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Thursday May 4th, 2006

MySpace ex-CEO buys eNom domain registrar

http://www.enom.com/inthenews.asp?pr=060501demandmedia

eNom, Inc., one of the world's largest Internet domain name registrars, announced that it has been acquired by Demand Media, Inc., a new company headed by former MySpace.com chairman, and former CEO of Intermix Media, Richard Rosenblatt. Demand Media will broaden eNom's offerings by developing proprietary content tools and technologies as well as new online advertising opportunities for eNom's clients.

"For eNom's valued network of resellers and retail customers, the acquisition represents no changes to existing relationships," assured Paul Stahura, eNom founder and CEO and new President and Chief Operating Officer of Demand Media. "eNom will continue to offer domain name and related services under its own brand. eNom's resellers can be confident that eNom will continue to build and enhance its infrastructure enabling eNom to offer an even more robust suite of services."

"The added capital from Demand Media will accelerate our commitment to grow our business as an ICANN accredited domain name registrar and provider of high-quality value added services," added Stahura.

Described by the Wall Street Journal as a "serial Internet entrepreneur," Demand Media, Inc's Chairman and CEO Richard Rosenblatt ran MySpace.com's parent company Intermix Media Inc. and negotiated its sale to News Corp. for more than $650 million last year. Richard was also the founding investor and vice-chairman of Great Domains as well as Chairman and CEO of iMALL, Inc. In addition to eNom, Inc., Demand Media, Inc. also purchased San Francisco-based eHow Inc., which provides niche content for websites.

Saturday April 15th, 2006 (Tax Day)

Domain sales catch mainstream attention (again)

USA Today ran an article yesterday about some of the larger sales this past year (though no mention of the .EU fiasco)

This year, 15 names used in Internet addresses have resold for at least six figures to companies and individuals hoping to tap into big audiences. On.com got $635,000. Macau.com fetched $550,000.

Sex.com went for a record $12 million in cash and stock to adult-entertainment company Escom in January, according to industry-trade reports and sources with knowledge of the deal, who declined to be named because of the private nature of the sale.

Friday April 14th, 2006

.EU breaks 1.5 million amid controversy

The .EU domain name registry boasts over 1.5 million registered as of Friday morning however the complaints, controversy and conspiracy theories are starting to build around the net. Even the president of GoDaddy (currently dreaming of a public stock offering) has declared foul play as there are apparently a bunch of phantom registrars that are all owned by a few individuals. The UK Register has picked up on the drama too.

I predict it will take about six months for the first big .eu resales to happen and then the drama will kick into high gear, however there will probably be some revealing research before then to track down the few who were able to secure the most valuable, if not the most quantity of names.

In other news, the .US registry broke the one million mark this week as well according to the statistics found on Whois Source (now renamed as "Domain Tools"). The difference is it took them four years to do what .EU did in a day!

Thursday April 13th, 2006

Firefox passes Acid2 test with "reflow branch"

There is a new project for Firefox/Mozilla to allow it to pass the web standards Acid2 test. This will allow it to join the ranks of Opera 9 and Safari 1.3. The pre-release demo is impressive if you can grasp the significance. IE6 and IE7 will NOT pass the Acid2 test as the developers have expressed no interest in meeting the standards, making it the final large browser unable to do so.

So basically we will still be stuck writing code for web standards and then just special additions for internet explorer. In a way this actually isn't news, it's the status quo.

Saturday April 8th, 2006

one million .EU domains registered in 24 hours !

In case you haven't heard, one million .EU domain names have been purchased since open registration (aka "landrush") started Friday, April 7th 2006. That has to be some kind of new record since back when eNom spontaneously registered one million .info domains on behalf of the .com owners, over a year ago. The difference is these are real and paid for, though how many are for active websites vs domain name speculation has yet to be determined.

Here's where you can see the near real-time statistics for .EU registrations.

Here is the official WHOIS lookup for .EU domain names in case you are curious who filed for what domain and who actually got it under the sunrise period, etc.

Friday April 7th, 2006

spyware+click fraud+syndication=nasty

One of my favorite researchers for subject-matter that I would deem "naughtiness on the web" has published another great article on a growing tactic he has discovered. Check out Ben Edelman's newest paper on how "syndication fraud" is being paired up with spyware and click-fraud.

My August examples demonstrate what I call "syndication fraud" -- Yahoo placing advertisers' ads into spyware programs, and charging advertisers for resulting clicks. But Yahoo's spyware problems extend beyond improper syndication. In my August syndication fraud examples, an advertiser only pays Yahoo if a user clicks the advertiser's ad. Not so for three of today's examples. Here, spyware completely fakes a click -- causing Yahoo to charge an advertiser a "pay-per-click" fee, even though no user actually clicked on any pay-per-click link. This is "click fraud."

Google enhances toolbar for Firefox

If you are using Firefox (and really, you certainly should be) you might be interested to know that Google has released an enhanced v2 version of their Firefox Toolbar.

Even if you knew about that, many people aren't aware Google has a whopping three official extension for Firefox.

By the way, the best way to stay on top of what is new and exciting at Google is to keep an eye on Labs.Google.com.

Wednesday April 5th, 2006

April 2006: Google pagerank update?

