With the auction for E.Co hitting $25K today with almost 2 days to go, Twitter.com announced today that it acquired and was going to use T.CO as its official URL shortener. The…
ITIF Report: Global Economic Benefits Of The Internet $1.5 Trillion, More Than Global Sales of Medicine, Renewable Energy, & Government R&D, Combined
Included in the VeriSign 1Q 2010 Domain Name Industry Brief, is a a new study by the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF), a Washington, D.C.-based think tank. Titled “The Internet Economy…
VeriSign Domain Name Report 1Q Is Out: 193M Domains Registrations, Up 6%: New .Com/.Net Registrations Up 10%
According to the latest Domain Name Industry Brief published by VeriSign, Inc. (pdf) the Domain Name Industry ended the first quarter of 2010 with more than 193 million domain name registrations across…
CafeInternet.com Taken In A WIPO For “Pornosquatting”
In a three panel decision the generic domain name CafeInternet.com was transferred to the trademark holder “”The Panel determines that while no specific act of bad faith by Respondent…the Panel finds that…
Whose The Biggest Buyer Of Oil Spill Keywords On PPC? Looks Like Its BP
A couple of weeks ago I wrote a post about who owned all the Oil Spill and cleanup related domains. The next day Rick Schwartz published a post of his own, talking…
ICANN Predicts 500 new gTLD Applications & A $2M Profit, but It’s Budget Is Flawed
Courtesy of our friends at Mind +Machines, it appears ICANN has based it budget on its prediction of 500 applications for new gTLD’s on the initial roll out. The document showing this…
GoldATM.Com A Hand Registered Domain So Good, Even The Founder Of CADNA Likes It
A video clip of the the worlds first ATM machine that dispenses not cash, but gold was spotted by many people including Joshua S. Bourne, Managing Partner of FairWinds Partners, LLC which…