According to post on Boston.com, the domain names/sites Boston.com, BostonGlobe.com and Globe.com may soon be available for sale. The domain names are owned by the Boston Globe newspaper which is for sale and has a June 27th deadline for submitting bids. Today Robert Kraft the owner of the Patriots dropped out of the bidding. "Even without daily traffic Boston.com gets, the URL alone would … [Read more...]
PokerStars Settes With Kentucky Over Domain Seizure Case By Paying $6 Million
PokerStars has agreed to pay just over $6 million to settle the claims of the Commonwealth of Kentucky in the domain name seizure case. In September 2008 the Governor ordered the seizure of 141 domain names. The order went to the domain registrars instead of the Registry in which some registrars like Godaddy and Enom complied and others did not. An Appellate court overturned the Seizure … [Read more...]
Frank Schilling’s Uniregistry Withdraws Its 1st New gTLD Application
Frank Schilling Uniregistry withdrew its 1st new gTLD application for .Marketing The application had a prioritization number of 826, with ICANN getting ready to release Initial Evaluations for applications with a prioritization number of 801-900, by withdrawing the application tonight Uniregistry saved itself $65,000 the difference between a 70% refund and a 35% refund. There are two other … [Read more...]
Washington Post On New gTLD’s: Brings The Value of Any One Domain Down to Almost Nothing
A very interesting article in the WashingtonPost.com today basically proclaimed the death of the domain investor with a big assist from Sedo. The article cites the growing inventory of domain names from new gTLD;'s saying the parking and type in traffic will be gone and value of any one domain " down to almost nothing". The article was chatting about the new gTLD's and domain investing … [Read more...]
Moniker Does System-Wide Password Reset Effecting Every Account
According to an email sent to all of its clients tonight, the domain name registrar Moniker.com notified its client they did a "system-wide password reset" tonight that will require ALL Clients to reset their passwords. Here is the email Moniker.com send out tonight: ""Moniker’s Operations & Security team has discovered and blocked suspicious activity on the Moniker network that appears … [Read more...]
Google AdSense Is 10 Years Old
Google is celebrating the 10th anniversary of its Adsense program. Here is what Google had to say about the 10 year anniversary: "Ten years ago we launched AdSense to help publishers earn money by placing relevant ads on their websites. I can still remember the excitement and anticipation as AdSense went live that first day. Our small team huddled together in a cramped conference room, and … [Read more...]
NewDomains Conference Is Back In October In Munich & CEO OF ICANN Is Keynote
The NewDomains.org conference is coming back to Munich on October 27th-29th and the CEO of ICANN Fadi Chehadé is going to be the headline speaker. The program focuses on three tracks: Legal, Marketing and Registries/Registrars for the new gTLD program. The conference is being put on once again by United-domains AG. I attended the last conference which was in 2011 and it was a very well … [Read more...]