Investors in VeriSign may not know much about domain names, but they sure didn’t like the appellate courts ruling on Friday, allowing the suit against VeriSign to continue. (We told you in…
Category: Domain Industry
Appeals Court Reverses & Allows Suit Against Verisign To Go To Trial: This Is A BIG Deal
A lawsuit was filed in 2005 over the no bid, VeriSign contract, with ICANN which gave VeriSign a monopoly to administer the .com and .net registries., by the Coalition for ICANN Transparency…
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…
How Accurate Is Alexa.org?
We all seem to rely on web ranking services, in valuing domains we are looking to acquire and one of the tools many domainers use, including myself, is Alexa.org Alexa.org basically uses…
HitWise: Paid Search Down 26%
The research firm, HitWise is reporting a record drop in Paid search advertising over the last few weeks. HitWise reports that the share of search traffic to websites generated from paid listings…
VeriSign: Domain Growth “Better Than Expected” up 9%
VeriSign in reporting its quarterly earnings issued today, had some interesting comments regarding registration and renewal rates for the 1st quarter of 2009 and some predictions for the next quarter. Here are…
The Fastest Way To Register A Domain? TweetName.com: Lets You Register Your Domain Through Twitter
Tech Crunch just published a post about TweetName, the service that lets you register any .com, .net, org or .biz, by just sending a Tweet. “”Once you log into Tweetname for the…