Verisign lost an awful lot of market cap but consumers won. It's difficult to say who exactly is the deserving subject of this Domain Dunce Award. It goes way back. In 2006 ICANN settled a long running dispute with Verisign by giving it a very nice ... Continue Reading3 Comments
Archives for 2012
Merry Christmas: Go Daddy Groupon deal up to 67% off
· Domain RegistrarsGo Daddy offers a Groupon that might be hard to pass up. Back in October Go Daddy ran a deal with Google Offers for $20 in credit for only $10. Now it is running a Groupon that's even better: $10 for $30 or $25 for $70. It appears the deal is run ... Continue Reading7 Comments
2012 Domain Dunce: TAS and Digital Archery
· Uncategorized"Glitch" filled system gets Domain Dunce honors in 2012. ICANN's new top level domain program is the most watched initiative in the non-profit's entire history. So you'd think ICANN would have double and triple checked all of the technology ... Continue Reading2 Comments
My first (much) faster payments with Go Daddy Premium Listings
· Domain SalesGo Daddy is paying for domain sales even faster than promised. It had been a couple months since I sold a Go Daddy Premium Listing, but over the past couple weeks I've sold two domains. These were the first domains I've sold with Go Daddy since it ... Continue Reading8 Comments
FreshDirect.com latest company to go down thanks to expired domain
· Expired DomainsCompany forgot to renew its domain name, which expired December 23. Add FreshDirect.com to a long list of companies that suffered downtime thanks to not renewing their domain names. The company suffered an "outage" (a.k.a. registrar renewal notice ... Continue Reading2 Comments
Marchex defends EuroBaby.com against Irish company
· Policy & LawCompany can keep domain acquired with UltSearch portfolio, panel rules. Marchex has successfully defended the domain name EuroBaby.com in a URDP proceeding brought by an Irish company. Eurocycles & Eurobaby and Eurotrek Group Limited of Dublin, ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
4 domains in Stephen Colbert’s latest book (and one you can buy for $100)
· UncategorizedNew Stephen Colbert book references a number of domain names, none of which are in use. What did you do for Christmas? I'll tell you what I did. I curled up in front of the fire with Stephen Colbert's latest book, America Again. It comes in 3-D, ... Continue Reading1 Comment
Wait, Pool.com is still in the drop catching business?
· Expired DomainsPool has long been irrelevant in the expired domain business. This morning I read Michael's post about Pool "de-emphasizing" its expired domain drop catching business in favor of new TLD business opportunities. My first reaction was "Wait, Pool.com ... Continue Reading16 Comments
Iran: .Gay domain would spread hatred
· Policy & LawRepublic of Iran wants to stop .gay top level domain. The government of Iran has filed an early late warning to applicants for the .gay top level domain name. Iran thinks that a .gay top level domain will "spread of hatred and hostility in the ... Continue Reading3 Comments
No surprise: UDRP panel denies claim on InteriorDesign.com
· Policy & LawMagazine publisher loses case for valuable InteriorDesign.com domain name. A three person National Arbitration Forum UDRP panel has denied Interior Design Media Group, LLC's claim on the domain name InteriorDesign.com. As I wrote about in October, ... Continue Reading2 Comments