Domain Names Marked Down

DONE! Ventures, the Internet marketing firm headed by BetterPPC's Ben Padnos, has sued NBC Universal over a failed agreement to buy domains Women.com and Women.net from NBC Universal via domain name firm Sedo. According to a complaint filed in Los Angeles Superior Court last Thursday, NBC Universal had agreed to sell Women.com and Women.net for one million dollars to DONE!, but then was ...

Ah well, looks like there won’t be a Thursday Thirteen from me this week either. As you probably deduced from reading my last post I returned home from London last Thursday. Unfortunately the only souvenir I brought with me was a nasty cold. The result was that I spent the next 4 days mostly lounging around on the couch, oozing various fluids, coughing parts of my lungs up and just generally feeling like crap. Not the best fun I had in a while. But it’s getting better and I am able to actual

The book that I promised you I would read and review , former President Jimmy Carter’s We Can Have Peace in the Holy Land: A Plan That Will Work, 1 arrived last Thursday. I noted that I had read and done a three part review of his previous book, Palestine: Peace not Apartheid , and that my review was not exactly a charitable one. Like Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, this book is surprisingly thin, using some standard publishers’ tricks to make it seem, well, book-like. Out

A message from Dr. Harvey Schiller, president International Baseball Federation (IBAF): August 17, 2009 . Dear Colleague, . As you know, last Thursday we received the disappointing news that the IOC Executive Committee had chosen not to put forward baseball as one of the two sports for a general vote for the 2016 Olympics. Although the announcement was not what we had hoped for, it certainly does not detract from the great progress the sport of baseball is making globally, nor does it mi

By sheer coincidence, I had just been alerted to the publication of a number of documents relating to the ongoing habeas corpus cases of the Guantánamo prisoners last Thursday, and was reading, with mounting disbelief, the government’s supposed case against Khalid al-Mutairi, one of the last four Kuwaiti prisoners, when I received an email notifying me that U.S. District Court Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly had just granted his habeas petition and ordered the government to “take all necessary an