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Moniker T.R.A.F.F.I.C. East in May

Posted on April 29th, 2008 by admin in Domain News | 1 Comment »

The Moniker T.R.A.F.F.I.C. East Auction will be held at The Grand Floridian Hotel, Orlando, Florida On May 20-24, 2008. More than 110,000 domains have been submitted for this auction, and Moniker is currently completing its valuation and selection process. Early contenders include: Calcium.net OH.com BodilyInjury.com AirlineFares.net Organic.info BadCredit.net BabyFood.com Pay.com Israel.com Boats.mobi Religion.mobi Jackpot.com ClothesShopping.com [...]

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LH.com reverse hijacked by Lufthansa

Posted on April 28th, 2008 by admin in Domain News | 1 Comment »

In a blatant case of reverse hijacking Luthansa has won a dispute over the domain name LH.com owned by ‘elequa’. The decision was reached after deliberation by the WIPO domain arbitration panel. In my opinion if ever there was a generic two letter domain it is LH.com and for Lufthansa to get away with this [...]

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Sedo’s brokerage services updated

Posted on April 28th, 2008 by admin in Domain News | 1 Comment »

Sedo’s brokerage services are being updated with a new process for submitting both buyer and seller side brokerage requests and… Sedo’s brokerage services are being updated with a new process for submitting both buyer and seller side brokerage requests and enhanced communications tools. Our dedicated brokers will now be able to work one-on-one with clients [...]

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CIRA to introduce better whois privacy protection

Posted on April 28th, 2008 by admin in Domain News | No Comments »

The Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) is to introduce better protection of whois data from June 2008. In the past CIRA required all registrants to fully disclose personal details in their domain whois. From June 2008 a new mechanism will be in place protecting registrant’s personal data from the public while still allowing CIRA and [...]

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Social applications dominate the net according to Morgan Stanley

Posted on April 28th, 2008 by admin in Domain News | 1 Comment »

Morgan Stanley’s Internet Trends report was released last month and it takes a big turn from previous reports – the focus is nearly 100% on social apps and how they are taking over the Internet. * YouTube and Facebook have more page views than Google or Yahoo (and may be bigger than both combined) * [...]

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WhyPark lands $230k angel investment

Posted on April 28th, 2008 by admin in Domain News | No Comments »

Auto-generated alternative domain parking provider WhyPark, has received an infusion of angel funding from one of its customers. Domain Name Wire has learned that the investment totals $230,000 and will be used to further enhance WhyPark’s services. [For those not familiar with angel funding, it typically represents investments by high net worth individuals and is [...]

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Google experiments with searchable images

Posted on April 28th, 2008 by admin in Domain News | No Comments »

Two Google scientists presented a paper at the World Wide Web Conference in Beijing last week that outlines their vision of future image search. The new image search technology doesn’t just index text associated with an image in determining what’s in it. Google is now looking at using computers to analyze the imagery in photos, [...]

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BeNeLux auction at Sedo

Posted on April 28th, 2008 by admin in Domain News | No Comments »

Following a successful auction in November 2007, Sedo is organizing two dedicated auctions for the Dutch, Belgian and Luxembourg tlds in 2008. The auction catalogue for the first auction that will be held between the 2nd and 9th of May has been released. You can check out the auction catalogue here.

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What is a blog?

Posted on April 27th, 2008 by admin in Domain Development, Domain News | 2 Comments »

This question may be silly to some. You might even comment to express your annoyance at such a “silly post” by me. I won’t be insulted. Nor will I hold it against you. I am still writing this post. Why? Because, every once in a while I get an email from an interested reader asking [...]

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Top Social Bookmarking Websites

Posted on April 27th, 2008 by admin in Domain News, Traffic Building | No Comments »

The number of social bookmarking sites has exploded in the last year with the whole thing becoming a little overwhelming for a newcomer. If you are new to social networking you have to understand that each social networking site is different, it attracts a different audience with different interests. What interests someone on Reddit might [...]

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