TechDirt covered a unique twist in domain name disputes last week. Pet Holdings, Inc, the company behind wildly popular websites such as Icanhascheezburger.com, FailBlog.org and Failbooking.com, sued the owner of the domain name FailBook.com because the owner framed PHI’s FailBooking.com site on his FailBook.com domain and put a for sale banner on the top of [...]
According to a report issued by ICANN yesterday, the upcoming ICANN meeting in Nairobi in March has received a message regarding a direct threat against the conference venue, the Kenyan International Conference Center (KICC). ICANN had canceled a planned meeting in Nairobi last year due to security concerns, but had recently confirmed their commitment to [...]
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Today Sedo announced the release of its latest global Market Study, highlighting key domain trends from 2009 and, for the first time, announcing… Today Sedo announced the release of its latest global Market Study, highlighting key domain trends from 2009 and, for the first time, announcing statistics from the last quarter of the year. The [...]
CEO Rod Beckstrom earns $750,000 annual base salary plus bonus As a not-for profit Organization, ICANN always had to file and publish some information of how they spent their money. However those filings are hard to read in and some cases some of the information is not publish. It appears ICANN president & CEO Rod [...]
Afilias, the company that (amongst others) operates the .INFO and .ORG registries has purchased the .MOBI sTLD operator, mTLD Top-Level Domain Ltd. for an undisclosed amount. Afilias and dotMobi are both private Irish Limited companies. As private companies, the purchase price is undisclosed. dotMobi is now a wholly owned subsidiary of Afilias Limited. Afilias is [...]
This weeks Sedo domains sales report is lead by the sale of DownloadTube.com for $33,000 followed by the sale of one of the recently released two -letter .DE domains, wo.de (= “where” in German) for 20,000 Euros (appx $27,000 USD). Domain name Date Price Currency Translation .Coms downloadtube.com 2010-02-02 33000 USD kulu.com 2010-02-03 25000 USD [...]
Today Sedo announced the release of its latest global Market Study, highlighting key domain trends from 2009 and, for the first time, announcing… Today Sedo announced the release of its latest global Market Study, highlighting key domain trends from 2009 and, for the first time, announcing statistics from the last quarter of the year. The [...]
Now that the Super Bowl game’s “Brand Bowl” is finished, the polls and opinions are popping up everywhere. This year there seems to be a lot more reactions and buzz bubbling on the internet, more so than in year’s past, thanks in part to social media sites. Who had the cleverest ads? Who was the [...]
As reported earlier, Avid Media Media Inc. (parent company of sites such as AshleyMadison.com) was planning to go public and use part of the raised funds to purchase Moxy Media. According to an article published by Reuters on Feb 1st, the deal is put on hold for now due to lack of interest from the [...]