DomainTools has recently launched Screenshots.com,a website that allows users to view screenshots of over 25 million websites .The service will show you screenshots of how the website looked like throughout its history and as well as how it looks now .

DomainTools acquired the domain name earlier this year for $32,500 .

You can read the press release after the jump :

“DomainTools, the recognized leader in domain name research and monitoring, today launched Screenshots.com, a website that allows users to view screenshots of what a website looks like now and throughout its history. Screenshots.com provides a web archive of images and data sets that can be used for discovering and evaluating the history of website homepages. Users can track, and more fully understand, how a website’s homepage content has changed in its lifetime.

DomainTools has rebuilt the thumbnail engine that for years has provided a visual context to the powerful domain name detail information available at DomainTools.com. By launching on the premium domain name Screenshots.com, DomainTools is able to feature this important content in a more functional way for users that are specifically interested in home page archives.

Screenshots.com was created with key features in mind to help users better research competitive websites, easily scroll through a website’s image history, and discover details about the website. Visitors can quickly uncover the year the domain was first registered, find similar type websites, and learn how a website looked over time. The site includes the ability for users to request an updated screenshot at any time. The featured screenshot section on the home page scans news feeds for domain name references and showcases them on a rotating basis.

The DomainTools thumbnail image capture system, the back-end service for Screenshots.com, was originally developed in 2004. The current version now checks up to 1,000,000 websites a day and, unlike other screenshot services, captures critical external resources like ads and images. With Screenshots.com, what you see is exactly what a visitor would have seen when they visited the site. Domain investors, trademark attorneys and brand agents alike have relied upon DomainTools’ screenshot history tool to make more informed business decisions and to investigate and defend potential trademark-infringing domain names.

For nearly 10 years, DomainTools has provided users with the most comprehensive data about domain names, and the launch of Screenshots.com helps to extend that mission. Together with DomainTools.com, DailyChanges.com, Whois.DomainTools.com, ReverseWhois.com, and Reversemx.com, individuals, small business owners, and many large enterprises use DomainTools’ breadth of tools to do everything from finding a good domain for a new business to verifying DNS and WHOIS information on corporate portfolios of thousands of domains.”

Afilias,the company behind .INFO,announced recently that the 2011 .INFO Awards are now open for public voting.Afilias also announced the 10 .INFO nominees,which has been selected by a panel of distinguished judges .

“Today, with more than eight million domain names and millions of live sites, .INFO is synonymous with quality information on the Internet.The .INFO Awards let you show your support for this year’s nominees as well as giving you the opportunity to win this year’s hot ‘toy’: the Kindle Fire from Amazon,” said Roland LaPlante, Senior Vice President and CMO, Afilias.

Here are the 10 .INFO nominees :

www.docma.info
www.frauenundhiv.info (“Women and HIV”)
www.hotel.info
www.mailworx.info
www.opentype.info
www.solicitor.info
www.trafalgarsquare.info
www.typografie.info
www.visitwhitemountains.info
www.wien.info (“Vienna)

Dozens of sites were submitted from 17 countries for this year’s awards. Entry categories covered include personal websites (28 percent), business websites (27 percent), non-profit websites (15 percent) and blogs (10 percent). Awards judge Anand Parthasarathy said, “Some of the best sites this year come from non-profit organizations who have created compelling resources, sharply focused on the needs of a specific community of users.”

Public votes will be combined with the judges’ scores to select the top three winners, with first place being named the “Best .INFO website of 2011.” Award prizes are US$10,000 for the winner, US$5,000 for second place, and US$3,000 for third place. In conjunction with the announcement of the award winners, five voters will be chosen at random to receive an Amazon Kindle Fire tablet.Members of the public can vote for their favorite site at www.info-award.info now. Public voting will remain open until 11:59 p.m. UTC, Tuesday, December 13, 2011.

For more details check out Afilias.info

MGM Resort has recently filed lawsuits against two companies and four individuals over seven casino,poker domain names,that they believe are infringing their trademark .

According to whois records the seven domain names were registered many years ago.The domain names in question are :circuscircuspoker.com, bellagioonlinepoker.com, luxorpoker.com, excaliburpoker.com, ariapoker.com, mgmpoker.com and mandalaybayonlinepoker.com.

MGM Resort filed the lawsuits Thursday in a federal court in Las Vegas,asseting legal rights over them.MGM contended in the complaint that the registrants tried to profit from the fame,goodwill and consumer recognition of their mark .

“The defendants have done nothing more than tack on the descriptive terms ‘poker’ or ‘online poker’ to each of the MGM marks to form the domain names. Accordingly, there is no question that the domain names are confusingly similar to the MGM marks,”said MGM’s attorney,according to Pokernewsreport.com .

The names of the companies and the individuals who registered the domain names are :

• Shahram Kolahza

• Evan Krentzman of Woodland Hills

• Roberto Ciamillo

• Adam Majewski

• PokerSons

• RevNet