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CBS Set to Buy CNET for $1.8 Billion
CBS (http://www.cbs.com/) has agreed to purchase CNET Networks (http://www.cnetnetworks.com/) for $1.8 Billion, making it one of the 10 most popular internet companies in the world with over 54 million unique visitors per month. CNET a leading provider of entertainment, news and information sites currently controls a number of popular destinations including CNET.com, ZDNet.com, BNET.com, GameSpot.com, GameFAQs.com, TV.com, mp3.com, UrbanBaby.com, CHOW.com, Search.com, MySimon.com and TechRepublic.com. The deal was unanimously approved by CNET’s board and is expected to be completed by the end of the third quarter... Read more: (http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/DomainNameNews/~3/291054468/1582)
Ask.com acquires Dictionary.com, Reference.com and Thesaurus.com
Ask.com have announced they have acquired Lexico Publishing Group which operates dictionary.com, reference.com and thesaurus.com. Terms of the deal, set to be announced today, aren’t being disclosed. With the addition of the widely used reference tools, Ask hopes to make more money showing ads to people looking for answers to basic questions and to distinguish itself.Read more: (http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/dnxpertcom/~3/290855303/)
Call Girl Goes After Girls Gone Wild For Cybersquatting
Ashley Alexandra Dupre, the reported mistress of former New York Governor Elliot Spitzer, has filed a $10 million lawsuit against MRA Holdings, producers of the popular Girls Gone Wild videos. Among the many allegations, the filing cites violations of the Lanham Act (http://news.findlaw.com/cnn/docs/spitzer/dupreggw42808cmp7.html) including cybersquatting domain names. Other Lanham violations include profiting from trademark infringement, false designation of origin, false represenation and false description of goods. Dupre’s attorneys claim that the company and/or agents are cybersquatting (http://news.findlaw.com/cnn/docs/spitzer/dupreggw42808cmp11.html)by owning and using several domain names which contain Dupre’s name such as AshleyDupre.net GirlsGoneWildAshleyDupre.com, and AshleyDupreCallGirl.com. ... Read more: (http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/DomainNameNews/~3/289737483/1576)
.Asia and Pool.com Come Under Fire
A press release today from Thomas Rucker of Madunia GmbH he refers to the sunrise auctions of .asia domains as “shady” and “dubious”. Rucker’s claims that the CEO of Pool.com, Richard Schreier, is benefiting from the company’s relationship as auctioneer of the .asia domains. Pool.com was contracted by the .asia registery to auction all domain names that received multiple applicants during the .asia landrush period. Rucker points out that the CEO of the company that auctions these domains likely would have inside information on the top bids placed on these names. Rucker has discovered that Schreier is also the owner of several other companies in Europe which have acquired some of the premium keyword .asia domains including Porn.asia , Dating.asia and Insurance.asia. Rucker has documented his opinions and findings on this matter at the site dotasia-complot.org (http://www.dotasia-complot.org/) ... Read more: (http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/DomainNameNews/~3/289975567/1575)
Domains.org acquired by WickedFire owner
Affiliate marketing guru Jon Fisher (WickedFire.com) has acquired the domain name domains.org. He says on his blog he plans to develop it and it is his “once in a lifetime project“. Read more: (http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/dnxpertcom/~3/288705903/)
dotMobi Purchases Mowser
dotMobi (http://dotmobi.mobi/), the registry for .MOBI domains, has purchased the intellectual rights to Mowser (http://www.mowser.com/), a software that automatically converts regular web pages into sites that are compatible with the mobile web. The deal was made less than a month after Russell Beattie, the founder of Mowser, said he didn’t believe in the mobile web (http://www.russellbeattie.com/blog/the-end-of-mowser) anymore and was going to stop working on the program... Read more: (http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/DomainNameNews/~3/287320783/1568)
.ORG registry to increase prices by 10%
The .ORG registry operator, Public Interest Registry (PIR) has sent a letter to ICANN announcing their intention to increase their registration fees by 10% as of November 9th, 2008. The price increase brings the price for registrars up to $6.75 from $6.15 after last year’s price increase by 2.5%. The letter did not cite a reason. This follows VeriSign’s recent announcement (http://www.domainnamenews.com/registries/big-shocker-verisign-raises-prices-again/1492) that they will increase .COM .NET prices... Read more: (http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/DomainNameNews/~3/287217017/1567)
One million names in the .pl domain
