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Unused Domain Name for U.S. Isles Gone (AP via Yahoo! Finance) 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."
Google.de domain gets kidnapped (InfoWorld via Yahoo! News) 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.
Internet Organization Cuts '.um' Domain Name (LinuxInsider.com)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 Death of Domain Parking? (Slashdot)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 ...
Unused domain name for U.S. isles gone (AP via Yahoo! News) The list of Internet domain names just got shorter.
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