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Pixel Capital Buys Accommodation.com and Accommodation.co.uk for $528,000 USD
September 14, 2012 @ 8:46 AMAustralian company Pixel Capital Pty Ltd has added two travel oriented Domain names to its portfolio of web sites. The domains, <a href="http://www.accommodation.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.accommodation.com</a> and <a href="http://www.accommodation.co.uk" rel="nofollow">http://www.accommodation.co.uk</a>, were bought for $528.000 USD.
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Chinese Registry Announces Launch of .china (.中 国 ) Extension
September 13, 2012 @ 9:57 AMThe China Internet Network Information Center, registry for the .cn domain, has announced the launch of the new .china (.中 国) Internationalized Domain Name (IDN) extension.
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Gregg McNair Takes Equity Position and Chairmanship at Internet.bs
September 13, 2012 @ 9:54 AMMcNair has acquired a substantial equity position in Internet.bs Corp. (IBS) and has also been appointed Chairman of the fast growing Bahamas based registrar that was founded in 2004.
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LivingSoCal.com Wins UDRP Action Brought by LivingSocial.com
September 12, 2012 @ 12:30 PMRespondent pleads ignorance and wins UDRP action. From the UDRP Findings: The LivingSoCal.com domain name resolves to two different websites depending on how the Internet users access the website: 1) If the Internet user types in “www.livingsocal.com,” Respondent’s real estate website will come up. 2) If the Internet user types in “livingsocal.com,” the parking page comes up. Respondent did not know that this was possible, did not have any control over the content of the parked page, and did not receive any commercial benefit.
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Some Big Names Make Domain Purchases
September 12, 2012 @ 8:55 AMThis week’s end user sales list is a little shorter than usual, but that doesn’t necessarily mean there were fewer end user buys last week.
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GoDaddy Moves DNS to Competitor VeriSign
September 12, 2012 @ 8:55 AMFollowing a day-long Domain Name Service server outage, web hosting provider GoDaddy is letting its competitor, VeriSign, host its DNS servers.
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GoDaddy Recovers From Cyber Knockout Punch - Denies DDos Attack
September 11, 2012 @ 10:37 AMThe service outage was not caused by external influences. It was not a “hack” and it was not a denial of service attack (DDoS). We have determined the service outage was due to a series of internal network events that corrupted router data tables. Once the issues were identified, we took corrective actions to restore services for our customers and GoDaddy.com. We have implemented measures to prevent this from occurring again.
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.kiwi.nz Pushes Registrations Past Half-Million Mark
September 11, 2012 @ 10:35 AMThe newly launched second level domain .kiwi.nz has helped push the total number of .nz registrations past 500,000 in a “landmark day for the New Zealand Internet”.
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Every GoDaddy-Registered Site Temporarily Knocked Offline
September 10, 2012 @ 1:49 PMA malicious flood of network traffic has knocked Internet registrar GoDaddy’s servers offline — taking with it the site, its email, and thousands, potentially millions of websites registered through one of the Internet’s most popular services.
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A.pl Targeted by Apple for Trademark Cancellation
September 10, 2012 @ 9:27 AMThe Internet country code top-level domain for Poland is “.pl.” The first letter of the alphabet in the Polish language, like in most, is the letter “a.” Put them together and you have Apple’s latest legal attack target: A.pl.
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