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The Business.co.uk domain name, one of the first domains created in the UK, is being relaunched as a not-for-profit start-up business support site with discounted deals from companies like BT, NatWest and AXA Insurance...
Mark Bao, creator of viral vanity app ThreeWords.me, has just sold his site and service to Kevin Ham....
VANCOUVER, BC, JANUARY 19, 2011 ~Left of the Dot is pleased to announce that Frank Michlick has joined the company?s executive team to help build and grow the technology behind the new domain name monetization service that enhances premium, multi-million dollar domain names.
Adage.com ~ " As the social network steams past 650 million global users, its business is looking more like Google's in that the majority of its ad sales now come from small- and medium-size companies...
"On the eve of a U.S. visit, Chinese President Hu Jintao made the boldest statement yet on the future of the U.S. dollar as a reserve currency, calling the current global monetary exchange system ?a product of the past? while promoting his own country?s currency as a replacement."....
Today there was an auction posted on Flippa.com for the domain name, AY.com. The domain, which was first registered in 1996, has a minimum bid of $79,999 with no reserve....
"We've already covered the list of companies who support censoring the internet, but there were a couple of other interesting ones on the list that deserved a separate discussion"....
Go Daddy?s Mobile App ? The first ever to be provided by a domain name registrar ? just surpassed 500,000 downloads mark...
Apple Inc: CEO Steve Jobs has been granted time off by the company's board for health reasons, and is handing over the day-to-day management of the company to chief operating officer Tim Cook.....
Derek Paulson, spokesperson for ASAP Ventures Ltd, commented, ?Our network of websites exists to help people remain as informed and up to date about all manner of websites, so ASAP continues to purchase new and innovative domain names on which to establish websites.?
Canadian domain, Poker.ca, became the most valuable .ca domain on the Internet when it sold for more than $400,000. Not only that, it is rumoured that Poker.ca was bought by a well-known poker player who already owns one of the largest poker affiliates...
Fusible.com ~ Research In Motion (RIM) filed a complaint this week with WIPO over BlackberryTablet.com, ahead of the company?s launch of its own tablet in early 2011...
"The IETF is responsible for many of the underlying standards that make the Internet work, including the Internet Protocol (IP) for data transfer, Domain Name System (DNS) for matching domain names with IP addresses"....
"Estimates vary as to how many new customers a Verizon iPhone will pull in. The range appears to be between nine million to 12 million, a huge boost, according to the Wall Street Journal"....
?Who is she? I can tell you our new Go Daddy dotCO Girl is a big name ? she?s iconic, she?s edgy, she?s off the hook funny and as long as I don?t talk too much, I think most everyone will be absolutely shocked!?...
The demand came following news that a US court had ordered Twitter to provide details of accounts on the micro-blogging site of five people associated with the group, including Julian Assange.
President Obama is planning to hand the U.S. Commerce Department authority over a forthcoming cybersecurity effort to create an Internet ID for Americans...
"I don't claim to have any powers of ESP, telepathy, or clairvoyance...But I believe there is a day coming in 2011 that will change your life in ways you can't even begin to imagine right now...It's really a simple matter of mathematics and accounting."
"Poker domain names continue to be a hot item around the world. Just this week, gambling company 888.com purchased the domain poker.com.au for $100,000, a significant price considering the current ban on gambling advertisements in Australia."...
"Some Illinois-based Web businesses were furious Thursday at a legislative plan that would require online retailers, such as Amazon.com and Overstock.com, to collect a 6.25 percent state tax if they have commissioned affiliates in the state...
Broadband-Forum: "China and India report second best quarters ever and developing broadband markets show over 20% growth 3Q2010"...
"Video will be one of the leading drivers of online ad growth, according to eMarketer, which is projecting a 10.5% increase in US online ad spending for 2011, followed by double-digit growth every year through 2014 when spending will reach $40.5 billion. At the same time, as an advertising vehicle it is growing in effectiveness."
"When searching ?Obamacare? on Google or Bing, the top result is an advertisement the administration purchased, directing users to healthcare.gov. The Department of Health and Human Services won?t, however, say how much it is spending on this campaign or from where it was appropriated funding for it."
Groupon has also confirmed the company is suing Scoopon, created by Gabi and Hezi Leibovich, in the United States for trademark infringement.
Under the terms of the deal, Goldman has invested $450 million, and Digital Sky Technologies, a Russian investment firm that has already sunk about half a billion dollars into Facebook, invested $50 million, people involved in the talks said.
Now, as 2010 comes to a close, we're going through each of our predictions one by one to see how accurate we were in our trend-spotting...Today, we're looking back on Trend #3, Global Internet Censorship, where we predicted the following:
In the latest twist in a long-running potential class-action lawsuit about Google's parked domain program, a federal judge has ordered the search company to reveal potentially confidential information about four AdWords advertisers who also are clients of the Internet marketing firm Wpromote...
