After US authorities seized domain names twice earlier this year, a Dutch Anti-Piracy group (BREIN) has now been able to follow suit and shut down 29 additional sites by working with the MPAA and the sites’ hosting providers; in this case the domain names itself were apparently not seized. The last set of seized...
Afternic DLS Enables New Partners for Premium Promotion Level
What some Afternic members may have already noticed yesterday, when they logged into their interfaces and were prompted to enable some domains registered at the newly supported registrars for the highest promotion level, has become official today: Moniker and eNom can now fully integrated, meaning that you can now list domains registered there on...
InternetBrandAuction to Hold Live Domain Auction in Los Angeles
InternetBrandAuction is holding a live domain auction in Los Angeles tomorrow in the Downtown LA Ritz Carlton, starting at 9am PST (12 noon EST). The auction, which is scheduled for a total time frame of 2 hours with 31 domains. The auction features a broad range of domain names covering a large span of...
Domain Naming Reaches New Heights
It’s a boom time for domain names as more people and more marketers flock to the Internet. Domain names have grown 7% in one year, with more than 41,000 new ones added each day, on average, last quarter. Online ad revenue in the U.S. is expected to reach $25 billion this year, according to...
Who's Jumping Into The Web 2.0 Death Pool Next: RIP Del.icio.us
We’ve seen it before and the death pool is large for many social platforms (who wants a bet on MySpace time of demise?) and Web 2.0 aggregators that have never found a way to make money. And don’t kid yourself, making money with your website/service (SaaS) is the bottom line. So it is with...
Five Easy Steps to Social Media Karma
It’s a tough world out there, and you, as a regular user of social media and social networks, have the chance, every day, to make a difference in someone’s life. Here are just five suggestions for how to do that:
