September 2010

VeriSign Abandons Plans for 1 and 2 Character .Net Domains

(September 30, 2010)

Short .net domain name idea off the table. VeriSign has withdrawn its request to ICANN to allow it to release one and two character .net domain names. The company asked ICANN back in August to let it auction off any one or two letter .net domain name that wasn’t already registered. Some one and two [...]

Advertising.com Co-Founder Joins U.S. Congressman on Speaker’s List for Traffic Miami

(September 30, 2010)

Traffic South Beach, coming up Oct. 17-20, added to its exceptional roster of speakers today. Organizers announced Advertising.com Co-Founder John Ferber will talk. That news came just 48 hours after it was announced that a U.S. Congressman - Cliff Stearns (R - Florida) - will also speak. Also today, Domaining III Award Winners.

Google Explains Sudden Drop in Global and Local Monthly Search Volume Data

(September 30, 2010)

In a recent announcement about the AdWords Keyword Tool coming out of beta, Google has finally revealed information which explains the significant decrease in search volume data.

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Google Explains Sudden Drop in Global and Local Monthly Search Volume Data

dotMobi to Auction Off Remaining 1 and 2 Character Domain Names

(September 30, 2010)

Company asks ICANN to let it auction off short domain names. dotMobi is asking ICANN (pdf) for permission to auction off remaining one and two character .mobi domain names. Back in 2008 dotMobi requested permission to release one and two character domain names through an RFP process. Now the group wants to auction off any [...]

RedWine.com Domain Sells For $150,000

(September 30, 2010)

Sedo.com has closed another very strong six figure domain name sale and this time around the domain is RedWine.com for $150,000 RedWine.com was first registered in 1995. The domain name is currently in the transfer process, so the new owner is not known at this time. The domain name had privacy protection since late 2006, so [...]

Boston Globe to Use BostonGlobe.com as Pay Site & Boston.com as Free Site

(September 30, 2010)

Editors of the Boston Globe announced that they are moving towards the paid subscription model, and they intend to use BostonGlobe.com as the portal for the paid news site, which will contain all of the articles currently found in the print edition. They will keep Boston.com as the free website for visitors who choose not [...]

.Biz Prices to Increase Along with .Org

(September 30, 2010)

Another domain name price increase announced. .Biz domain name registry NeuStar has informed ICANN (pdf) that it intends to raise wholesale prices for .biz domain names effective April 1, 2011. That’s the same time that Public Interest Registry will raise its rates on .org domain names to $7.21. The wholesale cost of a .biz domain [...]

[UPDATED] FB.com Domain Name Sells…to Facebook?

(September 30, 2010)

FB.com domain name sells. Likely buyer: Facebook. American Farm Bureau has sold the domain name FB.com, as George Kirikos noted this morning on Twitter. The domain names whois record now points to a division of Mark Monitor, which manages domain names for Facebook. So did Facebook buy the domain name? I’ve contacted both American Farm [...]

Did Facebook Quietly Acquire FB.com?

(September 30, 2010)

I read an interesting “Tweet” on George Kirikos’ Twitter feed this morning. According to Domaintools’ Whois History tool, the domain name FB.com changed hands on September 3, 2010. Prior to this change, the domain name was registered to the American Farm Bureau Federation. The organization owns FB.org, which might explain their willingness to part with [...]

GoDaddy.com’s Size Comes Back to Haunt it in uBid Court Case

(September 30, 2010)

Court rules that world’s largest domain name registrar can face a lawsuit in Illinois. The United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit has dealt a blow to domain name registrar Go Daddy, deciding that Go Daddy should face a cybersquatting lawsuit filed by uBid in Illionis. uBid, which is based in Illinois, sued [...]

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