A class-action lawsuit filed on Monday against Network Solutions alleges the company has unfairly profited from its domain name registration business.

The companies that handle domain registrations have built businesses around hosting, domain speculation and wholesale billing. Domain squatters, meanwhile, make millions with the right URL.

People scoffed when investment firm eCompanies paid $7.5 million for the Web address business.com in 1999 from a person who had paid $150,000 for it.

Domain name company Communicate.com (OTCBB: CMNN.ob) rejected a $6M offer for the domain name Cricket.com, according to an article in Kiplinger magazine.

Xavier Buck planned to spend $100,000 last week to bid for domain names, those parcels of virtual Internet real estate, at a live auction in Los Angeles.

Robbins was born Anthony J. Mahavorick in North Hollywood, California. He was raised in Azusa, California, and he attended Glendora High School.

Here’s an interesting decision in a UK domain name dispute. MySpace just won the domain name myspace.co.uk, although the name was first registered 6 years before MySpace existed.

In Rick Schwartz's thriving real-estate business there are no rising interest rates to fret over, no land taxes to deal with and foreclosures are few and far between.

NEW YORK (AP) — The online advertising leader Google Inc.

January 25, 2008 – (HOSTSEARCH.COM) – A survey conducted by 1&1 Internet Inc.