This has to be a real bummer for the owner of Y8.org, a domain used as a repository of online flash games. In this case, the Complainant is a games entertainment company based in Hong Kong, China – Web Entertainment LLC – operating from Y8.com. Unfortunately for the Respondent, the timing of the acquisition of [...] Continue reading →

Bought on Namejet this past January, the domain Ching.com was resold in Sedo’s GreatDomains auction which closed last Thursday. While eyeballing a domain at Sedo’s latest monthly GreatDomains auction which closed this past Thursday, another domain, Ching.com caught my eye because I knew I had seen it before in the not too distant past. Sure [...] Continue reading →

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Here are some ads for the .London domain name spotted in London during the ICANN conference. I spent last week in London at the ICANN meeting. This was interesting timing because the city is gearing up for the launch of .London, which should prove to be a strong new TLD. The open nature of [...] Continue reading →

Few tech startups understand the origins of their clever domain names. David Meyer of Gigaom published a story this morning titled “The dark side of .io: How the U.K. is making web domain profits from a shady Cold War land deal.” The story explains the country code top level domain name nature of .io and [...] Continue reading →

I saw a full page ad in a travel magazine a few weeks ago for the website VisitNicaragua.us. It was a very nice full color ad which promoted the country as a great tourist destination. The domain name is registered to the Nicaraguan Tourism Board and whose registered address on the whois records is in [...] Continue reading →

China continues to go rogue on Google, accomplishing both the most massive redirect crime in internet history (legally) and giving the biggest entity of SEO dynamic driving all development worldwide. The doings of Google and the Chinese government on this issue has made headlines around the world and not just for domainers. But how [...] Continue reading →