There are some reports on the web of some domains/websites experiencing PR updates on some Google datacenters. Be sure to check yours with one of the 3rd party pagerank checking tools out there...

a few of the dozens:
http://www.seobench.com/google-pr-vs-yahoo-wr/
http://livepr.raketforskning.com/
http://www.seochat.com/seo-tools/future-pagerank/

Tuesday April 4th, 2006

.EU "land rush" begins April 7th, open registration

The sunrise registration period for the new .eu TLD finally ends Friday and then ANYONE will be able to register any remaining domain name. There have been over 300k pre-registrations, so Good Luck!

http://www.eurid.eu/en/general/howToGetEuDomainName

(By the way, I predicted it would not happen until now back in October of 2004!)

Wednesday September 14th, 2005

Domain Food, some website bugs fixed

A few site bugs have been fixed today including one huge problem with long delays after clicking on a link.

A big thank you to our visitors for your patience and feel free to report additional bugs or request new features at any time using the link in the extreme upper left-hand corner.

Friday November 19th, 2004

WayBack Machine held admissible as evidence

I found this very interesting, may be of use to those dealing with trademark issues, etc.

http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/packets/vol_2_no_3/002728.shtml

Magistrate Judge Arlander Keys rejected Polska's assertion of hearsay, holding that the archived copies were not themselves statements susceptible to hearsay exclusion, since they merely showed what Polska had previously posted on its site. He also noted that, since Polska was seeking to suppress evidence of its own previous statements, the snapshots would not be barred even if they were hearsay. Over Polska's objection, Judge Keys accepted an affidavit from an Internet Archive employee as sufficient to authenticate the snapshots for admissibility.

Visit the Wayback Machine (archive.org)

Tuesday November 9th, 2004

Lock 'em or lose 'em - hijacking starts Nov 12th

This is an important reminder to ALL domain name holders:

Starting November 12th, .COM .NET and .CC can now be instantly transfered out of your account, by any person without warning, if you do not have them registrar-locked.

TLDs with EPP keys like .ORG .INFO and .US are not affected and therefore safe.

You can thank Verisign/NetSol for the mess of stolen domains you are going to see in the news over the next few months, because they never implimented EPP keys in their registry. Don't become one of the victims, doublecheck your portfolio now.

Once stolen, you will NOT be able to get them back quickly, easily or cheaply. Most registrars will not get involved in such matters and refer you to WIPO, where you will need to file a $1000-$1500 complaint and wait weeks or months for a review.

The ICANN ruling which caused this to be allowed can be read here:
http://www.icann.org/announcements/advisory-12jul04.htm
It was initially meant to force badly behaving registrars to allow transfers out of their systems for domain name owners who were being forced to stay and pay high renewal fees, etc. However the system now has the worse effect that anyone can transfer the names out a bit too easily.

Saturday November 6th, 2004

Rugby.com sells for $350,000

Communicate.com has put out a press release stating they have sold Rugby.com for $350,000 to a North Carolina-based investment company called "Peninsula Investments".

It is interesting to note that Communicate.com claims to have last month sold for one million dollars; Automobile.com, Exercise.com, Call.com and Makeup.com to "Manhattan Assets Corp." In addition they receive a lifetime five percent royalty for those four domains.

Among their portfolio includes:

airfare.cn, boxing.com, body.com, brazil.com, cologne.com, cricket.com, canadian.com, electronic.com, karate.com, frequenttraveller.com , leisure.com , importers.com greatbritain.com, ginger.cn, rodeo.com, investmentbanking.cn, indonesia.com, greentea.cn, jointventure.cn, malaysia.com, keyboard.com, wrestling.com, number.com, overseas.com, veg.com, rooms.cn , mouse.com, yen.com, vancouver.com, naturalgas.cn, vietnam.com, perfume.com seafood.cn. soybean.cn veggie.com

Tuesday November 2nd, 2004

.ORG domains suspended for bad phone numbers

PIR is going to suspend .org domain names from resolving in two days that have bad phone number data in their WHOIS details:

The Public Interest Registry (PIR.org), is mandating that the WHOIS for all .ORG registrations contain a valid phone number.

Please log into your account and ensure that all contacts (Registrant, Billing, Technical, Administrative, & Aux Billing) have a valid phone number associated with them. Any names that do not have a valid phone number by Sunday, November 3rd will be taken out of the zone by PIR and will not resolve until the phone numbers are updated.

While some may scoff at their ability to detect a legitimate phone number, it is fairly easy to scan for mismatched country codes, area codes and people that like to enter 999-999-9999, etc.

Monday November 1st, 2004

GoDaddy $7.95 .com, $3.95 .biz, $1 .info promo

You can now get .com domains at GoDaddy for only $7.95

also available at GoDaddy are $1 .info domain names

and a promo for $4.95 .us domain names

and a promo for $3.95 .biz domain names

Note that on some of these GoDaddy adds the 25 cent ICANN fee.

Saturday October 23rd, 2004

Yahoo to close PayPal competitor service

Yahoo's PayDirect was a little known competitor to PayPal. It showed some promise over the years but apparently the eBay buyout of PayPal was the final stroke to their lack of popularity.

http://news.zdnet.com/2102-9588_22-5422577.html?tag=printthis

In a notice on the service's Web site, Yahoo said it will begin to shutter the service on Nov. 22. Beginning on that date, the Web portal will no longer let people open new accounts or send and receive payments from non-PayDirect users.

Yahoo launched PayDirect in 2000 as a payment system for its online auctions customers. The company acquired payment technology provider Arthas months earlier to jumpstart the efforts.

Since then, Yahoo has retreated from parts of its auctions business. In 2002, the company said it would close its European auction business and point its customers to industry giant eBay. Yahoo still runs its U.S.-based auction site and accepts PayPal payments.

