A WordPress lawsuit was the third most-trafficked story on Domain Name Wire last year. Coming in at #3 on last year's most-read posts was a lawsuit filed by WordPress foundation. WordPress Foundation sued the owner of TheWordPressHelpers.com (and ... Continue Reading5 Comments
WordPress wins another round against Chris Pearson
· Policy & LawThesis creator loses cybersquatting case. Automattic, the company behind WordPress, has successfully defended a challenge by Thesis developer Chris Pearson over the domain name Thesis.com. Pearson had a high profile spat with WordPress founder Matt ... Continue Reading4 Comments
WordPress Foundation sues owner of Wordpress domain names
· Policy & LawGroup goes after company promoting WordPress assistance with domain names that include "WordPress". WordPress Foundation, the charitable organization founded by Matt Mullenweg for the WordPress open source project, has sued the owner of ... Continue Reading63 Comments
What Wordpress founder Matt Mullenweg said about domain names at NamesCon
· UncategorizedWordpress enforces its brand in domain names and doesn't plan to use any new top level domain names. One of the nice surprises at NamesCon last week was a last-minute appearance by Matt Mullenweg. Mullenweg created Wordpress and is CEO of Automattic, ... Continue Reading18 Comments
Q&A with Matt Mazur, who just sold his domain name search company to Automattic
· Domain RegistrarsLean Domain Search founder Matt Mazur explains why he sold his business to Automattic. Automattic, the company behind WordPress, has acquired domain name discovery company Lean Domain Search. I've written extensively about this company over the past ... Continue Reading3 Comments
Simple Automatic Wordpress Backup is Finally Here
· UncategorizedThe first truly simple backup tool is worth installing. Backing up your Wordpress files is something we all know we need to do. But, much like backing up our computers, few of us do it as often as we should. I've tried a few backup plugins in the ... Continue Reading5 Comments
Domain Name News Bytes for April 8
· UncategorizedBrief notes about what's going on in the domain world. There are a lot of stories I haven't gotten to lately. Here they are in brief. Don't want your WordPress site to get hacked? Richard Douglas, who helped me yesterday when it happened to me, ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment