(T3) – The domain name Gambling.com has been sold for £1.5 million to an anonymous buyer, UK-based seller Media Corp has confirmed. Such a price is unsurprising since sex and gambling dominant internet spending with Sex.com previously fetching $13m at auction. The sale was handled by Sedo’s specialist UK team making it the company’s third [...]
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(BBC) – Internet web hosting firm, Iomart, has bought the Liverpool-based Switch Media for £1.25m. Switch Media supplies domain name and shared hosting services to small businesses, operating in a similar market to Iomart’s Easyspace division. The company has more than 10,000 customers providing a base from which the Glasgow-based Iomart can expand its small [...]
(The Australian) – A ong rivalry between Sydney and Melbourne has moved to the web, as both vie to be the first Australian city to operate its own international top-level domain. But it’s a race in which they could find themselves as much collaborators as opponents. The NSW Premier’s Office and the City of Melbourne [...]
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(The Edmonton Journal) – Kate Middleton may someday be the Queen of England -and of Canada. But she’s not entirely the mistress of her own domain. That title goes to a most unlikely royal subject -Edmonton software designer, blogger and photographer Greg Kureluk. This week, Kureluk, 33, his wife Carole Lemire, 31, and a group [...]
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(TechCrunch) – A tipster informs us that Power.com is no more and that the domain name will be sold through an auction that ends on August 17, 2011. Interested parties can pre-register on the hideous, superlative-laden website in order to receive detailed instructions for the auction in May 2011. Power.com originally made its debut in [...]
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(WSJ) – Federal prosecutors have agreed to let PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker, two of the three online gambling companies targeted in a federal crackdown, to use their domain names to facilitate U.S. players’ withdrawal of funds in accounts. Eleven people, including the founders of PokerStars, Full Tilt and Absolute Poker, were charged Friday with [...]
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(iTnews) – Sydney-based CAD Australia has lost the right to use its domain name after the US vendor it represented filed complaints with the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO). CAD Australia, based in the peninsula suburb of Avalon, lost its right to use the chiefarchitect.com.au domain name according to a decision handed down by WIPO’s [...]
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San Francisco, CA – April 19, 2011 – MindJolt today announced the acquisitions of SGN, a leading developer and publisher of social mobile games and Hallpass Media, a popular free online game network. With these acquisitions, MindJolt becomes one of the few multi-platform game developers and publishers with successful mobile, social and web offerings. “The [...]
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The first .xxx web addresses have gone live on the internet, almost 11 years after the extension was first proposed. On Friday, the porn-only address was added to the domain name system’s root servers – through a convoluted process that involves box-ticking from domain overseer ICANN, the US Department of Commerce, and VeriSign – and [...]
(Business Insider) – I’m sure you have all been frustrated at least once at not being able to get the Internet domain name you want for your company. Who owns all of these names, and should you ever buy one for a premium? The simple answer is that if you want to be found and [...]
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