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Opinion: Why is Yahoo boosting domain fees by 30%?

Like many people, I "own" a few personal domains for my blogs and a few old business ideas that never got off the ground. And, like many people, they have been parked at Yahoo Small Business, partially because I already had a Yahoo account when I registered them a few years ago, and partially because I was lured by the $1.99/year offers for new domains that Yahoo had running at the time. The rate increased to $9.95 after the first year, but I was OK with that. I was able to reserve the domains and set up redirects to my blogs, and have the option of building real sites if I ever get too frustrated with Google's Blogger service.

Why is Yahoo boosting domain fees by 30%?

Like many people, I "own" a few personal domains for my blogs and a few old business ideas that never got off the ground. And, like many people, they have been parked at Yahoo Small Business, partially because I already had a Yahoo account when I registered them a few years ago, and partially because I was lured by the US$1.99/year offers for new domains that they had running at the time. The rate increased to $9.95 after the first year, but I was OK with that. I was able to reserve the domains and set up redirects to my blogs, and have the option of building real sites if I ever get too frustrated with Google's Blogger service.

Google / Yahoo Spells Big Changes For Yahoo

Could this be the beginning of the end for Yahoo? Yahoo's interest in a search deal with Google was initially viewed as a poison pill move to thwart efforts of Microsoft to acquire Yahoo. I certainly saw it that way as did many others. Yahoo has continued down this path, announcing a deal with Google late Thursday afternoon. The deal basically outsources Yahoo's search ad placement to Google AdSense. Hey, I use AdSense on my personal blog, so why shouldn't Yahoo! The more the merrier I always say.

Why is Yahoo boosting domain fees by 30%?

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Domain.com Announces Free Domain Day Giveaway

Domain.com, a domain registration company and provider of managed web site services, declared that it is helping individuals and businesses get up and running on the web with a special 'Free Domain Day Giveaway' promotion on Tuesday, May 20, 2008. It announced that the visitors to the Domain.com web site will get a chance to win one of 25 free .com, .net, and .org domains every hour from 9:00am to 4:00pm Pacific Time. During the giveaway, it will be promoting its full array of value added services, including Web hosting with a free Web site builder, URL and e-mail forwarding, e-mail accounts and private domain registration, adds the company.

GetANewAddress on Yahoo Domains

Yahoo has opened the domains ymail.com and rocketmail.com for Yahoo Mail users who want a more personalized e-mail address. Yahoo Mail is the world's largest Webmail service and most of the names on its yahoo.com domain have been taken. With the new domains, Yahoo is giving users a chance to get the e-mail address they really want.

Rogers Wireless launches Yahoo! mobile search service

Yahoo! has made available its mobile search service Yahoo! oneSearch to Rogers Wireless and Fido customers across Canada. Yahoo! oneSearch is specifically designed for mobile devices, delivering relevant results directly in the first screen. Yahoo! oneSearch also gives consumers access to news, financial information, weather conditions, Flickr photos, web images, as well as web and mobile websites. Yahoo! oneSearch also allows Rogers customers to shop in a catalogue of several ringtunes, games, graphics and other content which will be made available in the search results. This announcement builds on the expanded Rogers Communications and Yahoo! multi-year mobile, broadband and PC search agreements announced late last year.

YAHOO SPURNS JOINT MICROSOFT-ICAHN BID TO REVAMP FIRM, ACQUIRE SEARCH BUSINESS

TEL AVIV (MarketWatch) -- Yahoo Inc. said late on Saturday that it rejected a restructuring proposal from Microsoft Corp. and the investor Carl Icahn, and the Sunnyvale, Calif., Internet-services giant called on Microsoft to bid for the whole company. Yahoo said the Microsoft-Icahn plan, which it said would turn Yahoo's search business over to the Redmond, Wash., software giant and the rest over to the New York investor, was presented as a take-it-or-leave it proposition. "This odd and opportunistic alliance of Microsoft and Carl Icahn has anything but the interests of Yahoo's stockholders in mind," Yahoo Chairman Roy Bostock said in a statement. Yahoo said that while it rejected the restructuring, it offered two alternatives: "It repeated its offer to sell the entire company to Microsoft for at least" $33 a share, and it "offered to nego

Yahoo! rejected Microsoft bid for search business, due to exclusivity clause

Microsoft dropped bid for all of Yahoo! on 8 June and launched a bid of USD 1 billion for Yahoo!'s search business and a share of future search advertising revenue. This proposal also included an USD billion investment in Yahoo! but required Yahoo! to commit to a 10-year exclusive arrangement, according to a letter sent to Yahoo! stockholders by CEO Jerry Yang and Chairman Roy Bostock. The letter explains the reasons for Yahoo! to sign a four year non-exclusive deal with Google for online advertising services and to end the talks with Microsoft, as their search-only hybrid proposal may have been helpful to Microsoft. The board and its advisers also carefully studied the financial impact of Microsoft's proposal and concluded that it would have provided no meaningful improvement to the operating cash flow.

