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Scramble for Dot Africa Internet Domain Name

A proposed new .africa internet domain name will provide a stronger brand identity than current little known country domains, say backers.

In Domain Name Game, It's All X's and Noes

A new category of pornographic website has prompted well-known organizations in Alberta to buy up numerous

New .XXX Domain for Porn Debuts to Mixed Feelings

You can buy your very own porn domain for as little as $60.

Cooking.com Grabs $13.5 Million

E-commerce company Cooking.com has landed $13.5 million in growth capital financing in a combined debt and equity round led by private investment firm BIA Digital Partners, with San Francisco-based VC firm Azure Capital Partners participating.

What's in a Name? Homeland Security Develops Domain Name System Security

The Department of Homeland Security’s Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) is working to restore trust in the system and make websites more secure and reliable by improving the Internet’s Domain Name System (DNS).

DomainTools Unveils Screenshots.com, a Web Archive of Over 250 Million Historical Website Screenshot Images

Seattle, WA — December 5, 2011 — DomainTools, the recognized leader in domain name research and monitoring, today launched Screenshots.com, a website that allows users to view screenshots of what a website looks like now and throughout its history. Screenshots.com provides a web archive of images and data sets that can be used for discovering and evaluating the history of website homepages. Users can track, and more fully understand, how a website’s homepage content has changed in its lifetime.

DomainTools has rebuilt the thumbnail engine that for years has provided a visual context to the powerful domain name detail information available at DomainTools.com. By launching on the premium domain name Screenshots.com, DomainTools is able to feature this important content in a more functional way for users that are specifically interested in home page archives.

Screenshots.com was created with key features in mind to help users better research competitive websites, easily scroll through a website’s image history, and discover details about the website. Visitors can quickly uncover the year the domain was first registered, find similar type websites and learn how a website looked over time. The site includes the ability for users to request an updated screenshot at any time. The Featured Screenshot section on the home page scans news feeds for domain name references and showcases them on a rotating basis.

The DomainTools thumbnail image capture system, the back-end service for Screenshots.com, was originally developed in 2006. The current version now checks up to 1,000,000 websites a day and, unlike other screenshot services, captures critical external resources like ads and images. With Screenshots.com, what you see is exactly what a visitor would have seen when they visited the site. Domain investors, trademark attorneys and brand agents alike have relied upon DomainTools’ screenshot history tool to make more informed business decisions and to investigate and defend potential trademark-infringing domain names.

For nearly 10 years, DomainTools has provided users with the most comprehensive data about domain names, and the launch of Screenshots.com helps extend that mission. Together with DomainTools.com, DailyChanges.com, ReverseWhois.com, and Reversemx.com, individuals, small business owners, and many large enterprises use DomainTools’ breadth of tools to do everything from finding a good domain for a new business to verifying DNS and WHOIS information on corporate portfolios of thousands of domains.

About DomainTools
DomainTools is the recognized leader in domain name research and monitoring. Like the white pages of the Internet, DomainTools provides a directory that serves a comprehensive snapshot of past and present domain name registration and ownership records in addition to powerful research tools that help to uncover and discover everything there is to know about a domain name. DomainTools is a Top 200 site in the Alexa rankings. DomainTools is based in Seattle, Washington.

Location.com Domain Acquired By Ereal Estate Holdings to Capitalize On Massive ...

eReal Estate Holdings, LLC, owner and operator of Condo.com, Houses.com, and Property.com – three leading online real estate portals, today announced the acquisition of the category domain name Location.com.

Tim Schumacher, Co-founder of Domain Marketplace Sedo, Steps Down; Names New CEO

Online domain marketplace Sedo announced on Monday that its supervisory board has named Tobias Flaitz, previously with Hubert Burda Media, as the new CEO and member of the management board of Sedo. On February 1, 2012, he will succeed Sedo’s current CEO and co-founder, Tim Schumacher, who is leaving the board of management as of December 31 for personal reasons.

.CO to Return to Super Bowl in GoDaddy Commercial

The .co top level domain name will get heavy exposure at the Super Bowl for a second year in a row. Today domain name registrar GoDaddy announced that one of its two commercials in next year’s Super Bowl will feature .co.

Over 100,000 Xxx Domain Names are Going Live Tomorrow at 11 EST

The next generation of online porn launches tomorrow at 11 AM EST. We asked the guy behind XXX domain names who stands to benefit from the changeover.