Holiday ecommerce spending is up 12% year-over-year for the first 49 days of the holiday season (through Dec. 19), equaling $28.36 billion, according to comScore...
"Banks.com raised $700,000 total -- $600,000 of it via the sale and leaseback deal with Domain Capital LLC of Fort Lee, N.J., and the rest in debt from Dan O?Donnell, CEO and president of Banks.com. Banks.com is leasing its name back from Domain for five years at $14,273.96 a month, according to a regulatory filing"....
Court papers show the firm offered cash and debt forgiveness in exchange for such assets as the AVP name, intellectual property, the Avp.com domain name, furniture and equipment. RJSM managing director Nick Lewin told the Associated Press that the total amount of debt forgiveness was $3.8 million....
t's become clear that this is a colossal screwup on the part of Homeland Security, ICE and the US government, based on a freshly minted ICE agent who doesn't seem to understand the technology, being lead around by the nose by MPAA staff with an agenda."
"We started Broadway.com in 2000 with just a domain name and built it into an industry leader with revenues over $100 million and a loyal customer base,? Hollywood Media CEO Mitchell Rubenstein said in a news release...
December 16 2010 | BBC ~ A Scottish company that operates dating websites has bought the rights to use the web domain flirt.com for ?800,000....Now, Easydate said it had now reached an agreement to take over the name for $1.25m.
" MediaMind may be the most successful Israeli company you've never heard of. In 2009, the company's software connected more than 7,000 brands - like Sony, Toyota and McDonald's - to more than 5,000 web publishers, including MSN, AOL and MySpace, in 55 countries"....
MarketingVox.com: J.C. Penney has became the first major retailer to move its entire online inventory to Facebook, allowing shoppers to not only view its products but also purchase them from within the social media site...
Tampa, FL (PRWEB) December 14, 2010: Flying Online, Inc. announces the official launch of its high-tech, feature-rich and social-media-based aircraft for sale website, AircraftforSale.com displaying thousands of aircraft for sale...
14 December 2010, London, United Kingdom ~ "DomainDisputes.co is a free domain name dispute search engine, recently launched by UK brand protection company Lexsynergy Limited, which will assist lawyers and trade mark owners to tackle domain name infringements"....
IB-Times: " Google-owned video-sharing website, YouTube has announced the launch of YouTube Trends, aimed at showcasing and keeping track of the most popular videos on the site. This initiative is similar to Google Trends, which keeps track of what is being searched on the search engine and how"....
December 13 2010 ~ "Ads served by DoubleClick (Google) and MSN (Microsoft) were distributing drive-by malware last week after attackers were able to trick the networks using a ploy from the phishers' playbook"....
" Representatives from some of the world's leading broadband service providers and equipment manufacturers met in San Diego, California last week...They talked about the future of broadband and the Internet Protocols that govern it...Broadband is a high data rate connection to the Internet.
" In my opinion 2010 will go down in history books as the year when many of the world?s best names were acquired at prices never to be seen again... Why? Since almost all of the key purchases this year have been made by developers and end users"....
OpenLeaks ~ " However, these documents will not be published to the public. Instead they will be distributed to other news agencies and outlets for them to decide what is appropriate, legal, and constitutional to publish."
"The list of channels that will be available at launch reads like an all-star line-up, among them CNN, ESPN, Sportsmax, NBC, Hype TV and even the Cartoon Channel for kids. More channels, including a Pay Per View offering, will be added within the coming weeks," the company added...
The Internet got a little more secure today after global registry VeriSign announced the deployment of DNSSec for the .net domain, the largest yet to become enabled with the security technology....
News aggregation impresario Matt Drudge is being sued for copyright infringement for reproducing a copyrighted photo along with a link to a story about airport security on the Las Vegas Review-Journal website. The plaintiff in the case is Righthaven, a company that's earned a reputation this year...
"CEO Simon Buckingham said: "Ringtones.com was the domain name that started the Mobile Streams content business...However, as we reinvent the company for the coming wave of open mobile services and apps, we are looking ahead to the exciting opportunities that our new Appitalism.com service presents...
I for one was very late to recognize the future of "3D" and I have yet to this day ever seen a 3D movie. But, this past June I came across a forum thread at my favorite domain forum...Dnform.com, link located here: 3D related domains....
"In other words, it's possible to live out the entire Google experience?Mail, Calendars, Sync, Docs, even Voice?with your own domain name, rather than Google's Gmail."
The list below represents the 100 first domains ever registered on the internet?it includes some expected names, some unexpected names and some notable missing names. (NB. Entries registered on the same days are in random order on that day.)...
Business wire (PR) ~ Amazon Web Services LLC (AWS), an Amazon.com company, announced Amazon Route 53, a Domain Name System (DNS) web service giving developers and businesses a highly available and reliable way to route Internet traffic to web applications by translating human readable names into numeric IP addresses...
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