Posts filed under 'Domains'

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is launching an evaluation of Internationalized Domain Names that will allow Internet users to test top-level domains in 11 languages and are calling it one of the biggest changes to the Internet since it was created! (more…)

GoDaddy is not only famous as the #1 domain name registrar, but also popular for their controversial and famous GoDaddy girls. Remember the buzz by GoDaddy girl Candice Michelle (Nikki Capelli) in the Super Bowl commercials. Recently the GoDaddy auditions were open and they have launched ace swimmer Amanda Beard as the new GoDaddy Girl. (more…)

There is lot of competition among domain name registrars to sell domains. I buy domain names from GoDaddy.com, who aggresively market their brand via GoDaddy girls and controversial hot superbowl commercials. An Indian domain registrar has found a cheap way to advertise on street side objects. (more…)

RegisterFly customers have been affected by the loss of RegisterFly’s accreditation as a domain name registrar. Dreamhost had earlier offered a great deal with a full year of L1 plan, including domain registration transfer and renewal, completely free. Now GoDaddy, has reached an agreement too to transfer these domain names. (more…)

I recently got an email from my domain name registrar GoDaddy, notifying me of refund payments on my domain name purchases. Since they already sell cheap domain names, a further refund surprised me. They had credited me for the ICANN Fee overpayment this year. (more…)

GoDaddy is famous for lots of reasons besides being the most popular domain name registrar and came into the limelight for the buzz they generated by GoDaddy girl Candice Michelle (Nikki Capelli) in the Super Bowl commercials. Now you can audition to become a GoDaddy girl yourself. (more…)

Your domain name is a unique presence on the web. My friend wanted to register a domain name that was unique, and decided to register the longest domain name that domain registrars would allow. But there are already many claimants to the world record. (more…)

RegisterFly is a popular domain registrar and web host. ICANN has terminated RegisterFly.com Registrar Accreditation Agreement. It seems they have been investigating the issue for some time now. (more…)

Bloglines recently launched the Imagewall which displays dynamically generated images for the millions of feeds that Bloglines indexes every minute. Though it was an interesting use of feed images, it contained many offensive images of adult nature and not suitable for the general audience using Bloglines to read feeds. (more…)

It was the news I waited for a long time before I decided to switch my blogger blog to Wordpress over 9 months ago. Google’s free blogging service Blogger announced this much awaited very useful feature that lets Blogger users switch from blogspot blogger subdomains to their own custom domain names. (more…)