According to news reports, YouTube.com has been blocked in China by the Government since Monday. "We do not know the reason for the blockage and we are working as quickly as possible to restore access to our users," said Scott Rubin, a spokesman for Google, which owns YouTube. China has blocked the site before, most recently in March 2008 during the riots in Tibet. … [Read more...]
Archives for March 2009
NetworkSolutions.com Picks A New President
NetworkSolutions.com today announced that Tim Kelly will join the company as President on April 1st. According to the press release, Mr. Kelly joins Network Solutions from Sprint/Nextel where he was the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO). “I am very excited to have an executive of Tim’s caliber join our team. Tim’s marketing expertise, broad operational acumen and deep … [Read more...]
Politics or Porn: Depends On The Extension You Type
In a yet another example of how you can get embarrassed if you fail to do a complete domain check, prior to launching a internet campaign, the Liberal party of Canada just learned the hard way. Canada's official opposition party, launched a website, OnProbation.ca, on Monday to "make sure that Canadians have the facts" about the Conservatives stimulus plan, Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff said … [Read more...]
VirtualSex.com WIPO Action Rejected Despite Trademark: This Is A Good Decision
In a rare trademark battle over an adult term, in a one man panel decision, the World Intellectual Property Organization ruled in the favor of the owner of the domain, VirtualSex.com, Network Telephone Services of Woodland Hills, California, rejecting the claims of Digital Playground of Chatsworth, California, which owns the trademark, on the term "Virtual Sex". Digital Playground, which has a … [Read more...]
Cloud.com To Hit The Auction Block
We know that cloud computing is one of the big new technology topics. So its interesting to note that today, SYS-CON Events announced that the domain name Cloud.com will be auctioned during the upcoming Cloud Computing Expo, March 30 - April 1, 2009, which will be held at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York City. Here is more info on the conference: Cloud Computing Conference & Expo 2009 … [Read more...]
.TEL Registration Opens
Just to a short note to let everyone know that .tel registration is now opened, with registrars charging as low as $14.95 a year. The system started accepting domains about 1 hour ago. To read more about the .tel extension click here … [Read more...]
YiYi.com Sells For $11K At NameJet.com
YiYi.com sold today at NameJet.com for $11,100. Yi Yi, according to wikipedia.org , yīyī; literally translated as "one and one"s and was the name of an acclaimed 2000 Taiwanese film. There were 138 bidders in this auction. Interestingly another 4 letter .com repeater, gxgx.com, sold a couple of days ago at Namejet.com for $560. There were some other nice sales at Namejet.com, over … [Read more...]