The Web hosting company AIT, Inc. (www.ait.com) announced on January 18 that it is offering customers free registration of domain names with each hosting account, in an effort to help the many small businesses that have no online presence. As domains come up for renewal, businesses would pay a fee to retain them but a year's worth of exposure to the Internet should be ample evidence of the web's worth. A company executive says a year should be enough to prove the value of a web presence.
GetSeattle.com (www.getseattlecom) announced on January 17 that abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijk.com is the first and the most popular longest domain name that offers the world's longest email addresses to its visitors for free. Utilizing the maximum 63 characters limit of a domain name, www.abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijk.com allows visitors to create for themselves an extraordinarily long email address that can both send and receive email messages for free.
The Go Daddy Group, Inc. (www.GoDaddy.com), parent company of GoDaddy.com, the number one registrar of domain names, announced on January 12 that it has hired The Ad Store (www.the-adstore.com) to create its advertising campaign for the media venues of television, print and radio.
Politics.co.uk (www.politics.co.uk) announced on January 12 that the website of a Welsh Conservative party branch (www.delynconservatives.com) has been hijacked and loaded with hardcore pornography. Local party activists in Delyn, Flintshire, were shocked to find adverts for Japanese and Western explicit adult pornography posted on the site of their old domain name, which users were still linked to for local news and information.
The Go Daddy Group, Inc., parent company of GoDaddy.com (www.GoDaddy.com), the number one registrar of domain names, announced on January 8 the debut of its new Fax Thru Email service, allowing customers to send and receive faxes via any email client, including WebMail, Outlook, Eudora, etc. Already the leader in new domain name registrations, this introduction makes Go Daddy the first domain registrar to develop and offer this service to its customers. Fax Thru Email allows users to rid themselves of the traditional hardware, including the fax machine, printer cartridge and a separate expensive telephone line. All that is needed is a computer and an email address.
DomainMart, Inc. (www.DomainMart.com), a pioneer in providing domain-name secondary-market services, announced on January 4 that it is offering for sale Pathology.com (www.Pathology.com) to suit the requirements of the Clinical Diagnostic and Pharmaceutical industries.
DomainMart (www.domainmart.com), a leading provider of domain-name protection services, announced on January 3 the introduction of a domain-name inheritance planning service (http://domainmart.com/protect/DomainNameInheritancePlanning.htm). DomainMart President and CEO Alex Tajirian said that domain-name inheritance planning might seem unnecessary, but that it is a prudent move, without which total strangers eventually end up grabbing users’ valuable assets.
DotComFinders.com (www.DotComFinders.com), a Pennsylvania-based domain name brokerage firm dedicated to the registration and selling of valuable domain names, announced on December 24 the sale of Marijuana.com (http://Marijuana.com), owned by the Arizona-based Global Sativa Inc. (www.globalsativa.com). DotComFinders.com is brokering one of the most lucrative domain names in the world. The private bidder auction begins on December 21, 2004 and ends on April 20, 2005 and is listed on the DotComFinders.com website. The name is for sale to the highest bidder.
OpenDomain.org (www.OpenDomain.org) announced on December 27 that in appreciation of his work promoting the anti-spam effort greylisting, the domain Greylisting.org (www.greylisting.org) was transferred to Bjarne Lundgren by OpenDomain.org.
LogicBoxes (www.logicboxes.com), a software and consulting company specializing in solutions for ICANN-accredited registrars and Web hosting companies, announced on December 24 the launch of a series of 8 new language packs to the already existing multi-lingual interface of its flagship product OrderBox V4.2. The OrderBox interfaces are currently available in German, English, Spanish, Turkish, Russian, Dutch, Bulgarian, Belarusian and Indonesian. 25 additional language packs are currently under translation. Every component of the control panels and interfaces, including messages, instructions, menu items, labels, shopping cart, mails, etc., can be displayed in any language.
