Archive for May, 2009
I Might Be Sold on: “Bing.com Officially in Public Beta”
by Sammy Ashouri on May.31, 2009, under News
fka200: Bing.com looks like it’s in official public beta. The search engine has received much publicity since it’s Live.com’s successor in the Microsoft family, so it’s interesting to see what’s going to happen with it in the future. Live.com is already being forwarded to Bing.com.
Want a Bing.com joke? “B…
Hate UDRP’s: Say Hello To Something Much Worse, The Uniform Rapid Suspension System (URS): Get Re…
by MHB on May.31, 2009, under News
The Domains: Trademark holders, unhappy with UDRP’s, a system under which they already have over a 85% win rate, formed a group, The Implementation Recommendation Team (IRT), which was given committee status by ICANN’s Intellectual Property Constituency “to give additional protection to trademark holders in the implementation o…
Microsoft Launches Bing.com
by Brian on May.31, 2009, under News
Teen Domainer: In the past few hours Microsoft launched their new search engine, Bing.com.
Bing, according to Microsoft, is going to deliver a more functional experience than existing search engines like Gooogle and Yahoo. When you saerch in Bing you not only get the normal results but also product reviews, flights, and videos.
A search on Bing.c…
TRAFFIC Amsterdam Domain Auction Inventory - 2000 Quality Country Code Domains For Sale
by Mark Fulton on May.31, 2009, under News
Dot Sauce: Rick Latona Auctions will be hosting the first ever ccTLDs focused, live auction in Amsterdam, Netherlands on Thursday, June 4th at 4:00 PM GMT +1 at the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. ccTLDs Conference.
Mr. Ed Keay-Smith, Oz Domainer, will be representing DotSauce readers. He won…This article is from DotSauce.com Domain Name Magazine.
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Demand Media Patents “Tiered Registrations”
by Chad Kettner on May.31, 2009, under News
Domain Name News: Demand Media, parent company of domain name registrar eNom, has patented a new method for domain name registration along with a corresponding apparatus.
The patent - United States Patent 7539774 - allows registries to offer domain name registrations at different prices along with different rights, an idea that would increase registra…
DO NOT BUY BBI.net
by Reece on May.31, 2009, under News
LLLL.com: BBI.net is listed in the most recent DN Journal as having sold for $11,800. Someone (who is now banned) was trying to sell it on Namepros (and possibly elsewhere) for $3500.. Obviously something is up here. I’m not sure if the guy paid Namemedia (previous owner of the domain) with bad funds or whether he’s trying to sell a domain he …
Rick Latona Announces TRAFFIC ccTLD Auction Inventory
by Chad Kettner on May.31, 2009, under News
Domain Name News: Rick Latona Auctions will be hosting the inaugural ccTLD live auction at the TRAFFIC ccTLDs Conference in Amsterdam, Netherlands on Thursday, June 4, starting at 10:00am Eastern Time.
Bidding will be done in Euros and can be completed live in person or online on proxibid.com/ricklatona
Check out the full auction inventory including t…
Facebook to Introduce Vanity URLs
by Chad Kettner on May.31, 2009, under News
Domain Name News: According to TechCrunch, Facebook is getting ready to let users claim vanity URLs to point to their profile page - with an official announcement expected later this week followed by a landrush period soon after.
This means that instead of having a ridiculously long URL for user profiles (such as users will be able to
T.R.A.F.F.I.C. ccTLDs in Amsterdam – Here I Come
by Daniel Dryzek on May.31, 2009, under News
DanielDryzek.com: After ona and a half years since my last T.R.A.F.F.I.C. conference in Miami I am back at T.R.A.F.F.I.C. ccTLDs, this time in Europe – Amsterdam!
This conference will be very interesting for me because it’s for the first time in Europe and it is in 100% dedicated to ccTLDs. TRAFFIC ccTLDs Amsterdam will last four days and…
One Letter Domains
by Reece on May.31, 2009, under News
LLLL.com: Despite being a short domain investor, I’ve never completely understood the attraction many domainers have to 1 letter domains in exotic ccTLDs. I can think of a few logical uses, such as URL shortening or perhaps a web hosting company offering hosting on subdomains of their main domain, but why would someone pay thousands for a shor…