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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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 .
Written by Chief Editor , Friday, 16 May 2008
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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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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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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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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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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Written by Chief Editor , Thursday, 15 May 2008
The Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs wants guarantees that the .nl domain will remain sovereign and accessible under all circumstances. State Secretary, Frank Heemskerk, believes that since the .nl domain has such large public interest, the security and sovereignty for the Netherlands must be guaranteed by domain registry SIDN. To that end, the Ministry wants to sign an agreement with Dutch Domain Registry SIDN in mid-June, which will help secure those concerns. This move is reflected in a written reply by the State Secretary that was also addressing concerns about the collapsed landrush of numeric domains, which we reported on earlier.
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Written by Chief Editor , Thursday, 15 May 2008
Here are the results of the Sedo’s BeNeLux Auction featuring .nl, .be & .lu domains, held on May 9th. Over 7000 people viewed the auction and in our estimate about 330 bids were posted. The auction was extended by nearly 2.5 hours before kinderwagens.nl and relatiegeschenk.nl were sold.
The results are listed in Euros:
relatiegeschenk.nl 72,000
huren.nl 66,500
kinderwagens.nl 10,100
planten.nl 7,500
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Written by Chief Editor , Thursday, 15 May 2008
Since domain names have a direct correlation with trademark law for many of us, we want to mention that The International Trademark Association’s (INTA) 130th Annual Meeting is the one must-attend event in the intellectual property industry, and the 2008 meeting in Berlin between May 17th and 21st is set to be the best yet. There will be five days of networking, educational and professional development opportunities, as well as committee meetings and exhibits…
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