Share Domain tasting refers to the practice of registering up several domain names to test whether they receive type-in traffic and then dropping the domains that do not. This is possible because most domain registrars offer a 5 days refunding period. Domain tasting is the practice of a domain name registrant using the five-day “grace period” (the Add Grace Period or AGP) at the beginning [...]Read More »

Share People wonder why in Italy, the main backorder services do not use an auction system to let customers’ offers grow up. Currently offers are not known in advance and normally a user does not know how much other users have focused on a specific recovery. It’s not difficult to understand how this happens at the expense of the backorder service. No auctions means no stimulation of the [...]Read More »

Share ICANN formed in the year 1998 by the US federal government as not for profit organization, is given the role of managing internet’s functionality and TLD. The organization at present has an annual budget of six to eight million dollars (USD). Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, ICANN as it is called, is an organization functioning under the US federal government legislations. [...]Read More »

Share The Domain Name System (DNS) currently used by the majority of Internet users isn’t the only one. Several groups operate alternative DNS roots. So how do they work and why are they in existence? The Domain Name System acts as a huge location service; connecting devices that use the Internet such as home computers, cell phones and even appliances, to the relevant data source or service. [...]Read More »

Share Yahoo acquired Delicious about five years ago. Late last year, the company announced that it was planning to shut down Delicious, along with several other poorly-performing services, after making nearly 600 layoffs. It warned that if no buyer appeared by this July, the unit would be closed. Yahoo has sold social bookmarking site Delicious for $5 million, according to an unnamed source close [...]Read More »

Share Google has brought out a group text messaging service called Disco as a web based app as well as an iPhone app. Disco, which was released without great fanfare, has been created by Slide, the iPhone app developer start-up Google acquired for $182 million in August 2010. The service is initially only available in the US, and surprisingly, the service is not yet available for Google Android. This [...]Read More »

Share DomainSponsor was one of the first domain parking companies and monetizes millions of domain names. It is known for its text-only landing pages sporting taglines such as “What you need, when you need it”. The company pays monthly and uses a Google ad feed. Domain Sponsor has been highly praised by most domain professionals. The service is monetized by Google and it a part of Oversee.net [...]Read More »