Archive for January, 2008

The previous article finished by posing the question, Why do some parking companies swallow the reporting of clicks but not the payment? It doesn't really make sense.

Here's my theory. If you swallow the reporting of the click then you can make the payment whatever you want. In…

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The previous article finished by posing the question, Why do some parking companies swallow the reporting of clicks but not the payment? It doesn't really make sense.

Here's my theory. If you swallow the reporting of the click then you can make the payment whatever you want. In fact,…

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Salient Properties and Domain Strategies have joined together to create a new company, WiFi.Com, LLC. By teaming up to develop WiFi.com, the companies believe that they will be able to grow the domain into a leading technology center for the WiFi industry.
In 2006, WiFi.com was purchased by Stuart Wood, President of Salient Properties, for $225,000. […]

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Domain blogs have been buzzing about Google and ICANN’s recent move to “kill domain tasting”. Upon a closer look Domain Name News felt that initial reports were largely exaggerated .
Naturally that exaggeration perpetuated through out the web with a myriad of other bloggers like Jay, Sahar, Brett, Elliot, John Levine and even ZDnet and TechCrunch […]

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In a story first seen at The Register, Myspace.com has reportedly won an arbitration proceeding against Total Web Solutions, the former owners of Myspace.co.uk.  TWS had operated a legitimate service and business on the domain and had owned the domain name since 1997 (precluding the Myspace.com trademark). However, because TWS was serving ads pertaining to […]

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The ICANN board just passed the following motion to end Domain Tasting, “THEREFORE, the Board resolves to encourage ICANN’s budgetary process to include fees for all domains added, including domains added during the AGP, and encourages community discussion involved in developing the ICANN budget, subject to both Board approval and registrar approval of this fee.”
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Late last year I began a series on transparency, mapping out a direction for how to achieve a level of transparency that has so far been out of the reach of domainers. The first step in this journey is the forming of a series of standards that the various parking…

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