Microsoft-Yahoo Searching For A Price; Talks Could End Next Week: Reports

In the latest developments between Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) and Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO), Reuters reports that the two parties are now focused on arriving at a value for Yahoo’s search business, and that discussions could end in the “next week or so.� The story, which quoted an unnamed person familiar with the matter, said in the latest scenario, Microsoft is proposing to buy Yahoo’s search business and take a minority stake in the company after Yahoo sells off its Asian assets. But apparently, the complicated part is in determining a price. The source explained that any amount “would be tied to how revenue-sharing and other deal terms are structured.� Two possibilities: Microsoft may pay Yahoo for search queries and traffic acquisition costs and Yahoo may seek guarantees on the rate Microsoft will pay and a specific time commitment f

Non-English Domain Names to Arrive on Internet

NEW YORK—The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) passed new domain name regulations at its annual conference in Paris this week, reported the World Journal. Thousands of new domain names such as .paris and .Pepsi will be created. Non-English languages, including Chinese will be used in domain names, which is seen as the most significant evolution in Internet domain names in the past twenty years. All current available domain names will be used up by 2011. ICANN will start accepting applications for new domain names in 2009. The application fee starts at 100,000 USD.

Non-English Domain Names to Arrive on Internet

NEW YORK—The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) passed new domain name regulations at its annual conference in Paris this week, reported the World Journal. Thousands of new domain names such as .paris and .Pepsi will be created. Non-English languages, including Chinese will be used in domain names, which is seen as the most significant evolution in Internet domain names in the past twenty years. All current available domain names will be used up by 2011. ICANN will start accepting applications for new domain names in 2009. The application fee starts at 100,000 USD.

Carl Icahn Takes on Yahoo's Board

narramissic and several others have written to point out that Carl Icahn has initiated a proxy battle with Yahoo's board of directors over their rejection of Microsoft's bid for the company in February. Icahn has purchased millions of Yahoo shares over the past week and assembled a group of nine other investors (including Mark Cuban) to persuade the board to resume talks with Microsoft. Yahoo remains unimpressed. Icahn's letter to Yahoo accuses: "It is unconscionable that you have not allowed your shareholders to choose to accept an offer that represented a 72% premium over Yahoo's closing price of $19.18 on the day before the initial Microsoft offer. I and many of your shareholders strongly believe that a combination between Yahoo and Microsoft would form a dynamic company and more importantly would be a force strong enough to compete wi

Microsoft Offered $40 a Share For Yahoo

fistfullast33l writes "Bloomberg is reporting that a recently unsealed court case by shareholders against Yahoo reveals that Microsoft offered $40 a share for the Internet search company in January 2007 and Yahoo turned it down. We've extensively discussed Microsoft's bid for Yahoo earlier this year for $33 a share, which was rebuffed. Investor Carl Icahn has launched a proxy fight against Yahoo over the spurning of the Microsoft deal." CWmike notes of Computerworld's coverage of the revelations: "The complaint places much of the blame on [Yahoo CEO Jerry] Yang, describing him as someone with a 'well-known' antipathy toward Microsoft who acted out of a personal interest to keep Yahoo independent. Something wrong with that? Oh, yeah... public company.

Domain Name and Web Hosting Provider Dotster Offers Tips for Getting the Right Domain Name

June 30, 2008 – (HOSTSEARCH.COM) – Domain name and web hosting provider Dotster (http://www.dotster.com) is offering a number of tips to those considering buying a new domain name for a business. Dotster’s Web intelligence has already helped “over one million businesses and individuals” find the right domain name, and the company has come up with 10 tips that offer handy guidelines “culled from years of hands-on experience”.

Domain Credits from Daily.co.uk - the cheapest domain registration in the UK

Chilwell, UK - 24 June 2008 ( ITBinnovation ) - UK domain name and web hosting provider, Daily.co.uk today announced the launch of Domain Credits (http://www.daily.co.uk), the service which brings bulk domain registration discounts within reach even if you only register one domain at a time.

.NU Domain Launches Numeric Domain Names

NU Domain –manager the .nu top level domain name– will begin accepting registration of Numeric Domain Names on June 10, for the first time allowing registration of numbers-only .nu domain names – such as 247.nu, 123.nu and 3663.nu (the English word “food” on a phone keypad.)

.NU Domain Launches Numeric Domain Names

BOSTON --(Business Wire)-- .NU Domain -manager the .nu top level domain name- will begin accepting registration of Numeric Domain Names on June 10, for the first time allowing registration of numbers-only .nu domain names - such as 247.nu, 123.nu and 3663.nu (the English word "food" on a phone keypad.)

