Archive for March, 2008






.asia: Go Live period starts today!

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008 by Mathya Say

Last registration phase for .asia domains is going alive within the next hours. Registrations will be based on a first-come-first-served system. During the ealier stages,

- 30,000 .asia applications during Sunrise period and Pioneers
- 300,000 domain applications submitted during Landrush
- 45,000 domains will go to auction

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American Airlines reveals its mobile website

Monday, March 17th, 2008 by Mathya Say

The US airline company chooses .com instead .mobi to enhance its mobile web services. With 1.6 million visits on www.aa.com each day, the company opted to exploit the popularity of its website and the easiness of typing and memorizing its domain name. Indeed, aa.com is much more customer-friendly than the registered domain americanairlines.mobi! Moreover, .mobi does not allow registration of one and two letter domains. Dot-mobi domains must be at least three characters in length. (more…)



New domain sale record: 10 million USD for fund.com

Wednesday, March 12th, 2008 by Mathya Say

According to Clek Media Inc., the domain name fund.com has been buyed by Fund.com Inc., an online financial information publisher formely named Meade Technologies Inc. This all-cash transaction was valued at $9,999,950. Previous sale record was business.com, sold for $7.5 million.

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Domain backwording: industry moves towards a new lucrative niche

Friday, March 7th, 2008 by Mathya Say

Have you ever tried to read a reversed text? In fact, this skill would be useful to feel friendly with reversed domain names! Backwording describes backward domain names (e.g : example.com -> elpmaxe.com). This term has been used by Logistik Labs within the framework of the upcoming launch of their reversed domain platform.

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