MySpace stripped of myspace.co.uk
Posted on May 3rd, 2008 by Jack in Industry News
Some of you may know that MySpace won the domain myspace.co.uk that was registered by a UK ISP 6 years before the myspace.com was released. Well there is good news… article from register.com
"An independent appeals panel has overturned a heavily-criticised decision to hand control of the myspace.co.uk domain to Rupert Murdoch’s Fox Interactive Media.
Nominet’s Dispute Resolution Service (DRS), had ruled in favour of MySpace in January, despite the domain having been registered by a small British ISP six years before the US social network was founded
Barring any possible further High Court action by MySpace accusing TWS of "passing off", the judgement, released on Thursday last week and passed to The Register today, means control of the address remains with Stockport’s Total Web Solutions (TWS).
RegisterFly.com now RegFly.com?
Posted on March 2nd, 2008 by Jack in Industry News
"It looks like RegisterFly is trying to get back on their feet. The RegisterFly.com domain and all emails now take you to RegFly.com - with the ICANN termination notice removed.
If you notice, the footer now says "A service of Retail Web Group.", linking to http://www.retailweb.us/ . What I find funny is that its registered by Robert O’Neill (regfly ceo) at GoDaddy….Not Registerfly! Plus his email contact is an "@hostflex.com" address - could this be another one of Regflys many spin off services?
Google starts privacy invasion!
Posted on March 2nd, 2008 by Jack in Industry News
"SAN FRANCISCO - Google Inc. will begin storing the medical records of a few thousand people as it tests a long-awaited health service that’s likely to raise more concerns about the volume of sensitive information entrusted to the Internet search leader.
The pilot project to be announced Thursday will involve 1,500 to 10,000 patients at the Cleveland Clinic who volunteered to an electronic transfer of their personal health records so they can be retrieved through Google’s new service, which won’t be open to the general public.
Each health profile, including information about prescriptions, allergies and medical histories, will be protected by a password that’s also required to use other Google services such as e-mail and personalized search tools.
LLLL.com’s GONE!
Posted on November 5th, 2007 by Jack in Industry News
It has taken many months for the remaining registrations of “non-premium” names (those which contain the letters Q, X, Z, V, U) to be registered, but finally the day has passed!
ALL 4 letter .com’s (LLLL.com) have now been registered!
But be on the look out.. expect some high prices LLLL.com’s and some expirations!
Domain name squatter wants job at Google
Posted on November 5th, 2007 by Jack in Industry News
"Creative minds write not a normal application, they will ensure that you will be attentive to them!" That’s the first line of an open letter posted on adwordsgoogle.de, docsgoogle.de, labsgoogle.de, and five other domain names. The sites’ owner and letter’s author, German IT guy Sebastian Klein, wants to give his domains to Google… in exchange for a job!
