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Demand Media Inc., lead by former MySpace.com chairman Richard Rosenblatt, buys eNom. eNom is an ICANN accredited company offering world-class Internet domain name services. eNom currently ranks as the third largest domain name registrar worldwide. Los Angeles-based Demand Media will broaden eNom’s offerings by developing proprietary content tools and technologies, as well as new online advertising opportunities for eNom’s clients.
With the acquisition, Paul Stahura, eNom founder and CEO, becomes president and chief operating officer of Demand Media. Terms of the private sale were not disclosed.
May 8th, 2006
Only three days after the .eu-landrush 1,296,242 .eu domain names have been registered, and the english newspaper The Times reports “UK businesses miss .eu deadline and fall prey to ‘cybersquatters“.
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April 9th, 2006
Kieren McCarthy, a freelance journalist, has signed a publishing contract for a book on the continuing saga of sex.com.
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February 10th, 2006
“The secondary market for domains represents a new source of revenue for Tucows and our channel of service providers,” said Elliot Noss, President and CEO Tucows Inc. “Our strategy is to create a suite of services specifically designed to harness the reach of our channel and give service providers the information and tools they need to take advantage of this growing business.”
Domain Name Auction is a white-labeled service. Service providers can offer potential new registrants the ability to bid on expiring domains via links from the service provider’s website. The first auctions are expected to begin February 13, 2006. Buyers of domain names will be able to find out information on how to participate in the auctions at www.tucowsauctions.com. Registrants maintain their right to renew and keep their domain throughout the auction process. Tucows’ Parked Pages service will generate revenue from pay-per-click advertising for both expired and unexpired domain names. This revenue will be shared with service providers.
Tucows’ Domain Name Auction and Parked Pages services are being offered in beta to existing members of the company’s service provider channel. During the beta period, service providers are being asked to provide feedback on the business policies and tools associated with the services.”
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February 6th, 2006
“The Irish Department of Communications is planning to put in place a regulatory framework for the IE domain. This is a good and bad - bad because regulation may well impose an administrative and cost burden, but good because it will spur reform of the Registry (a private company, with self-selected directors) which is unwilling to reform itself from within.”
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February 5th, 2006
The NTIA (United States Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration) requires all .us domain names to no longer have any form of WHOIS privacy protection.
February 5th, 2006