We received a press release from Irish domain name registrar and hosting company, Blacknight which announced today they have launched their Jelastic powered next generation cloud platform, designed for developers and offers a true "zero code change" PaaS solution. ""Blacknight announce the addition of Jelastic, the developer’s dream platform, to their suite of services. Jelastic is the only … [Read more...]
Google to add Buy Buttons to Mobile Search
Google is planning on launching buy buttons in mobile search only, there will not be buttons when someone searches on desktop. One has to wonder how all the advertisers who spend big money on Adwords will feel about this. Engadget stated there are several reasons why this will be mobile only. The biggest reason ? Mobile searches outpacing desktop searches. The Wall Street Journal is responsible … [Read more...]
Looks Likes Coupons.com Got $4.8 Million For Withdrawing Its .Coupons New gTLD App
According to Tweets from George Kirikos and Daniel Negari it appears that Coupons.com made a cool $4.8 Million dollars for withdrawing its application for the new gTLD .Coupons George found an SEC filing that showed Coupons.com received $4.8 million dollars from the sale of a domain name. Coupons.com withdrew its application to operate the new gTLD .Coupons which left Donuts, the only … [Read more...]
ICANN Could Be Privatized by the end of the year
PCTechMag.com wrote an article that discussed ICANN being on its own by the end of the year. Fadi Chehade gave comments on Thursday that all the parts were in place for this to happen. From the article: The head of the nonprofit group that oversees the world’s Internet addresses expressed confidence Thursday that it would be privatized and out of US government control by year’s end. Fadi … [Read more...]
CEO of .Design on ReDesigning The Success Of A New gTLD Launch
This is a guest post by Ray King the CEO of Top Level Design, a new domain registry behind the new gTLD's .Design, .Wiki and .ink. Mr. King has also founded Semaphore, Inc, SnapNames, Inc, AboutUs, Inc. and ICANNWiki (501c3). The post appears here unedited: We at Top Level Design believe that .design had the most successful launch of any generic new TLD to date. Not only that, I think we … [Read more...]
UDRP Panel Finds Laches & Reverse Domain Name Hijacking on CanDoCanines.org
Alan M. Peters / Can Do Canines represented by Paul Schwarzkopf, Minnesota, has been found Guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking on the domain name CanDoCanines.org The domain holder, Marilyn Mathis was represented by Steven L. Rinehart, of Utah The Complainant admitted that the domain name was not registered in bad faith but argued was held in bad faith which of course would have doomed … [Read more...]
Mayor Of New York Brags On .NYC: 97% Of Registrants Own 10 or Less Domains
The Mayor of New York Bill de Blasio today announced "that just six months after its historic public launch, the. nyc top-level domain has become the fastest-growing city domain in the world – racking up over 75,000 registrations to date." Mayor Bill de Blasio is quoted as saying: "New York is the only city with top-level Internet domain exclusively reserved for its residents and … [Read more...]