doug toombs - dot com

The news around the web is that News Corp and Yahoo! apparently have been in some sort of talks about an acquisition. Might happen, might not. But the one thing that does seem to be known is the pricetag of $12 billion.

Ok, first off - kudos to Robert Murdoch if he can pull that off. He’ll have made the stock market equivalent of a real-estate flip, and profited handsomely from the process. But am I the only one, or does this seem like such an insanely large acqusition price, that it could be risky for Yahoo! as a whole?

I have been puzzled in the last few weeks, in watching the commentary floating around about the proposed “.xxx” domain name extension that ICANN was considering - intended to delienate sources of adult content and pornography on the Internet from other sites.  Similar proposals have been made in the US to require that port 80 […]