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US Calls Blitz On Alleged Pirated-Sports Sites
February 2, 2011 @ 2:40 PMGovernment seizes domains of sites accused of illegally streaming live sports events–the latest round of government site seizures. Read this blog post by Greg Sandoval on Media Maverick.
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Verisign Selected to Operate .GOV Domain Name Registry
February 2, 2011 @ 1:03 PMVeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), the trusted provider of Internet infrastructure services for the networked world, has been selected by the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) to operate the nation’s mission-critical domain name registry for .gov.
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Homeland Security Domain Seizures Raise More Questions: is Embedding a Video Criminal Infringement?
February 2, 2011 @ 12:39 PMJust as with last time Homeland Security’s Immigrations & Customs Enforcement (ICE) group seized a bunch of domain names, the deeper you look into what sites were targeted, the more questions are raised about how ICE seems to interpret the law in its own unique manner. Lots of people do this, but usually they’re not the federal government with the ability to simply seize property with no adversarial hearing and no concern for either due process or the First Amendment.
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Pac-10 Asks Arbitrator for Pac12.com Domain Name
February 2, 2011 @ 11:01 AMCollegiate conference wants Pac12.com domain name. After last year’s conference realignment the Pac-10 now has 12 teams. As it looks to rebrand itself as the Pac-12 it ran into a snag — it doesn’t own Pac12.com.
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LCN.com Offers .UK.com Domain Names
February 2, 2011 @ 7:33 AMLeading domain registrar, LCN.com, today announced it is offering .UK.COM domain names to all customers. Multiple year discounts on all registration a
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Domainfest Comes to Santa Monica
February 2, 2011 @ 3:02 AMThe Lookout News. Santa Monica, CA. February 2, 2011 – Domain speculators from around the world are converging on Santa Monica’s Fairmont Miramar this week – nearly 700 have registered for DomainFest, a gathering of entrepreneurs who make profits buying and selling internet domain names.
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Go Daddy Customers to Leverage \'Super Bowl Glow\' for Domain Sales
February 2, 2011 @ 1:50 AMSCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (Jan. 31, 2011) – An aftermarket domain name sells faster and more easily when it’s in the public spotlight. If this year’s Super Bowl ad results come even somewhat close to previous years, Go Daddy is set to receive a huge traffic surge in the days and weeks following the game – a huge benefit to customers using Go Daddy Premium Listings to sell their domain names.
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Frank Schilling Announces He Sold $7 Million Dollars in Domains Since July ...
February 1, 2011 @ 10:16 AMWhile moderating the opening session at DomainFest this morning Frank Schilling mentioned in passing that since July 2010 his company Name Administration sold just about $7 Million dollars in domain names “without trying too hard”.
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Halfords' Website Goes Down After Domain Name Renewal Problem
February 1, 2011 @ 9:05 AMThe website of UK bikes retailer Halfords went down for 24 hours because of a domain name renewal problem.
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CentralNic Bolsters Team for New Top-level Domains
February 1, 2011 @ 8:38 AMGlobal domain name registry CentralNic announced today several new appointments as part of its growth strategy to empower brand owners, city governments, not-for-profits and businesses to acquire and manage their own top-level domains (“TLDs”).
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