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Which Domain Name Registrar is Best?
January 13, 2011 @ 8:16 AMMirror, mirror, on the wall. Who is the greatest registrar of them all? When it comes to top domain name registrars, Go Daddy has been a clear winner in all five years of the Domain Name Wire survey. Last year it grabbed 41% of the vote, compared to just 16% for the runner up. Now the sixth annual survey is upon us. Will Go Daddy retain…
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S. Korea Blocks Websites With N. Korean Domain Names
January 13, 2011 @ 6:21 AMSouth Korean authorities blocked residents from accessing North Korean websites, Yonhap News Agency reported Thursday. Authorities said they blocked sites with the domain name .kp because they contained illegal information under South Korea’s anti-communism and security laws. The web censorship by the South’s state-run Communications Standards Commission came a day after it emerged that the North began reusing the domain name to expand its propaganda sites.
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Will You Buy Shares in Demand Media?
January 12, 2011 @ 11:00 PMCompany sets flotation price range. A large domain name company is getting ready to go public. Will you get in on the action? Demand Media, which owns eNom, has set an expected price per share of $14-$16. It plans to sell 4.5 million shares while existing shareholders hope to offload 3 million shares. The company also released…
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Facebook Paid $8.5 Million for FB.com
January 12, 2011 @ 6:52 PMFacebook paid the American Farm Bureau $8.5 million for the domain name FB.com, now used internally by employees of the social network. The transaction might have included other related web addresses yet to be revealed. Today Reuters reported that the purchase price of $8.5 million.
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Group Employs .jobs in Recruitment Twist
January 12, 2011 @ 3:27 PMSome big companies are trying a new avenue to find job candidates — listing openings on thousands of Web addresses that end in .jobs.
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Bidder Qualification Deadline Approaches for Coveted I.co Domain Name Auction
January 12, 2011 @ 9:15 AMSnapNames® and Moniker®, both Oversee.net companies, and .CO Internet S.A.S., the official registry operator for the .CO top-level domain, confirmed today that interested bidders may qualify to participate in the upcoming auction for the valuable i.CO domain name until January 21, 2011 at 11:59 p.m. U.S. Eastern time. Only qualified bidders can participate in the private online auction, which will open Thursday, February 3, 2011 and conclude at 3:15 p.m. U.S. Eastern time on Thursday, February 10. The i.CO name will not be part of the lot at the live public auction at DOMAINfest® Global in Santa Monica, Calif.
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Wowwhatsavings.com Goes After Aol's Wow.com in Lawsuit
January 12, 2011 @ 6:02 AMSite owner says AOL’s wow.com is confusing his users. Late last year AOL converted its WOW.com domain name from a World of Warcraft site to a daily deals site similar to Groupon. Now the owner of daily deals site WowWhatSavings.com is crying foul in a lawsuit (pdf). WowWhatSavings.com owner Todd Rideman says his deals site has been known as…
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Google Adwords to Lower Case Domains
January 12, 2011 @ 5:26 AMGoogle AdWords announced they will not longer allow capitalization of domains in the ads. Let me show you what this means. If I wanted my ad to have a display URL that looked like <a href="http://www.RustyBrick.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.RustyBrick.com</a>, I am out of luck. Google will automatically lowercase the display URL in my AdWords ad to <a href="http://www.rustybrick.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.rustybrick.com</a>.
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North Korean Domain Names Return to The Internet
January 12, 2011 @ 12:54 AMNorth Korean domain names have returned to the Internet over the last few days as the country continues to build its presence online. Websites, previously available only via IP addresses, are now accessible through dot-kp addresses and it appears more might be on the way.
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Facebook Dropped $8.5 Million On FB.com Domain Name
January 11, 2011 @ 1:48 PMWhen your company is worth $50 billion and it’s pretty clear that none of it is going to the CEO’s wardrobe, you can afford to drop some cash on luxuries, like the domain name you’ve had your eye on for months. In November, Mark Zuckerberg announced that he had finally wrested control of the “fb.com” address away from the American Farm Bureau (“The Farm Bureau agreed to sell us fb.com and we in return have agreed not to sell farm subsidies”). He did not announce how much he paid for it. But Farm Bureau folks let it slip at the annual meeting in Atlanta Tuesday, saying they’d made $8.5 million “by selling a couple of domain names” but were “barred from identifying the buyer.” Zuckerberg plans to use his $8.5 million toy for internal use by Facebook employees.
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