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Bank Domain Names Open to Misuse, Fraud, European Regulator Says
February 23, 2012 @ 2:06 AMPlans to grant banks the use of new domain names such as .fin and .bank will make it harder for regulators to stop fraud, Europe’s top banking authority told the group in charge of the Internet’s address system.
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Survey Says GoDaddy is Top Domain Registrar
February 22, 2012 @ 11:37 PMGoDaddy dominant, especially with larger domain registrars. 1,164 people answered the question “Which domain registrar do you think is best overall” on the 7th annual Domain Name Wire survey.
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Google in-house AFD Goes Away – Monetization of TRAFFIC at GOOG more ALIVE than Ever
February 22, 2012 @ 11:35 PMFrank Schilling: Google has shut down its in-house Domain channel. AFD direct through Google is gone!~ Before the handwringing outsiders and the misinformed begin to spout inaccuracies like “domain traffic is dead!” or “it’s a Facebook and Twitter world so abandon your names you delusional old-timers!”, let me take this opportunity to tell you that domain name traffic has never been more important or vibrant – and this business, never more lively.. How can that be you say?
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Sir Richard Branson Wins Rights to Richardbranson.xxx
February 22, 2012 @ 10:09 PMSir Richard Branson wins the right to control richardbranson.xxx after an Australian man was ruled to have registered the domain “in bad faith”.
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.me Begins 2012 With Wildly Successful Auction
February 22, 2012 @ 10:01 PM.ME domain names showed strong aftermarket selling power during the TLD’s first auction of 2012. Due to high bidder demand, the auction exceeded its projected end time by nearly three hours. More than 93 .ME domain names were sold during the auction, including Hotel.Me, which sold for $25,000, Life.Me at $17,450 and Forex.Me at $16,099 USD. The auction was held in partnership with Sedo, a domain name aftermarket service.
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Google Kills Hosted Adsense for Domains On Undeveloped Sites
February 22, 2012 @ 4:46 AMGoogle sent out a message today to publishers using Adsense for Domains. After nearly 4 years of running the program, the company has decided to discontinue their hosted Adsense for Domains on undeveloped domain names. The company is recommending migrating your domain names to a parking company.
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Let's Have Fun With Boston Red Sox Domain Names
February 22, 2012 @ 4:43 AMA merry prankster had some fun at the expense of the Red Sox recently by buying the domain name JetBluePark.com — the team’s new spring training facility in Fort Myers, Fla., is named JetBlue Park — and directing it to the Yankees’ homepage.
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Domain Name Dispute Ends in Victory for Virgin Boss
February 22, 2012 @ 1:07 AMRichardbranson.xxx has been returned to the company.
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Two Internet Domain Names Chosen for Wales
February 22, 2012 @ 1:00 AMTWO internet domain names have been chosen for Wales; .cym and .wales, the body in charge of the system said yesterday.
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NSW and Vic Govts Hunt Domain Names
February 21, 2012 @ 2:08 PMThe internet is having a firesale, and the NSW and Victorian governments want a piece of the action. Like New York, Paris and London before them, the state governments are trying to secure their own exclusive domain names “.sydney”, “.melbourne” and “.victoria”.
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