Dot ORG, the Public Interest Registry is launching a new resource center. The purpose of this resource center is to enhance the user experience of the dot org community, and user who visit this new site will find a variety of library of information, interactive tools, examples and online guides.

On this resource center, visitors will see a succinct long list of sites that almost came across all industries. The sites listed there not only using dot org extension, but also famous. You’ll not only see sites that belong to non-profit sector, but commercial sectors such as media, medical, sport, technology, and etc. However, it should be noted that sites listed there are joining the “.ORG Featured Partner Program.”

China search giant Baidu is a new dot CN domain reseller in China. As a picture shown in below, Baidu is an official dot CN registrar as found on CNNIC registrars’ page. So far, from all the tactical moves by Baidu, we see this Chinese search giant is engaged in numerous efforts to provide an one-stop services to the end users, from search, online dictionary, blog, anti-virus program, video, news, till this domain, it showed to people that they’ve positioned well as the number one end-user portal for the China people there.

In fact, the source from China cited that Baidu applied to be the domain reseller for dot CN in last September, got approved in December last year. It is the second China Internet startup that listed in NASDAQ that resell domain names.

Network Solutions, the former biggest domain name registrar before the emerged of GoDaddy, has launched a new program that enable potential buyers to reserve the domain names available that they searched on their site. Many are saying this is “front-running” or “cybersquatter”, a scheme that used by domain name scammers to register some favorite domain names only with the intention to resell those names for a high profits at later stage.

Under this program, the domain names that are searched and found available on Network Solutions will be reserved to the searchers or potential buyers for a period of 4 days, in spite of the potential buyers have no intention to buy those searched domain names. As a consequence, such the domain name records will be removed from the pool of domain name availability, in other word, no other party can register such domain names in this 4 days provided Network Solutions release back the stated domain names to the registry. Despite the fact that Network Solutions charge much higher domain name registration than the other registrars, i.e. $34.99, the domain name reserved can only be registered through Network Solutions within the duration of 4 days.

Though this program is vulnerable to sabotage and vandalism, Network Solutions insisted that this is a customer protection measure, and all the domains it reserve would only place under construction page, which mean no advertisement will be appeared on these pages.

Internet will soon have a domain name that used Cyrillic letter, i.e. рф, reported by Kommersant. However, this Cyrillic letter only be applied to the Russia’s Web community and expected to be launched in next year. Currently, all the domain names for Internet addresses are Roman letters, with the introduction of the domain with Cyrillic letters will most likely raise some concerns for domain name confusion. Though the introduction of domain name registrations that suffix with international languages like this one might attract great attention, it is inevitably the cybersquatters will take advantage of this golden opportunity.

Today Reuters ran an interesting story entitled, “www.sex.asia likely to be Internet domain in demand,” discusses the prospect of dot asia domain business. In fact, the dot asia domain is confirmed to be open for registration started on this October 9. The registration is on the basis that priority registration are limited to registered trademark owners. Apparently, no one will know which name will be the most popular dot asia extension on that day, as individuals, organizations, or the cybersquatters no longer view domain registration or domain parking as a risky business. Instead, they see it as a new opportunity that provide great return.

In the meantime, those who are interested in register the dot asia domain can go to the home page of these dot asia accredited registrars, authorized resellers and affiliates, as found on this page.

Fact tells, as shown in the above picture, and so I have to admit that this blog’s domain name was not a popular name, nor not even mentioned by more than 10 times in Twitter. tweetVOLUME, test this Twitter mashup yourself, it’s fun to know what’s on Twitter users’ minds and what they’re saying everyday.

Google China has registered 44 Google-like domain names in China so far, an act to prevent speculators to grab some other Chinese characters, but similar pronunciation to Google, such as 咕咕, 库高, 古歌, and 谷果. Meanwhile, a Chinese firm based in Beijing with the same 谷歌 name has sued Google China 谷歌信息技术（中国）有限公司, i.e. www.google.com.cn over the same name used, according to this article in China (in Mandarin), claiming that the name Google China used, i.e. 谷歌 has interrupted its daily office operations due to numerous calls received everyday for the Google search engine’s inquiry. Both companies used 谷歌 as the main name of the company.

This is a follow-up post of my second post in this blog. It look like a new top-level domain, i.e. dot asia is set to begin from this October, according to a news in Singapore. There are certain phases before the dot asia domain will be available for public registration, but the most interesting part is that the first-come, first-served domain registration model is not welcome at this time. For now, I’m concern about the respond of this new domain in Asia, as dot com domain name has became a successful practice whenever a person or an organization in registering the domain of a particular Website. On the domain industry, if success is measured by the popularity, the early winner and the ultimate winner has been the dot com extension.