Entrepreneur who cashed in on sale to BankRate.com will contribute to MO.com. MO.com has announced that Johns Wu, the entrepreneur who founded Bankaholic.com and sold it to BankRate for $15 million, will be contributing to MO.com. MO.com is a new site that profiles entrepreneurs as a way to learn from each other. It was founded by [...]

Some integration between registries and registrars likely for new TLDs. Last week I reported about an ICANN board resolution that called for “strict separation of entities offering registry services and those acting as registrars. No co-ownership will be allowed.” In other words, domain name registrars such as Go Daddy and eNom would not be able to own [...]

CAC’s “supplemental rules” change goes into effect today. Czech Arbitration Court’s new UDRP procedure — in which complainants pay only 500 EUR at first unless the domain owner responds or the arbitrator needs to think about the case — goes into effect today. As far as I can tell, ICANN has not responded or issued [...]

Press perpetuates silly domain prices and negative view of domain investing. Perhaps it makes for easy filler. But why must the press always quote outlandish starting prices for domain names on eBay? Whenever there’s a celebrity scandal, big news story, or product launch, it seems that many writers need something to grab onto that [...]

Non-profit proposes .ngo top level domain name. A U.K. charity wants to create a secure .org top level domain name at .ngo. Non-profit Article 25 has set up a web site at dotNGO.net describing its plan: There is currently no secure version of .org that can give any public reassurance that your donation is going to a registered [...]