Archive for May, 2008

First Look: Net Explorer 8 Preview & Concerns »

Microsoft is revealing that with version 8 of its upcoming Web Explorer (IE8) consumers will be able to shop ‘til they drop, next take a ‘webslice’ along for the ride. Cutting-edge e-commerce technology is all about giving online consumers more freedom in how they shop. Of course, it’s plus about giving e-retailers more ways to […]

Guest Post: The Ideology of DNZoom: Part I (By Dan Kimball, DNZoom by Bido) »

Good daylight all!
We’ve written previously about how DNZoom By Bido (http://dnzoom.com/) was built, but one crucial factor we’ve not really mentioned was the why or what for. Now that Bido.com (http://bido.com/) is about ready to launch, we couldn’t think of a better day to elaborate.
Original post by Domain Name News, The Domain Industry News, ICANN […]

Really Disgusting Benefits of Domain and Website Development »

One of the Really Disgusting Benefits of Domain and Website Development There is a lot of talk on domainer blogs about developing domains. With PPC revenue down and the tremendous amount of uncertainty surrounding parking pages, domainers are now developing their most valuable domains using a variety of techniques. One tremendous benefit which development can […]

NLV Media Selling Premium Geo Domain Name Portfolio »

NLV Media, LLC, an World Wide Web strategy consulting firm headquartered in Savannah, Georgia, has announced today its plans to sell off its Geo-specific domain name portfolio consisting of more than 500 premium Geo-Domains .
The portfolio of domains is pure and generic without misspellings, abbreviations, hyphens or numbers and consists of […]

Two Europeans appointed Officers of ICANN’s Registrar Constituency »

29th May 08 - Elections that just took place within ICANN’s Registrar
Constituency saw some interesting changes with the nomination of two Frenchmen
­ including EuroDNS’ Executive Vice-President General Counsel ­ and
Snapnames’ VP of Marketing.
Original post by Domain Name News, The Domain Industry News, ICANN News, Registry News, Domainer News

ICANN makes a very British compromise by net policing »

The Web is currently unpoliced says The Guardian. And the
nearest it has to a governing body is the Net Governance Forum of
stakeholders which they describe as more like a parliament than an
executive. The editorial describes how the IGF is made up, gives its
background and notes there are [m]any countries, particularly
developing nations, were unhappy that […]

Comcast Domain Name Record Altereded by Hackers »

Hackers knocked Comcast.net offline late Wednesday night, preventing
customers from getting to their Comcast Web mail and detail records on
the company’s World Wide Web portal reports IDG.
Original post by Domain Name News, The Domain Industry News, ICANN News, Registry News, Domainer News

Tomorrow: Monte Cahn of Moniker - Live Interview »

We would like to welcome Rick Waters of WebCast1 to the DomainNews as one of our expert authors moving forward. We will soon be portraying his profile in our editor’s section but in the meantime we would like to invite our readers to Watch a LIVE interview w/ Monte Cahn of Moniker / Oversee.net that […]

.ar IDNs Available Before August »

NIC Argentina has recently advised registrars IDNs will be available for registration starting sometime before August 2008). The Argentinean IDN launch will comprise four stages:
Original post by Domain Name News, The Domain Industry News, ICANN News, Registry News, Domainer News

The Other Side of Geo »

Still lots of talk on blogs and forums about geo domains. My friend Rick Latona (http://ricklatona.com/) got the formula right: Sell when society are buying, buy when they are selling. Today’s market is strong on Geo domains for many reasons, such as Associated Cities and the Geo Expo, Castello brothers (http://ccin.com/) constant attention on blogs/publications/tradeshows, […]