Today some industry leaders submitted an open letter to the United States House Subcommittee on Intellectual Property and the Internet regarding the Oversight Hearing on new Top-Level Domains to be held on…
Blackberry Makes Bing Its Default Search Engine
Give a big check to Microsft today which just beat Goolge out to become the default search engine for all Blackberry devices. Blackberry devices will use Bing as the preferred search provider…
Afternic.com Sells $600k In Domains Led By Objetivo.com For $7k
Afternic.com just released its sales for the week ending Sunday May 1st. All reportable domain sales $1k and over totalled just under $593k. The top seller of the week was Objetivo.com at…
Kenya To Block .XXX
According to Xbiz.com, “Kenya’s government announced today that it has rejected .XXX to operate in its country” “Communications Secretary Bitange Ndemo said Kenya would not certify the sponsored top-level domain that was…
CragsList.org Sells On NameJet.com For $17K
Oh Boy The domain name Cragslist.org (yes its a typo) sold on NameJet.com yesterday for $17,211. 5 bidders were in the auction at $1,000 + The domain has an Alexa rank of…
A Venture Capitalist Take On Finding And Buying A Domain Name
Fred Wilson a self described Venture Capitalist and principal of Union Square Ventures published a post on this blog, AVC.com the other day about “Finding and Buying A Domain Name”. It’s an…
A Day After Getting The Most Wanted Man In The World, NavySeals.com Goes Up For Sale
A day after the most wanted man in the world was killed by the Navy Seals, the domain name NavySeals.com went up for sale. “NavySeals.com just went on the market for sale…