Monthly Archives: April 2009

Sat 4th April 2009
Written by The Domains in EN
CADNA “Enthusiastically Welcomes” a Snowe Cybersecurity Act: ICA Where Are You? - We wrote a few days ago about the new bill proposed by Senators Rockfeller and Snowe entitled the Cybersecurty Act of 2009.  Yesterday,  the Coalition Against Domain Name Abuse (CADNA) said they “enthusiastically welcome” the bill. This is from CADNA’s press release: “This bill signals the United States’ dedication to national security and to the safety and integrity of the Internet,” said Josh Bourne, President of CADNA. This proposed legislation would create a Cybersecurity Advisory ... read more ...
Fri 3rd April 2009
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Google To Buy Twitter? - According to TechCrunch, Google is in talks to buy Twitter. Google would pay more than $250 million for Twitter, in stock or cash or a combination of both. TechCrunch’s article by Michael Arrington,  said the two companies are also considering working together on a Google real time search engine. TechCrunch was the first to report the rumor that Google would buy YouTube in late 2006. A deal for Twitter has long been rumored. Facebook Inc., which was reported to have made a half-billion-dollar ... read more ...
 
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Company Loses Bid to Take Decimal.com - Respondent doesn’t respond but still wins case. You know you brought a UDRP arbitration case in bad faith when the respondent doesn’t bother to respond and you still win lose. That’s what happened with the generic domain name Decimal.com. Radiation therapy company .decimal, Inc., which uses the domain name dotdecimal.com, waged the complaint against the owner of Decimal.com. The web site at decimal.com contains nothing other than a message that the domain ... read more ...
 
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Top Domain News Stories of Mar 2009 - A look back at the past month in domain names. Here are the top 5 stories on Domain Name Wire for March 2009, ranked in order of views. 1. Toys.com Loses Google Ranking – thanks in part to getting on the front page of Digg, this story about Toys.com losing its ranking on Google received more visits than any other article on Domain Name Wire — ever. 2. Will Toys ‘R’ Us Flub $5.1M Toys.com Purchase? Um, yes it will. At least as far as SEO is concerned. ... read more ...
 
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2009 GeoDomain Expo Discount Ends Today - Price increases $100 tomorrow. If you’ve been thinking about going to the 2009 GeoDomain Expo, today’s the day to register. The price increases from $595 today to $695 tomorrow. The conference will be April 23-25 in San Diego. If you’re on the fence about this conference, I recommend jumping in. Last year’s conference in Chicago was stellar and attracted a record 200 attendees. This year’s conference was mired in controversy before it began, but that’s ... read more ...
 
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How To Play a Expired Domain Game in 2009 - A practical guide to profiting from expired domain names in 2009. Because of the economy and faltering parking revenue, you should expect to see more domain names expiring and dropping in 2009 and 2010. Most of these added drops will be of low or mediocre quality, but some of them will be worth backordering. To new comers, buying expired domains can be somewhat daunting. But in many ways it’s easier now than in the days of many competing services slamming the ... read more ...
Thu 2nd April 2009
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Senator Snowe Backs New Bill Calling For Stricker US Control Over ICANN - The Senate Commerce Chairman John (Jay) Rockefeller and Sen. Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, introduced legislation today that would require a presidentially appointed cybersecurity advisory panel to ensure that national security would not be compromised before approving the renewal or modification of the contract between the U.S. government and the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers or ICANN. The bill calls for federal government to maintain greater control of the ICANN and are intended ... read more ...
 
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ChangYou.com Becomes Best Performing IPO In A Year - Today the the chinese company ChangYou.com went public. Note the name of this company is not changeyou.com but Changyou.com. Yes, an IPO during the economic meltdown and it looks like this might be the best performing IPO in a year. The company, an online video game maker, Changyou.com Ltd. is up almost 40% today (symbol is cyou). The Beijing-based company, which makes role-playing games for a Chinese audience, priced 7.5 million American Depository Shares at the top end of its expected $14 to $16 ... read more ...
 
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To Become a Multi-Millionaire You Don’t Have To Invent Technology, Just Master It - While everyone is looking for the next big thing, many people think you have to invent or “come up with the idea” for technology to make the big hit, but in reality you don’t have to invent the next big thing, just master it. For example take a look at a rap/hip-hop artist known as T-Pain. Basically T-Pain was one of a ton of middle of the road rappers until he mastered the software program know an Auto-Tune. Autotune was described in Time Magazine as “Photoshop for the human voice. Auto-Tune ... read more ...
 
