Tag Archives: Melbourne IT

Tue 12th March 2013
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
CSC buys Melbourne IT DBS for A$152.5 million - A shocking price tag for Melbourne IT’s brand protection business. There’s money in online brand management. Melbourne IT (ASX: MLB) announced today that it has sold its Digital Brand Services (DBS) division to Corporation Services Company (CSC) for A$152.5 million – which was 95% of the entire company’s market cap prior to the announcement. Melbourne IT will still exist as a domain registrar. The move builds CSC’s already large brand protection business ... read more ...
Tue 9th October 2012
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Doh! Melbourne IT incidentally close down Twitter’s t.co couple shortener - Company placed domain status on hold thanks to phishing complaint. Yesterday Twitter’s t.co link shortener, which it wraps all outgoing links in, went down. Was the culprit some self-proclaimed anonymous user? Or a DDoS? Nope. Domain name registrar Melbourne IT has fessed up to causing the problem. The company, which is the registrar for t.co, admitted to CNET that one of its employees had temporarily taken the t.co domain name offline in response to a phishing ... read more ...
Wed 6th February 2008
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How to Buy Expired Domains during Afternic - Afternic’s new expired domain service provides opportunity to get expired domains without much competition. Expired domain catchers that are tired of bidding wars at SnapNames and NameJet may want to check out Afternic’s expired domain auctions. I first wrote about the new service in December, but domains finally started going to auction in late January. Much like other services, Afternic expired auctions require you to preorder domain names. I preordered a ... read more ...