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Disney FAIL: Club Penguin Down After Domain Name Expires
Posted by Chris Monty in June 20th 2011
Someone over at Disney will probably be looking for a new job soon. Club Penguin, one of the most popular kids’ websites, is down as The Walt Disney Company, the site’s owner, failed to renew the domain name in time. According to the WHOIS record, the Club Penguin domain name expired a week ago, on [...]
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ICANN Decision Changes the Face of the Web
Posted by Chris Monty in June 20th 2011
Well, this changes everything. the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has voted to dramatically increase the number of domain extensions from the 22 that are allowed today. ICANN has voted to allow the creation of new generic website domain suffixes (gTLD) in almost any word and language. This will essentially allow established [...]
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WikiLeaks Forced to Switch to Swiss Domain Name
Posted by Chris Monty in December 3rd 2010
The troubles don’t seem to be ending for WikiLeaks. The site has now been forced to change its domain name from WikiLeaks.org to the Swiss-based WikiLeaks.ch after a some intense hacker attacks on its system prompted its American domain name provider to cancel the site’s service. WikiLeaks’ American domain name system provider, EveryDNS, withdrew the [...]
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Homeland Security Seizes Websites as Part of Piracy War
Posted by Chris Monty in November 27th 2010
The U.S. government appears to be cracking down on websites that facilitate copyright infringement and the sale of stolen goods. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has seized dozens of domain names over the past few days, targeting sites that help users download copyrighted music, along with those that sell bootleg and / or stolen goods, [...]
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9 Awful Domain Names That Are LOL Funny
Posted by Chris Monty in September 13th 2010
All of these companies didn’t spend quite enough time thinking about how their online names might appear – and be misread. 1. Who Represents is where you can find the name of the agent that represents any celebrity. Either that, or it’s where you can find gifts for “ladies of the evening”. Their website [...]
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Yahoo Buys OMG.com for $80,000
Posted by Chris Monty in August 10th 2009
Yahoo has managed to pull off a coup by purchasing the domain name OMG.com for just $80,000. The company just made the purchase last week. Sure, that may seem like a lot of money, but remember that, not too long ago, candy.com sold for $3 million and toys.com sold for $5.1 million. This should be [...]
Tiger Woods Loses Domain Name Case for Child
Posted by Chris Monty in June 26th 2009
Tiger Woods has lost an arbitration hearing to get the domain name that is identical to one of his kids’ names. The case involved Woods’ second son, Charlie Axel Woods, and the domain name CharlieAxelWoods.com. To make his case, Woods claimed the domain name was confusingly similar to his trademark for “Tiger Woods” – but [...]
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Three Letter Domain Thief Loses Domain Name
Posted by Chris Monty in June 24th 2009
A company called “Site Service International” has lost a domain name arbitration case for the domain AHI.com. According to the complainant AHI Invest GmbH of Vienna, Austria, the domain name was stolen from it. This is not the first time Site Service International has lost a case for a 3-letter domain name that was allegedly [...]
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Candy.com Sells for $3 Million
Posted by Chris Monty in June 6th 2009
Domain registrations and investments are showing signs of life in 2009. There is no better indicator of this than the recent acquisition of the candy.com domain name. It sold for $3 million to G&J Holdings. This is the 2nd-largest domain purchase this year, following the Toys R Us purchase of toys.com. G&J Holdings will use [...]
SusanBoyle.com Is Being Sold by Susan Boyle
Posted by Chris Monty in May 30th 2009
Well, not THAT Susan Boyle, the other one. Domain name susanboyle.com is now being sold for $25,000. The seller is Susan Boyle. American artist, Susan K. Boyle, has owned the domain name since 2002. Recently, her traffic has gone through the roof, as you might imagine. More than a few visitors were a bit unhappy [...]
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Deathmatch: Amazon vs. Amazee
Posted by Chris Monty in April 21st 2009
The folks over at Amazon are less than happy with Swiss startup Amazee, a social collaboration service – so much so that Amazon wants them to change their name. This battle has been going on for a while, but Amazee is now escalating things by using stronger verbiage than they have in the past, stating [...]
