9 posts and columns on domain names

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KKR, Others Near Deal to Buy GoDaddy

in News on June 24, 2011 at 8:44 am PT

Private equity firms KKR & Co. and Silver Lake Partners, along with a third investor, are nearing a deal to buy GoDaddy Group Inc., the closely-held company that registers Internet domain names, for between $2 billion and $2.5 billion, people familiar with the matter said.

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Egypt Grabs First Arabic Domain Name

in News on November 16, 2009 at 11:00 am PT

On the first day that the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers opened registration for non-Latin script domains, Egypt says it has seized the opportunity to register the first all-Arabic domain name.

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ICANN: Club Med for Geeks?

in News on July 6, 2009 at 8:11 am PT

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the organization that manages Internet domain names, has been called a lot of names, but “Club Med for Geeks” is a new one. Computerworld reporter Patrick Thibodeau hurled the insult on an email list discussion after learning that ICANN had a travel budget of more than $12 million.

Mac Attack

in News on March 3, 2009 at 9:55 am PT

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Recession Weighs on Web Address Growth

in News on February 23, 2009 at 8:01 am PT

Maybe sexy Super Bowl ads aren’t helping the domain name business as much as we thought. Domain registrar VeriSign’s latest report on the state of the industry shows that while more than 10.1 million new Web addresses were registered in the fourth quarter, this was a 17 percent drop from the period a year earlier.