The largest live Internet domain name auction ever held produced nearly $2.1 million in sales in just 3 hours Thursday, May 4, in the main event at the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. WEST Conference at the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada. Another piece of domain history was made during the auction when SEX.NET sold for $450,000 in the largest .net sale ever reported.
"We expect Senator Kyl and Congressmen Leach and Goodlatte to be amongst the first politicians to join this battle intended to safeguard the poorest and make the moral issue finally prevail" says TheOnlineWire.com.
The Lulu Blooker Prize, the world's first literary prize for books based on blogs, or blooks, has announced winners in fiction, nonfiction, and comics. "Julie and Julia," by Julie Powell, a blook about French cooking, won out over a blook on the adventures of an anonymous English callgirl to take the grand prize. "Totally Boned: A Joe and Monkey Collection," by Zach Miller, won in the comics category. The Fiction award went to "Four And Twenty Blackbirds," by Cherie Priest.