03|29|2011 11:19 am EDT Ebay to Buy PepperJam Affiliate Network Parent GSI Commerce by Frank Michlick in Categories: Up to the Minute – 0 Comments News From The Affiliate World As reported by The Globe and Mail , EBay Inc. (EBAY-Q plans to buy e-commerce company GSI Commerce (GSIC-Q), for $1.96-billion USD in cash.

03|28|2011 4:15 pm EDT Demand Media to Expand to Europe in 2011 by Frank Michlick in Categories: Up to the Minute – 0 Comments According to an interview by PaidContent:UK , Demand Media’s content division will expand to Europe this year.

03|22|2011 6:01 pm EDT Combined Domain Sales Report for the Previous Week by Frank Michlick in Categories: Domain Sales – 0 Comments This week’s combined domain sales report includes domain sales from the Afternic, Flippa (1) and Sedo platforms.

03|18|2011 5:13 pm EDT Internet Real Estate Group Puts Chocolate.com Up For Sale by Frank Michlick in Categories: Domain Sales , Up to the Minute – 0 Comments Internet Real Estate Group has engaged website broker David Fairley of Website Properties LLC in order to sell their Chocolate.com business for $6MM USD. Andrew Miller of IREG told DNN: “Chocolate.com continues to see double digit growth as a leading online chocolate marketplace.

03|17|2011 4:20 pm EDT NameJet to Drop Price for Pending Delete Domain Orders to $59 by Frank Michlick in Categories: Up to the Minute – 0 Comments After a recent announcement by SnapNames for a price increase for catching dropped domains from $59 to $69, NameJet will be announcing to their customers in an email later today that they are dropping their price from $69 to $59 in a trial. It appears the prices have already been lowered on the site.

03|16|2011 1:48 pm EDT Sun.com To Be Decommissioned – 11th oldest Domain by Frank Michlick in Categories: Up to the Minute – 1 Comment Tags: Tags: domain , Oracle , sun , Sun Microcomputers , sun.com . 1 Comment Steve Jones March 16, 2011 @ 3:36 pm EDT That’ll definitely fetch a pretty penny.

03|10|2011 10:59 am EDT Escrow.com Suffering Denial of Service Attack by Frank Michlick in Categories: Up to the Minute – 0 Comments Escrow.com has been suffering a Denial of Service attack which started about 13 hours ago. The team has been working on restoring services all night and is expecting to be back up shortly. Tags: Tags: DDoS , Escrow.com

03|07|2011 5:28 pm EDT Afilias to Consider Proposals for Allocation of 1 & 2 Letter INFO Domains by Frank Michlick in Categories: Registries , Up to the Minute – 0 Comments Afilias just announced that they are accepting proposals for single and double character .INFO domains. Applications have to be submitted with non-refundable $1,000 fee and have to be received before 12:00 UTC on 30 April 2011. The registry operator  reserves the right, to reject proposals that are received after the submission deadline or are deficient or incomplete.

03|03|2011 2:33 am EDT .AU Registry Finds Reseller and Registrar in Breach for Spamming by Frank Michlick in Categories: Up to the Minute – 0 Comments auDA, the .AU domain administrator, has recently found that a reseller for the NetRegistry Group, NetAlliance Pty Ltd trading as NetFleet, has breached the .au Domain Name Suppliers’ Code of Practice (2004-04) by mass emailing 1,200 clients of another .AU drop catching service (Dark Blue Sea owned drop.com.au). The email addresses had apparently been collected from whois. According to the ruling, the actions of the reseller caused the accredited registrar, TPP Internet to be in breach of their accreditation agreement.

02|22|2011 10:45 am EDT Sex.com Domain Sale Entered into Guinness Book of World Records by Frank Michlick in Categories: News – 2 Comments Tags: Tags: Clover Holidings Ltd.