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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
Green energy web hosting provider GreenGeeks (www.greengeeks.com) has launched a green reseller web hosting service letting customers host multiple websites on wind powered servers at wholesale rates.
GreenResellerWebHosting.com (www.greenresellerwebhosting.com) gives developers and designers who manage their clients’ websites an environmentally friendly web hosting option, which includes 24/7 Green Geeks reseller support by phone, chat and email, [...]
Leading internet business solutions and colocation hosting provider, Easynet Connect, just announced its first ever affiliate program to support its existing reseller program. Called Sale Agent Referral Scheme, the new program is designed to offer more opportunities for a greater range of partners to earn commissions by reselling the company’s internet connectivity and colocation [...]
Yahoo! web hosting provider and Internet services company, recently made available its Distribution of Hadoop, based on code available from the Apache Hadoop project, while hosting the Second Annual Hadoop Summit.
Shelton Shugar, senior vice president of cloud computing at Yahoo! remarked, ”We know from our own experience serving half a billion users worldwide requires large-scale [...]
Web hosting giant T35 Hosting (www.t35.com) has today announced it is to capitalize on the scheduled closure of Yahoo’s Geocities by rolling out an extensive re-design and feature overhaul to seize the former Geocities share of the web hosting market.
(19 June 2009) – – Established web hosting firm T35 Hosting has today announced it intends [...]
In the new interface of Webmaster tool, I have noticed something that I believe wasn’t there on the old interface:
You can let Google know when you move your site to a new domain
Quote:
Change of address
If you’re planning to move your site to a new domain, use the Change of Address tool to tell Google about [...]