Archive for the ‘Industry news’ Category

Bob Parsons gets married

Looks like good ole’ “GoDaddy” Bob Parsons got maried today. Here’s a picture of the lovely couple. Congradulations to the both of them. document.getElementById(“post-536-blankimage”).onload();

Disaster.com For Sale: $850K Minimum

D&D Consulting, Ltd. has put the domain name disaster.com up for sale by silent auction with a minimum bid of US$850,000. Did you not hear this news? that’s cause it’s a silet auction “While still providing Continuous Business Operations services, after eighteen years D&D Consulting has diversified. Liquidating this asset will enable additional investment that [...]

Dot Gay Alliance in seak of a .gay domain name

A new alliance has formed, the ” Dot Gay Alliance” has been formed in order to campaign for the top level domain .GAY Founder Joe Dolce spoke: “The LGBT community has always supported itself and its causes–no one was there to help us. We’ve made amazing progress in the 40 years since Stonewall. Now in [...]

Tony Hsieh Hints of a Zappos/Amazon Future

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Dow Jones Loses domain Marketwatch.net

Today financial media company Dow Jones lost a domain case for the domain Marketwatch.net. Dow Jones released the ever popular Marketwatch.com site in 1997, soon after marketwatch.net was registered by the respondant in the case. There was never a site made although it did play host to a news feed at some stage. The panel [...]

Sean Parker’s Rise of Facebook And Twitter, Fall Of Google Presentation (Full Slide Deck)

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DomainHack.com opens its doors

Francois the owner of Domaining.com has launched a new marketplace for hack domain names. DomainHack.com will be the new home of his amazing new website. This is the first website of this kind that I have seen and the uniqueness of it all will make the marketplace a popular one and will raise awarness to [...]

Social Media Explosion – Check this out

The social web has exploded in the last year and below are some of the key data points that the ‘Gary’s Social Media Count’  is based on (many will be updated!). 20 hours of video uploaded every minute onto YouTube (source YouTube blog Aug 09) Facebook 600k new members per day, and photos, videos per [...]