ICANN threatens to change the rules of the domain name game
You may be used to typing in top-level domains (TLDs) like .com, .net or .edu when heading to websites, but the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) hopes to change that with a decision to open new TLDs for registration, according to today’s Wall Street Journal.
Under the new rule, ICANN would let anyone with $50,000 to $100,000 register any TLD they want, so for example, our web address could become venture.beat, rather than… Continue Reading
Demand Media raises $100M more for domain name land grab
Demand Media, the 18 month old company founded by former MySpace chairman Richard Rosenblatt, has gulped another $100 million chunk of venture funding for its domain name purchases.
The latest funding, led by Goldman Sachs, is the company’s third. The previous two, for $120 million and $100 million respectively, bring the total to a whopping $320 million.
Companies like Demand buy up lists of Web site names that users are likely to accidentally type into their browsers…. Continue Reading
Roundup: Solar-motorbike, Webwag, Marchex, Google Gadget Ventures, more
Here’s the latest (updated) action:
The solar-powered motorbike from SunRed in Spain — Read the little story about how the company hopes to make a prototype soon, and needs venture capital to do so.
Marchex launches huge Web site — The public company said it has launched more than 100,000 local and vertical Web sites, publishing more than one billion pages of content for hoping to bait people surfing online. These are third-rate sites, originally filled with advertising, but… Continue Reading