Website Marketing: Domain Names and Landing Pages
Sun, 08 Jan 2012 11:43:35 -0800

And when it comes to your website, you have to address a few key areas including the domain name , landing pages and ways to remain inspired and creative (of course that's good for your business in general). To me your website is your online home, ...

Industries fight planned rollout of new domain names
Mon, 26 Dec 2011 23:20:46 -0800

By creating hundreds of new TLDs, small-business owners will be forced to buy domain names in any number of the new TLDs for fear that someone else will co-opt their second-level name and divert their business, Jaffe says. (The second-level name is ...

Leading Ad Words Expert Changes Domain Name from Ad Words Cafe.com to ...
Fri, 30 Dec 2011 00:08:20 -0800

San Francisco, CA, December 30, 2011 --(PR.com)-- A leading Google Ad Words optimization consultancy is announcing its company and domain name change from adwordscafe.com to www.kristinacutura.com. Since 2009, the company's dedicated advice has ...

Domain Spammers Fill-Up Christmas Inboxes
Mon, 26 Dec 2011 22:06:38 -0800

by Adam Strong in Categories: Legal Issues - 2 Comments The onslaught of domain spammers emailing solicitations to acquire domain names that are dropping or pitching domains for sale seems to have increased dramatically over the last month. ...

Judge allows fraud claim in Monte Cahn vs. Oversee.net to move forward, nixes ...
Fri, 06 Jan 2012 12:37:56 -0800

Register your domain names with Searchen Networks Inc., Check domain name availability. Search for domain names . Domain Name Wire is the Domain Name Industry's News Source. Judge allows fraud claim in Monte Cahn vs. Oversee.net to move forward, ...

Afilias Says "No" to SOPA
Sat, 07 Jan 2012 17:30:54 -0800

By Afilias (Sponsored Post) The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) is the subject of substantial controversy in the United States, and the domain name industry is squarely in the middle of the debate. Many DNS service providers and technology developers in ...

Colleges buying up .xxx domain names
Sat, 17 Dec 2011 20:23:12 -0800

Nebraska colleges and universities are buying up dozens of Internet domain names that otherwise might have been purchased by enterprising owners of pornography websites. By reserving domain names such as Huskers.xxx and Go Big Red.xxx, the University of ...

Vatican loses out on .xxx domain
Thu, 22 Dec 2011 01:21:36 -0800

By Dave Neal someone from outside the Vatican has bought the Vatican.xxx domain name in an act that could end up embarrassing the Roman Catholic Church. The domains went on sale earlier this month and it was expected that most big name firms and ...

2011 Domain Dunce award: elephant hunting and domain names
Mon, 02 Jan 2012 09:55:40 -0800

Register your domain names with Searchen Networks Inc., Check domain name availability. Search for domain names . Domain Name Wire is the Domain Name Industry's News Source. Let's keep our Domain Dunce awards going with Bob Parsons' elephant shooting ...

Go Daddy Calling Customers to Reverse SOPA Domain Transfers
Sat, 24 Dec 2011 12:18:03 -0800

By David Murphy After taking an internet firestorm on the chin, domain name registrar Go Daddy has officially withdrawn its opinion on the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) as in, statements by Go Daddy CEO Warren Adelman indicate that the ...

Federal Court Holds In Favor Of Godaddy In Suit For Cybersquatting ...
Sat, 07 Jan 2012 17:42:53 -0800

Having read through the 20 page opinion I would say the court came to the right conclusion and the Plaintiff simply went well in the wrong direction suing the domain name registrar rather than registrant in federal court. ...

Sask. cities buy .xxx domain names
Wed, 21 Dec 2011 20:04:11 -0800

Saskatchewan cities are buying .xxx domain names to protect their image and brand. Saskatchewan cities are buying .xxx domain names to protect their image and brand. The dot-xxx Internet domain name was created this year to host websites with adult ...

1st Strange UDRP Decision Of The Year Holds Against TM Holder On The Domain ...
Tue, 03 Jan 2012 11:03:47 -0800

Whatever else the Respondent may be it is not a typosquatter; nor is it using the Domain Name for a portal site; nor, in the view of the Panel, is it a typical cybersquatter. The Complainant (or a predecessor) licensed the hotel to use the trade ...

Website blocked, cartoonist moves content to another host
Fri, 06 Jan 2012 12:40:57 -0800

It was only on Dec 27th, the next day, when he received an email from Big Rock, the domain name registrar with which his website was registered, that he realized what was wrong. "We have received a complaint from Crime Branch, Mumbai against domain name ...

HOW TO: Move Your Domain Name Account
Thu, 29 Dec 2011 17:58:58 -0800

Unfortunately, the process for moving a domain name from one registrar to another is way more complicated than it should be. We wanted to help shine a light on the domain transfer process. Although this gallery focuses on Go Daddy, the advice for DNS, ...

Internet Names Grow at Veri Sign
Wed, 28 Dec 2011 14:39:51 -0800

According to the latest Domain Name Industry Brief published by Veri Sign Inc. (VRSN">VRSN), approximately five million names were added to the internet in the third quarter of 2011 bringing the total number of registered domain names to nearly 220 ...

Man Wins Web Squatting Suit Involving His Name
Fri, 06 Jan 2012 15:04:15 -0800

I will am also selling this domain name www.Paulbogoni.ORG and www.Paulbogoni.COM for $1Million (One million dollars) each, says a page on Paul Bogoni.org. The site includes a small photo of a man who court documents indicate is Mr. Bogoni, ...

Someone should tell Kanye that Donda is an Italian shoe company
Sat, 07 Jan 2012 08:16:43 -0800

Register your domain names with Searchen Networks Inc., Check domain name availability. Search for domain names . Domain Name Wire is the Domain Name Industry's News Source. Kanye West launching Donda, but that domain is taken. ...

XXX domain name blocking begins with schools
Tue, 13 Dec 2011 14:38:21 -0800

XXX domain name environment, especially since such a set of three letters defines only one thing: sex imagine our surprise then when these same schools started purchasing domain names with the triple-X title attached to their own names and sports ...

Feds Warn of Dark Side of ICANN Domain Name Expansion
Fri, 06 Jan 2012 12:32:49 -0800

Protests about the pending worldwide expansion of top-level domain names have picked up as the Jan. 12 rollout date approaches. Lawrence Strickling, a US Department of Commerce official, weighed in with a Jan. 3 letter to the Internet Corp. for ...