About a year ago Citibank shutdown their C2it payment service, so PayPal's only large competition left to their 50 million registered members might be a more advanced version of Amazon's Honor System (currently in testing but which unfortunately appears to have much higher rates and payment size limitations). But here is a surprisingly long list of smaller alternatives for those doing research:

2CheckOut, iKobo, NoChex, Epassporte, e-gold, authorize.net, iBill, Kagi, ClickBank, DigiBuy, VeriSign Payflow, Affero, BTClick&Buy, CCAvenue, CCBill, CCNow, ClickBank, DigiBuy, DigitalCandle, FastPay, ImagineNation, InstaBill, Jettis, Kagi, MembershipPlus, Moneybookers, MultiCards, MyPaySystems, PartyKey, Pay-Line, Paymate, Process54, ProPay, Reg.Net, RegNow, RegSoft, Share*It, StormPay, SWREG, V-Share, Verotel, VolPay.

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Thursday October 14th, 2004

.eu TLD a reality, but think 2006

After years of speculation and silly delays, the new .eu TLD for europe looks like it will finally become a reality, according to the updated timetable at http://eurid.org/Information/timetable.html
and their associated press release http://eurid.org/News/press121004.htm

However despite all the recent excitement, it is easy to see that while sunrise registrations (in defense of trademark names) will occur in late 2005, it is unlikely that regular customers will be able to get their .eu domain name active before early 2006, at best still too late for the 2005 holiday season. Why .eu took so long could be a true study in needless bureaucracy, arriving over four years since it's conception. Note that .eu ownership will require European presence although it is likely "agents" will appear to get around this issue to allow worldwide purchases.

Other coverage:
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/internet/0,39020369,39170242,00.htm
http://www.demys.net/news/2004/10/14_eu.htm
http://out-law.com/php/page.php?page_id=eudomaintolaunch1097760729

Monday October 11th, 2004 (Columbus Day)

Vegas.com tries to buy LasVegas.com for $12m

If this transfer happens, it will be the highest (public) domain name sale ever!
http://lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/text/2004/oct/08/517637350.html

The company that operates the VEGAS.com Web site has asked a Clark County District Court judge to permit it to purchase the rights to use the rival lasvegas.com domain name.

Court records say that in July Greenspun Media offered $12 million for the rights to the lasvegas.com name. Stephens was issued the "notice of intent" a day after the offer was made. On Aug. 19, Sherman Frederick, president of Stephens Media, sent a letter exercising the company's option rights. But on Aug. 24, VEGAS.com President Howard Lefkowitz responded that the Stephens bid did not match the terms of the VEGAS.com offer.

Friday October 8th, 2004

eNom registers million .info names in controversy

Netcraft has excellent coverage on a story that has been brewing quietly behind the scenes, noticed only by certain domain professionals until now.

Domain owners are protesting a move by eNom to register the .info equivalents of nearly a million .com domains owned by its customers. Domain name statistics show that eNom registered 950,000 domain names between Sept. 27 and Oct. 4. The domains were registered through Sipence, which has the same address as eNom in an office suite in Bellevue, Wash.

It is unknown what eNom's exact plan is with the domains but it is easily believed they will attempt to sell them back to the alternate com/net/org owners.

Germany's .de ccTLD breaks 8 million mark

Germany now has the largest country code TLD in the world with 8 million registrations, followed by 3.7 million for England.

Denic reports eight millionth .de registration

.de Denic received the eight millionth application for the registration of a domain. Denic has further improved the position of .de as the world's favourite Country Code TLD, ahead of .uk, which has around 3.7 million registrations.
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Only one TLD - .com, with more than 30 million domains - is more intensively used than .de.

Wednesday October 6th, 2004

Google PageRank update underway!

If you have created a new site in the past few months or have done alot of updates to an existing one, you might want to check your page rank over the next day or so.

Google is just now doing a PankRank update after many months of anxious waiting by webmasters.

You can see your PageRank in the Google directory if you are in DMOZ, or via the Google Toolbar or various Mozilla/Firefox third party extensions. There are also some websites out there that can check PageRank (although without Google's blessing).

Highest (published) Domain Sales of all time

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Highest (published) Domain Sales over $100,000

business.com - $7.5 million (Nov 1999) *
casino.com - $ 5.5 million (Oct 2003) *
Korea.com - $5 million (Jan 2000) *
AsSeenOnTV.com - $5 million (Jan 2000)*
wine.com - $3.3 million+ (Sep 1999, resold in 2001 at bankruptcy auction)
AltaVista.com - $3.25 million (Jul 1999) *
loans.com - $3 million (Jan 2000, sold to Bank of America, GD)
~~eShow.com - $3 million (May 1999)~~ (fake/rumor)
wines.com - $2.9 million (needs verification)
CreditCards.com - $2.75 million (July 2004)
Tom.com - $2.5 million (Feb 2000)
~~dotnology.com - $2.5 million (Apr 2000)~~ (fake/rumor)
autos.com - $2.2 million (Dec 1999)
coupons.com - $2.2 million (Dec 1999, HD)
express.com - $2 million (Dec 1999)
~~celebrities.com - $2 million (Apr 2000)~~ (fake/rumor)
England.com, Britain.com, London.com - $2 million (1999, sold to Globalvision)
savings.com - $1.9 million (Mar 2000)
mortgage.com - $1.8 million
deposit.com - $1.5 million (Mar 2000)
fly.com - $1.5 million (Feb 2000)
MarketingToday.com - $1.5 million (Nov 1999, needs clarification)
men.com - $1.32 million (Dec 2003, full payment fufilled May 2004)
feedback.com - $1.23 million (Feb 2000, GD)
phone.com - $1.2 million
find.com - $1.2 million
mercury.com - $1.1 million (March 2004 - $700k cash)
Bingo.com - $1.1 million (2000)
WallStreet.com - $1.03 million (Apr 1999, NC)
CyberWorks.com + .net - $1 million (Aug 2000, NYT)
If.com - $1 million (early 2000)
Britain.com - $1 million
Rock.com - $1 million (1999, NYT)
Sky.com - $1 million (Jan 2000)
whitehousecrisis.com - $1 million (needs verification)
Beauty.cc - $1 million (July 2000, only $200k in cash *)
eflowers.com - $1 million (Feb 1999, $25k + 50 cents per transaction for life?)

