Schilling will lead session at January's DOMAINfest conference in Hollywood, California. DOMAINfest announced that legendary domainer Frank Schilling will lead the first ever "Domainer Town Hall Meeting" at the DOMAINfest conference in Hollywood, ... Continue Reading3 Comments
Frank Schilling to Hold Domainer Town Hall Meeting at DOMAINfest
· ServicesTop Domain Name Stories of August 2007
· UncategorizedHere's a review of the most popular stories this month on Domain Name Wire (ranked by page views). #1: CreditCards.com files for IPO - you heard it on Domain Name Wire first. CreditCards.com, the company, is going public at a valuation hundreds that ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
FloridaWeekly.com Stands Up to CyberBully
· Policy & LawDomain name owner sues media company after receiving cease & desist letter. Semoran LLC, which owns the web site and domain name FloridaWeekly.com, has filed a lawsuit against a Florida media company in response to that company's request for the ... Continue Reading11 Comments
GoDaddy Files Patent for “Domain Name Expiration Protection”
· Domain Registrars, Policy & LawRegistrar continues patent filing campaign. GoDaddy isn't just the world's biggest registrar. It might be the biggest filer of patents in the industry as well. Last November I wrote about the almost 50 patents pending for GoDaddy. The company ... Continue Reading14 Comments
Domain Name Parking Report for August 2007
· ServicesSummer doldrums are ending; are your domains ready for Fall traffic? Ah, summer. The weather is warm, the beaches packed, the kids out of school, and families on vacation. Sounds great, doesn't it? Not if you count on internet traffic for a living. ... Continue Reading3 Comments
ICANN Corrects False Media Reports About .KP
· Policy & LawReports about imminent approval of North Korea country code domain name are misleading, says ICANN. A new country code domain for North Korea? Not really. Last week, media reports starting surfacing that ICANN would approve .KP as the country code ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
DomainSponsor Dumps Paychex, Brings Payments Back Inhouse
· ServicesDomain name parking company hits payment glitches with outsourced provider. Just a few months after outsourcing its publishers' payments through Paychex, domain parking company DomainSponsor has brought its payments back in house. DomainSponsor had ... Continue Reading9 Comments
Uploading Graphics to Parked.com Pages
· ServicesHere's a how-to guide to customizing domain names. During this week's Domain Roundtable conference, domain name parking company Parked.com announced that it now allows customers to upload their own graphics to parking pages. Studies show that having a ... Continue Reading1 Comment
BusinessWeek Corrects “Cybersquatter” Reference
· Policy & LawHere's proof that reporters just need a little education. When BusinessWeek published an article titled "Does Success Hinge on a Domain Name?" on August 13, it referred to the man who owned the generic domain fave.com as a cybersquatter. The reporter ... Continue Reading3 Comments
Communicate.com Stock Plummets, Joins Tucows, Marchex
· UncategorizedCommunicate.com stock plummets on earnings release; third domain name company to take a hit in past two weeks. As of 11:30 AM CDT this morning, shares of Communicate.com (OTC: CMNN.ob) have dropped to $1.72, 22% lower than yesterday's open. On Tuesday ... Continue Reading6 Comments