A lot of attorneys spoke on Capital Hill yesterday on the Senate Judiciary hearing on Online Theft and Domain Seizure Bill. Counsels for Rosetta Stone, Verizon, Visa and Christine Jones from Godaddy were among those invited to speak. At issue is the bill proposed by Senator Leahy which would give the feds even more rights to seize domains (although ICE has been doing plenty of this without … [Read more...]
Archives for February 2011
Who At Oversee.net Thought That GirlTalk.com Was Worth More Than Girl.com?
A reader looking through the extended Domainfest auction list that closes On Thursday noticed these 2 domains back to back on the auction list. One benefit of the extended auctions on Snap Vs. the live auctions is that the reserves are stated in exact dollars amounts not ranges. Now that the actual reserves are listed, it looks like someone may have given one name a little too much credit by … [Read more...]
Tucows Reports Earnings: YummyNames Scores Another 1.5 Million In Sales In 4th Q
After the stock market closed today Tucows a member of our Domain Stock Index report earnings for the 4th Quarter ending December 31, 2010 Here are the highlights: ""Net revenue for the fourth quarter of 2010 increased 8.6% to $22.1 million from $20.3 million for the fourth quarter of 2009. "Net income for the fourth quarter of 2010 was $1.2 million, or $0.02 per share, compared with … [Read more...]
ICANN: No Vote On New gTLD’s At ICANN SF
According to ICANN.org blog, there will be no board vote on the new gTLD's at the San Francisco ICANN meeting in March. ""We wanted to provide some additional information on the work being carried out by ICANN’s Board of Directors and the Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) to prepare for their upcoming meeting in Brussels on the new gTLD program. As detailed in our recent announcements … [Read more...]
Texas Investigating Whether Google Is “Manual Overriding Or Altering” Search Result Rankings.
According to Fortune.com the Texas Attorney General Office is investigating whether Google is "manual overriding or altering" search result rankings. As part of the investigation the Texas AG demanded that Google turn over a broad range of internal documents as part of an antitrust review including its formula for determining advertising rates. State investigators also are investigating … [Read more...]
2 Big Domain Name Auctions To Close Tomorrow: DomainFest & Sedo .Co & Neither Have Much Bidding (that has met reserve)
2 big auctions are set to close tomorrow and neither have many winning bids as of time of publication. SnapNames.com is holding the extended auction from Domainfest which ends tomorrow Feburary 17th at 3:15pm EST There are around 500 domains including all of the domain names that were in the Live Domainfest auction. As of time of publication these are the only bids and all have meet … [Read more...]
Parked.com: .Co, .Tv and .nz ccTLD’s Can Now Be Monetized By Yahoo/Bing: .XXX Next
According to a post on Parked.com's Forum made today by the President of Parked.com: "co, .tv, and .nz cctlds are now allowed to be monetized via Yahoo/Bing" "As of Monday, February 14, 2011, the .co, .tv, and .nz cctlds can now be monetized by Yahoo/Bing. If you already had domains in one of these cctlds in your account we are automically sending them to Yahoo/Bing by default. If you … [Read more...]