Archive for April 30th, 2008

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Melbourne IT aquires Verisign DBMS

As reported earlier, the Australian registrar Melbourne IT has acquired the Verisign Digital Brand Management Services unit for $50 Million USD. Verisign’s Digital Brand Management Services manages the domains for about 2,000 corporate client such as Microsoft.According to Versign, “the Digital Brand Manager enables companies to manage their entire domain name portfolios – including […]

MySpace.co.uk Decision Overturned

A huge victory for MySpace.com has been overturned as the social networking giant is being forced to hand back control of MySpace.co.uk to the previous owner, Total Web Solutions (TWS).In January, MySpace.com won an arbitration proceeding against TWS for the MySpace.co.uk domain name after arguing TWS was using the site to serve MySpace related ads. […]

Melbourne IT acquires Verisign DBMS

According to several sources the Australian Registrar Melbourne IT has purchased the Verisign Digital Brand Management Services (DBMS) unit for $50 Million USD. Verisign DBMS is a a domain registration and brand monitoring service mostly used by large corporations, such as Microsoft.[via TechCrunch](c) 2008 DomainNameNews.comDomain Convergence, October 6-8, 2008, Niagara FallsiBeginShare.attachTextLink(’share-tool-1209560018′, {title: ‘Melbourne IT acquires […]