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Tuesday August 24th, 2004

WesternAustralia.com sells for $35,500+ (US)

The Australian government seems to be a big domain name spender this year.

$50,000 AUD was recently paid for WesternAustralia.com (which is around $35,500 in US dollars) by the Western Australian Tourism Commission, a government organization. They had been using WesternAustralia.net since April of this year.

Tourism Australia paid over $120,000 (US) for TourismAustralia.com back in May 2004.

Monday August 23rd, 2004

eBay domain sales Aug 8th - Aug 21st, 2004

Domain Food now feature a "recent domain sales page" at http://domainfood.com/sales/
Here is a highlight from our collection:

top eBay domain sales $100 or above
August 8th - August 21st, 2004

about 1749 items listed, only about 19 items sold for $100 or more
(very slow two weeks for eBay domain name market)

(note: only verified as eBay posted sale, not for actual transfer)

BuyingAHome.com $15,100 8/16
iPodV.COM $2,500 8/22
Nashville.Info $1,000 8/11
(80 domains) $990 8/11
market-the-net.com $495 8/8
Vehiclemonitoring.com $400 8/13
Bed.info $425 8/13
(23 domains) $300 8/19
(80 domains) $234 8/20
INTERSUBMIT.COM $209 8/12
(7+ casino names) $200 8/18
69lick.com $177 8/20
(75 domains) $153 8/9
(10 .com names) $152 8/9
BoutiqueWinery.com $150 8/10
(5 domains) $103 8/18
Halolive.com $103 8/22
RioSexTours.com $100 8/16
holandasex.com $100 8/16

previous lists:
July 25th, 2004 - August 7th, 2004
February 15th, 2004 - February 28th, 2004
January 31th, 2004 - February 14th, 2004
January 16th, 2004 - January 30th, 2004
December 28th, 2003 - January 11th, 2004

Sunday August 22nd, 2004

.mp tries to beat new sTLDs .mobi, .tel

Yet another ccTLD (country code Top Level Domain) is trying to do an end-run around the slow progress of ICANN to add new gTLDs (global Top Level Domains).

The .mp extension, owned by the Northern Mariana Islands in the Pacific (a small USA commonwealth since 1978) is joining the ranks of Tuvalu (.tv), the Cocos Islands (.cc) and a list of others (.ws .nu .bz etc.) who are marketing and selling off their internet asset.

ICANN took applications for 10 sTLDs (sponsored top level domains) back in March. Among those applications are .mobi and .tel which are aimed towards the mobile phone market. But it may take a year or longer for any of those to get to market and there are no guarantees for their approval.

.mp aims to beat the pack by being available much sooner, starting their registration cycle right now. They have opened a sunrise period to allow companies with trademarks to pre-register through their website: http://www.sunrise.mp

It is unclear what has taken them so long, possibly finding the right marketeers, as there was news back in late 2000 when Procter & Gamble, reserved around 25,000 .mp domain names.

MarketPlace Domain Inc. is listed as a San Francisco-based domain name registrar for .mp It is owned by Saipan DataCom. which in 1996 was chosen by ICANN as the registry and administrator for .mp

Domain Food: Archives

Amazon.com buys Joyo.com for $72 million (In)famous names in the domain business Yahoo gets aggressive on domain name sales VeriSign fights some more for SiteFinder CD.com - the next big domain name sale?Ticketmaster wins control of 108 domain names VisitFlorida.com sells for $186,000 Google likely to lose Gmail trademark eBay domain sales July 25th - Aug 7th, 2004 SnapNames changes to auction system Web growing by over a million sites a month Mozilla FireFox 0.9.3 released, try it!GoDaddy $7.95 .com special offer for August Mozilla offers $500 reward for security bugs KerryEdwards.com sale on Sedo falls through

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"google" domain registration mania!.ASIA sTLD looks hopeful on distant horizon .gov TLD to cost $125/year for agencies Microsoft to release more IE patches next week RegisterFly $7.99 domains promo (7/23 - 7/31)PayPal class action lawsuit settlement DoubleClick crushed by DDoS attack, 900 sites affected ICANN has no plan in place for new TLDs Google gets HELLO.COM in Picasa deal Google loses fight for plural of trademark "Froogles.com"CreditCards.com sells for $2.75 million KerryEdwards.com goes onto SEDO at $150k+Google - new "browse by name" feature big ICANN meeting this week in Malaysia GoDaddy $6.95 .com special offer European domains lighten rules (.eu pressure)ICANN sets new policy for domain transfers Firefox 1.0 scheduled for September 14th release SnapNames quietly suspends their reseller program VeriSign updating DNS for .com/.net in realtime ICANN - SiteFinder "should remain offline indefinitely"Mozilla gains more market share over IE eBay employees to get $300k stock option Alternative ICANN Budget Proposal - domain prices may rise Googles sues Google Pool.com starts Domain Marketplace Verisign (NetSol) to lose .NET tld June 30th 2005 SnapNames End Reseller Program Directi passes 200,000 customer mark, 10,000+ resellers RegisterFly $8 domains, $8 renewals, $1 whois privacy $2.99 .US domain name promo eBay buys Baazee.com for $50 million PayPal starts credit lines for buyers $3.99 domains promo PayPal reduces fees for higher volume

