Pool.com has been taking pre-reservations for domain names for anticipated new gTLD extensions for well over a year. Now another registrar, UnitedDomains.com started yesterday to accept the pre-reservations for some of the…
Month: March 2011
UPDATED: Oversee.net Founder Lawrence Ng, Caught Up In Tokyo Earthquake
According to his Facebook page, the co-founder of Oversee.net, Lawrence Ng was in Tokyo when the 8.9 earthquake struck Japan overnight. “wow…I am sitting through a really big earthquake in Tokyo!!!” Ng…
BREAKING NEWS: A TSUNAMI Is Heading To San Francisco
An 8.8 earthquake hit overnight in Japan causing Tsunami warnings to go up in Hawaii and along the west coast of the United States including San Francisco. According to the New York…
ICANN Schedules 16 More Hours Of Facetime With The GAC
ICANN just announced a change in the scheduled for the ICANN meeting in San Fransisco starting on March 14th. According to the change ICANN is now planning on meeting with the Governmental…
Google Starts Allowing Users To Block Sites: Worse For Content Farms Or Parked Pages?
According to a post on its blog, Google as of today is allowing users to block sites as they surf. “You’ll start seeing a new option to block particular domains from your…
Despite War & Internet Cutoff, Someone Steps Out & Spends $14K On 3.ly
Despite a war raging in Libya, home to the .LY domain extension (ccTLD) and a very uncertain future as to the Government of the country, someone has stepped up and paid 10,000…
Launched Days Ago WIPO’s Global Brands Database Already 560,000 Strong & Full Of Generics
WIPO announced a few days ago, that it started a “Global Brands Database” no doubt in hopes that once the concept is giving the final approval by ICANN that WIPO will be…