Tag: DOMAINNAMES

The Obama administration is pushing for a new policy that, if implemented, would give the U.S. government the power to veto any top-level domain names submitted for approval. The process of approving suffixes like .com, .org and .net is overseen by a non-profit called Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), which operates under a contract with the government. Current ...

Fans of the Washington Redskins and the New York Giants fumbled away a golden opportunity last week. Rivals the Dallas Cowboys left the door open for cybersquatters when the team forgot to renew its official site. The 'Boys allowed DallasCowboys.com to expire on November 2nd, but have since reclaimed it. Still, with the team miserably wallowing at 1-7, did anyone even notice the absence? ...

Marijuana enthusiasts have never exactly been known for their lightning-quick speed, but as Californians prepare to vote on a measure that would legalize the drug, many have been rushing to the Internet to secure themselves marijuana-related domain names. The logic behind the rush is pretty straightforward: legalized weed constituting a brand new kind of marijuana industry. And a new marijuana ...

Share According to documents filed in a California court this week, Escom LLC, the former owner of the website sex.com, has reached an agreement to hand over the domain's keys (and handcuffs) to Clover Holdings Ltd. -- a mysterious company based in the Caribbean. The final price? $13 million. This isn't the first time, of course, that the domain name has changed hands. Match.com founder Gary ...

Young Web entrepreneurs looking to follow in Mark Zuckerberg's footsteps can now own the very same domain name that the Facebook CEO used to launch his career. As All Facebook reports, Zuckerberg has apparently allowed the domain name for FaceMash.com to expire, opening the door for a domain squatter to quickly snatch it up on Flippa. The site, which debuted at Harvard, was essentially a ...

Considering how notoriously image-conscious they are, you'd think most high-level politicians would've secured their own online domain names a long time ago. A recent survey from the Coalition Against Domain Name Abuse (CADNA), however, finds that many lawmakers still aren't doing enough to protect their own names from online desecration. As the New York Times reports, only about half of all ...

Share According to his website, Peter Craig holds more world records than any other Australian. Spinning, clapping, one-legged jump roping -- you name the weird record-setting feat, and Craig's probably done it. He's also, it turns out, the proud owner of a Wagnerian e-mail address which, at 345 characters, is the world's longest -- according to the URDB. And it works, too. So go ahead and ...

Share When Brian McCrary got ticketed for speeding in Bluff City, Tennessee, he got mad -- but he also got even. Upset because he was caught by a police speed camera placed on U.S. Highway 11E, McCrary decided to go to the Bluff City Police Department's Web site to ask a question about his $90 fine. While there, he noticed that the site's domain name was about to expire. Opportunist that he ...

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) announced back in October that it had passed a resolution allowing Web addresses to be written in non-Latin alphabets. Well, you flouters of the Roman script, your day has finally arrived as the first of those sites have just gone live. While some non-Latin characters were previously allowed in Web addresses, they always had to ...

Google makes about $500 million a year in advertising revenue from deceptive Web sites that target typos, according to New Scientist. It's the result of a trend called "typosquatting," a practice wherein people register domain names that are mere letters away from those of popular sites (e.g., 'Switcjed.com' instead of 'Switched.com'). When somebody hits the wrong key and unintentionally visits ...

When it comes to booking your next holiday retreat, there are a number of places in the world you'd probably be unlikely to visit if you value your safety -- places like Iraq, Somalia, or Detroit. Digital locations are apparently no different. Anti-virus and computer security company McAfee has a map for you, and red most certainly means don't go. The company has done a search of worldwide ...

Despite what some might say, it's not often that an opportunity comes along to change the lives of billions of people. But that's just what the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) will do by changing the rules of Web addresses, shaking up the Internet like never before. According to the Daily Mail, the ICANN board will pass a resolution this Friday that will allow ...

digg_url =' http://www.switched.com/2009/08/30/high-school-and-porn-site-have-similar-web-addresses/'; A Florida high school is having serious problems with its Web presence, and it has nothing to do with viruses, spam, or hackers. Both PaceHighSchool.net and PaceHighSchool.com are working perfectly fine; unfortunately, one address is for a public Florida high school and the other is for a ...

Since leaving public office and embarking on a quest to raise the public's awareness of climate change, Al Gore has been a part of an Oscar-winning documentary and received a Nobel Peace Prize. According to Mashable, the former Vice President is now embarking on a campaign with the Sierra Club, Surfrider, and other eco-organizations to make the Net a greener, more environmentally friendly ...

Last year, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) voted to relax rules governing the assignment of top level domains (TLD) (the endings of Web addresses, such as ".com". The new rules would open up the possibility for custom domain suffixes, so that, instead of being stuck with ".com" or ".net," companies and individuals could purchase domain names that ended in ...