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Thursday, July 12th, 2007

NameIntellegence (the folks behind whois.sc, domaintools and the Domain Roundtable Conference), have announced a live auction for premium domain names.
The auction will happen during the Domain Roundtable Conference on August 15, 2007 in Seattle Washington.
You can also bid on the domains live via the internet.
They are now accepting submissions for (premium only) domains to be [...]

Monday, February 27th, 2006

Recently The Register published a news story (and another) about a man (Paul Dell) who is being sued by the computer manufacturer (Dell Computers) for acts of “parasitism and of unfair competition”.
It seems Dell, Inc feels that the Spain based web designer’s domain name (dellwebsites.com) is deliberately infringing on their trademark because the company allegedly [...]

Wednesday, February 22nd, 2006

In another case of corporate brand murder, the folks at NameIntelligence are changing their whois site from whois.sc to domaintools.com.
The reasoning behind the name change seems pretty simple. While whois.sc was short and easy to type, the domaintools.com name helps show that the new site has a whole host of great domain tools.
The new site [...]