Kevin Ham: The Man Who Owns The Internet
Before the current issue of Business 2.0, very few people had heard of Kevin Ham. And yet he is a giant among domainers. His domain enterprises generate approximately $70 million a year and he holds a portfolio of roughly 300,000 domain names. Still, it’s what many do not know about this man that [...]
.LA, Am I In Los Angeles or Laos?
.TV is not the only ccTLD that has diverged from its original designation.
LA Names is marketing the .LA ccTLD as the best address in LA - Los Angeles that is. LA Names also states that Los Angeles is the first city in the world to have its own domain, which is a bit of [...]
.TV is Turned On… Again.
Are you ready for .tv? Since its introduction in 1996, the readily marketable ccTLD has had quite a journey.
Technically, the .tv domain is the ccTLD for Tuvalu, a remote island nation located halfway between Australia and the Hawaiian Islands. But in 2000, a deal was negotiated to effectively lease the country’s TLD for $1 [...]
.mobi Breaks 500,000 Barrier
Launched just 8 months ago, .mobi domains have now crossed the 500,000 mark. This means millions of unique pages are now available optimized for mobile devices. Perhaps more important than this surge of content, however, is the surge of cash into the relatively young TLD.
As is the case in any form of [...]
Exodus: 8% of .EU Domains Drop
Just over twelve months ago, .eu domains were made available to the public amid much fanfare. After all, this new domain extension represented the largest economy of the world. However, there were a few obstacles.
First, there was the small problem that no one really knew what to do with .eu. The European [...]
Google vs. Googles.EU
In a recent case before the Arbitration Center for .EU Disputes, Google failed to gain control of the disputed domain name Googles.EU. Google had instructed its Irish subsidiary to file the case, presumably to meet registry rules that require .EU domain owners to be located in the European Union. However, the Google trademark is owned [...]
.INFO and .ORG Wholesale Prices Will Also Increase
Following suit to the recently announced wholesale price increase for .com and .net domains, the wholesale fees for .info and .org domains are going up 2.5 percent in mid-October. The .info increase takes effect on Oct. 15, while .org prices will go up on Oct. 18. As for domain suffix popularity, .org and .info [...]