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Name Administration Looks to Direct Advertisers - Name Administration to offer direct ad placement on its domain names. Perhaps in a bid to counter falling pay-per-click revenue, Frank Schilling’s company Name Administration is soliciting direct advertisers via a banner on some of its parked pages: The service will be called LinkBox. The description at Linkbox.com reads: Welcome to Linkbox.com. Direct advertising opportunities will be available soon with prices from less than $30 a month. If you would like to ... read more ...
 
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What Happens in Vegas… - Domain Consultant organizes a fun (and productive) event in Las Vegas. Some might have called it one big party. But after spending the day flying back from Las Vegas yesterday, I can say that the 36 hours I spent in Vegas for the Domain Madness auction were very productive. And fun. In the tech world there are a number of loosely defined conferences called an “Unmeeting” or “Unconference”. They’re basically a meeting of minds to discuss ideas. No presentations, ... read more ...
 
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Moore Stepping Down as CEO of Dark Blue Sea - CEO Richard Moore not renewing contract. Richard Moore is stepping down as chief executive officer of Dark Blue Sea (ASX: DBS) effective at the end of June. Dark Blue Sea is parent company of Fabulous, a popular domain name registrar and domain parking service for domainers. According to a press release (pdf), Moore will work part time with the company in an executive director role. Moore has been CEO of the company since 2001. The company has promoted current ... read more ...
 
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GoDaddy Gets Split Decision in Domain Dispute - GoDaddy wins one domain name, loses two others in UDRP. An arbitrator has handed down a split decision in a domain dispute brought by GoDaddy.com at World Intellectual Property Organization. As Domain Name Wire reported back in February, Go Daddy filed four UDRPs at WIPO for a number of domains covered by its trademarks. The most interesting case was against Domainsnext.com, a domain reseller. The dispute involved gotodaddy.com, gotodaddynot.com and gotodaddynot.net. The ... read more ...
 
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Newspapers 2.0: The Billion Dollar Opportunity - As print newspapers fail, where’s the business opportunity? We’ve heard before that traditional print media was on its way to extinction. But in this recession it’s finally becoming true. 100-year-old city newspapers are dying. Staring at new media startups is one of the biggest opportunities in a century. It’s not just about blogging and the low costs of competing with traditional media. It’s about becoming the local media and replacing printed newspapers. I ... read more ...
Wed 1st April 2009
Written by The Domains in EN
The Senate Agrees To Patent Law Changes - Outside the scope of domains, but definitely in the larger world of intellectual property, the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee said today, that they had reached agreement on key elements of a bill to revise U.S. patent law. Current law allows for patent infringement to be punished by payment of the entire market value of the product, but some high-tech companies say that is unfair, as just one of their products may involve hundreds of patents. Under the proposed amendment, if a company has been ... read more ...
 
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Illinois Now TryingTo Regulate Social Networking Sites - Yesterday we reported how the Attorney General of New Jersey wants to regulate social networking sites. Today we find, Illinois considering new legislation,  the “Social Networking Website Access Restriction Act”, that would require social networking sites to obtain parental consent before allowing minors to create accounts. The bill also requires that sites give parents full access to their children’s accounts, and that mandates that sites verify members’ ages. According to reports,  Friday ... read more ...
 
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Warning: You Can Get Sued For Libel For Your Fackbook.com/Twitter.com/MySpace.com Posts - A lawsuit filed this last week, points out you need to be careful when you post comments in social networking sites such as Facebook.com, Twitter.com and MySpace.com Simply put, when you make a post or comment on these sites, they are written words and therefore subject to a claim of libel,  and depending on the harshness of the comments, many  other claims. In a case filed last week, Former fashion designer, Dawn Simorangkir, filed a libel suit in Los Angeles Superior Court, against the widow ... read more ...
 
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Porn.ie and Pornography.ie Banned in Ireland - According to a blog post om sex.ie, the registry for .ie (ireland) country code, refuses to allow the registration of the domains porn.ie or pornography.ie on the basis of morality. The author of the post claims he has been trying to register the domains for about four years. but each time the registry for the .ie extension, the Irish Domain Registry (IEDR) refuses his application because “the proposed domain name must not be offensive or contrary to public policy or generally accepted principles ... read more ...
 
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Yahoo Delays Domain Parking Stats - Delay affects all Yahoo partners. For the second time in as many months, a domain parking statistics delay from Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO) is making domainers wonder “just how much have I earned this week?” Apparently Yahoo hasn’t been able to provide final stats to domain parking companies since about March 25. The company provided some stats but then called them back, saying they weren’t accurate. Although it may be a minor annoyance for some, the problem needs ... read more ...