LEADING THE DAY: The House commerce committee has asked the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers to delay its plan to expand the number of top-level domains on the Internet. In a letter to ICANN, a bipartisan group of six …
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The Circuit: New domain names, Microsoft’s final CES, Facebook privacy – Washington Post
Bing May Discount Clicks On Popular Domain Names – Search Engine Roundtable
A WebmasterWorld thread has a discussion around a new Microsoft research paper named Domain Bias in Web Search (PDF). The paper describes how reputable and popular domain names have a strong bias in the search results. Searchers are more likely to clic…
Microsoft kills off a botnet by striking a domain provider – Infoworld
but one domain cz.cc is owned by Dominique Piatti who runs a domain name business called Dotfree Group out of the Czech Republic. “For some time now, this particular domain has had multiple issues with it in addition to Kelihos,” Boscovitch said.
Microsoft Adds More Domains to Sedo
Company adds typo, .co, and other domains up for sale. Microsoft has added more domain names for sale on domain name brokerage site Sedo. Abdu Tarabichi, who spotted the initial batch of Microsoft domains listed for sale, noticed that Microsoft added 18 domain names to its list of domains. These are only the domains it [...]
Microsoft Lists Over 100 Domains For Sale on Sedo
Company gets proactive with domain sales. Yesterday I wrote about Microsoft’s sale of Do.com. Last month Microsoft finally relented and sold HotList.com to startup TheHotList.com. But it appears that Microsoft might also be proactively selling some of its domain names. Abdu Tarabichi noticed that the software giant has listed over 100 domain names for sale [...]
Microsoft Sells (or Places for Sale) Do.com
Domain name transfers to IP protection company. An old Microsoft domain name has changed hands. The whois record for Do.com changed yesterday from Microsoft to Glendale, California company Marksmen. Marksmen is an intellectual property company that often helps companies acquire domain names. But it also owns NameQuiver, a domain name brokerage that sells domains on [...]
Will Microsoft App Your Web Site?
Company registers intriguing domain names. Is Microsoft working on a way to quickly turn your web site into an app? On June 1 the company registered the domain name AppYourSites.com, along with at least 6 other top level domain names of the same name. After a bit of searching (on Google, but also Bing to [...]
