Carolyn Gudmundson, a former program manager at Microsoft’s MSN division, has been sentenced to 22 months in prison for defrauding the company out of nearly $1 Million in fake domain name registration fees. Between 2000 and 2004, Gudmundson submitted invoices with inflated charges for registration fees, billed the company for registrations that had already been paid, [...]

According to this article on TechCrunch, Yahoo! will be running a two week test to include Google Ads in 3% of their search result advertising. While this might be part of a strategy for their negotiations with Microsoft, it also serves as a painful reminder for the domain industry. Domain monetization options are basically limited [...]