Today the Commonwealth of Kentucky filed a response to iMEGA motion for Intermediate relief with the Kentucky Court of Appeals. The Commonwealth main arguments are that iMEGA does not have standing to represent any of the domain names as they are not the owner of any of the domains. iMEGA is a trade association who according to the Commonwealth, "has not identified a single domain defendant … [Read more...]

Microsoft's CEO said today that is not interested in renewing its bid for Yahoo. Steve Ballmer told a business lunch in Sydney that Microsoft Corp. had moved on after Yahoo rejected its takeover bid earlier this year, but did suggest a partnership in the search engine market is possible. "We made an offer, we made another offer, and it was clear that Yahoo didn't want to sell the business to … [Read more...]

A couple of weeks ago we posted and asked the question whether 2009 would mark the first year that new registrations of .com's and /net's would actually decline. Today Verisign, during an earnings call, released a report that shows our prediction maybe coming true. For the third quarter they processed 6.9 million new domain name registrations compared with 7.5 million names during the same … [Read more...]

The domain FreePornTube.com sold on NameJet.com for $34,800. The domain which seems to have just a little traffic, with an alexa ranking of over 1.5 million. As a buyer of adult domains, it seems like a steep price to pay unless you own porntube.com (which has a tons of traffic) and its a defensive acquisition. Moreover, porntube.com is a registered Servicemark. We will see if this one … [Read more...]

Yesterday we posted about CADNA's press release where they said that cybersquatting was criminal. We called CADNA out on this. Many asked where the ICA was on this issue and tonight they issued this press release: """"""On Wednesday, November 5 The Coalition Against Domain Name Abuse (CADNA) released a statement that implied that cybersquatting is a criminal activity. CADNA said in its … [Read more...]

After spending almost nearly a year spent rejecting then seeking alternatives to Microsoft's buyout offers, Yahoo Chief Executive Jerry Yang said yesterday he believes a deal between the two is still the best option for the Yahoo. Speaking at the Web 2.0 Summit hours after Google ditched its search advertising partnership with Yahoo, Yang said he remains open to selling the Internet company to … [Read more...]

Tucows today announced it has sold all of its 7.38% equity interest in Afilias, a global provider of registry services, back to the company. The purchase price of $7.4 million is payable to Tucows in three cash installments: $3.2 million today; $2.1 million in June 2009; and $2.1 million in December 2009."This sale is another step in our stated goal to divest non-core assets in order to unlock … [Read more...]