Think The Wrong Thought – Lose Your Domain?
The next time you register a domain name be careful what you think. Just ask Tokyo-based Jonathan Witte, one of the world's foremost mobile designers, who lost his domain name inc.mobi to a company called Mansueto Ventures because of his alleged thoughts at the moment he registered the domain.
Realestate.NET sold for $300,000
Real Estate.NET Holdings Pty Ltd, a new company established by the team that operates Rooms.NET and Local.NET, announced that it has officially acquired the domain name Realestate.NET. The company plans to extend its market reach and develop RealEstate.NET into a worldwide agent solutions network, focusing initially in the U.S.
ICANN votes 12-0 to cancel .UM
ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, recently voted 12-0 to revoke the .UM top level domain because it was not being used. UM is the ISO 3166-1 code for the virtually uninhabited "U.S. minor outlying islands." This decision brings the number of undelegated (unused) ISO 3166-1 extensions to five, the others being [...]
dotMobi director interviewed by Domisfera
Domisfera has an interesting interview with Pinky Brand, dotMobi's Director of New Markets. The interview leaves no stone unturned and it goes way beyond the one-sided promotion or derision we have seen on other sites. Pinky Brand stands his ground, making many notable and controversial points about dotMobi's premium domains, domain speculation, domainers, and the [...]
Google.de back under Google's control
This is a follow-up to last night's post. According to heise.de, google.de was indeed hijacked by a client of the German web hosting company goneo.de. The client had claimed to Goneo that he was the owner of google.de, and Goneo had automatically passed on the claim to the .de registry DeNIC. In accordance with DeNIC [...]
Google.de hijacked, then dropped; now owned by drop catching firm
Earlier today, the domain google.de displayed a "no site available" notice by German webhosting provider goneo.de:
sportsbook.mobi sold for $129,800
It's confirmed! The domain sportsbook.mobi was sold for $129,800. While it may be hard to believe that a .mobi domain would go for six figures under normal market conditions, both Ron Jackson of DNJournal and Brandon Ebbey of Escrow.com have confirmed that the transaction took place. The seller, Sule Garba, had registered the domain for [...]