Domain Name Wire

Maybe $2.6 Million for Pizza.com Isn’t that Outrageous Afterall Qwest Snags QwestVerizon.com…Just in Time Media Confusion Over a Parked Domain Name Survey: SnapNames Still King of Expired Domain Names DBS: Domain Parking Revenue Plummeting Analysis: Thought Convergence Acquires Name Intelligence Sedo Sells Co.nu, MyCanvas.com

Nom de domaine !

Retour sur l'affaire champagne.ch On ne parlera plus JAMAIS de cybersquatting en France... FutuR du .FR : à vos claviers ! New ADR proceedings over googles.eu Sauve qui pneu ! Règlement de compte par nom de domaine interposé Droit du .fr Atteinte aux marques sur internet Nouvelles décisions UDRP protectrices de noms génériques

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Effets collatéraux de la lutte contre l'anorexie Flûte alors ! Interview Usage de marque et liberté d'expression Chambre de bonne à louer Page parking, nom de domaine, et responsabilité Outil de comparaison New publication Droit du .fr Silliest TLDs? Séminaire noms de domaine à Genève Cybersquatting en bande organisée ICANN, UDRP, and antitrust

CaveBear Blog

Comcast - Euphemism City My comments to NTIA's "mid-term review" of its ICANN "JPA" agreement. What would the internet be like had there been no ICANN? Bad Day ICANN - New TLD Policy - The Anti-Innovation Act of 2007 On my way to the ICANN Meeting in LA. DeBushification of the judiciary - The early retirement bonus plan In Today's News Have ICANN's directors placed their personal assets on the IRS chopping block? ICANN Begins To Add Yet Another Layer of Complexity

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ICANN - Pygmalion? Procrusteas? SUNW to JAVA, Oy Vey Naked Ladies in Abundance Excessive Regulation King For A Day

icann.Blog

Greedy Domainer Slime Revisiting the Registry-Registrar Split? TWiL does Domain Name Law Fantastic Presentation on YouTube/Pakistan Debacle Anti-Phishing Consumer Protection Act

Whois-Search News

Jolie secures web domains for daughter NFL, Fox pull Godaddy Superbowl ad Google becomes domain registrar FMA wins kiwi.com case ICANN Follow-up on PANIX.COM Hijacking .Net Bids to Close at Midnight SnapNames Sues ICANN Over WLS Delay Apple in cybersquatting fight over iTunes.co.uk NameWinner auctions off Dotster names Pool launches 'OLS'

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Web blunder boosts Bush bashers Labour fingered for cyber 'dirty tricks campaign' Nominet victorious in copyright court battle Snapnames & Netsol violate ICANN deleting process VeriSign Implements Rapid Updates to Domain Name System Files

ICANNWatch

.br Relaxes Registration Rules Domain Sub-Letting Raises Hackles ICANN Preliminary Vote Against Domain Tasting Avast, Earthlink How many TLDs safely fit in the DNS? GoDaddy feels the heat We're Back NAF Accused of Failure to Refund ICANN Supports an End to Domain Tasting Is NSI FrontRunning?

icann.org: Recent

Board Rejects .XXX Domain Application How To Interact With The ICANN Public Forum in Lisbon, Portugal ICANN Formalizes Relationships with ccTLD Managers for Côte d'Ivoire and Russia ITU Secretary-General Hamadoun I. Touré Will Address ICANN Friday in Lisbon, Portugal International Telecommunications Union (ITU) Secretary General to Attend ICANN Lisbon Meeting ICANN Formalizes Relationships with ccTLD Manager for Libya Updated Contractual Compliance Program Draft ICANN Operating Plan For Fiscal Year 2007-2008 Now Available For Review Registrar Accreditation Policy and Process Must be Reviewed Final Task Force Report On Whois Services ICANN Public Participation Site Launched

ICANN: Submissions

Old TLD space, New TLDs Some interesting considerations about Trademark Rights Open Evaluation Process needed to develop objective criteria ALAC Response to the Proposed sTLD RFP and Suggested Principles forNew TLD Processes New sTLD Application Acceptance Request More comments regarding the sTLD and Future TLD Application Calls !!!! Sponsored TLD Application Name.Space's application for the Top Level Domains it publishes and operates Support to accept new applications for sTLDs Name.Space TLD application for .NYC

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New TLD Selection Process (mexican internet association) Name.Space TLD application Name.Space Comments on ICANN RFP for Sponsored Top Level Domain Applications submission from SECSAC -- redux submission from SECSAN stld RFP comment

GNSO registrars

[registrars] PDR Suspending domains with correct WHOIS RE: [registrars] FW: Notice of Fee Change RE: [registrars] FW: Notice of Fee Change [registrars] INFO Fee increase RE: [registrars] FW: Notice of Fee Change RE: [registrars] FW: Notice of Fee Change RE: [registrars] FW: Notice of Fee Change [registrars] .Asia Presentation [registrars] ALAC is planning to request an issues report on domain name tasting Re: [registrars] TechCrunch covers fee change

