Ask Jeeves becomes Ask.com; owner Barry Diller announces his new motto “Be Evil” while the launch party features evil Star Trek drones and even worse music. Google’s share price does not drop as a result.

The Chinese top-level domain announces that it won’t consider people who register domain names to profit from traffic or resale to be cybersquatters unless they actually infringe another’s rights. Since when did the Chinese take the lead in being reasonable?

Farrar, Straus and Giroux hires Names@Work to help it shape its Internet strategy. We start in a fascinating way with a fascinating book. A story to follow

Bret Fausett hosted a lively discussion about new generic top-level domains — whether they’re worth anything, and how we can make them useful.

James M. Woods joins Names@Work as its Chief Operating Officer. Read the press release to see what it really means.

Some commenters pointed out that I made a few errors in my original post about the troubles that Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) can cause. I investigated, and here are my clarifications.

We’ve just published a glossary of Internet marketing terms, and a WordPress plugin automatically links keywords that appear on our site to the glossary. Let us know what you think!

PriceWaterHouseCoopers, who validated all the applications by trademark owners for the .EU Sunrise Period, neglected to file their own applications… Ooops.

Four years ago my good friend Jeffrey Lewis died. An appreciation of a great man.

Rachel Cunliffe, the designer of this site, has a provocative post about using social bookmarking software, like del.icio.us, as a search engine. Is it better than Google?