The CEO of Yahoo, Carol Bartz, in speaking on a possible deal with Microsoft said today at the Bank of America U.S. Technology conference: “I personally think we’d be better off if…
Month: June 2009
The Joke About Domains That Rings True
A friend (non-domainer) sent me this e-mail joke, that is making thecircuit around the net called: “10 Worst Company Domains” Of course each of these domains really does exist for the purpose…
The ICA’s Take On The Uniform Rapid Suspension & What’s it’s Going To Do About It
The Internet Commerce Association (the ICA) has just released its statement regarding the Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) proposal of the trademark group making up the IRT committee of ICANN. Yesterday we published…
WSJ: Small Business Dropping Brick & Mortar In Favor Of Online Business
The Wall Street Journal today published an article entitled, Entrepreneurs Pack Up and Go Home, which talks about a trend of small businesses abandoning their brick and mortar businesses, unable to afford…
ICANN GuideBook 2.0 Comment Report: Still No Price Caps
In the almost 300 page report of the comments received on the new gTLD guidebook version 2, the issue of most concern to domain holders, is still on the table. Despite many…
Hate UDRP’s: Say Hello To Something Much Worse, The Uniform Rapid Suspension System (URS): Get Ready To Lose Your Domains
Trademark holders, unhappy with UDRP’s, a system under which they already have over a 85% win rate, formed a group, The Implementation Recommendation Team (IRT), which was given committee status by ICANN’s…