Update 9:45 a.m. PDT: Added details about the company’s venture capital funding.
Wigix Chief Executive James Chong is nothing if not ambitious: he thinks he’s got the recipe for an Internet marketplace that will rival eBay.
Chong, who was the architect of Charles Schwab’s online trading platform, believes eBay’s design is best suited to auctions of collectible, [...]
April 29, 2008 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Domainer Anything.com will be handing over the domain name JerrySeinfeld.com (jerryseinfeld.com) to its “rightful” owner, stand-up comedian Jerry Seinfeld, after facing the National Arbitration Forum (arb-forum.com) last week for its “controversial” ownership of the domain name and its suspected exploitation of the TV funnyman’s self-titled website.
Although [...]
Appeal process sees address handed back to British ISP
Social networking giant MySpace has had its myspace.co.uk domain seized by an appeals panel, and ownership passed back to an ISP in Stockport.
Total Web Solutions registered the co.uk domain 11 years ago and 2 years before MySpace launched, but Nominet ruled in February that it hand to [...]
Survey shows Escrow.com is leader at facilitating large domain purchases.
34% of respondents in Domain Name Wire’s third annual survey said they prefer to use Escrow.com to safely pay for high dollar domain names they buy.
Escrow.com is popular with domain owners because it was designed as a fully automated platform for escrow and has a particular [...]
April 24, 2008
In response to domain name owners’ complaints on the difficulty in transferring domain names, China Internet Network Information Center has issued a circular to each of the major domain name registration service providers, in which it reiterates that domain name owners can freely alter their registration information so long as their initial [...]
Commentary by Mike Parker
RISMEDIA, April 24, 2008-After 23 years as an agent and after spending the last 10 years as a broker, Diana Russell realized her career was facing its end in November of 2007. The sub-prime mortgage mess, a suddenly somnambulant marketplace and a type of concern bordering on consumer hysteria among home buyers [...]
This is probably the most common question that new domainers have. They want to know if they have struck gold with their latest brainwave or at least a little more than it cost to register that domain.
The bottom line
Your domain is worth what someone will pay for it. Sounds annoyingly obvious and totally fails to [...]
By Mark Jackson, Search Engine Watch, Apr 8, 2008
Do you have a domain that appears to have ranking problems in Google, Yahoo or MSN? Sometimes this may leave you wondering, “Has my Web site somehow been banned in the search engines?”; “Did my search engine optimization firm do something bad?”.If your Web site is brand [...]
An Omaha business looking to register its name on the Internet found someone had beaten them to it by seconds, then was told the name could still be had for a price.
Brown’s Pest Control owner Russ Brown and his son track down pests like spiders, but never expected their new business would get tangled in [...]
What’s in a (domain) name?
Part of your online identity, for a start.
Have you registered a domain in your own name? If not, have you checked whether someone else has? And if they have, do you know what they’re doing with your name?
Naked Conversations author and FastCompany TV presenter Shel Israel knows what’s happened to his [...]