Early reports are surfacing today that ICANN has concluded its investigation of the Panix.com domain name hijacking and placed the blame solely on registrar Melbourne IT, clearing Dotster of any wrong doing. ICANN chief registrar liaison Tim Cole ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
ICANN blames Melbourne IT for Panix.com Debacle
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MSN readies pay-per-click system
· ServicesIn a bid to challenge Yahoo's Overture and Google Adwords, MSN is planning a pay-per-click search ad business according to Bloomberg. MSN controls a big chunk of the search market, although not as big as Yahoo or Google...and MSN will have to form ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
Domain Name Embarrassment
· Policy & Law, UncategorizedNothing says you're an old school advertising agency like forgetting to renew your domain name...and having someone else pick it up. Adrants first broke a story about marketing firm ASABAILEY snapping Ogilvy & Mather's domain name. ASABAILEY then posted ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
Reselling4Profit.com goes for $5,250 at Afternic
· Domain SalesReselling4Profit.com sold for $5,250 at Afternic over the weekend. This is a hefty amount for a 16 character, 3 "word" domain...with a number in it! Other sales at Afternic over the weekend include eAutoResponse.com for $1,050 and eLinkPro.com for ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
GoDaddy featured in USA Today
· Domain RegistrarsRiding on the wave of publicity from its Super Bowl ad, GoDaddy and its founder Bob Parsons were featured in Sunday's USA Today. Read the article, it tells how Parsons parlayed money from selling his former business to Intuit into the world's second ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
Neutral party to evaluate .NET applicants by March 28
· Domain Registrars, Policy & LawAccording to an announcement on ICANN's web site, third-party evaluator Telcordia will provide a report about the 5 applicants for managing the .net extension by March 28. ICANN will post this report, along with Telcordia's rankings, on its web site. ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
Registrars drop .us privacy protection this week
· Domain RegistrarsGoDaddy joined other registrars in dropping WhoIs privacy protection for .us domains this week, as required by the Department of Commerce. Privacy protection lets people register domains using a proxy so that personal information isn't made available in ... Continue Reading1 Comment
Go Daddy…woah!
· Domain RegistrarsI'm a huge fan of GoDaddy, one of the best and most affordable domain registrars. But I think they might have received too much business from their recent advertising campaign (read: Super Bowl), as customer service has taken a major blow. They appear ... Continue Reading3 Comments
Yahoo to challenge Google Adsense
· ServicesAfter a longgggg wait by small web site publishers, Yahoo appears to be on the verge of offering an Adsense-like product, according to CNET News.com. This is great news for web site publishers and domain name owners as there will finally be some good ... Continue Reading1 Comment
Link selling from jail?
· UncategorizedAccording to this article, an inmate ran a phony link selling company from jail. Link buying, trading, and selling is a huge phenomenon these days...guess you can't stop your business when you're in the slammer. ... Continue Reading1 Comment
