16 November 2012

How GoDaddy is growing into a SaaS company

How GoDaddy is growing into a SaaS company — Cloud Computing News: "New head of products and technology Jason Rosenthal told me GoDaddy is trying to evolve from being just a marketing and support company. It wants to grow a third leg focused on products and technology, and it thinks mobile is the perfect delivery vehicle for those aspirations. Rosenthal has spearheaded major strategic efforts before, including at his previous gig as Ning.com CEO, where he got rid of the social-network-creation company’s freemium business just a month into his tenure."

CyanogenMod Domain Name Changed After Ransom
Ubergizmo
It seemed that the CyanogenMod website has been transferred from a .com to a .org after the domain holder made a demand for money. This particular move comes across after the Android ROM community's discovered that the domain holder wanted to ...

My Ideal Domain Transfer
Elliot's Blog (blog)
Just about all of us transfer domain names at least every once in while. Whether we are transferring a domain name because of a sale, to consolidate a portfolio, or to take advantage of a better price,domain transfers are an integral part of being a ...


ICANN Drops a Bomb - New TLD Point Man Kurt Pritz Resigns Due to "Conflict ...
Domain Name Journal
ICANN CEO Fadi Chehade sent shock waves through the domain community (especially the segment of it involved in the planned rollout of hundreds of new gTLDs next year) when he announced the resignation of ICANN's Chief Strategy Office, Kurt Pritz ...

Domain Name Journal


Owner of CyanogenMod.com hijacks domain, demands $10000
Ars Technica
As has been detailed in a blog post up on the new CyanogenMod.org, the owner of the originaldomain (one Ahmet Deveci) name shut the site down after he was discovered impersonating CyanogenMod founder Steve "Cyanogen" Kondik for the purpose of ...

Disputing a domain name
North Wales Chronicle
Domain names are not only a valuable business commodity but are a source of intellectual property. Anyone can sign up for a domain name, so long as it is not already taken, and this registration process is based on the first come, first served principle.

NameJet® to Offer Premium Domain Names for Auction
Equities.com
NameJet.com, a domain name aftermarket auction company, will be auctioning an exclusive list of more than 200 premium domain names, including 2013.com, Ambitious.com, and PriceMatch.com. These domain auctions are set to begin on November 25, ...

Suckerfish, Mashitup, Bitch and Other Names Banned by Google Apps
Wired
“Our technology director went to register our domain name and found out basically that we wouldn't be able to have e-mail addresses with that domain name,” says Kate Lesniak, Bitch Media's development director. Bitch Media has launched an online ...

Wired

Google and Yahoo among brands using protection with .sx domain names
Domain Name Wire
The general availability phase for .sx, a country code domain name for Sint Maarten, begins today. Already a number of large web sites have protected themselves by defensively registering equivalent .sx domain names — a domain that looks awfully close ...

Marchex Loses UDRP On PriceShoes.com & Panel Places Additional Burden ...
TheDomains.com
The majority of the panel also placed an additional burden on Marchex who the panel described as being “professional registrants who are engaged in the business of domain name monetization” to research whether trademark results existed, at the time of ...

Russian internet in figures, 2012
The Voice of Russia
Turns out that the Cyrillic domain name .РФ that was met with a bit of apprehension from the internet industry over here is actually doing pretty well. A joint report by European Registry for Internet Domains (EURid) and UNESCO takes a look at "the ...

The Voice of Russia

Dundee picked to support worldwide web infrastructure
PC Advisor
Root servers are a key part of a database at the centre of the internet, called the Domain NameSystem (DNS). This database is used by almost all internet applications to translate worldwide website addresses into numeric addresses, which identify ...

Go Daddy Takes Customers To Mobile
techrockies.com
Go Daddy, the Scottsdale, Arizona-based domain name registrar and Internet service provider, is hoping to help its SMB customers join the mobile age, with a new mobile web site offering. Go Daddy said it has launched a mobile component for its Go Daddy ...

