The Washington Post is reporting that GoDaddy, the biggest domain name registrar on the planet, will soon stop registering domain names in China. Their announcement comes in the midst of Google closing their Chinese search engine , though GoDaddy says their decision is specifically a response to “new government rules that require applicants to provide extensive personal data, including photographs of themselves.” Yes, that is a bit creepy
The Washington Post is reporting that GoDaddy, the biggest domain name registrar on the planet, will soon stop registering domain names in China. Their announcement comes in the midst of Google closing their Chinese search engine, though GoDaddy says their decision is specifically a response to “new government rules that require applicants to provide extensive personal data, including photographs of themselves.” Yes, that is a bit creepy. [Washington Post] More »
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retweet.com, which put itself up for sale last month, has sold for $250,000 in an online auction on Flippa .
retweet.com, which put itself up for sale last month, has sold for $250,000 in an online auction on
Flippa. The auction saw a fair amount of interest with 45 bids in total.
[via Mashable]
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Retweet.com Sells for $250,000
Spotted on boingboing, Morten Skogly’s Picturetweeting bathroom scale .
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AT&T’s ” Txtng & Drivng … It Can Wait ” campaign features parents of young texting-and-driving victims and the final text messages the young drivers received just before they died. The campaign’s theme: “No text is worth dying over.” AT&T, which serves about 85 million wireless customers, is the second communications company to enter the fray against texting while driving
AT&T’s “
Txtng & Drivng … It Can Wait” campaign features parents of young texting-and-driving victims and the final text messages the young drivers received just before they died. The campaign’s theme:
“No text is worth dying over.”
AT&T, which serves about 85 million wireless customers, is the second communications company to enter the fray against texting while driving. Verizon Wireless launched its national “Don’t Text and Drive” campaign last year.
[via USA Today]
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AT&T “Txtng & Drivng … It Can Wait” campaign
