Archive for May, 2007

Biggest cash sale of a domain - Porn.com

Porn.com yesterday sold for about $9.5 million with the sale being brokered by Moniker. That is a mega sale, the biggest domain sale so far in Web history as far as a cash transaction is concerned. The domain was bought by MXN Ltd, an Internet media firm. Details are of course a little sketchy, as [...]

Reasons your PayPal account got limited.

I have been a PayPal user for a long time now, and very often I see this problem happening to a lot of PayPal users, which is inadvertedly getting their PayPal accounts locked or limited. Limited accounts cannot send or receive funds anymore until the matter is resolved with PayPal; a costly problem in terms [...]

Solar powered Google, Green Yahoo and hybrid cars

TechCrunch has a nice post on how the two Web giant search engines, Google and Yahoo are hard at work competing to get more publicity and to publicize themselves as environmentally friendly. It is all good, I tell you The earth needs action done today.
Although Micheal Arrington of TechCrunch is right to say [...]

New TLDs coming - Good or Bad?

A short while ago, ICANN announced they would be looking to approve some more new domain TLDs come August 2008. The announcement was made public about two days ago on their website.
These TLDs or to be more specific, these gTLDs, will be adding to the current array of the gTLDs already in use, and it [...]

4 website design and usability rules

Do you come across websites that look like they could do much better if they switched their graphic designers? I do every so often come across sites like these, and sometimes I wonder if these websites ever realized how much their sites need a facelift or some reworking of sorts.
Website design and usability are important [...]

Will Egold be closed down?

About two weeks ago, E-Gold owners were served an indictment by the US Federal Government on charges of conspiracy in money laundering and illegal operations. E-Gold is one of the biggest payment processors on the Web, and serves mainly people from countries that cannot use Paypal.
It should be noted “an indictment is merely an accusation, [...]