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The domain market goes crazy for Michael Jackson

By John - July 2, 2009

When news of Michael Jackson’s death broke last week, it sent shockwaves around the world. Celebrities don’t come much bigger and that meant from London to Lima, New York to New Delhi,...

Get tanned while you work?

By 123 Reg - April 1, 2009

Most of us mere mortals don’t have access to a sun bed at work. But given the alarmingly high rate of skin cancer cases in the UK, this is probably a good...

Toys.com sells for $5.1m

By John - March 2, 2009

We might be in the midst of a deep financial crisis, but clearly there are still a few companies out there with deep pockets. The evidence? At the end of last week, Toys...

Practical tips from Nominet’s domain report

By John - November 24, 2008

We mentioned last week that Nominet has released its second annual domain name industry report (PDF, 1MB). These things usually contain a lot of fairly interesting domain name-related data. Fairly interesting, that is,...

The latest domain name news

By John - September 30, 2008

There’s been lots of interesting news in the domain name world recently. We went a bit quiet here last week (sorry about that), so instead of covering each story individually, here’s a...

Connectivity growing, security still a problem

By John - September 11, 2008

Server and networking company Akamai has released the second of its quarterly reports investigating The State of the Internet. Just like the last edition, it examines security issues (including where attacks on websites...