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Microsoft Loses Cool, Gives Yahoo Three-Week Ultimatum

Microsoft has sent Yahoo a letter stating it has three weeks to move on its $44.6 billion buyout offer. If the companies fail to form a pact by then, "we will be compelled to take our case directly to your shareholders, including the initiation of a proxy contest to elect an alternative slate of directors," wrote CEO Steve Ballmer of Microsoft. 90 percent of Yahoo's shareholders are   [...]
Posted: Monday, April 7th 2008

BellSouth, AT&T Launch YellowPages.com

Click to enlarge BellSouth and AT&T (SBC) have finally launched YellowPages.com, a na  [...]
Posted: Friday, December 2nd 2005

Independent City Sites Threaten Newspapers

Newspapers are facing increasing competition from independent local websites that focus on travel and entertainment in various cities, according to a Borrell Associates study, "Independent City Sites Gain Steam: A New Threat to Old Media," reports MediaPost. The local sites, many of which use URLs that include the city's name (e.g., Toledo.com), are "elbowing in on territory that traditio  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, November 30th 2005

Group Challenges ICANN-VeriSign Deal

The World of Domain Name Developers, a trade group of internet businesses, in a lawsuit filed Monday in a California federal court, challenged the proposed settlement regarding control of the .com domain, claiming the deal violates U.S. antitrust laws, reports Reuters. The agreement, reached in October, settled   [...]
Posted: Tuesday, November 29th 2005

U.N. Wants to Run the Net, U.S. Says No

The United Nations' International Telecommunications Union (ITU) is ready to take over the internet's governance from the U.S., ITU head Yoshio Utsumi said on Friday, a day after the U.S. clashed with much of the world at a two-week conference preparing for a U.N. World Summit on the Information Society, in Tunisia, in November, reports Reuters. The U.S. now manages the internet via  [...]
Posted: Monday, October 3rd 2005

Diller Will Fire Jeeves

Barry Diller announced Wednesday that IAC/InterActiveCorp, which in July completed its acquisition of AskJeeves, will phase out the ever-smiling butler, the Wall Street Journal (subscription) reported (via paidConte  [...]
Posted: Thursday, September 22nd 2005

Online Donations, Scams Rise in Katrina's Wake

With many Americans turning to the web for information and ways to help in the disastrous wake of Hurricane Katrina, the medium is once again reflecting the good and the bad of human nature, writes E-Commerce Times. As of Friday, $110 million had been received in online donations, out of a $197 million of public support, according to a Red Cross spokeswoman. Meanwhile, computer sec  [...]
Posted: Tuesday, September 6th 2005

Carat Search VP Seeks Greener Domains

Carat Interactive's VP of search marketing, Ron Belanger, has left to join direct navigation and domain squatting firm BuyDomains as VP of marketing, ClickZ reports. Belanger has been with Carat since late 2003; before that he was VP of account development at Inceptor. Boston area-based BuyDomains has approximately 500,000 domains and claims 20 million unique visitors per month. ClickZ points to two trends implied by Belanger's depart  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, August 17th 2005

Mobile Web Gets .mobi Domain

Websites designed specifically for mobile phones will have their own domain suffix, .mobi, which the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has licensed to holding company mTLD Top Level Domain, vnunet reports. The group must now build the infrastructure to manage the new domain for the next 10 years. ICANN announced its decision at a Luxemburg meeting on Monday. The URLs for mobiles will be as  [...]
Posted: Tuesday, July 12th 2005

Google Kicks 'Typosquatter' off Domains

An arbitrator awarded Google rights to several website addresses that are based on typical typographical errors that occur when typing the search engine's name in a web browser, reports AP. The s  [...]
Posted: Monday, July 11th 2005

U.S. Asserts Hegemony over Internet Domains

Assistant Secretary of Commerce Michael Gallagher announced Thursday that the U.S. will not transfer control of the internet to any other entity and will "maintain its historic role in authorizing changes or modifications to the authoritative root zone file," CNET reports. The "roo  [...]
Posted: Monday, July 4th 2005

ICANN: VeriSign to Rule .net Domain till 2011

After 15-month long and sometimes controversial RFP process, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) awarded VeriSign the right to operate the .net domain registry six more years, writes the E-Commerce Times. Details of the contract must still be worked out, but VeriSign's application said the group would lower the domain registration fee to $4.25 per year   [...]
Posted: Monday, June 13th 2005

ICANN: Now You Can Use '.xxx' Domain

Online customers of porn, and those just browsing, will have their own porn-zone domain - .xxx - which the nonprofit Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) approved on Wednesday, reversing its earlier position, CNET reports. The idea of the new domain is to segregate offensive material, in theory making the web safer for children because technical solutions could more ea  [...]
Posted: Friday, June 3rd 2005

Domain Transactions Showing Stiff Returns

Domain name market firm Zetetic released a study last week indicating that domain names are selling briskly and at sometimes at heady prices. A review of 8,000 transactions since 1996 showed that the average domain name returned almost four times the original purchase price after an average of 12.5 months. When asked whether a market trend could be determined for the present, Zetetic's chief Keith Pieper told MarketingVOX "I think the market has come down to realistic resale levels and the buyin  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, June 1st 2005

Ask Jeeves May Fire Jeeves; Debuts Search Enhancements

Barry Diller reportedly said to a group of media executives that he plans to ditch the Ask Jeeves name from the fourth-place search engine. He indicated that the new acquisition would be infused with marketing and development cash, but that the butler might not survive the company's integration - even as new search-enhanc  [...]
Posted: Thursday, May 26th 2005

IAB Mulled For-Profit Status, Opted Against

IAB's CEO Greg StuartWhile the Interactive Advertising Bureau conducts some money making enterprises – to the plain chagrin of some competing industry firms – the non-profit group said it has nothing to  [...]
Posted: Tuesday, May 24th 2005

BenedictXVI.com Not New Pope's Domain

Florida-based technical writer Rogers Cadenhead was apparently able to divine the new pope's name and registered the domain BenedictXVI.com on April 1, more than two weeks before the election of the new pope, reports Wired. The URL takes visitors to Cadenhead's blog, which has begun to receive more than100 hits a minute, according to Cadenhead. The Google Adsense ads that run on his blog had brought in $12 by mi  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, April 20th 2005

Domain Names Vulnerable to Hijacking

A New York Times piece covers the domain name hijacking of a prominent New York ISP, showing how easy it remains to steal a brand's internet address. Domain napping became even easier in November, when ICANN, the governing body for domain name policies, made it easier to conduct transfers. By merely spoofing the identity of a domain's administrative contact information, changes may be made without a company ever   [...]
Posted: Tuesday, January 18th 2005

Domains Made Easer to Hijack

Netcraft: Domain Transfers (and Hijackings) to Become Easier New policies promulgated from the group that controls the global allocation of domain addresses may make it much easier for companies to inadvertently lose their domains. Where last week domain transfers required a response from the current domain owner, the new policy will require domain registries to transfer domains if t  [...]
Posted: Monday, November 15th 2004

O&M Forgot U.K. Domain Name, Probably Regrets It

adland: Ogilvy London Hijacked Reminiscent of the   [...]
Posted: Sunday, November 7th 2004