I was reading this morning an article, about the net’s authority over domain names ICANN is set to pull the plug on an Estonia-based seller of domain names that security researchers say has been a refuge for cyber-criminals for years.
ICANN told the EstDomains on Tuesday that it was revoking its accreditation since it learned the [...]

1. iPhone.eu – registered in October 2006 by the company Virtualisers
2. WordPress.eu – registered in April 2006 by the company Parknet
3. Twitter.eu – registered in April 2006 by the company World Index Limited
4. Digg.eu – registered in April 2006 by the company Besite
[...]

Thirteen years ago, Josh Quittner wrote an article in Wired that almost made me richer than Donald Trump.
He wrote about how many domain names were up for grabs, including McDonalds.com.
Inspired, I sat down and registered hundreds of them. I was about to hit the ‘buy’ button when my office mate persuaded me that it was [...]

People living on a tiny group of islands in the South Pacific are using the internet revolution to transform their lives.
Tokelau – comprised of three coral atolls that lie about 500 miles north of Western Samoa, halfway between New Zealand and Hawaii – has licensed the website domain extension assigned to the island, and is [...]

News Corp., under CEO Rupert Murdoch, already has developed a reputation for stealing websites, when a Fox television show or advertiser covets a desirable URL on the MySpace social network. But Murdoch’s website-snatching ways extend further than that. On Wednesday, News Corp. and NBC Universal announced that their online-video joint venture finally had a name, [...]

While Europe is celebrating its 2.5 millions .eu domain registrations, some countries have the smallest number of domain name registered, some French overseas territories:
181 in Réunion,
75 in Guadeloupe
49 in Martinique
Among EU countries, the countries with the greatest number of .eu domains are Germany (815,000), the United Kingdom (354,000), and the Netherlands (340,000).

The following domain names are in my domain portfolio, if you like you buy any of them, feel free to send me your offer.
Accentera.com
AmericanBrands.us
Brandeos.com
Cleanissimo.com
Dispozable.com
Duschissimo.com
Fortisseo.com
Freshissimo.com
Kazagoo.com
LotoLibanais.com
MyBrandName.info
MyCohiba.com
MyFlikFlak.com
MyMontblanc.com
MyPrivateLabel.info
MySwatch.com
OverstockSourcing.com
Paracetamol.us
Pentadol.com
Vfmcg.com
Vitaleo.com
Vitalicio.us
Woorood.com

Business 2.0 magazine has been digging into the .CM domain name scam. A domain name broker managed to convince the government of Cameroon, which controls .cm, to do a deal where any mis-typed domain name, like Google.cm (instead of google.com), takes the visitor to an advertising-filled landing page (the ads are served by Yahoo).
Business 2.0 [...]

This list has been making the rounds via email and blogs for the last two weeks. Regardless, if you haven’t come across this yet, I think you will enjoy it…
1. A site called “Who Represents” where you can find the name of the agent that represents a celebrity:
www.whorepresents.com
2. Experts Exchange, a knowledge base where programmers [...]

When I bought this domain name some years back, I was not trying to copy or abuse any company, any online running business or any online failure during the dotcom boom. It was the “Double O” days and everyone wanted to sound like Google.com, Yahoo.com or Boo.com, even now everyone knows about Kazaa.com.

Kazagoo was the [...]