This week sees the Domain Name System (DNS) celebrating its 25th birthday. When it was established 25 years ago, and eight years before the World Wide Web, there were only a few hundred machines connected compared to around 130 million today. Read More
(Announced at DomainFest Hollywood) Have you ever registered a domain name from GoDaddy or Register.com with the intent on building a website? Chances are that you never found the time or money to actually make that website a reality. A new company out of Seattle is looking to change what you do with your registered domain. EVO Landing (’EVO’) has announced the release of its domain development platform, which aims to create value and traffic for your domain while making you money.With the EVO platform, domain owners are now able to instantly create dynamic websites comprised of media-rich, relevant content based on the value of the domain name. Whereas traditional parked pages generally rely on transient traffic typed into a browser’s URL bar, sites on the EVO platform grow organically as web users can find the sites via search engines, recommend the site to friends, engage with the site’s content, and return daily to find fresh content. Read More
The Sydney Morning Herald and Age (Melbourne) newspapers profile Rick Schwartz giving publicity to domaining. The article gives a lot of prominence to the few hours of work Rick actually does for his “millions of dollars in annual income from his 6000-odd properties.”Rick says he is shocked more people have not got into buying and selling domain names, or the rivers of gold flowing through domaining. “I have a great lifestyle because the dollars come in the same whether I work or not,” Schwartz told the newspapers in an email interview that came about after selling iReport.com to CNN for $US750,000 this month. Read More
Google has taken aim at domain tasters even though the move could cost it millions of dollars. Google will stop monetising any domain names less than five days old by the end of February. Domain tasters take advantage of the five day grace period between registering a domain name and paying for the said domain name, and this period is used to test the potential advertising revenue.The seriousness of the practice was stated by VeriSign in 2007 when they “said that among the top 10 domain registrars, 95% of all deleted .com and .net domain names were the result of domain tasting.” Google announced as of February 11 they plan “to begin blocking AdSense for Domains ads from appearing on kited domains. The company did not provide further details about how its kiting detection system will work” according to a report in InformationWeek. Read More
Sedo has announced that sport.co.uk has sold for £135,000. The domain name, sport.co.uk, was sold through Sedo by one of its customers to Media Corporation plc, an Internet media and advertising company. It will develop sport.co.uk during the first quarter of 2008 with the aim of it becoming a worldwide provider of comprehensive sports statistics and information. All facts and figures on matches, athletes, teams, results, competitions tournaments, stadiums and sponsors will be provided in what eventually aims to be one of the world’s largest sports information websites. Read More
A seminar on the history and future of the domain name system will be hosted by the Oxford Internet Institute in London today. Read More
