Tagged: Domain Names & News
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10,000 Irish businesses are now online using free tool News
08.05.2012 Gettingbusinessonline.ie, the initiative to help business and sole traders in Ireland develop a web presence, has got 10,000 business online since it launched almost a year ago. -
.ie domain registrations up 12pc at start of 2012 - IEDR News
17.04.2012 New .ie domain registrations for the first three months of the year amounted to 9,398, a 12.2pc increase since the last quarter of 2011, according to the IE Domain Registry (IEDR). -
Neustar launches .us domain campaign for small businesses News
10.04.2012 Neustar, a provider of registry services which manages the registry of the .us domain name on behalf of the U.S. Department of Commerce, has today announced its campaign to spur...Categories: Web, Telecommunications, Multimedia, Internet, Intellectual Property, eCommerce, Digital Media, Consumer Tech -
IEDR CEO rejects security and price claims by registrars group News
15.03.2012 The CEO of the .ie Domain Registry has rejected criticism aimed at his organisation by a group of domain registrars planning a campaign to overhaul existing IEDR policy which... -
Registrars group campaigns to transform ‘.ie’ namespace News
15.03.2012 A new group consisting Irish domain name providers and web hosting providers plan to campaign against what they believe to be restrictive policies of the .ie Domain Registry... -
Hosting Ireland launches iPhone app News
20.10.2011 Domain name registration and website hosting company Hosting Ireland is giving smartphone users the ability to access various domain and hosting products and services with its... -
Google acquires ‘g.co’ URL shortcut for its websites News
19.07.2011 Search giant Google has acquired the go.co domain that will only link to official Google products and services, the company revealed. The idea is that it will make it easier for...Categories: Web, Software & Web Development, Search Engines, Search, Internet, Digital Media, Digital MarketingTags: Google, domain names -
Consortium buys GoDaddy.com for US$2.2bn News
04.07.2011 Web hosting and domain name registrar GoDaddy.com has been bought by a consortium of private equity firms – including KKR, SilverLake Partners and Technology Crossover Ventures...Categories: Web, Software & Web Development, Mergers & Acquisitions, Investments, Internet, Hosting Services, Funding, Deals Done -
Weekend news roundup News
04.07.2011 Since Zynga announced plans to go public, the web has been afire with news and analysis about the social games company’s prospects and, in particular, its CEO Mark Pincus.Categories: Web, Software & Web Development, Social Media, Investments, Internet, Games/Entertainment, Funding, Financial -
ICANN approves massive expansion of domain names News
20.06.2011 The board of directors of ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) has approved a plan to usher in one of the biggest changes to the internet’s domain name... -
Facebook takes on domain squatters News
25.03.2011 Facebook is fighting to gain ownership of 21 domain names that use the term ‘Facebook’ which are owned by a company called Domain Asset Holding in the US. -
ICANN approves .XXX adult domain News
19.03.2011 Internet domain regulator ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) has approved the .XXX top-level domain for adult entertainment sites. It is likely major... -
Irish hosting player gears up to sell .xxx domains News
18.02.2011 A major domain name reseller based in Carlow, Blacknight, is accepting expressions of interest from the adult entertainment industry for registering .xxx domains in anticipation...Categories: Software & Web Development, Multimedia, Internet, Hosting Services, Games/Entertainment, eCommerce -
Facebook paid $8.5m for fb.com News
12.01.2011 Facebook paid the American Farm Bureau Federation US$8.5m to acquire the “fb.com” domain name. -
Amazon to provide DNS services with Route 53 News
06.12.2010 Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced a domain name system web service called Amazon Route 53, letting developers translate readable names into IP addresses. -
UK registry to crack down on 'criminal' domain holders News
25.11.2010 Nominet, the organisation that manages .uk domain registry, wishes to change its terms in order to remove domain holders who commit an offence under UK criminal law and to... -
Rejection of marijuana ballot a comedown for domain owners News
03.11.2010 It's certain to feel like a bad trip for internet landgrabbers that acquired marijuana-related domain names as California rejects its marijuana ballot. -
1,000s of marijuana domain names registered in US News
28.10.2010 More than 1,000 marijuana-related internet domain names have been snapped up as California, US, readies for the potential legalisation of the narcotic. -
Sex.com sells! Web domain sold for US$13m News
22.10.2010 Who says Sex.com doesn’t sell? The domain has been sold for the highest amount ever paid for a web domain after its previous owner went into bankruptcy.Tags: domain names, Bankruptcy, -
The digital business week News
03.08.2010 A digest of the top business and technology news stories from the past week.Tags: Motorola, Sales, Profits, Android, Kindle, E-books, Amazon, Online Advertising, Sony, domain names, IE Domain Registry,