By admin -

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is releasing a new policy in which anyone can start a top-level domain (the part of a URL to the right of the period, such as “.com” or “.net”).

According to ICANN, this service will enable entrepreneurs to sell specialty addresses, such as .shoes, .ibm, .movies or .apple, to interested parties.

via ICANN Avails Top-Level Domains at High Price-Point – MarketingVOX.

By Erik Small -

Yahoo has decided to wind down Geocities. This part of the Yahoo business was big back in the early days — it’s definitely an end of an era. Tech Crunch has a quick write-up on how Yahoo is pulling the plug.

Here’s in excerpt:

“GeoCities’ traffic has been falling over the past year. According to ComScore, GeoCities unique visitors in the U.S. fell 24 percent in March to 11.5 million unique visitors from 15.1 million in March of 2008. Back in October, 2006, it had 18.9 million uniques.”

“There are plenty of other Website creation and hosting services out there, including blog platforms such as Wordpress, Blogger, and Typepad, as well as Website creation and hosting services such as Ning, Webs, Jimdo, Snapages, Weebly, and countless more. GeoCities never really kept up with the times, but always remained a decent pageview generator.”

Full TechCrunch article