According to a report by the Wall Street Journal today, Google who has traditionally been one of the loudest advocates of equal network access for all content providers, known as network neutrality, has approached major cable and phone companies that carry Internet traffic with a proposal to create a fast lane for its own content Google . Network Neutrality under lying principle is that all … [Read more...]
Archives for December 2008
Scotland Looking For It’s Own Extension: Will New gTLD’s Hurt The Value Of Existing Country Code Domains
A government studey in Scotland, found almost 60% of organizations there, and more than 80% of those questioned worldwide, support the idea of Scotland having it own gTLD, when they are released late next year. Suggested addresses are .sco or .scot, which would create an alternative to the current .co.uk. First Minister Alex Salmond commented on the survey, saying: "I think in terms of the … [Read more...]
Open Letter To ICANN: Our Take On the New Domain Extensions
As we wrote a few days ago, Monday is the last day for submitting your comments on the New domain extensions, the gTLD's, which is an incredibly important issue for all domain holders. It effects all domain holders because the rules that are applied to the new gTLDs can be used to amend existing contracts for all existing extensions. So even if you have no interest in acquiring any new gTLD … [Read more...]
Kentucky Appeals Court Hears Arguments On Domain Seizure Case
Yesterday the Kentucky Court of Appeals heard arguments that Gov. Steve Beshear’s effort to seize domain names is blatantly unconstitutional. A three-judge panel is weighing Beshear’s unprecedented move to seize the domain names of 141 gambling Web sites. Franklin Circuit Judge Thomas Wingate allowed the Cabinet for Justice and Public Safety to seize the domain names last month and ordered a … [Read more...]
Outing Buyers Of Trademarked Domains
Last week we wrote about two domains that were at auction at TDNAM. Both of which were obvious trademark infringing domains, and both of which had high reserve prices, due to the fact that they had a lot of traffic, and were generating substantial PPC earnings. Last week we attacked GoDaddy.com for this practice, bascially selling trademarked domains for their anticiated earnings and then … [Read more...]
So Much For Google Dropping The Domain Channel
A few months ago the industry was on its heels, troubled by reports on some blogs that Google was about to drop the domain channel from its PPC programs. Today with Google's announcement that it is actually opening AdSense for all domain owners, directly through Google, regardless of traffic levels, all domain holders should take a collective breath of fresh air. Here's some of our … [Read more...]
This is Why People Squat On Domains: GeorgeWBushLibrary.com Sold Back For $35K
We write so many stories about the evils of CyberSquatiing, and once in a while story comes out, that shows why so many people do it. Yuma Solutions, the developer of the site GeorgeWBushLibrary.com, let the domain registration lapse and a a company in Raleigh NC, Illuminati Karate, picked up the domain off a drop list, registered it for $10 and sold to back to the developers for … [Read more...]