Visitors to the German Web site of Google were met with a strange sight early Tuesday morning: Gone was the Google logo, replaced by the name of a local Internet service provider with the message that no content was available for the domain.
Visitors to the German Web site of Google were met with a strange sight: Gone was the Google logo, replaced by the name of a local Internet service provider with the message that no content was available for the domain.
An anonymous reader found an article about the former CEO of MySpace moving into the domain parking biz. He says "I thought, it can't be that easy. So I talked to some domainers, and they said, 'We own 300,000 domains, we make $20 million a year, we have just four employees and some servers in the Caymans.'" The idea behind the business doesn't really seem any better to me than just having a ...
The list of Internet domain names just got shorter. The Internet's key oversight agency decided recently to yank ".um" -- for U.S. "minor outlying islands." No one was using it anyhow, and the organization that has run ".um" -- the University of Southern California's Information Sciences Institute -- no longer wanted to bother.
The list of Internet domain names just got shorter. The Internet's key oversight agency decided recently to yank ".um" -- for U.S. "minor outlying islands."
