While the power outage was affecting the Vancouver area, DomainNameNews.com researched to see whether domains redirecting to Hitfarm and Name Administration were reachable. Hitfarm.com and sites like Vancouver.com were offline. We also reported that several domains we checked were redirected showing DomainSponosor landers instead of Hitfarm landers. During the outage, we were unable to […]
A power outage in Vancouver is taking a huge hit on some in the domain industry today. Domain Name News noticed that Name Administration parking sites were not resolving earlier today at around 1pm CST. The many domains owned by the company such as ceilingfans.com and personalloans.com were still unreachable at the time […]
I’ve been away from my PC, so this is hardly up to the minute stuff, however I wanted to get this snippet up on the site before it was completely stale. As previously seen on Tech Crunch , Yahoo was rumored to be courting Demand Media, and Demand wants a truckload of cash. . […]
Associated Cities has announced the finalists for the GeoDomain Awards and voting is now open. Finalists can be seen on the Associated Cities site. Winners of the awards will be announced during the awards dinner at the GeoDomain Expo in Chicago on July 12th.
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Andrew at DomainNameWire.com is reporting that Pizza.com has finally sold to National A-1, a company that owns an extensive portfolio of high caliber domain names. No official information about the sale price was reported. The domain name was previously sold at auction on Sedo.com for $2.6 million. However the winning bidder later backed out of […]
In an email sent to domain name registrars this evening, ICANN announced a new resolution approved by the ICANN board, effectively ending domain name tasting. Since the GNSO had previously sent their recommendation to the board in April, the vote came as no surprise to those in the domain community. The new policy will […]
In an official statement posted on Slashdot.org Godaddy.com attorneys have stated that they found nothing improper with the bidding activities of Godaddy VP Adam Dicker at the companies TDNAM.com expiring domain name marketplace. The official statement goes on to explain that in the future all Godaddy employees will be prohibited from participating in any future […]
According to website Zone-H, a group of Turkish hackers hijacked ICANN and IANA domain names on Thursday morning. All of the domain names are registered at Register.com. The group took over control of the domain names, including icann.com, icann.net, iana.com and iana-servers.com. The DNS records were changed and redirected to the hackers site with the […]
Frank and I both forgot Domain Name News turned 1 year old on June 12th . It’s been a busy June and time flies. It seems like 1 year of real time is like a decade on the internet. I think that we’ve both been so busy in the domain name business for so long […]
Associated Cities has opened up nominations for their Geo Awards. Nominations are open to the public until July 1st and final voting will be conducted on July 2nd with the final voting to close on July 8th. Awards will be presented at the 2008 GeoDomain Expo in Chicago.
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