Last month, Research in Motion (RIM) who makes the blackberry devices had a huge service outage effecting millions of users in five continents for up to four days in which users were…
Category: Domains
National A-1 Shuts Down Sextoys.com & ToySales.com
According to xBiz.com, National A-1 Internet has discontinued the operations of its adult novelty retail website SexToys.com and affiliate program ToySales.com, (however I’m still getting a resolving site at sextoys.com) This comes…
BankSimple Acquires & Changes Its Name to Simple.com
BankSimple.com has been getting some nice press recently as an alternative to the “big banks”. You can read about them here, and here, and here. Today in their blog Bank Simple announced…
Will Chevy’s Newest Car Be Called “The Spin” ? As Chevy Registers ChevySpin.com & ChevroletSpin.com
Looks like Chevy is going to name its newest car the Chevy Spin. MarkMonitor.com registered the domain names ChevySpin.com and ChevroletSpin.com. I couldn’t find a word on the Chevy Spin anywhere else…
Amazon Lands Z.cn As A Shortener In China Which Reminds Us They Haven’t Launched Their .Co Domains
Amazon announced today its changing its brand name it uses in China from Joyo Amazon to Amazon China. Amazon also announced that it has obtained the domain name Z.cn, which is re-directing…
Klout: How The $40 Million Dollar Company, Bought its Domain Name Klout.com For $5,000 Cash
TechCrunch.com just covered the story of how the tech company Klout obtained the domain name Klout.com for $5,000 cash. And when they say cash, they mean cash in an envelope. According to…
Ads On Parked Pages Using A Google Feed Are A No Go On GoGo
GoGo is the carrier, the ISP if you will, if your on a plane and on the I, nternet. Checking it out today I noticed that in typing in some of our…