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  • Marc Ostrofsky Put Domain Names in The National Spotlight on ABC-TV's The View

    June 10, 2011 @ 1:04 AM

    Ostrofsky was invited to talk with the show’s five famous female co-hosts (Barbara Walters, Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Sherri Shepherd, and Elisabeth Hasselbeck) about his best selling book Get Rich Click! that teaches people how to make money on the Internet.

  • Go Daddy to Sell .xxx Domains

    June 10, 2011 @ 1:01 AM

    Commanding about half the market for new domain registrations, Go Daddy is a critical partner for any new top-level domain that launches. Its prominent marketing of Colombia’s .co domains was a big help in enabling the registry, .CO Internet, to sell over one million names in less than a year.

  • Go Daddy General Counsel Christine Jones On Domain Transfer Lawsuit

    June 9, 2011 @ 5:50 AM

    When transferring the ownership of a domain, registrars should ensure that it is being reassigned to a rightful owner, as Web hosting provider Go Daddy illustrated in a recent trip to the courtroom. In May, judges rejected an appeal from Go Daddy after it argued that the court had been wrong to rule that it had been negligent in handing over the ownership of several domains, according to a report by the Register.

  • California Merchant Stops Using UK Domain Names After FTC Complaint

    June 9, 2011 @ 5:12 AM

    The California company Balls of Kryptonite, which operates ecommerce sites that sell cameras, video games and other electronics, has settled a Federal Trade Commission complaint by agreeing to permanently refrain from posing as a UK-based retailer.

  • Apple Goes On WWDC-related Domain Buying Spree

    June 9, 2011 @ 4:14 AM

    While Apple was showing off the new features in iOS 5, iCloud, and OS X Lion, it was quietly buying up at least 50 domain names with mentions of the features from those products.

  • New Internet Domain Suffixes Seen As Benefit

    June 9, 2011 @ 1:00 AM

    Small businesses trying to find new ways to market themselves online may soon tap new branding opportunities, if the organization that regulates Internet domain names expands its offering beyond the traditional dot-com suffix.

  • Google Sidesteps Kazakhstan Restrictions

    June 8, 2011 @ 11:00 PM

    Google is redirecting visitors to its Kazakhstan search site, google.kz, to a Kazakh-language page at google.com in response to a Kazakh law that the company says threatens the openness of the Internet

  • Google Defies Kazakhstan Bid for Controlled Web

    June 8, 2011 @ 10:26 PM

    Google is redirecting Google.kz searchers to Google.com domain in Kazakhstan, whose government is demanding all .kz domain names run on servers in that country.

  • Google Bids for G.co.uk in Short-domains Landrush

    June 8, 2011 @ 9:28 PM

    Google, Yahoo, Huawei and Deutsche Telekom are among the companies vying for a new batch of super-short UK domain names. Single- and two-letter .co.uk web addresses were opened up to registrations late last year by Nominet, the UK domain registry body.

  • ICANN Responds to U.S. Government Questions About New Top Level Domains

    June 8, 2011 @ 8:01 PM

    ICANN Senior Vice President Kurt Pritz has responded (pdf) to a written question and expanded on his answers to questioning from U.S. representatives during a hearing about new TLDs on May 4.

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