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Domain name 'fire sale' could break WIPO rules
News Greg McLamore, who founded the dot-com incubator WebMagic, is to auction 333 domain names online over the next three months. One of the main things that we have been asked to address in our second Internet domain name process is geographical terms...
[July 27, 2001, 11:54]
Identity thieves strike eBay
News They are really getting sophisticated out there," said Ina Steiner, publisher of AuctionBytes.com, a Website with a pair of auction-focussed newsletters. Some Web auction fraud mirrors the techniques of traditional auction cons, such as the "shill...
[November 22, 2002, 14:45]
MikeRoweSoft bids fail to make the grade
News Mike Rowe, the Canadian teen whose MikeRoweSoft.com Web site caught the attention and ire of Microsoft's Canadian trademark attorneys, has put documents related to the conflict up for auction on eBay.
[February 3, 2004, 7:30]
Godaddy.com After Market Domains
Downloads Then you’ll want to be a member of The Domain Name Aftermarket, the Internet's new auction house for the hottest domains-all backed by proven Go Daddy systems and support! Ready to sell your domain name?
[November 2, 2006, 6:00]
Australians auction phone numbers online
News The Generic Domain Name Auction was clouded by controversy, with the amount bid for a particular domain rapidly increasing in the last few minutes of the eligible bidding time. The other lesson learned from the Generic Domain Name Auction was the...
[October 2, 2003, 13:05]
German registrar bans autopsy Web site
News It soon popped up under the new name Vote-auction.com. A domain name registrar in Germany has deleted the registration for a gruesome US-based online photo gallery that featured stomach-wrenching images from autopsies and medical procedures.
[February 12, 2003, 8:05]
QXL shuts down auction scam on UK site
News The QXL seller, who goes under the member name "home_comforts_uk", accused people on the site who queried why it was identical to the eBay sale of "trying to ruin my auction". He would not allow buyers to view or pick any of the goods in person...
[June 20, 2003, 11:24]
Windows bug may allow network traffic hijacks
News As a result the people using those PCs ended up on an online auction website regardless of the address they typed into their browser. It turns out that an attacker can easily register a proxy server on a network using the Windows Internet Naming...
[March 26, 2007, 8:44]
Gmailers banned from selling addresses
News For example, an eBay auction for Gmail account names "Bush04@gmail.com" or "Kerry04@gmail.com" -- for the respective campaigns of the top Republican and Democratic presidential candidates -- could violate the rule.
[July 2, 2004, 8:40]
Landmark decision in .info dispute
News Despite having registered InternetNews.com as a trademark, INT was unsuccessful in taking advantage of a sunrise period set aside for trademark owners to claim names in the .info domain space prior to public auction.
[May 17, 2002, 9:05]
Internet Explorer 8: screenshot gallery review
Reviews These are areas of a site — in this case an auction — on which the user wishes to be kept updated. The Web Slice for the eBay auction sits in the Favorites bar, where its progress can be viewed without the need to visit the eBay site.
[March 19, 2009, 13:15]
EBay gets tough on online fraudsters
News Starting this autumn, the online auction giant will allow PayPal sellers in good standing to offer purchasers a $500 (£302.92) buyer-protection plan, covering items never delivered as well as merchandise that doesn't fit the seller's description...
[June 30, 2003, 8:29]
ICANN still rules the Internet roost
News That agreement, signed by the Bush administration last week, took ICANN off the auction block at the World Summit on the While ICANN will continue its role of approving new top-level domains (TLDs), setting minimum prices for domain names and...
[November 23, 2005, 12:20]
Net laughs at itself on April Fool's
News The auction site took a step back in time, offering tips on fashion and beauty from the '80s. In 1999, several spoof pages poked fun at the Web's leading auction site. San Francisco Web site builder Vivid Studios produced vBay, a fake auction site...
[April 2, 2002, 14:58]
PayPal goes international
News PayPal's electronic payment system, popular on auction sites, allows customers to collect payments online, with PayPal acting as a go-between for the payer and the recipient. But PayPal may have some muscle behind it, namely online auction company...
[September 26, 2002, 15:02]
Tiny Tuvalu cashes in on '.tv' domains
News One of its portfolio companies, dubbed DotTV, will auction off URLs ending in ".tv. Tuvalu, a tiny South Pacific nation measuring 26 square kilometers, has sold the use of its domain name -- .tv -- to Idealab!
[April 12, 2000, 7:09]
The Internet's .1 and only?
News Howe said the top 2,000 names would be donated to charities for auction. As the Internet's governing body, Icann decided earlier this year to meet the demand for new domain names by issuing new TLDs. According to Howe's application, .kids sites...
[October 3, 2000, 12:43]
Freeserve bids to help kids charity
News Freeserve has today kicked off a Christmas auction in conjunction with charity UK Youth. Working with the Freeserve Auctions, the ISPs online auction arm, is now UK Youth's most effective way of raising funds, according to the charity.
[November 25, 2002, 14:11]
'Star Trek' auction beams up to eBay
News Some lucky "Star Trek" fan will have a chance to take the captain's seat in an upcoming auction available on eBay. Captain Kirk's command chair from the starship Enterprise will be one of some 374 mostly "Star Trek"-related lots that will go up for...
[June 21, 2002, 9:05]
French groups appeal in Yahoo Nazi case
News Two French human rights organisations that successfully sued Yahoo in France over the sale of Nazi-related material on its auction site have appealed against a US District Court ruling that shielded the Web portal from enforcement of the French...
[December 6, 2001, 11:53]
