Madunia GmbH Rebuttal: Pool.com & DotAsia Foul Play
Written by Chief Editor , Saturday, 17 May 2008
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Thomas Rucker, Madunia GmbH sent us his rebuttal to the letter we received and published from Pool.com CEO, Richard Schreier:

"Richard Schreier responded to the reproaches: "Richard Schreier nor Pool.com do not have any ownership interest in Drake Domains Corporation, Drake Ventures Limited or Throne Ventures Pty. Ltd. The materials on the Website that state otherwise are factually incorrect. In my view, that is not correct, there are some questions about this...
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ICANN - Cairo Selected to Host 33rd International Public Meeting
Written by Chief Editor , Saturday, 17 May 2008
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MARINA DEL REY, Calif.: Cairo, Egypt will host the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers' 33rd International Public Meeting from 2-7 November 2008. At its 28 April 2008 meeting, the ICANN Board accepted the proposal to host the meeting put forward by National Telecom Regulatory Authority of Egypt...
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Moniker Domain Auction Submission Deadlines
Written by Chief Editor , Saturday, 17 May 2008

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August Means Auctions! Moniker is now accepting submissions for both:

1.    The Internext Domain Auction (Adult Domain Names)
2.    The Affiliate Domain Auction (Premium & Affiliate Domains)

ALL SUBMISSIONS FOR THE AUCTIONS MUST BE IN BEFORE June 15th, 2008...

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Part 5 - Google's Quest for Traffic
Written by Michael Gilmour , Friday, 16 May 2008

This article continues immediately on from the first 4 parts that may be viewed via the following links.

Part 1 - Google and the domain industry

Part 2 - Google and the quality myth

Part 3 - Smartpricing traffic

Part 4 - Google, TV and Analytics

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OECD Warns World May Run Out of Internet Addresses by 2011
Written by David Goldstein , Friday, 16 May 2008
The internet could run out of IP addresses by 2011, leading to new users or mobile device users not being able to access theinternet according to an OECD report out this week. The OECD warns that 85 per cent of all IP addresses are already in use.
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Gas.com, Israel.Com Up For Grabs
Written by David Goldstein , Friday, 16 May 2008
Gas.com and israel.com is about to go up for grabs in an upcoming Moniker auction. Gas.com is expected to commence bidding at $200,000 while israel.com’s bidding is expected to commence at $5.5 million. A number of other domain names will be up for auction including action.com, grass.com, idol.com, pay.com, susan.com, koran.com, jackpot.com, BlueRay.com and InsuranceRates.com.

To check out the complete list of names up for grabs in the auction, check out the Moniker website here .
 
Yahoo Increases Annual Domain Renewal Price by 30%
Written by Chief Editor , Friday, 16 May 2008

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When the rest of the domain industry increases prices by 10% because Verisign announced an overall price increase for .com domains, most of us understood the reasoning and accepted the price hike reluctantly. But when Yahoo! recently announced in March that the annual renewal price for a domain is increasing from $9.95 to $12.95 a year, a whopping 30% increase, we weren't quite sure why such an increase was warranted?!

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DomainGraduate Reviews TDNAM Auctions
Written by Chief Editor , Friday, 16 May 2008

This evening, Jude Augusta, contributing author of DomainGraduate, writes:

"Having been served well by my account reps at GoDaddy in previous episodes, I decided to hit mine up once again.  Tess Diaz answers the phone call: “Hi Jude.  Yes,  of course we can help you with that.  Here’s what you do.  Sure, I can email you the steps to make it clear.  No problem.”

Although I always feel I’m a bother, Tess certainly never makes any suggestion to lend to that notion.  Indeed I received very comprehensive instructions to a vault of expiring names that is the online equivalent of the U.S. Treasury...

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CBS Acquiring CNET for $1.8 Billion, Deal Includes Web Properties
Written by Caycee Boyce , Thursday, 15 May 2008
Via Search Engine Journal:

    "CBS is making a major Internet and news powerplay, acquiring CNET for $11.50 per share (44% more than CNET is trading at) for a total of $1.8 Billion.
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CNet’s Acquisition = Solid Business + Extreme Potential
Written by Caycee Boyce , Thursday, 15 May 2008
On the acquisition news of CNet by CBS The Washington Post published an article called “The Brand Everyone Wanted To Buy, But Didn’t Really“.
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CNet’s “Lucrative Domain Names” Help Justify Acquisition
Written by Caycee Boyce , Thursday, 15 May 2008
Tech reporter Sarah Lacy points out what most in the domain business take for granted.
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