Art in the Atrium: Nick Easley

Bloomington-NormalArt in the Atrium: Nick Easley - Paintings, through July 5, BroMenn Regional Medical Center Atrium, Normal. (309) 268-5187. - David Park - Watercolors and photography; 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Mon.-Fri., 8:30 a.m.-noon Sat., through June 30, IAA Credit Union lobby, 808 IAA Drive, Bloomington. ISU University Galleries - Rotating exhibits in three galleries in ISU Center for the Visual Arts; regular school hours, 9:30 a.m.-9 p.m. Tue., 9:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Wed.-Fri., noon-4 p.m. Sat.-Sun.-Mon.; summer hours, noon-4 p.m. Mon.-Fri. and weekends by appointment. Free. (309) 438- 5487.- test pattern-sound check - Multimedia, sound and video works by ISU technology program faculty, students and alumni; through Sept. 12; ISU University Galleries, see above.

Yahoo! Announces Microsoft Talks Have Concluded

Yahoo! (YHOO) today announced that discussions with Microsoft (MSFT) regarding a potential transaction—whether for an acquisition of all of Yahoo or a partial acquisition—have concluded. The conclusion of discussions follows numerous meetings and conversations with Microsoft regarding a number of transaction alternatives, including a meeting between Yahoo and Microsoft on June 8 in which Chairman Roy Bostock and other independent board members from Yahoo participated. At that meeting, Microsoft representatives stated unequivocally that Microsoft is not interested in pursuing an acquisition of all of Yahoo, even at the price range it had previously suggested.

Yahoo Rejects Another Bid From Microsoft, Icahn

Last night Yahoo rejected another offer for its search business from Microsoft and investor Carl Icahn. The proposal also included conditions that would have required the replacement of Yahoo's top management and board of directors. This is not the first time Icahn has pushed for such a measure. Quoting: "Yahoo said in rejecting the offer it told Microsoft it was willing to sell the entire company for at least $33 a share and its board believed such a deal could be negotiated and executed before its annual shareholders meeting on August 1. Yahoo said it also informed the software giant it remained willing to negotiate an 'improved search only transaction.' Microsoft, however, rejected both offers, Yahoo stated."

Yahoo Files Lawsuit Against Lottery Spammers

(RTTNews) - Internet service provider Yahoo! Inc. (YHOO) on Tuesday announced that it has filed a lawsuit against 'Yahoo lottery spammers' for sending unauthorized e-mail messages to internet users making them believe to have won a lottery or prize offered by Yahoo!. The lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court in New York City, under the Federal Trade Mark Act, the Federal Can-Spam Act, and related state laws. Sunnyvale, California-based Yahoo! noted that it does not offer any such awards and has no connection with the spammers or their e-mail communications. Further, the company said through continued litigation efforts it plans to go after individuals who have attempted to negatively impact Yahoo e-mail experience for consumers across the Internet.

Yahoo Ends Talks With Microsoft, Embraces Google Instead

snydeq writes with a story from InfoWorld which says that "Yahoo has ended its talks with Microsoft and is instead nearing an agreement with Google. Yahoo's purported reason for breaking off the talks? That Microsoft was only interested in purchasing Yahoo's search business, not all of the company. 'Such a transaction would not be consistent with the company's view of the converging search and display marketplaces, would leave the company without an independent search business that it views as critical to its strategic future and would not be in the best interests of Yahoo stockholders,' the company said in a statement. The deal with Google allegedly involves Yahoo's search advertising business. The move likely will draw more ire from Icahn and may in fact remain part of the elaborate poker game between the two companies.

Yahoo to run Google Adsense; Gchat/YIM link up...

Building on its text-advertising dominance, Google on Thursday said that it has reached an agreement to allow Yahoo to serve Google's Adsense search and contextual advertising as well as allow enable users on Gchat and Yahoo! Messenger to communicate without between the networks. Under the predicted non-exclusive 10-year agreement, Yahoo! has the option to display Google ads alongside its own natural search results in the U.S. and Canada and Yahoo! can serve contextually targeted ads on its U.S. and Canadian web properties as well as on its current publisher partner sites. Yahoo, however, is free to enter into similar agreements with other advertising providers and use Google's advertising on as many or as few of its search results and content pages as it chooses.

Opinion: Why Artificial Scarcity Could Boost Digital Game Downloads

Opinion: Why Artificial Scarcity Could Boost Digital Game Downloads [05.22.08] In this thought-provoking opinion piece, industry commentator Matt Matthews suggests that artificial scarcity of digital games - only making them available for limited times - could be a way to get the public excited about games.

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