Tag Archives: domain registration

July, 2009

• 28 July

  Domain registrations confirm Palin rumours

  The hard lessons of Sarah Palin’s now obsolete Twitter username learned, a senior member of the Alaska Republican Party has registered sarahpalin2012.com and sarahpalinforpresident.com. Ever since she became John McCain’s running mate in 2008, rumours have been circulating that she is considering a bid for the White House in 2012. …
• 27 July

  Politician too cheap to renew domain, gets surprise

  Wisconsin Secretary of State Doug LaFollette has been in his job since 1974. Running virtually uncontested each election year, he decided he could save a few bucks by not paying his registration fee, letting the domain expire, and picking it back up when it came time to run for office …
• 20 July

  Domain Name Dollar Store promises the best deals on the worst domains

  Every good domain taken? Beau Welling at the Domain Name Dollar Star has you covered, where everything from fwingle.com gooplop.com is available for just a dollar! Want to register Myspace.com? Well, you can always get myshpaesh.com! Can’t get Facebook.com? Why not try Baycebark.com? Though the video is a parody, it …
• 15 July

  Victoria's Secret undresses a cybersquatter

  Florida resident Chris Williams must have thought he was really on to something when he registered victoriassecretangelcreditcard.com. As with most cybersquatting, he used the domain name to setup a website with third-party links, some of which linked to competitors of the popular lingerie company. He did not respond to the …
• 15 July

  ICANN may finally do somehing about cybersquatting

  Cybersquatting has been a problem for many years, and one of the chief criticisms of ICANN has been its failure to stop the problem. With the new gTLD system coming next year, trademark holders are pushing ICANN to take action. Now a plan to stop cybersquatting is being planned. Known …
• 9 July

  LEGO wins domain name dispute

  The lesson here is: never mess with people who can build anything they want out of tiny little colored blocks. The respondent, Giocchino Zerbo of Italy now knows that all too well. He registered two domain names: legogames.com and wwwlegos.com. Surely he knew this would cause him trouble, but maybe …
• 7 July

  The longest single-word domain: llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.com

  When registering a domain, it is often best to keep the name as short and simple as possible. For the residents of Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch, a village on an island in Wales, this wasn’t an option. Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.com is Welsh for “The church of St. Mary in the hollow of white hazel trees …
• 6 July

  Cybersquatters grow while trademark owners prepare for battle

  At one time the cybersquatting perpetrators were fringe geeky hackers locked in their mothers’ basements Now, entire organizations are forming with the sole goal of sitting on expensive domains and hoping to cash out on them. But like the spammers who have been reduced to sending nonsensical series of letters …
• 6 July

  What Sarah Palin and Twitter can teach us about domain names

  I read an interesting piece today about Sarah Palin’s use of social media and her problems with cybersquatting. She not only failed to obtain her name on Twitter, but will need to find a new handle now that she is no longer Governor of Alaska. Thinking only in the short …
• 2 July

  Track domain registration trends with Domize

  Looking to dominate the domain industry? You may want to look into Domize. It’s a free tool that lets you track domain registration trends and find available names. The statistics feature is quite useful. Today’s report, for example, says that 1,020 domains containing the word “michael” have been registered, while …