Net domain costs on the rise?
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com December 16, 2004, 4:00 AM PT. Internet users may soon be required to pay an additional annual fee for each domain name they own, thanks to a virtually unnoticed requirement that will begin to take effect next year.
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As listings migrate to the Web, the broker's traditional fee is threatened.
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Microsoft has sued domain name registrar Red Register claiming that it is illegally profiting from Microsoft&#39;s trademarks.In a lawsuit filed in Seattle earlier this month Microsoft alleges that Red Register snatched up 125 domain names, all &quot;confusingly similar to Microsoft&#39;s Marks&quot; in order to profit from Web advertising, a practice known as typosquatting and cybersquatting.Web surfers may be tricked into clicking on ads on these sites &quot;because the person finds it easier to click on the advertisement or hyperlink than to continue searching for the Microsoft site, or because the person mistakenly believes Microsoft has authorized or endorsed the advertisements,&quot; the filings state.Typosquatting is the practice of registering domain names that contain misspellings of trademark terms. Cybersquatting is the registration of a variant of trademark.Red Register owns domains such as windowslivecare.com, msnmesnger.com, and ageofmathology.com, Microsoft said in court filings.Microsoft is seeking to take control of the Red Register domains and is asking for the court to fine the company for unspecified damages. The lawsuit was filed Dec. 4 in King County Superior Court in Seattle.Although the domains are now registered to a Tortola, Virgin Islands, company named Versata Software, they were previously registered to Red Register and Microsoft believes the current Versata registration information to be false, the filings state.Domain registrars historically made money by registering domain names to third parties, but that has changed as it has become easier to get into the domain name game. Now many registrars have begun to amass portfolios of domains themselves, or even temporarily registering domains and then dropping them before they are required to pay any fees, a practice called &quot;domain tasting,&quot; said Karl Kronenberger, a partner with Kronenberger Burgoyne LLP, a law firm specializing in Internet disputes.Some companies have even set up several domain name registrars and they pass their domain names from one to the other without ever having to pay fees. This is possible, because domains can be held for three days before any fees are due, Kronenberger said.Registrars must be accredited by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the group that oversees the Internet&#39;s domain name system, but once that has happened they can get better access to the database of domain names. Companies like Microsoft and Google have become accredited registrars for this reason.There are presently more than 1,000 registrars worldwide, according to Kronenberger. &quot;It costs US$8,000 per year to maintain your existence as a registrar,&quot; he said. &quot;once you pay that, you can register domains very cheaply.&quot;Some registrars have amassed valuable portfolios without running afoul of trademark law, but Microsoft&#39;s Red Register lawsuit is not unprecedented. In October, Yahoo filed a similar lawsuit against Belgium Domains . One month later another lawsuit was filed against Belgium Domains, this time by Dell.Kronenberger said the Microsoft lawsuit &quot;seems to be a pretty straightforward case of a registrar registering large batches of domains containing trademarks.&quot;Microsoft has filed at least five other similar lawsuits in recent years. In March it announced that reached a $2 million settlement against Jason Cox of New Mexico and Newtonarch LLC. It also announced a $1 million settlement in a similar suit against Partner IV Holdings.Microsoft and Red Register did not immediately return e-mail seeking comment for this story.&#160;
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Web giant Yahoo! is gambling that price cuts on its domain name registration and Web hosting products will make it more competitive with discounters in the space -- which means that small businesses looking to move online get a sweeter deal through ...
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NEW YORK - US Internet ad revenue jumped to a record $2.37 billion in the second quarter, surpassing the highest levels reached during the dot-com era, according to a study released Monday.
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Q. On the advice of a friend who was making lots of money several years ago, I bought some shares of Cisco Systems for $124 each. They've recently been trading in the high $20s. I will not sell them for such a loss.
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$21 per share? You're having a laugh Oracle scoffed at BEA last night, describing the middleware's self-set $21 per share price tag as "impossibly high" and saying it had no intention of raising its offer.â¦
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ICANN has begun commercial and technical negotiations with the applicant registries, bringing the number of domains in this second stage of evaluations to four. The other two are the .post and .travel domains.
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VeriSign Inc., which manages the ".com" and ".net" domain names registry and ensures Internet users can reach those locations, said it will spend more than $100 million in a massive infrastructure upgrade to combat a new wave of computer attacks and manage a surge in online activity.
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We have a few domains hosted on Network Solutions.  For one reason or another we were in a hurry and just used NetSol as our registrar.  BIG mistake!  They are one *pathetic* organization!  They are a DNS company.  That's what they DO!  Their DNS admin only allows 10 IPs. Of course they don't tell you this when you signup.  You only find out that the UI doesn't allow for additional IPs until try to add them.  To add insult to injury when you try to move AWAY from NetSol by changing your primary and secondary they drop your IP configuration immediately.  You're just out of luck if there are clients which have cached your primary and secondary DNS servers.  Now of course the solution would be  ...
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Yahoo Offering Cheaper Domain Names and Hosting  Yahoo has changed their small business targeting approach by offering domain names for $9.95 as part of an aggressive move to expand its presence in domains and small business web hosting. Yahoo is also beefing up its shared hosting accounts, offering 2 gigabytes of ...
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Domain hosting and parking services drop in price, rise in capacity to lure small businesses.
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DECEMBER 14, 2004 (IDG NEWS SERVICE) - Two new top-level domain names moved closer to approval this week, as the body charged with overseeing the Internet&#39;s technical matters moved into negotiations with the companies applying to set up and run the &quot;.
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Domain hosting and parking services drop in price, rise in capacity to lure small businesses. Trying to attract more small business customers, Yahoo has introduced a new domain name registration service and significantly increased the storage space and ...
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Increasing revenue and decreasing expenses -- who could ask for more?
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TO THE EDITOR:           It's definitely not comcastic, if anything it's fantastic - used in the sense of being capricious. My reference is to the article announcing Comcast's rate increase ("Comcast likely to hike rates," Intell, Dec. 2).
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Let's go fly a kite Just how much money does Google make from so-called "domain parkers" - those clever characters who populate countless web domains with nothing but advertising?â¦