According to reports merger talks are under way between Yahoo and Time Warner Inc’s, AOL unit. While noting a deal was not imminent, sources say the two companies have engaged in “meaningful”…
Month: October 2008
Tucows Now Selling The Expired Domains They Kept From Their Customers
Well it was bound to happen. We have been talking about this issue for months. Tucows.com has been building up a portfolio of hundreds of thousands of domains by taking ownership of…
Congressman Wants Google-Yahoo Deal To Be “Thoroughly Investigated”
Representative Joe Barton, a Republican from Texas, asked the Justice Department on Tuesday to “thoroughly investigate” antitrust and privacy issues in a search advertising partnership planned by Google and Yahoo. Barton expressed…
Rules for New Domain Extensions Announced (gTLD’s)
Last week at the ICANN meeting in Cairo, a rule book for the new extensions, hundreds or maybe thousands of them was published. I wanted to take a few days to read…
Madision Avenue Still Bullish on Digital Advertising
One of the world’s biggest advertising and media services organizations, Publicis, in reported relatively strong third quarter results this morning signaled concern over the weakening global economy and the effect that it…
Will 2009 Mark the First Decline in New .Com Registrations?
As we all know, VeriSign has reported growth in each of the last many years for the number of .com registrations. My thoughts is that 2009 may mark the first year in…
“B.BR” Alliance between Bank Security and Domains.
This is a guest post by Juan Enrique Sánchez S., President of nameaction.com, who is responsible for it’s content “””” Today in Brazil it is possible to talk of safe banks on…