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Dealdash Buys Defunct Swoopo.com Domain Name (And 22 Other End User Sales)
February 8, 2012 @ 12:01 AMDealDash buys defunct rival’s domain name. Remember Swoopo.com, the auction site where you had to pay for each bid? It shut down amidst controversy, and now…
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UC Berkeley Spends $1300 to Purchase X-rated Domain Names
February 7, 2012 @ 4:10 PMUC Berkeley may be known for its academics, athletics and the occasional protest, but the campus administration has paid about $1,300 thus far to stop pornographic websites from buying .xxx domain names associated with the campus.
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Hey NAF, This is a Classic Example of Reverse Domain Hijacking
February 7, 2012 @ 12:16 PMRespondent wins but should have gotten more than that. National Arbitration Forum panelist Beatrice Onica Jarka got the answer correct in a recent UDRP…
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Key-systems CEO Discusses Moniker and Snapnames Acquisition
February 7, 2012 @ 12:31 AMNo dramatic changes on tap but more ccTLDs and other improvements on the way. KeyDrive’s acquisition of Moniker and SnapNames last week has shaken up the industry.
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Go Daddy Secures Top Spot in Recent SSL Survey
February 7, 2012 @ 12:03 AMGo Daddy, the world’s largest provider of Web hosting, domain names and new SSL Certificates, helped more customers secure online data transactions than any other certificate authority last month, according to the latest Netcraft Secure Server Survey.
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.PING Trademark in Jeopardy, But Ping Sailing Through
February 6, 2012 @ 11:31 PMPING golf manufacturer still has a TLD trademark going through the system. Last month I wrote about how the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office had caught on to
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Opinion: Internet Domain Names Can Confuse Consumers
February 6, 2012 @ 8:51 AMWhen my local United Way obtained a dot-com domain, I advised it to use the more appropriate dot-org suffix instead but to keep the dot-com to prevent someone from using it to scam people. With the possible addition of 1,000 or so new suffixes, this potential scam issue becomes totally unmanageable.
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2012 Super Bowl Commercials: Godaddy, Danica Patrick Sell Domain Names
February 6, 2012 @ 2:01 AMGoDaddy and Danica Patrick are pros at putting together racy, sexy (?) commercials that are theoretically supposed to somehow get people to buy domain names.
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Innovative Super Bowl 1st Caps A Record Go Daddy Performance
February 5, 2012 @ 10:00 PMTechnology, Internet traffic and cash … Go Daddy’s 2012 Super Bowl campaign delivered all three. Go Daddy’s “Body Paint” ad accounted for a tremendous Internet spike during the game that coincides with a peak point in Web traffic, as reported by Akamai Technologies, a company that monitored Internet usage during the Super Bowl. Go Daddy also broke its own records for sales on a Super Bowl Sunday and for its best mobile website traffic … ever.
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U Buys .XXX Domain Names in Preventative Move
February 5, 2012 @ 6:02 PMStudents surfing the Internet for adult content will not find it on brownu.xxx or brownuniv.xxx — the University bought the rights to the two triple-x domain names in December.
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