Domain Name Strategy

Josh Bourne ⬥ 4 October At the end of September, Interpol coordinated a massive, multi-pronged effort to crack down on illegal Internet pharmacies that peddle fake prescription drugs. ...

Steve Levy ⬥ 28 September “Bad faith” can some times be the trickiest element to prove when trying to demonstrate that a registrant has cybersquatted a domain name. ...

Josh Bourne ⬥ 27 September Early last month, I blogged about Web.com’s acquisition of Network Solutions, the oldest domain name registrar in existence. Now, as of last week, ...

Samantha Demetriou ⬥ 26 September First there was an app to help guys answer that eternal question, “Where the ladies at?” Now, for the truly socially unfortunate who ...

Samantha Demetriou ⬥ 22 September Normally, we refrain from getting too overtly political here on the DomainNameStrategy blog. And as easy as they are to make, I’m going ...

Samantha Demetriou ⬥ 29 August When dealing with domain names that contain a brand or trademark and are owned by third parties, one of the first things brand ...

Samantha Demetriou ⬥ 24 August I’m going to preface this post by saying that I was a vegetarian for seven years, I don’t own anything made of fur, ...

Josh Bourne ⬥ 19 August During a recent interview with City A.M., former Chair of the ICANN Board of Directors Peter Dengate Thrush, who joined Top Level Domain ...

Josh Bourne ⬥ 17 August Readers of FairWinds’ Weekly News Brief will have already learned about Go Daddy’s announcement about its pricing structure for domain name registrations in ...

Josh Bourne ⬥ 16 August The NFL’s preseason began on Thursday, which means we’re only a few weeks away from football season. And in my house, that means ...

Samantha Demetriou ⬥ 20 July Yesterday I attended the Internet Governance Forum USA (IGF-USA), hosted at the Georgetown University Law Center here in Washington, DC. Specifically, I went ...

Taylor Frank ⬥ 15 July Back in April, the domain name iCloud.com made news with rumors that Apple had purchased it for a cool $4.5 million from Swedish ...