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[registrars] TechCrunch covers fee change Re: [registrars] VERISIGN CHANGES FEES [registrars] FW: Notice of Fee Change [registrars] VERISIGN CHANGES FEES Re: [registrars] Godaddy cancels a confirmed transfer because of whois privacy? RE: [registrars] Godaddy cancels a confirmed transfer because of whois privacy? RE: [registrars] Godaddy cancels a confirmed transfer because of whois privacy? [registrars] Godaddy cancels a confirmed transfer because of whois privacy? [registrars] Soccer medals [registrars] Requirements for ICANN Meetings in 2008 Re: [registrars] FW: New registry service posted [registrars] List of Tag Participants

Recent GNSO Council

RE: [council] GNSO Council Chair proposed election schedules Re: [council] GNSO Council Chair proposed election schedules RE: [council] GNSO Council Chair proposed election schedules RE: [council] GNSO Council Chair proposed election schedules RE: [council] GNSO Council Chair proposed election schedules [council] GNSO Council Chair proposed election schedules [council] Result of election for Board seat #13 [council] Election results Board seat #13

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Moreover: domain news

Israel.com headed for auction dotMobi Acquires Mowser Assets Jobs.ca Changes Hands in Blockbuster Deal That Ranks Among the Year's Ten Biggest Domain Sales dotMobi Acquires Mowser Assets Provider DiscountASP.NET Named Best Hosting Service by asp.netPRO Readers for Fourth Consecutive Year Name Provider Go Daddy Returns to NASCAR with Mark Martin in the Driver's Seat dotMobi Acquires Mowser Assets dotMobi Acquires Mowser Assets dotMobi Acquires Mowser Assets IBM Goes Multi-Domain 40% off .biz domains with Easyspace Israel.com headed for auction VeriSign Reports First Quarter 2008 Results New Internet Domain - .ME - Opens Registration for Trademark Holders VeriSign Reports First Quarter 2008 Results What domain name is right for your online promo? ICANN refuses to crush Spamhaus Domain name price hikes attacked Stockpiling of .eu domains can't be stopped Sex.com Opinion: The allure of the .com domain name 'ISRAEL.COM' ON THE BLOCK Domain Name. Bargains Domain Names at BargainPrices.com New Internet Domain for Individuals, Biz

News4Sites: domain news

MyDomain to Give Away 25 Domains MyDomain Announces 'Marathon Giveaway' Day of Free Domain Names ... Read.me: New '.me' Domains Available .Com The Best Domain in the World .ca The Domain That HasnÂt Kicked Off Google Becomes Domain Registrar, Why? Researchers switch magnetic domains from hard to soft BlueHost - Knocking on the Door of One-Million Domains Data Domain Certified Silver 5-Star Winner by Everything Channel's VARBusiness .me Domains Not Far Away Domain name policy puts us in Internet vanguard Digital Domain may scrap public stock offering

DNJournal: cover stories

He Made a Fortune When He Sold BuyDomains - Now Michael Mann Wants to Change the World With WashingtonVC How New Sales Platforms are Sending the Domain Aftermarket Into Orbit T.R.A.F.F.I.C. New York 2007 The NameMedia Story: How They Are Rocking the Internet and Rolling Up the Domain Industry How Domains Made Sahar Sarid's Dreams Come True Can Demand Media's Richard Rosenblatt Do It Again with Domains? T.R.A.F.F.I.C. West Wows Record Breaking Crowd in Las Vegas The Eric Rice Story: How A Displaced Domain Executive Survived 15 Domain Experts Ponder What Happened in 2006 and Predict What's Coming Next How Michael and David Castello Morphed from Struggling Musicians to Domain Millionaires T.R.A.F.F.I.C. East 2006: How Domain History was Made at the Westin Diplomat T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Conference Organizers Ready to Scale New Heights With Upcoming Florida Show The Marchex Story: Why They Spent $164 Million on Domains Inside iREIT: How a Startup Company Became an Industry Giant Overnight It's Nothing But Blue Skies For Nathan Sassover and WorldNetCast.com

