Google has decided to retire the "hosted domains" product that they have through the Google AdSense program. According to an email directly from the Google AdSense team, they have evaluated the benefits of their partner network and decided to retire the Hosted Domains program with Google AdSense. In the future, undeveloped ...

As Danny Sullivan reported a while back, Microsoft has been testing and playing around with a new brand, called Kumo. As he reported, when you went to Kumo.com there used to be an actual search engine there, that looked a lot like today's Bing.com. However, what I find very interesting ...

BabyCenter has revealed the most popular baby names of 2011. I am not surprised by the names--and even had a relative with a new baby this year name her baby Chloe, which made the list this year. Here is the list of the most popular baby names of 2011: Out of ...

Most likely a result of Facebook having sued a whole lot of cyber-squatters recently, Facebook has recovered 44 domain names that are typos of the Facebook brand. As you might recall, if you are a regular reader of my blog, I previously reported about Facebook suing a group of domain ...

If you own domain names, then you are inevitably going to have answer the question: should I renew this domain name? Well, as someone who owns a considerable amount of domain names, I frequently have to make that decision on a regular basis--and have come up with my own internal ...

On a regular basis, I watch the domain names that Google registers, as sometimes it is an indication of things to come--sometimes the registration of a domain name may indicate a future project. It is interesting to note that Google today registered a lot of typo domain names related to ...

Networks Solutions, a popular domain name registrar, is revealing the real identity of the domain name owner even though the domain name owner has opted-in and paid for their domain name privacy service. When a domain name is registered, buyers have the option of paying $9.99 per year extra to ...

After a few years of collecting, using, developing and parking domain names, I have decided to auction more domain names this week using Godaddy's aftermarket domain name auctions. There are a few pharmacy-related domain names, including DallasPharmacies.com, AirportPharmacies.com, and even AustraliaPharmacies.com. There are a few others, including Tyler-Texas.com (a great geo ...

Facebook, the social network, has filed a lawsuit in the Northern District of California, claiming trademark infringement. The case, "Facebook, Inc. v. Cyber2Media, Inc. et al", involves a lot of domain names, which are essentially "typos" and other names that closely related to the Facebook.com domain name. From the lawsuit, Facebook ...

Google, in an effort to protect their interests in their new Google+ Plus social network, has recently acquired the International Domain Name (IDN) +.com, also known as xn--dra.com. The problem here is that xn--dra.com (+.com) is an illegal domain name--the domain name violates IDNA2008, as published by IETF. The use of ...