The 2nd annual NamesCon conference is just 12 days away. The event gets underway January 11 at the Tropicana Hotel in Las Vegas. To give you an idea of what is in store here are 12 previously unpublished photos from the debut edition of NamesCon last January at the Tropicana. [...] Continue reading →

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On December 17th a US proposal for online commerce in a major trade negotiation, the Trade in Services Agreement ("TISA")1 leaked. A flurry of press releases and opinion pieces claim that TISA is a threat to the Internet. The headlines are lurid: "TISA leak: EU Data Protection and Net Neutrality Threatened" and "Leaked TISA text [...] Continue reading →

Shares of Rightside (NAME) which we actually own some of have been falling like a rock. Today shares fell below $7 which I guess stock market guys might call a support level, hitting an intraday all time low of $6.73. Shares have recovered slightly and are trading as of publication at $6.83. Volume is like [...] Continue reading →

"Nobody knows anything," screenwriter William Goldman (think "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" and "The Princess Bride") said famously of Hollywood. The same may be said of enterprise security. Word now comes that the Sony hack for which the FBI has fingered North Korea may, in fact, be the work of some laid-off and disgruntled [...] Continue reading →

With Microsoft getting ready for a Windows 10 launch there is talk they may be scrapping Internet Explorer for a new browser with the codename Spartan. ZDNet covered the story. MicrosoftSpartan.com was registered today, not by Microsoft but by a registrant in Nepal. Other names like DownloadSpartan.com and SpartanExplorer.com were registered today. From the article: [...] Continue reading →

With only two days left in 2014, we’re wrapping up the year in domaining; the field of domain conferences witnessed some dramatic changes. In January 2014, newcomer NamesCon delivered what it promised, and more. The brainchild of domain veteran investor, Richard Lau, was put together in under 90 days thanks to a well-thought plan and [...] Continue reading →