"Taken together -- his rapport with Wall Street as well as government officials, his decision to grant a dividend to shareholders, the creation of a program to match employee gifts to charity -- Tim Cook's stewardship of Apple is beginning to come into focus."   Fortune published [...] Continue reading →

After the antics of one mad barber from Australia, two domain conferences and four scalps collected - the results are now in. Over $50,000 has been collected for one of the domain industry's favorite charities - the Water School. Today we acknowledge those who generously gave to this live saving organization. [...] Continue reading →

Sites claim to be news for the 99%. The Chicago Tribune Company has filed a complaint with World Intellectual Property Organization over “occupy” web sites using its brand. The complaint targets occupiedchicagotribune.org and occupychicagotribune.org, the former of which is a web site that states “We’re proud to have no affiliation whatsoever with the 1% Chicago [...] Continue reading →

It was just announced that next Thursday MarkMonitor will be hosting a live webinar that will discuss new gTLD’s. It will feature an interactive Q&A session. Elisa Cooper and Matt Serlin will also cover and review the MarkMonitor new gTLD application database with a live demo, strategies for objection filing and response as well as rights [...] Continue reading →

I read a post on DNForum today, and it appears that Microsoft may have dropped two product domain names. According to DomainTools, there is currently “no match” in the Whois database for OfficeXP.com and Windows98.com is currently registered to “BackorderZone.com, LLC.” Using the Whois history tool, I was able to see that Microsoft owned both [...] Continue reading →

Everyone loves a $1.49 domain. It’s a chance to buy a domain and take a chance on a name that you didn’t want to spend $8. . I love the code this week as it’s in my niche. Everyone thinks of me this time of year because I’m the flower guy. The friend that can [...] Continue reading →

The antivirus industry has been trying to deal with false positive detection issues for a long, long time — and it's not going to be fixed anytime soon. To better understand why, the physicist in me draws an analogy with Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle — where, in its simplest distillation, the better you know where an [...] Continue reading →