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Is Ari Goldberger the Domain Industry's Ultimate Entrepreneur? Highlights From a Landmark Gathering of Industry Leaders in the Pacific Northwest Repaving the Parking Lot: Have Domain Developers Won the Debate? Be Careful what You Wish For: The Continuing Saga of Gary Kremen and Sex.com Domain Business Moves Into the Fast Lane After T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Stop in Silicon Valley The State of the Industry: Insight From 20 Domain Experts On What Happened in 2005 and What's Coming in 2006 Matias Makes His Mark: How a Creative Kid From a Third World Country Used Domain Names To Make His Dreams Come True Going for Broke: Why Brian Null's Family Bet the Farm On His Golf Domains Improving on Perfection: T.RA.F.F.I.C. East 2005 Wows Attendees With World Class Domain Conference It's Showtime! T.R.A.F.F.I.C. East Doubles in Size for Return Trip to Delray Beach Dead Heads to Domain Honchos: How the Internet Real Estate Group Became the Industry's Biggest Hitmakers The State of the Industry (Summer 2005): Where We Are and Where We Are Headed Chris Chena Takes Charge: How the Whiz Kid from Paraguay Is Building A Spanish Domain Empire Domain Heavyweights Leave Las Vegas Stronger Than Ever After Quality Time at Traffic West Debut Edition of Domain Roundtable Served Up Rich Banquet of Seminars and CEO's Bright Lights and Brilliant Domainers Await Traffic Attendees in Las Vegas Knights of the Domain Roundtable Ready for Summit in Seattle Tools of the Trade: Free Resources That Will Help You Identify Domains That $ell High Impact Sites: Inside Adam Dicker's Domain Empire .Women Wanted: Our Role Models Rock But the Business Needs More Recruits 2004: It Was a Very Good Year - But Now What? Industry Experts Say The Best Is Yet to Come! AmericanFlags.com: How Jeff Reynolds Turned His Bargain Domain Into a Star Spangled Business New.net's Impossible Dream: Can The Alternate TLD Company Reach the Unreachable Star? Successful Trade Show Heralds the Start of a New Era For the Domain Industry Why Parking Companies Want YOUR Portfolio and What DomainSponsor.com Is Doing To Try to Get It Underachiever to Overlord: Go Daddy's Bob Parsons Started Slow Then Built Two Business Empires Inside a Drop Catcher's War Room: How eNom Arms Maker Chris Ambler Is Turning The Tide for Club Drop Divine Inspiration: Why Bob Broxton Believes His Domains Will Help Save the World The Pool.com Story: How A Tadpole Turned Into A Killer Whale in Just 12 Months! Filling Niches: The Alternate Road to Riches (My Sophomore Year in the Domain Business) Sedo's Ascent: How the German Juggernaut Became A Global Giant The Great Three-Letter .Info/.Biz Buyout: Elequa Alters the New Extension Landscape Rick Schwartz: Domain King or Royal Pain? China: Will the World's Most Populous Nation Become a Premier Market for Domains? Tough Name to Live Up To: Is An Australian Registrar's Claim to Be Fabulous Fact or Fiction? New.net's Impossible Dream: Can The Alternate TLD Company Reach the Unreachable Star? The Full Monte: Why an Industry Pioneer's One Stop Shop Kept Expanding Long After the Bubble Burst Off to See the Wizard:Will WLS Demolish Domain Drop Catchers? Superhero or Arch Villain? The Secret Identity of Super Mann Farmer Feeds the World With Domain Data: The Dwayne Rowland & Exody Story Domain Industry Ghostbuster: Why Roger Collins Brought Afternic Back From The Afterlife My First Year in the Domain Business: A Rookie's Diary The Master of His Niche: How Domain Therapy Turned Triumph Into Tragedy for Nick Master King Leads A Revolution to Make Acquiring Deleted Domains a Snap Elequa Unmasked: Unveiling the World's Most Prolific"Domain Artist" New Company Promises New Life for Your Tired Old & Inactive Domain Names

DNJournal: features

Elequa Makes 3-Letter .Biz And .Info Domains Disappear .DE Rules the Roost In Deutschland One Domainer's Case in Support of WLS $1.3 Million Sale of Men.com Signals Rebirth of the Premium Domain Market The Sun Rises on a Safe Internet Space for Children - KIDS.US Afternic.com Unveils Bazaar: The Industry's First Wholesale Domain Auction Venue Can the King weather challenges to its throne? Tariq Ghafoor on new extensions challenging .Com The Sleeping Giant is Waking Up! Dan McCullough on .US Tax Tips for Reporting Domain Name Sales Gamble Pays Off for Domain Name Forum Owner Domain Buyer Quickly Becomes Big Player in .US

DNJournal: the low down

March - April 2006 January - February 2006 November - December 2005 July - October 2005 January - June 2005 November - December 2004 September - October 2004 July - August 2004 May - June 2004 April 2004 March 2004

DNJournal: editorial

Time For ICANN to Reign In Out-of-Control Registrars Why New Extensions MUST Be Taken Seriously

DNJournal: legal matters

Stick 'em Up! Self Defense Against Reverse Domain Name Hijacking Domain Names, Trademarks and the Dispute Carreon On Cybersquatting, Hijacking & Domain Basics

Yahoo News

Name.com Opens Door to .ASIA Landrush With Gold Rush Prices (PRWeb) Visionary Company Captures 'The Best Web-Address' in the World, Literally (PRWeb) Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) US.gov disappears European-owned Cuba websites (The Register) Register.com Files Case to Get Register.cc (Web Host Directory) $6.95 Domain Name (La Stampa Nordovest) .Aero, Domains with 2 Letters (Web Host Directory) TECHBITS: Google hacking, Domain dispute, EFF awards, MIT award (Savannah Morning News) 33 Million Domains Registered in 2007 (Web Host Directory) Newsletter Subscription (ARNnet) 33 Million Domain Names Registered in 2007, Total Domains Now Over 153 Million (CircleID) Yahoo extends key deadline (Inside Bay Area) Internet domain names cross 150mn in 2007 (Business Standard India) New tool cracks most enterprise wireless LANs (ZDNet) US.gov disappears European-owned Cuba websites (The Register) VeriSign Publishes Domain Brief (Web Host Industry Review) Step by Step: Configuring SSL Under Apache (ONLamp.com)

MSN News

ICANN grills domain-hogging Network Solutions No Domain Name Snatching Found Tucows Launches Personal Names Service Non-English Domains Still Unsettled Amazon.com seeks increased revenue promoting competitors' prices in ... Andy Oram Reports AsiaRegistry Ready for the .ASIA Landrush Asia helps celebrities protect their cyber identity Technology Pioneers Dr. Vinton G. Cerf and Dr. Martin E. Hellman Join ... Can an IPv4 stock market stave off address depletion, IPv6? Technology Pioneers Dr. Vinton G. Cerf and Dr. Martin E. Hellman Join ... September 2002 Major vendors join OpenID board Spear The Phishers--Not The Fish Domain Name Game Still Going Strong; Tad Less Secretive January 2004 Freebie Fridays Help You Save Cash Developers Fret Over Domain Name Drought Report: Security-Wise, the Mac Platform Is Getting Shaky Super Bowl Proves Meager Meal for Web

