I have been in the market for a new laptop for a couples of months.
17″ notebooks are just to heavy and big to carry around, and the 11″-13″ although light and compact, are just to small for these old eyes.
So I’ve been on the look out for a cool 15″ model to replace my Sony […]

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Today Microsoft filed suit against a domain registrar, Red Registrar for allegedly registering and profiting from 125 domains “confusingly similar to Microsoft’s Marks”, including windowslivecare.com, msnmesnger.com, and ageofmathology.com
 
Although the domains are now registered to a Tortola company, Versata Software, they were previously registered to Red Register and Microsoft believes the current registration information is false.
 
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A new law in Australia take effect January 20, 2008, which imposes age verification on publishes either online or mobile content.
Here are the rules
 Sexually explicit content is prohibited (X18+, and Refused Classification content).

R18+ content (non-sexually-explicit, but restricted) must be hidden behind a verification service that checks for ages 18 and up.
So-called “Mature audience” (MA15+) content […]

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A couple of months ago, my buddy, Elliot Silver asked me to do an interview for his blog and asked me what the biggest threat to the Domain Industry was.
I answered that government action or over reaction to attempt to deal with trademark infringement issues was the biggest issue we face as an industry.
Looking toward […]

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Microsoft, Google and Yahoo agreed to pay a civil fine totaling 31.5 million dollars for carrying PPC ads for gambling, going back to 2000.
 
 
Microsoft paid 21 million, Yahoo share was 7.5 million and Google paid 3 million, less than half of its average daily profit of 11 million dollars.

All three companies stopped accepting and serving […]

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The FTC said today that they will NOT block the proposed acquisition of Double Click by Google for 3.1 Billion Dollars saying that the deal is “unlikely to substantially lessen competition”
Full Story

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After our post yesterday on pricing your domains for auction, we received a lot of feedback and most was regarding the lack of knowledge of when and where major domain auctions going to be held.
 
So here is the Domain Auction Schedule for 2008:
 
1. DomainTools.com Auction. The second auction by […]

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We are coming upon a series of important domain auctions.
Snapnames.com will be holding their first live auction in January at Domain Fest and Moniker.com will be holding its next auction at TRAFFIC Vegas in February.
To prepare as a seller for these auctions I looked backed and analyzed the results for the last live TRAFFIC auction […]

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Just came across a pretty cool tool.
A ticker that constantly scrolls on your the top of your browser showing domain names for sale or at auction at sites including:
Sedo
Afternic
DNForum
Pool
NamePros
SitePoint
If you are interested on a domain you see scrolling, you can just click on it and it will take you the site, so you can place […]

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