Microsoft Sues Domain Name Registrar
Today Microsoft filed suit against a domain registrar, Red Registrar for allegedly registering and profiting from 125 domains “confusingly similar to Microsoft’s Marks”, including windowslivecare.com, msnmesnger.com, and ageofmathology.com Although the domains…
Australia Take a Crack at Regulating the Web
A new law in Australia take effect January 20, 2008, which imposes age verification on publishes either online or mobile content. Here are the rules Sexually explicit content is prohibited (X18+, and…
Biggest Threat to the Domain Industry
What is the biggest threat to the Domain Industry? That government action or over reaction to attempt to deal with trademark infringement issues is the biggest issue we face as an industry….
PPC Companies Agree to Pay Fine for Gambling Ads
Microsoft, Google and Yahoo agreed to pay a civil fine totaling 31.5 million dollars for carrying PPC ads for gambling, going back to 2000. Microsoft paid 21 million, Yahoo share…
FTC OK’S Google DoubleClick Deal
The FTC said today that they will NOT block the proposed acquisition of Double Click by Google for 3.1 Billion Dollars saying that the deal is “unlikely to substantially lessen competition” Full…
Auction Calendar for 2008
After our post yesterday on pricing your domains for auction, we received a lot of feedback and most was regarding the lack of knowledge of when and where major domain auctions going…