The United States has made clear that it has no intention of giving up oversight of the Internet’s Domain Name System and they let ICANN know that was the case in a letter sent to the oversight body Wednesday.
Posts from ‘July, 2008’
Action.com Attracts 230K to Top DNJournal.com’s Weekly Domain Sales Report
The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. The top dog this week was a one-word .com domain that attracted close to a quarter of a million dollars in one of the year’s 20 biggest sales
Matt Bentley, One of the Industry’s Brightest Young Executives, Is Leaving Sedo
Effective Friday (August 1), Matt Bentley is leaving his post as Chief Strategy Officer at Sedo. In his 6 years with the company Bentley has compiled an exceptionally impressive record of success.
The Computer DN Journal is Written On Died Over the Weekend. Here’s Why I Built the New One from Scratch
When I returned home from the GeoDomain Expo my home computer refused to start.
MySpace Boss Peter Chernin Thinks the Site is Underpaid for Ads But Video and Mobile May Change That
MySpace.com is wildly popular but Peter Chernin, the President of parent company News Corp, says ads on the site don’t generate the kind of money they should.
Drop Wizard Gordon Martin Puts All of His Chips on Country Code Domains
Drop Wizard Gordon Martin is back in the saddle. After closing his popular drop catching service in 2004 he quietly switched his focus from .com to country code domains and now he has rolled out a new business centered entirely around ccTLDs.
Rick Schwartz Has Sold Property.com In a Deal Believed to Be One of the Biggest Ever
Buyer Brad Geisen, the founder of Foreclosure.com, plans to roll out a revolutionary new real estate marketplace on Property.com in 2009.
Early Statistics From the .ME Launch Show 50% of the Registrants Came From the United States
.ME is the country code for Montenegro but when the extension was relaunched in a new disguise last week half of the registrants came from the U.S. See more early .ME stats at DNJournal.com.
Lightning Strikes Twice: DNJournal.com’s New Weekly Domain Sales Report Is Out
6-figure .org sales are rare but this week TWO of them hit the top of the chart. It was also a huge week for the country codes as seven ccTLD domains made the all extension Top 20.