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Single-letter Domain Names Fetch Average of £39000
October 2, 2011 @ 6:14 AMInternet investors and speculators have spent tens of thousands of pounds to buy just one or two letters in online addresses, after a new set of UK domain names went under the hammer. Twelve single-letter domains – including x.co.uk and 0.co.uk…
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Don't Mess With Texas' Domain Names
September 29, 2011 @ 11:28 PMTexas Department of Transportation wins domain name dispute over DontMessWithTexas.com. The Texas Department of Transportation has a message for domain name owners: Don’t Mess with Texas. The organization just won a National Arbitration Forum case over the domain name DontMessWithTexas.com. The owner of the domain name didn’t respond to the …
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Google to Take On Woopra and Chartbeat
September 29, 2011 @ 11:09 PMGoogle Analytics goes real-time. Web analytics companies already know they need to quickly adapt to survive. Remember when Google acquired Urchin and then offered its suite for free as Google Analytics? Yeah, that shook things up. Today Google announced real-time functionality in Google Analytics. This is a blow to two popular real time …
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Amazon's Silky Web Browser May Go PC, Android - Say Domain Names
September 29, 2011 @ 10:15 PMA recent batch of domain names purchased by Amazon hints to a possible Silk release on the PC, Android and Mac.
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Dot Brand Versus Dot Com: Internet Domains Go Head to Head
September 29, 2011 @ 12:55 PMApplications for the new internet domains open soon and companies need to get their skates on if they want to apply.
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Amazon.com's Online Name Game With Kindle Fire and Silk
September 29, 2011 @ 12:39 AMNews, profiles and commentary on Seattle technology startups, Microsoft, Amazon.com, gadgets, PCs, software, venture capital and Internet services.
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Al Gore Gives Way to Mikhail Gorbachev for Control of .ECO Domain
September 28, 2011 @ 9:27 PMA bid by an Al Gore-backed consortium to control a major new “green” web domain has been dropped, paving the way for a rival pitch by an organisation supported by Mikhail Gorbachev.
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Brands Missing Out On Sales As Consumers Led Astray Online
September 28, 2011 @ 5:18 AMCompanies owning a .brand domain can offer short memorable Web addresses, so customers can easily navigate to their favorite brands vs. relying on sea
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Truste and Tucows Partner to Deliver Privacy Policy and Certification Services
September 27, 2011 @ 10:06 PMTRUSTe, the leading online privacy solutions provider, and Tucows Inc., a global provider of domain names, email and other Internet services, today announced a partnership to distribute TRUSTe privacy policy and certification services to more than 12,000 web hosts, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), and other resellers worldwide through Tucows’ wholesale Internet services group OpenSRS. The partnership with TRUSTe gives the OpenSRS network of resellers the ability to provide even more value to their small business customers through affordable privacy solutions and access to the TRUSTe Privacy Seal, recognized by 82% of people online and considered the de facto standard for online privacy.
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1- and 2-letter .ORG Domain Names May Be On The Way
September 27, 2011 @ 9:49 PMPublic Interest Registry asks for permission to allocate one and two character .org domain names. .Org domain name registry Public Interest Registry is asking (pdf) ICANN to allow it to allocate certain one and two character .org domain names. PIR’s contract with ICANN currently prohibits registering these short .org domain names. PIR wants …
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