Archive for June, 2009

The Domain Game - wealth.com auctions

The market value of “wealth” will be measured Thursday when a marketing firm auctions the Internet domain name, “Wealth.com.”
TheInternetCompany Inc. of Princeton, N.J., which has held the domain name as an unused “asset” since 1996, hopes to tap the financial services industry for a quick cash infusion.
The company is mum about what it originally paid [...]

Blogspot Suffers Major Disruption

The popular Google (GOOG) blogging product, blogger.com, has suffered a major service disruption. The disruption was first reported on Tuesday, June 16th, and is ongoing.
This is impacting many blogs hosted on blogger.com, including popular blogs like Americablog.com and eschatonblog.com
Blogger.com offers a feature to redirect users from a blogspot URL to a custom domain name. As [...]

La Roche wins acutane.com

Hoffmann-La Roche,one of the leading manufacturers of pharmaceutical and diagnostic products in the world,has won the domain name acutane.com at arbitration.
The disputed domain name was registered May 2002 by Whois Protection of Georgetown.
Although the complainant is the owner of the trademark “accutane”,on the acutane.com website there are a number of links to several commercial websites [...]

Three of the Year’s Four Biggest ccTLD domain Sales

This Week Domain Sales News
Leading the charge is a new 2009 country code king of the hill, Spel.se (”games” in Swedish), a name that changed hands for a whopping €190,000 ($266,000) at Sedo.com. This is probably the biggest sale ever publicly reported for a  .se domain (Sweden’s country code).
If Sweden had not claimed [...]

Register Now for Remote Participation in ICANN Sydney meeting

Following a very successful experiment with remote participation at the last meeting in Mexico City, ICANN have expanded its use to the main room for the Sydney meeting.
ICANN is using Adobe’s Connect software, which allows people to see everything in a particular session on one screen: live video, live audio, a live transcript, a chatroom, [...]


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