As reported earlier, the Australian registrar Melbourne IT has acquired the Verisign Digital Brand Management Services unit for $50 Million USD. Verisign’s Digital Brand Management Services manages the domains for about 2,000 corporate client such as Microsoft.

A huge victory for MySpace.com has been overturned as the social networking giant is being forced to hand back control of MySpace.co.uk to the previous owner, Total Web Solutions (TWS).

According to several sources the Australian Registrar Melbourne IT has purchased the Verisign Digital Brand Management Services (DBMS) unit for $50 Million USD. Verisign DBMS is a a domain registration and brand monitoring service mostly used by large corporations, such as Microsoft. [via TechCrunch]

And again Sedo was so kind to share selected domain sales of the week up to April 28th, 2008 with us. .com Sales sexkontakt.com 40,000 EUR (Sex Contact in German) mno.com 18,250 USD bestform.com 10,000 USD foreclosurealert.com 10,000 USD

Alternative domain parking provider WhyPark announced that it has received funding from Angel Investor Alan Macomber. According to Domain Name Wire, 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 [...]

A Spanish man is holding several government domain names for ransom until the Prime Minister agrees to correct the country’s “inequalities” in water supply and transfer water to all of the country’s drought stricken regions.

On Wednesday April 30th, there’s going to be a get-together in London England; visit the thread on the Acorn Domain Forum. Also there will be another DomainerDinner in Toronto on May 8th, for more information please email toronto (at) domainerdinner.com.

Kabateck Brown Kellner, LLP, a law firm in Los Angeles, California, has filed a lawsuit claiming that Google is deceiving its customers into paying for advertisements they don’t want. Google, the law firm contends, is cheating advertisers by charging for ads that are placed on third party websites without the Adwords user being informed.

Skenzo, a leader in traffic monetization solutions, has appointed Vaibhav Arya as their Chief Technology Officer. “Mr. Arya’s appointment is in line with our aggressive plans to bring on board the smartest people in the industry”, explained Divyank Turakhia, Co-founder and CEO of Skenzo, “Vaibhav brings the experience and proven technical leadership that [...]

The Internet Commerce Association (ICA), the business association for domain name registrants and investors, has announced that Philip Reynolds has been elected to the Board of Directors. Reynolds is very familiar with domain name issues and trends and has advocated for the interests of registrants in the past. He is the general manager of Thought Convergence, [...]