DomainsBot has released its new “Labs” area, including WONDERFUL new tools and some surprising findings. Shorter domains are not always better!

ICANN settled its suit with VeriSign, but at the meeting in Vancouver it gets served with two more lawsuits alleging antitrust and price-fixing in connection with the ICANN-VeriSign agreement.

Absolut Vodka announces it will emphasize the web over print, but has the company really embraced a “new way of thinking”?

Journal du Net publishes a list every Monday of domain name registration activity by prominent companies and brands

A New Yorker cartoon thinks it’s funny. It’s actually accidentally visionary….

The Zyman Group thinks that customers “in the end” customers “are helpless… they buy the stuff you want them to.” Is this Web .00000001?

While even ICANN’s most loyal supporters are demoralized by its latest deal with VeriSign, the view from Tunis, where the U.N./ITU-sponsored WSIS meeting just finished, is even more dismal.

From a variety of unofficial sources, Names@Work is counting direct traffic (not from search engines) on the web at about 15%. That confirms that domain name traffic needs to be carefully considered when talking about how people get to web sites.

Names@Work is offering a free trademark conflict report between now and December 7 2005.

The Names@Work study on potential conflicts in the .EU Sunrise Period found that some major American brands are at risk. We also put together an easy-to-read overview of .EU rules.