According to sfgate.com, A Federal Court in New York just awarded Hermes International $100 million dollars in damages against 34 websites that sold fake copies of its goods. The fake goods were for “at least nine Hermes products including Birkin and Kelly handbags, wallets, watches, belts and jewelry”. Some of the websites were: HermesBags- Outlet.net [...] Continue reading →

There has been considerable discussion about the future of broadband in terms of infrastructure i.e. fiber, wireless, community owned etc. However, there has been little discussion, to borrow a phrase from Internet 2, on Net+ broadband services. It is in the Net+ services where I think R&E networks can play a critical in helping communities [...] Continue reading →

According to a new announcement starting with the June ICANN meeting ICANN is eliminating the Board meeting typically held on the last day of the conference, Friday which includes committee reports and the public Board meeting. In some past conference the Friday Board meeting have been kind of exciting with voting on [...] Continue reading →

As the market for ville domains has been heating up for the past few years, domain investors have been eagerly taking part of this emerging trend in pursuit of striking a deal with an end user who can put the valuable domain to actual use.  Such brandable Ville domains have been listed on major marketplaces [...] Continue reading →

The Silicon Valley and the Silicon Alley – separated by the breadth of the United States, two established names that attract hundreds of thousands of entrepreneurs every year. The Silicon Valley, with its roots deep in technology as the home of Google, Apple and countless other startups, is an obvious destination for would-be tech entrepreneurs, [...] Continue reading →

Update 11:28 PM EST April 30th- with just 40 minutes left in the sales month-end close, Frank Schilling rang up another near quarter of a million dollars in the sales from his portfolio of Indi.com and TorontoLimos.com. Congratulations! Photo: (Vern in center) The bells are ringing [...] Continue reading →

Tucows has been on a tear lately, up about 55% since my last article “Are Domaining Stocks About to Break Out” a little over a month ago. After taking a bit of a breather the last couple weeks it got some renewed energy today on what I am assuming are run-off speculations that after the [...] Continue reading →