You always hear back up your work and most know they should but don't. There are news reports out today about Dennis Cooper an artist who ran his blog on Google owned Blogger, has had his blog wiped away by Google. Cooper wrote on Facebook: Yesterday afternoon Google disabled my blog and took it offline. They did the same with my email account. Other than being shown a general 'violation of … [Read more...]
Guest Post: .WS Goes To China
This is a guest post by Alan Ezeir who is the Founder & President of Global Domains International, Inc which owns and operates the .WS registry which is the ccTLD of Samoa. I found it an interesting read not just for .WS domains but for all short domains in China. The following was written by Mr. Ezeir and was published unedited: ""I recently went to China with no expectations, just … [Read more...]
Playing The President/VP Domain Game? Asking Prices Up to $80K
TheHill.com published a story last night about an anti-Donald Trump super-PAC registering "a slew of web domains" in anticipation of the presumptive Republican nominee's running mate announcement later this week. Well it appears a "slew of domain names" were actually three .Gop domains; "trumpgingrich.gop, trumppence.gop and trumpchristie.gop, all three of which redirect to the group's … [Read more...]
URS Panel Finds The URS Complaint “Was An Abuse of Process” in Grey.email
In what be the first case, an Examiner found a "Complaint filed under the Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) proceeding was brought as abuse of the administrative proceeding or with material falsehoods". The URS involved the generic domain name Grey.email and the Complainant Grey Global Group LLC of New York, New York, which was represented by Fross Zelnick Lehrman & Zissu, P.C. of New York, … [Read more...]
Delaware.com Sold By Godaddy To The Delaware Company House LLC
The domain name Delaware.com has been sold to The Delaware Company House LLC whose current domain name is DelawareCompanyHouse.com According to it's site, "the The Delaware Company House is located at 8 The Green in Dover, Delaware. If you find us on a map, you’ll see we’re steps from the Chancery Court and the Old State House, a short walk from most any Delaware State office you may need to … [Read more...]
Quick Poll How Much Will .Web Sell For In The ICANN Auction On July 27th ?
The new gTLD .Web is scheduled to go to an ICANN auction, on July 27th. There are 8 companies in the auction and 3 of them are public. The public companies are Google (NASDAQ: GOOG), Web.com (NASDAQ: WWWW) and Cimpress NV (NASDAQ: CMPR) which is the parent company of Vistaprint Limited. Google has a market cap close to $500 Billion, Web.com has a market cap of $1.26 Billion while Cimpress … [Read more...]
HBO Registers “News Network” Domains
Home Box Office (HBO) registered several interesting new domain names yesterday through brand protection company and domain namr registrar Mark Monitor. The domain registrations indicate HBO maybe planning a "news network" either on HBO or a stand alone station. Of course HBO has a couple of "newsy" type shows already Late Week with John Oliver and Real Time With Bill Mahaer both of which … [Read more...]