the .cm registry have cited technical difficulties with their root name servers. The .cm registry have currently postponed the launch until further notice, although it’s antic

ICANN has released to the public a report they commissioned called "Revisiting Vertical Separation of Registries and Registrars," written by CRA International.

In preparation for IWF Awareness Day on October 24, 2008, Afilias has announced that it has become a member of the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF). This will increase Afilias’ ability to be proactive in eliminating child sexual abuse content from the .INFO domain. “Afilias has focused on discovering methods, at the domain name registry level, to create a safer Internet environment in the .INFO domain,” said Hal Lubsen, President and CEO of Afilias. “This year, we have been working with law enf