CircleID: News Briefs

Significant Chunk of IP Address Space Hijacked by Notorious Mass Emailing Company Spam Turns 30 Top-Level Domains .arpa, .org, and .uk Adopting DNSSEC Google Re-Introduces WHOIS Search Internet Hitting Full Capacity by 2010? Canada’s New Policy Will Privatize Whois Data for .ca Domains Security Experts Disclose How ISPs’ Typo-Domain Ad Systems are Major Security Holes Soviet’s .su Domain Resists Death Canada’s Top-Level Domain .ca Hits One Million Mark Separatist Petitions to Create Quebec’s Own Top-Level Domain

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CERN’s Grid 10,000 Times Faster than Broadband Google Finally Talks About 700 MHz Auction Results Quite Period for 700 Mhz Auction Winners Has Ended, What They’re Saying U.S. Carriers Quietly Developing IPv6 Services 15 Years Ago Joel Furr Referred to Unsolicited Bulk Messages as ‘Spam’

DomainTools Blog

Thought Convergence Acquires Name Intelligence Harmony.com is now for Sale MelbourneIT acquires Verisign DBMS 640 GB of Memory in a Cluster Installation DomainTools Live Auction Pre-Auction bidding war Illusionist.com for Sale in Live Auction PresidentialDebates.com and 5 other Presidential names are going to auction Auction List Invites.com is going to auction!

DotSauce Magazine

Before Apple’s iPhone there was iPhone.com TRAFFIC Orlando Master Auction Catalog Published Video: Finding Available Domains with Google’s AdWords Keyword Tool Reducing Bounce Rate and Increasing Website Usability DotSauce Forums Upgraded with New Features Video: Using Google to Find Available Domain Names TRAFFIC East Live Domain Auction Danica Patrick: The Photos GoDaddy Can’t Show You Data Portability: The Future of Social Networking 300 Quality Available Domains from DotSauce Premium

Netcraft

NaviSite is the Most Reliable Hosting Company Site in April 2008 Slashdot, SourceForge Back Online After Outage Clinton and Obama XSS Battle Develops CNN Site Bears the Brunt of Chinese Attackers Hacker Redirects Barack Obama's site to hillaryclinton.com April 2008 Web Server Survey INetU is the Most Reliable Hosting Company Site in March 2008 Google Spreadsheets vulnerability exposes IE users' Gmail, Documents and more Google Offers Free Web Application Hosting Amazon's EC2 Takes On Web Hosting Market

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TRUSTe "Verified by haxors" March 2008 Web Server Survey MySpace adopts Windows Server 2008 Tiscali Italia is the Most Reliable Hosting Company in February 2008 Extended Validation certificates and XSS considered harmful

WebHosting.Info News

Parallels Resells myLittleAdmin Tool DemoWolf Releases 44 New Tutorials Hyperspin Introduces Support for External Payment Systems Template Monster Announces May Giveaway Promo iNFRENION.COM Announces its Affiliate Marketing Program Easyspace Launches its May 2008 Special Offer The Planet Extends its Private Rack Solution Crucial Paradigm Introduces Windows 2008 VPS .ME Opens Registration For Trademark Holders VMware Announces New and Enhanced Programs

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Biztology Announces a New Version of Server Control Panel Aventure Host Achieves R1Soft Hosting Partner Status MyDomain Announces Marathon Giveaway Day Promotion ResellerClub Announces .ME Landrush Pre-Applications at $49 Network Solutions Launches WatchDog Security Product

Dedicated Servers, Reseller

Clustered Web Hosting Service, Premieres at Hostingplex Dedicated Server Web Hosting Firm, Fasthosts, Unveils Online Identity Study Liquid Web Hosting Services, Powered by Server Virtualization Firm, Parallels Reseller Web Hosting Provider, ResellerChoice, Expands with Peer1 Dedicated Server Web Hosting Firms, Encouraged to Enter Awards Program Web Solutions Provider, Sonic Foundry Mediasite, Earns USDLA Award Assets of Tucows, to be Acquired by Hostopia Services Provider, i9Biz, Enlists GigaFin Networks, for Security Dedicated Server Solution Firm, SoftLayer, Opens Washington, D.C. Data Center Datacenter Firn, Digital Realty Trust, Reports First Quarter Leasing

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The Planet Web Hosting Firm, Debuts Firewall Discounts Dedicated Servers, Colocation from NFSi Telecom, Powered by R1Soft PEER 1, Dedicated Colocation Hosting Provider, Unveils Contest IT Companies, Garner Interop Awards Facilitator, NGASI, Debuts SaaS-Enabled JAVA Hosting Solution

Chilling Effects Clearinghouse

Dark Knight on the prowl for linked images Unauthorized Use of Warner Bros.' Property Dark Knight on the prowl for linked images CoreCodec complains of copied code Allged Trademark Infringement "Bugs" VW Pictures are worth a thousand words...words in a cease & desist letter Pizza Hut Doesn't Dig Scanned Coupon Alleged Theft of Feathery Posts [Blogger] UnsuitableLegal Subject to Take Down [Blogger] Big Screen Sequel DMCA Notice

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Big Screen Objects to "Armstrong" Copying Protraderforex Claims Copyright Infringement CLSP Studies the DMCA Easy Ubuntu Complains of Easily Copied Paragraphs [Blogger] Hello Kitty Says "Hello, Take Down" [Blogger]

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