A millionth .pl domain has been registered in the national internet domain register kept by NASK (Research and Academic Computer Network). Head of the NASK Internet Domains Division, Andrzej Bartosiewicz, informs that the domain has been registered on 6 May 2008. Exceeding the first million of Polish domains coincides with the fifth anniversary of launching a fully automated system of domain registration and introduction by NASK of the Partnership Programme which allows the partner companies to individually register domains in the national register .pl. Read more: (http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Ofindo/~3/286834607/one-million-names-in-the-pl-domain.html)
Confirmed: TrafficZ purchases DomainTools
Thought Convergence (http://www.domainnamenews.com/up-to-the-minute/drt-trafficz-purchases-nameintelligencedomaintools/1538), parent company of TrafficZ (http://www.trafficz.com/default.asp?o=poing), announced today the purchase of Name Intelligence (http://blog.domaintools.com/2008/05/thought-convergence-acquires-name-intelligence/), operator of the DomainTools.com (http://DomainTools.com) website and Domain Roundtable (http://www.domainroundtable.com) event. The sale has been confirmed by Jay Westerdal with a post on his DomainTools Blog (http://blog.domaintools.com/2008/05/thought-convergence-acquires-name-intelligence/). The rumored sales price sales price of 16-18 million USD has not been confirmed... Read more: (http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/DomainNameNews/~3/284750342/1550)
VeriSign receives SiteFinder patent
Sitefinder (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Site_Finder) application, implemented in September of 2003, causing any unregistered .COM/.NET domain to resolve to a parked page. VeriSign, was ordered by ICANN to cease the practice (http://www.domaineditorial.com/archives/2003/10/03/a-first-icann-insists-for-verisign-to-cease-wildcarding/) shortly after they introduced it. The patent could potentially be used in order to request licensing fees from the operators of the .CM wildcard (http://agoga.com/) or DNS providers (http://www.sevenmile.com/2007-04/new-error-search-takeover-based-on-navigation-shaping-download-app/) and ISPs (http://www.domainnamenews.com/isps/verizon-introduces-sitefinder-type-service/83) whose nameservers respond to failed DNS queries... Read more: (http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/DomainNameNews/~3/283948572/1559)
AFNIC Launch Of Public Consultation
The AFNIC is happy to see the opening of a public consultation. It invites all of the stakeholders (professionals, associations, Internet users) to express their point of view and their expectations on the future management of the French Internet domains. The French Department of Economy, Finance and Employment starts on 25th April 2008 a public consultation on the criteria that could be taken into account during the selection of the future registration office(s)... Read more: (http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Ofindo/~3/283790371/afnic-launch-of-public-consultation.html)
TRAFFIC East Live Domain Auction
The TRAFFIC East live domain auction in Orlando, Florida is expected to feature hundreds of premium quality domain names. Over 110,000 domain names have been submitted for review. The highest quality names will be included in the live auction, hosted by Moniker and powered by SnapNames... Read more: (http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/dotsauce/~3/282916824/)
Google PR update in progress
Various forum posts as well as strange datacenter behaviour indicate that there is a Google PR update in progress. There has been a wait of a couple of months since the last one so I do think it’s about time. Read more: (http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/dnxpertcom/~3/282026485/)
Quarter million domain names for .mx
NIC Mexico announced they reached the milestone of the 250,000th .mx domain name on April 28. While .mx is not one of the larger ccTLDs, it is experiencing strong growth with an increase of 24 per cent in 2007.Read more: (http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Ofindo/~3/280848263/quarter-million-domain-names-for-dotmx.html)
WhyPark receives funding from Angel Investor
Alternative domain parking provider WhyPark (http://tdomain.whypark.hop.clickbank.net/) announced (http://blog.whypark.com/2008/04/angel-investor-accelerates-whypark.html) that it has received funding from Angel Investor Alan Macomber. According to Domain Name Wire (http://domainnamewire.com/2008/04/28/whypark-lands-230k-angel-investment/), the investment is for amount of $230,000. The funds are to be used for an enhancement project that is already under way. The investor is one of the first clients of the company, which now hosts over 41,000 domains. WhyPark had recently announced the launch of their own ad network (http://blog.whypark.com/2008/03/now-accepting-applications-for-whypark.html). Read more: (http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/DomainNameNews/~3/280350691/1552)
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