Wow Talk about the power of the Internet. Today according to a post on Facebook's offical blog, CEO Mark Zuckerberg, wrote that Facebook will welcome their 200 millionth active user some time today. One site, 200 million users. It took the United States some 200 years to get the same number of people it took Facebook to reach in just a few. Started in just 2004, well after most of … [Read more...]

I have been contacted by representative of both Answerable.com and SnapNames.com on our post yesterday concerning SnapNames sending out e-mails to customers notifying them about certain registrars being terminated by SnapNames.com According to Viram Lodhia of Answerable the e-mails sent out notifying customers that SnapNames.com was terminating the relationship with Answerable,  were sent in … [Read more...]

I have, over the last couple of days, received over 18 e-mails from Snapnames.com, each announcing that they are terminating their relationship with one of their partner registrars. As I write this post, notices are still coming in, so the number of terminated registrars, might grow about So far, the notices include the following registrars: Answerable.com Names Real Names … [Read more...]

The domain, 401.com sold today at NameJet.com for $65,100  in a private auction which was opened to just 115 people at Namejet.com and lasted over 3 hours of extended bidding 401.com of course could be used in connection with 401kplans and appears to generate several thousands visitors a month according to compete.com It is also the area code for Rhode Island. According to DnJournal.com … [Read more...]

As we posted a couple of days ago, Senators John Rockefeller (D-W. Va.) and Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) introduced a bill to establish the Office of the National Cybersecurity Advisor—an arm of the executive branch that would have vast power to monitor and control Internet traffic to protect against threats to "critical cyber infrastructure": You can read the bill here. (PDF) The law among … [Read more...]

Sedo, announced today that is has entered into  a strategic partnership with Intellectual Property Management (IPM) Company, a highly recognized provider of domain management services to corporations. """"The partnership is designed to help businesses manage existing domain portfolios with IPM, while acquiring the domains they need to meet their business goals through Sedo’s industry … [Read more...]

The 2nd Circuit Federal Court of Appeals ruled against Google in a trademark lawsuit stemming from AdWords ads, saying that allowing a trademark term to trigger a search ad is a "use in commerce", within the meaning of federal trademark laws. Google was sued by computer repair shop, Rescuecom,  for allowing rivals to appear as sponsored listings when consumers typed "rescuecom" into the query … [Read more...]