August 2009

Monday 31 August 2009

Ban on the Word "Bank" in .SE Domains
CorporateLawyer.com nets $20,766 at auction

Friday 28 August 2009

Web Attacks May Be Linked
ICANN Plans to Rethink Expired Domain Recovery
WoodPellets.com sells for $115,000
Cybersquatter ordered to pay $33 million to Verizon

Thursday 27 August 2009

Chinese Language TLDs Coming
Yahoo to Buy Arab Portal, Maktoob.com
World's oldest domain name sold
800.com sells for $250,000
Don't be frugal with web hosting

Wednesday 26 August 2009

School Prayer Controversy Heats Up
One Search for Jessica Biel Could Be Your Last
Google releases data center efficiency video
Cybersquatting has cost businesses more than £133 million
Malaysia's .my registry seeks to increase registrations

Tuesday 25 August 2009

China feels the IP squeeze
Activists advocate for .gay gTLD

Monday 24 August 2009

Brax.com sells for $80,000
Microsoft Working with PHP
Bitter Domain Dispute Comes to an End
DropShippers.com sells for $1.5 million
Frisky.com sells for $20,000 USD, Yahoo to upgrade data center for the cloud
Oprah sues cybersquatters

Friday 21 August 2009

Why there will never be a world record for the longest domain
The data center that powered the Olympics
WorstDomains.com offers the "absolute worst domain names there are"

Thursday 20 August 2009

Managed or unmanaged dedicated server hosting?
Germany's .de gains position of top ccTLD
BookHotels.com sells for €50,000

Wednesday 19 August 2009

Counseling for the Domain Impaired
Microsoft Scores PSXBOX.NET in Dispute
Will cloud computing replace shared hosting?
Guatemala to open up .gt domain
Wordpress acquires world's only two-letter .me

Tuesday 18 August 2009

FTC: Company Tried to Trick UK Customers
Flight447.com registered two years before plane crash
Zeal.com sells for $50,000
Speculation about Apple data center abounds

Monday 17 August 2009

Use Bing to determine how crowded a host is
Amazon's Cloud Import/Export Service Now Exports
UK Businessman in Heated Dispute Over .AE Domain
Microsoft to build outdoor data center
.DJ domain targets disc jockeys

Friday 14 August 2009

WIPO Rules Against a Trademark Holder
Running an Open Source Web Server
Back it up once, back it up twice
Domain auction results prove any time is a good time to sell domains
Does your domain send the right message?

Thursday 13 August 2009

Payment.com sells for $250,000
Silicon Valley losing new data centers to rest of country
HostingCon: DemoWolf Releases 217 New Tutorials
ICANN: New Policy Has Reduced Domain Tasting
Report: average .net auction price exceeds .com

Wednesday 12 August 2009

Adult domains attract hot attention at auction
WIPO Orders Transfer of Two Domains to Wikipedia
Gore and Gorbachev in battle over .eco
Internet.com sells for £10.9 million, HostingCon 2010 location announced
Does domain front-running exist?

Tuesday 11 August 2009

One, two, and three character .pro domains to become available
ICANN Revokes Accreditation of Three Registrars
VMware buys SpringSource for US$420M
Could IP exhaustion drive up the cost of hosting?
Yahoo purchases OMG.com for $80,000

Monday 10 August 2009

Microsoft joins the HTML 5 discussion
Amazon bought Zappos and got Clothes.com as a bonus
More domain theft arrests could be on the way
Data breach occurs at registrar
Are mega data centers cost effective?

Friday 07 August 2009

Watch a live domain auction
KBToys.com sells for £1.25 million
Nokia Rescues Ovistore.com
Microsoft acquires Office.com domain
Should there be price caps on new gTLDs?

Thursday 06 August 2009

L.L. Bean builds green data center
More updates on call for U.S.-ICANN relationship
Latvian Hosting Company Shut Down After Botnet
ICANN Issues Statement Regarding YouTubeIslam.com
Meet "The Bunker"

Wednesday 05 August 2009

Congressmen call for permanent ICANN relationship
HostingCon Begins Monday August 10
Twitter Outsources Domain Name Portfolio
Jesus.net sells for £73,442
Register a creative domain with Wordoid

Tuesday 04 August 2009

iGuide.com sells for $100,000
Asia, Europe will ride the cloud faster, says Microsoft
Sun's dying declarations
Cyber czar resigns
Check username availability with Namechk

Monday 03 August 2009

Domain hijacker arrested
Internet Engineers to Open Source Secure DNS
Romantic Tours Inc. Wins HotRusianBride.com
Server.com sells for £460,830
ILoveYou.com for sale- only £22.7 million