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The Vatican's Domain Name Misunderstanding
January 3, 2012 @ 11:38 PMThe Vatican says someone else bought Vatican.xxx when it was actually reserved by the registry. Catholics + Porn = headlines.
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Number of .IE Domain Names Up By 12.9% Last Year
January 3, 2012 @ 11:13 PMThe total number of IE domain names grew by 12.9% last year according to figures released today. The IE Domain Registry (IEDR), which manages .ie registered websites, said that there were 39,398 new .ie websites registered last year, up 7.7% on the previous year.
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Godaddy Domain Names And Hosting Popularity Remain Strong After SOPA Boycott
January 3, 2012 @ 5:36 AMGodaddy.com’s original support of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) was reversed in light of the strong grass roots activity denouncing its stance on the bill. SOPA is facing a House of Representatives committee vote this month. While it is unclear exactly how much if any influence the boycott may have had on Godaddy’s revenue, traffic stats from Alexa indicate their dominance in the domain registration and hosting arena is still unmatched.
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Intercontinental Hotel in Kabul, Afghanistan Can Keep Its Domain
January 3, 2012 @ 2:53 AMLocal hotel can keep its domain name — which may seem trivial given the day-to-day challenges of operating a business in Kabul.
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CU Among Schools Snapping Up .xxx Domain Names
January 2, 2012 @ 1:14 PMThe University of Colorado has snapped up 27 .xxx domain names in an effort to prevent pornographers from exploiting the school’s name and brands, but it failed in acquiring the Colorado.
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University of Hawaii .xxx Web Address Up for Auction
January 2, 2012 @ 11:30 AMSomeone wants to sell a .xxx website address featuring the University of Hawaii for tens of thousands of dollars, in a case one Internet security expert calls cybersquatting.
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New .xxx Domain Name Rightly Isolates Adult Content On The Internet
January 2, 2012 @ 4:29 AMVatican representatives were pleased recently to learn that the domain name Vatican.xxx was banned from public purchase and incapable of being fashioned into a porn site when the internet domain extension .xxx, became available for public purchase in early December. While rumors circulated that Vatican.xxx was purchased, and not by the Vatican, the domain name is permanently blocked from sale. Once this scandal subsided, a more positive buzz emerged, highlighting the benefits of the .xxx extension.
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Sedari Launches Guess The Numbers Game for New gTLD Program
January 2, 2012 @ 12:19 AMSedari.com a consulting company in the new gTLD space launched today a “Guess the Numbers Games” contest, where you can place you guess on the number of new gTLD applications that will be received by ICANN, during the Application period which opens on January 12th for 3 months.
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Should We Forgive Go Daddy?
December 30, 2011 @ 1:46 PMSOPA has sure made a mess of things, hasn’t it? No company knows that better than GoDaddy. When the list of SOPA supporters came out, Internet users everywhere cried to users to boycott GoDaddy, moving hosting and domain name registration to other companies. A lot of people did. Last Friday, when this story was getting top billing on tech sites everywhere, over 21,000 domain names were moved to other companies. That hasn’t stopped people from registering thousands of new domain names.
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Lawsuit May Determine Who Owns A Twitter Account
December 30, 2011 @ 8:18 AMHow much is a tweet worth? And how much does a Twitter follower cost? We may soon find out as Noah Kravitz’s former employer, Phonedog.com, is claiming ownership of the Twitter account he started at the company and is suing for damages.
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