Australian official suggests making Bitcoin legal tender in Australia. In a talk earlier in the week Chris Jordan, the Australian tax commissioner said some would like to see Bitcoin as legal tender. Currently Bitcoin does not meet the definition under Australian law, but he said that could change. From the Guardian: The Australian tax commissioner has left open the possibility that the … [Read more...]
Archives for 2014
Breaking; HitFarm.com Closing Up On October 1st
HitFarm.com is closing up its operations effective October 1, 2014 Here is an email we just received with the subject line "Re: Notice of Permanent Closure" "We regret to inform you that Hitfarm will no longer be in service effectively from October 1st, 2014." "Accordingly, you will need to update your name servers for all domain names parked at Hitfarm.com by 11:59pm PST on September … [Read more...]
.Club Sells Its 100,000th Domain
CLUB Domains just announced that it has sold its 100,000th new domain name today, "setting a record as the first new generic top-level domain (gTLD) to sell 100,000 domains and continuing its streak as the best-selling new domain extension." Although two other new gTLD's have more domain registrations, no new gTLD has SOLD more domain names than .Club RightoftheDot.com a company of which I'm … [Read more...]
Google Authorship Comes To An End
Eric Enge wrote a very detailed and lengthy post about the end of Google Authorship, I remember when this first came out and everyone was telling me how important this was and to get on it. Bill Hartzer wrote an excellent piece about it on DomainInvesting.com back in March of 2013. This is one of the things that is frustrating with following Google like they are the masters of all things … [Read more...]
Holiday.com Hitting The Auction Block & “Experts” Predict It To Sell For More Than $30 Million
According to Dailymail.co.uk, the domain name Holiday.com is going to be auctioned off at the World Travel Market, a conference for the international travel industry at London Excel on November 5. According to unnamed "experts" the domain is about to "become the priciest domain name in history as it is auctioned for an estimated £20 MILLION" Of course that is 20 Million British Pounds which … [Read more...]
.Host Announces 15 Pioneer Partners
Radix, announced 15 top players of the global hosting community as Pioneers of the .host namespace, which rolled in to Landrush on August 26th. The Pioneer lineup includes big international names like MediaTemple, Bluehost, OVH, Arvixe, and the UK2 Group, in addition to regional leaders such as Natro (Turkey) and UOL (Brazil), HostPapa (Canada), Blacknight (Ireland). Several top global … [Read more...]
Nominet Handles 674 Domain Complaints Down 17%; 55% Result in Domain Transfer
Nominet the company that operates the .co.uk and now the .uk domain name extension (ccTLD) just released its report for its Dispute Resolution Service in 2013 (DRS). In 2013 Nominet handled 674 complaints down 17% from 2012 although the number of domain names registered increase 2,7% Brands using the DRS in 2013 included Lego, Swarovski, Cash Converters, O2, Virgin, L’Oreal, Coast Fashions, … [Read more...]