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The Battle For Gmail.de
Gmail.de is not owned by Google, but by a German venture capitalist who runs a physical and electronic postal service called G-Mail.
Daniel Giersch, who named G-Mail after himself and applied for a German trademark as early as 2000, won a permanent injunction against Google earlier this year, preventing the company from offering Gmail.com email addresses [...]
Microsoft Buys MSN.RU
Microsoft Russia recently purchased the domain MSN.ru at an undisclosed price, but experts say it could have amounted to a million dollars. Microsoft confirmed the acquisition so if you visit MSN.ru now its homepage sports the ubiquitous Microsoft icons with Windows Live in the spotlight.
Microsoft intends to boost its share in Russia and acquiring the [...]
Moniker To Hold Casino Domains Auction
Moniker.com announced that it will be hosting the first online silent auction of premium gaming and casino industry domain names during the Casino Affiliate Convention 2007 (CAC 2007), in Amsterdam May 3 - 5 at the NH Grand Krasnapolsky Hotel.
All CAC 2007 attendees will be provided with a free, special password granting them access to [...]
.EU Domain Goes Into Propaganda Overdrive
The first anniversary of the .EU domain's public launch (April 6) has come and gone. The European Commission's spin factory issued a misleading press release today saying, among many other questionable statements, that .EU is an unequalled success:
A year after its launch, 2.5 million Europeans and companies have registered a .eu domain name, making it [...]
F-Secure Calls on ICANN To Introduce .SAFE
Internet security company F-Secure has publicly called on ICANN to introduce a .safe, .sure or .bank top level domain (TDL) for the exclusive use of registered banks and other financial organizations.
The goal? To combat the threat of phishing, which continues on the rise:
Right now, customers have no good way of automatically being able to tell [...]
Generic Domains Increasingly Used In Corporate Marketing Campaigns
The guys at SearchDomainsForSale.com have compiled a list of mostly generic domains that were recently used in the marketing campaigns of large corporations such as American Express, Boeing, Burger King, Dominos Pizza, General Electric, Microsoft, Pepsi and Unilever. The interesting thing is that these domains do not mention any particular brand or company name:
The purchase, [...]
VeriSign Monopoly To Increase .Com and .Net Fees
VeriSign, the monopoly registry responsible for .com and .net domain names, announced that effective Oct. 15, 2007, registry fees for .com and .net domains will increase as follows:
.com domains: from $6.00 to $6.42 (+7%)
.net domains: from $3.50 to $3.85 (+10%)
The "registry fee" is the fee that domain registrars such as Network Solutions and [...]