Nearly 15 years after first release, Blizzard has acquired StarCraft.com [UPDATED]

StarCraft

For years, the website StarCraft.com has flip-flopped between being home to a Starcraft Marine boat site and an online RV Buyer's Guide.  It has never hosted information for Blizzard's real-time strategy game StarCraft. The official StarCraft website can be found on Blizzard.com, but that could … [Read more...]

Apple secures SteveJobs.xxx domain

Steve Jobs

Apple has secured the dot-xxx adult domain SteveJobs.xxx (Whois), preventing anyone else from using the name of the company's late co-founder. This week, Apple officially took control of the domain through the registrar Corporation Service Company (CSC), a company that helps protect many of … [Read more...]

ProjectIronWolf.com Whois record changes hint Activision may be involved

Project Iron Wolf

Since early August when a Treyarch employee was caught playing a game titled "Iron Wolf" on the Xbox 360, rumors of the next Call of Duty series being called "Iron Wolf" or "Project Iron Wolf" have been swirling on the internet. A fake website located at ironwolfproject.com, likely setup by a … [Read more...]

Twittersearch.com turned over to Twitter, after domain dispute filed back in Dec. ’10

Twitter Search

Back in Dec. 2010, Twitter Inc. filed a case against the owner of the domain Twittersearch.com with WIPO, the World Intellectual Property Organization.  As TechCrunch first reported, the UDRP complaint was the first ever since the company was founded. The disputed domain is now registered to … [Read more...]

GoDaddy makes the sh*t list of professional Blogger and Internet Marketer John Chow

John Chow

GoDaddy, the world's largest domain name registrar, has made the naughty list of one of the world's largest internet marketers, John Chow.  According to a post on John Chow's website titled GoDaddy Is On My Shit List, GoDaddy sent John Chow an email yesterday stating the Whois information for … [Read more...]