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July, 2009

  • 15 July

    .CM auction results pile in

    It hasn’t been long since Cameroon announced plans to offer its .CM domain to the world at large, but a number of premium names have already sold at auction. So far the highest sale has been Cars.cm for £21,455 ($35,000 USD). The highest sales have all been generic names. Here …

  • 14 July

    A myth that won't die

    The Boston Herald ran an article yesterday about how companies are using domains to cash in. It took a look at the recent sale of candy.com, but also interviewed long-time owners of generic .com domains. One was John Ebb, who registered suitcase.com in 2005 for his luggage shop. He said …

  • 3 July

    American company turns to .us domain for new site

    In most countries, use of ccTLDs is common practice. Despite the wide availability of the .us domain, most American companies choose to stick with the tried and tested .com. Go America, a publicly traded communications company, decided to take a different route. The company recently renamed itself Purple Communications and …

June, 2009

  • 25 June

    Is mass web confusion on the horizon?

    As ICANN’s expansion of the gTLD landscape grows closer, many bloggers and tech analysts are speculating mass confusion with ensue, that people will not distinguish .bard from .eat domains. Some worry that the default .com for businesses will fall by the wayside and make it difficult for users to find …

  • 4 June

    183 Million Domains Now Registered

    There are now 183 million domains registered on the web, according to The Domain Name Industry Brief (PDF), a quarterly report authored by Versign. Last quarter, domain registrations rose 3%. So far this year, an average of 2.4 million new .com and .net registrations are made each month. These two …

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