Posted May 1, 2013, 3:30 PM by Nir Kenner | Filed in The Web
While many of us can appreciate the irony of 'The Pirates of the Caribbean', you can be sure that the site's search for a safe haven is hardly walking on the beach singing with a bottle of rum on one…
Posted December 27, 2011, 2:00 PM by Lee Kaelin | Filed in Industry News, The Web
GoDaddy, the domain management and web hosting company suffered a rather bleak Christmas weekend after it became public news that the company was supporting SOPA. The company lost more than 37,000 domains in just a couple of days and that number…
Posted July 27, 2011, 9:03 PM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in The Web
Earlier this year, developer Christopher Finke began collecting anonymous opt-in usage data from his "URL Fixer" browser add-on -- software that automatically corrects common typos made by users when entering a Web address. With six months of data under his…
Posted April 18, 2011, 6:00 AM by Emil Protalinski | Filed in The Web
The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) has added the recently approved .xxx sponsored top-level domain (sTLD) to the root nameservers. Some registrars are already taking pre-orders for .xxx domains, but we'll just have to wait and see when the first…
Posted October 21, 2010, 1:24 PM by Emil Protalinski | Filed in The Web
Escom LLC has sold the controversial domain name Sex.com for $13 million, according to The Register. Documents filed in a California court say that the domain was sold to Clover Holdings, a stealthy offshore firm, after winning an auction that…
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