Domain-Driven Business Accelerator Unveiled
PR Web (press release)
World Media Group has introduced into the ever-expanding accelerator marketplace, a first-of-its-kind accelerator that combines the inherent, powerful benefits of a premium domain name with winning development teams from all over the world. Share on ...

60% of .fr domain names have IPv6 address
Telecompaper (subscription)
Nearly 60 percent of .fr domain names had an IPv6 address for their DNS servers at the end of October, 19 points more than a year earlier, according to French domain name registry Afnic. The organisation now publishes its industry report on domain ...

31 end user domain name sales - Domain Name Wire
Bayoubuzz (subscription)
Batteries Plus bought GetWhatYouNeed.com for $2,000. If filed a trademark application for the term a couple weeks ago. (Which brings up a point — if someone reaches out to you about a domain and you're trying to figure out who it is, check recent ...

Google threatens to sue South African over website name
Telecompaper (subscription)
Google is threatening to sue a young South African entrepreneur because his website has a similarname, Beeld reported. Andries Maree owns the domain name Doogle.co.za, a website that allows employment seekers to upload their particulars free of ...

Blacknight Announce Help.ME Disaster Relief Initiative
PR Web (press release)
ME (http://www.domain.me), the Internet domain name extension for people. Inspired by the effort to assist communities on the eastern seaboard of the United States that were hardest hit by Hurricane Sandy, Help.me is a resource that expedites the ...

PR Web (press release)

TheLittle.ME Inspires YOU To Create An Online Home For Childhood Memories
EON: Enhanced Online News (press release)
In order to reflect the individuals behind the most personal domain name on the web, each .ME team member is introduced on the official Facebook page (www.facebook.com/domainME) and website (www.domain.me/team) through childhood and current ...

Keri Huston calls for a boycott of Shell stations in the USA
Royal Dutch Shell plc .com
By John Donovan. Operating, as we do, under the .com domain name for Royal Dutch Shell Plc inevitably creates some confusion. For several years, we have been receiving job applications, business proposals and even terrorist threats, all meant for Shell.

Royal Dutch Shell plc .com

Don't fail out of the cloud: PaaS providers offer next-level services
TechTarget
Domain name hosting provider GoDaddy.com recently killed Cloud Servers -- its Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) product -- after less than one year of service, and they aren't the only provider who has made the mistake of hastily entering the cloud ...

OneWorldHosting.com Offers One Integrated Hosting Solution for Mobile and ...
PR Web (press release)
OneWorldHosting.com and GetGoMobi.com have teamed up to offer a complete package for a complete online presence; mobile and main site, email and domain name. Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on Google+ Share on LinkedIn Email a ...

.Co launches membership program
Domain Name Wire
As far as I know, this is the first domain registry to offer its own affiliate program. Signing up for the members program is fairly simple. First, you enter your email address and your existing .co domain name. Then A confirmation is sent to the whois ...

Twitter Taunting Accompanies Gun Battle in Gaza
TechNewsWorld
... Doogle," are too similar to Google. According to MemeBurn -- and originally reported in Afrikaans by South African outlet Beeld -- Google has requested that Doogle cease using its logo and cancel its domain name, which was registered in December 2010.

CyanogenMod alleges hijacking of its domain
ZDNet
The blog post claims that the owner of the cyanogenmod.com domain name redirected the DNS entries of the website, including the MX records, which killed off the project's web presence as well as its Google Apps-based email. Subsequently, the website ...

Tips for Naming Your Business
Forbes
The right name should evoke an idea of what your business stands for and the emotional meaning you'd like to convey. No one remembers a long business name (and translating it into a domain name can be impossible to recall). Imagine what the name will ...

Renaming the Circulation Overseer
New York Times
Also, the addresses of the organization's Web sites, currently accessabc.com and, in Canada,accessabc.ca, will be changed to auditedmedia, followed by the domain .com or .ca. But to smooth the transition, anyone typing in ... “The new name is intended ...

