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Domain registrar Go Daddy tries Web marketplace (AP via Yahoo! News) It may sound counterintuitive to launch an online marketplace as Web retail sales are slumping, but Internet domain name registrar Go Daddy Group Inc. is betting that it can translate its home page traffic into sales of teak slab tables and decorative clogs.

Carolina man sells Bush library Web domain (UPI) RALEIGH, N.C., Jan. 21 (UPI) -- A North Carolina man says it was pure coincidence he was able to sell the Internet domain name for ex-President George W. Bush's planned presidential library.

IAC?s Ask.com Acquires Domain Name Monetizer Sendori (TechCrunch) Ask Sponsored Listings , a division of Ask.com (itself a subsidiary to IAC ) has acquired Sendori , a startup that introduced interesting advertising exchange technology about two years ago that enabled advertisers to purchase direct navigation traffic generated by top tier domain names, bypassing PPC advertising providers like Google and Yahoo when it comes to monetizing parked domains. ...

Mo. OKs eminent domain petitions for signature-gathering (BizJournals)Three initiative petitions that would restrict the use of eminent domain to governmental entities have received approval to gather the signatures required to appear on Missouri?s 2010 ballot.

Eminent domain initiative makes Missouri?s 2010 ballot (BizJournals)Three initiative petitions that would restrict the use of eminent domain to governmental entities will appear on Missouri?s 2010 ballot.

Perry wants to change eminent domain (KXAN 36 Austin) Gov. Perry spoke at the Texas Public Policy Foundation on Wednesday about his desire to change the constitutional writing on eminent domain. Perry wants the rules in Senate Bill 7 to be permanently included in the state's constitution.

Kentucky barred from domain name seizure (VNU Net via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News)The Kentucky court of appeals has ruled that the state does not have the right to seize domain names of web sites that contravene state law.

Eminent Domain Ruling Has Uncertain Implications (The Charleston State Journal)A case decided last year about the state's authority to use eminent domain leaves unanswered questions about when private property can be condemned.

Ky. Appeals Court Overturns Domain Name Decision (PC Magazine via Yahoo! News) A Kentucky appeals court on Tuesday struck down a September decision that allowed the state to seize 141 domain names it believed were being used for illegal e-gambling.