Domain Name Strategy

Josh Bourne ⬥ 30 March UPDATE: Yahoo! had filed a lawsuit over the domain name, and in early June, the dispute was settled and flicker.com was transferred to ...

Josh Bourne ⬥ 25 March Last week marked the 25th anniversary of the registration of the first .COM domain name. Since then, approximately 80 million .COM domains have ...

Josh Bourne ⬥ 17 March Since we cofounded the Coalition Against Domain Name Abuse (CADNA) in 2007, the non-profit has been dedicated to both building awareness and taking ...

Steve Levy ⬥ 10 March The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, in US v. Kilbride, No. 07-10528 (9th Cir. 2009), upheld fraud and conspiracy charges arising from the ...

Josh Bourne ⬥ 4 March This article recently caught my eye: ICANN Head Visiting China After ‘dot-China’ Request. It is a report of ICANN CEO Rod Beckstrom’s visit ...

Josh Bourne ⬥ 17 February At the ICANN meeting in Seoul, the ICANN board decided to push back the roll out of new gTLDs to at least after ...

Josh Bourne ⬥ 10 February On January 29, the Coalition Against Domain Name Abuse (CADNA), which FairWinds helped found and runs, hosted a policy forum here in Washington, ...

FairWinds Partners ⬥ 8 February With hundreds of social media Web sites, business and personal communication are rapidly changing to real-time. Social media is in front and center ...

Josh Bourne ⬥ 1 February At the heart of online marketing is the goal of attracting visitors to Web sites and engaging with them in ways that deliver ...

Josh Bourne ⬥ 5 January TechCrunch recently picked up MacRumor’s report on Apple’s assumed possession of the domain name islate.com. MacRumor found that the whois information for the ...

Josh Bourne ⬥ 31 December I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday! After time spent worrying about things such as finalizing plans and buying Christmas presents, it’s always ...

Steve Levy ⬥ 14 December Imagine that you’re one of the top-selling producers of snack cakes under a very famous 90-year-old brand. Next, imagine that someone has registered ...