How and When to Diversify Your Anchor Text
Search Engine Journal
Again, separate the links you uncover by their content, including branded phrases, domain nametexts, target SEO keywords and un-optimized phrases. Within the target SEO keywords category, break down each competitors' existing anchor text distributions ...

General Availability for .SX TLD Opens Tomorrow
XBIZ
SX, a country code top-level domain that is likely draw interest from online adult entrepreneurs who want to latch on to its presumed association — sex. .SX, the ccTLD for the autonomous country of Sint Maarten located in the southern Dutch Part of ...

Hamptons Real Estate & The Internet: An Interview With Joseph Kazickas ...
Hamptons.com
Jamie in his research uncovered the domain name of HamptonsRentals.com which was owned by Hamptons.com. So we purchased the domain name from Hamptons.com and tailored it to serve the rental market, both landlords and tenants. The alternative to ...

Hamptons.com

Stolen code, 9-month hacking spree lead to criminal charges
Ars Technica (blog)
Online records indicate Kheda is the registrant of the outcraft.com domain name. He didn't respond to an e-mail Ars sent to the Gmail account listed in the Whois record. During another exchange with Rampid employees, Kheda allegedly demanded he be ...
 
Ars Technica (blog)

9 Ways to Find a Domain Name for Any Site
By Guest Author
9 Ways to Find a Domain Name for Any Site. by Guest Author. With dozens or even hundreds ofdomain search sites available, you can easily waste hours exploring all of them. Instead of casting a wide net, do a targeted search based on your ...
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Sedo reports earnings - Domain Name Wire
By Andrew Allemann
Sedo's domain parking business continues to struggle. Sedo Holding just reported earnings (pdf) for the first three quarters of 2012, and the message is more.
Domain Name Wire

windows 7 - When I ping a server name, how is the domain ...
By epotter
Our default domain name has changed recently. I can login with the new domain name without a problem, but I cannot ping or access network shares without using fully qualified domain names. How do I specify which domain name should be ...
Recent Questions - Super User

SnapNames Year End Auction Ends today | Domain Name News ...
By Frank Michlick
The SnapNames Year End auction ends today at 12:15 PM PST (3:15 PM EST) - in about five hours. Here are the listed domains with their current bids:
Domain Name News (DNN)

Jay Hafling » Blog Archive » 5 steps to build a popular website
By alenka
As a beginning you need to think of a short and memorable domain name. Don't over-complicate things. ... You might not believe it but there are people who won't come to your blog ever again only because of your domain name. If it's hard to ...
Jay Hafling
Blacknight Announce Help.ME Disaster Relief Initiative
By James Larkin
Me, a global disaster relief initiative. Help.me (http://www.help.me/) is a disaster relief website created by the team behind .ME (http://www.domain.me), the Internet domain name extension for people. Inspired by the effort to assist communities ...
Blacknight Blog

Domain name problem | Forums | Groups | Go Daddy Support
Hello, this my domain name symphonysudan.com and it's working fine when i access it from uae, but the problem is people cant access it from Sudan, and i do.
I BOUGHT A DOMAIN NAME FOR MY BLOG i.e. WWW - Google
I BOUGHT A DOMAIN NAME FOR MY BLOG i.e. WWW.SHIVAMGAMES.TK BUT NOW I DON'T 

Sedo Issues Domain Name Market Report for Q3 2012 - Yahoo ...
From Yahoo! Finance: Sedo, the world's largest domain marketplace and monetization provider, today announced the results of its quarterly Domain Market ...
Cheap domain name registration - Cheap Domain Names ...
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France-Related-party's domain name requires arm's length | KPMG ...
A French court held that there must be arm's length compensation for use of an internet domain name by a related entity.

Need to update my domain name from wordpress.org to wordpress.com ...
Hi I want to get rid of my marydreamsoffood.wordpress.com site and transfer my domain name that I bought throuh a hosting company. I am using wordpress.org ...



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