Chris Dannen of FastCompany blogged his thoughts on the pending release of new TLDs . Dannen feels that the release of the new domain extension will spur a rebirth of cybersquatting.  Too bad Dannen, like many others, has bought in to the idea that cybersquatting equals buying and selling domain names or merely owning more [...]

According to the Miami Herald, bodybuilder Steven Thiele, has been found liable of cyber-piracy and trademark dilution.  He was ordered to pay $3000 plus legal fees.  Thiele had previously demanded the Indian tribe pay $500,000 each for the domain names miccosukeetribeofindiansofflorida.com, miccosukeetribeofindians.com and billycypress.com. The tribe recently had won a default judgment when Thiele did [...]

It was previously reported that LiveDeal.com sold YP.com to Yellowpages.com.  SEC filings by LiveDeal.com reveal that the recent sale of the YP.com website brought a sale price of $3.85 million. Our divestiture of our Internet property “www.yp.com” could adversely impact our revenues. On November 5, 2008, we entered into an agreement to sell our Internet domain name [...]

Government watchdog JudicialWatch posted an article today declaring the domain name Change.gov, the location of U.S. President-elect Barack Obama’s newest website may have been illegally granted.  According to the site, Obama’s team initially requested and was denied use of the domain name Change.gov, but the domain was later granted after pressure from his staff. 

Days after our post that social media user names are becoming more like domain names, an issue over a Twitter user name has piqued the interest of an internet heavy-weight.  According to a seesmic post from Kevin Rose, creator of Digg.com,  Social media company Room214 has requested that the user, a school teacher, who is [...]

According to Businesss Week and other sources, Verizon has won a legal battle against registrar OnlineNic in a default judgement. The decision awarded Verizon $50,000 per domain name (663 in total).  Andrew at DomainNameWire points out that this is one of several cases Verizon has brought up against domain name companies. Most of the past [...]

Some of the more outspoken veterans of the domain name business like to think of themselves as early adopters, likely because of their early awareness and insight into the power of domain names.  However, for most domainers this early adoption of one particular form of naming has not carried over to early adoption in other [...]

It’s time for another weekly summary of Sedo’s domain sales. This week features Riva.com selling for 200,000 USD, Crab.com closing at 92,000 USD, and Casas.net reaching 87,000 EUR. But there’s much more after the jump!

In writing a previous post equating user names on social media sites to domain names, it raised my curiousity what big brands were up to on Twitter.  It’s understandable in the early 1990’s, as the internet was slowly emerging, brand managers and/or executives couldn’t see the potential for a brand like McDonalds to be on [...]

In the spring of 2007, Steve Poland wrote the article “Twitter Usernames Are Like Domains in 1995″. As the popularity of the microblogging service grows, more and more evidence of the similarities seem to be recognizable.  Poland points out Twitter usernames are one-of-a-kind — and I kind of feel like this is 1995 and someone just told me, “Hey, you [...]