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Google put a dark cloud over the heads of domain parking companies when they went into direct competition with their partners - but there may be a silver lining in that cloud for the PPC providers. Also today, the Domainer Mardi Gras conference chooses a live auction provider for their February 21 sale.
The success of many domain and website owners is based on online ad spending. While ad budgets in general will be slashed in 2009, most experts agree that one medium will grow while the others all decline. A new article in BusinessWeek Magazine explains "Why Online Ads Are Weathering the Recession."
DN Journal's latest free newsletter is being emailed to opt-in subscribers today. With the close of the 2008 domain sales season yesterday, this month's letter breaks down the final sales data for the year just ended and identifies pockets of strength and weakness in the current aftermarket.
The Internet has passed newspapers and now trails only TV as the most popular source for news according to a new report from the respected Pew Research Center. In just the past year, the web's mindshare among news consumers soared from 24% to 40%. Pew says the web is also rapidly overtaking TV and has already caught up among those under 30.
The final weekly domain sales report for 2008 is now out at DNJournal.com. Moniker closed a $275,000 sale that took the lead position on our new Top 20 chart and the AfternicDLS weighed in with a solid 6-figure sale of their own to claim the runner-up spot. Sedo had the most overall chart entries sweeping 12 of the 20 positions.
A new analysis of WIPO cases shows that the number of domain disputes has doubled over the past five years. The reasons are being debated but one of our expert commentators predicted it was coming several years ago. We have his explanation of why it was bound to happen.
Yet another institution from traditional media, the venerable comic strip, is looking to the web for salvation as its current distribution platform, the daily newspaper, continues to crumble. A great generic domain name, Comics.com, is playing a key role in this drama.
The geodomain industry's premier event will be moving to the West Coast in 2009 for a spring time conference that will close the weekend before the next T.R.A.F.F.I.C. conference opens in Silicon Valley. This will allow California visitors to take in two major events in the same week.
Verizon wins the biggest cybersquatting judgment ever - more than $33 million in a suit against registrar OnlineNic.com. Our take on why, even though Verizon was right to sue, this is also a case of the pot calling the kettle black
Name Media has decided to pull their planned IPO offering citing market conditions. The Massachusetts-based domain conglomerate (parent
company of BuyDomains, the AfternicDLS and several parking services), originally filed for a $172.5 million IPO in November 2007.
The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. In contrast to retailers who are suffering through a dismal Christmas season domain sellers had a banner week with five names cracking the six-figure barrier. The first three names on our new Top 20 chart banked a total of $1 million.
Do you know what the first .Com domain ever registered was? PC World magazine took us back in time with a new article published this week that runs down the 100 oldest .com domain names on the Internet. It all started in 1985 when no one could have guessed how valuable domains would eventually become.
Veteran domain investor Mike "Zappy" Zapolin of the Internet Real Estate Group met Israeli President Shimon Peres last week when Zappy was in Tel Aviv to speak at a major business conference. While there Zapolin underlined the value of good domain names in an interview with Globes Magazine.
The new December Cover Story is out at DNJournal.com. The plunge in parking revenue over the past year has left many domain owners looking for lifejackets. Warren Royal found his by developing Bobbleheads.com and Shreveport.com. No longer dependent on Google or Yahoo, Royal's destiny is now in his own hands.
Despite the recession many marketers are planning to increase their spending in several areas online. Content creation will be one of the big winners in 2009 as advertisers invest in their own content for use on social media platforms, blogs and microsites, as well as in newsletters, email campaigns and online video.
It seems that the Domaining Revolution has ended. For those of you not familiar with the MysteryDomainAuction.com story please read here.
This is directly from John Motson…
"Following legal advice obtained as a result of concerns raised by fellow domaining bloggers and some NamePros members about the legality of an all-pay auction in the US ...
Following legal advice obtained as a result of concerns raised by fellow domaining bloggers and some NamePros members about the legality of an all-pay auction in the US where this site is hosted in addition to consideration of the problems I may face at the end of the auction in case more than one person bids with the same amount which is very like...
Ok, the MysteryDomainAuction failed as a project. I failed to do the due legal diligence before launching the project - I put my hand up, it was a mistake made by ME. As soon as I got legal advice that it was not in my best interest to proceed, I put a stop to it. All bids have been refunded and all affiliates that made sales have been paid out - b...
JournalSpace.com was a blogging platform along with the many others available on the web but not any longer thanks to an ex-employee and no backups.
Recently, all the data on the company's harddisks disappeared and attempts to retrieve the data were in vein as someone had overwritten the disk - according to DriveSavers.
It appears an employee who w...
Mystery Domain Auction has shut down.
After just 4 short days, John Motson has shut down his controversial Mystery Domain Auction site, according to a blog post on his site. Apparently Motson was worried about both legal issues and technical problems toward the end of the auction. I would be somewhat surprised if PayPal
Ad in The Economist likely the first of many.
As I finished the Christmas Double Issue of The Economist, I flipped through the final pages of ads and was surprised to see this:
Internet Corporation For Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) promised to do mainstream marketing for the launch of new top level domains, and this is
Cookie and gift seller loses arbitration for domain 1800cookies.com.
Cookie and gift company Mrs. Fields has lost an arbitration case at National Arbitration Forum for the domain name 1800cookies.com. Mrs. Fields has a trademark for 1-800-Cookies, which is its primary phone number for ordering. It also uses the web address 800cookies.com. But t...
J.D. Power should reconsider Register.com's call center award.
Domain name registrar Register.com likes to tout its J.D. Power and Associates call center certification. Perhaps their call center representatives are friendly, but the company's policies make it difficult to get trivial things done.
If you've ever had a domain at register.com, you k...
I've come to notice that many domain companies are run by professional business people rather than domainers. This isn't really a bad thing, as I sometimes wish I had a CEO to guide me, but it seems that many of these companies want to distance themselves as far from domainers as possible.? Some of these
Marchex to Participate in the 19th Annual Citigroup Global Entertainment, Media and Telecommunications Conference - MarketWatchSEATTLE, Jan 05, 2009 -- Marchex, Inc.MCHX 5.92, +0.11, +1.9%) , a domain indistry giant, as well as a leading local search and advertising company, recently announced tomorrow's January 6th live webcast with Russell C. Hor...
When I started my first large web development project i foolishly thought it would be relaitvely simple to grow the site into a popular destination and have hundreds of eager buyers looking over my domains.
I'd had some experience with running minisites and not only were they a doddle to look after, some of them were receiving over 300 uniques a da...
In case you missed it, Jonathan Motson launched a Mystery Domain Auction aiming to "auction off a mystery domain name for an accumulated $1,000,000 in an "all pay" auction". The winner gets a mystery domain name which Jonathan says is worth at least $10,000 and is willing to buy the domain name back for $10,000
This post is technically 6 days overdue. However I was caught up with so many?happennings that I kept putting it off. I am going to list some of the people and blogs that I read in 2008 that helped influence me. Not all of them are in the domain world and of course a few
According to Reuters, China has launched a crackdown on websites, with officials accusing search engines including Baidu and Google of spreading pornography and vulgarity, saying repeat violators and those that had a "malign influence" might be exposed, punished or shut down.
China's Ministry of Public Security and six other government agencies ann...
Nielson Research released its November search share ratings by provider today.
The research shows that Google Year to Year growth was almost 22% while Yahoo search was down 1.5% and Microsoft Search was down almost 17%, here are the full results
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Click on 2012 tag below for the rest of it..... starting to become too much too dispute
American Pie's 'Stifler' Co-Anchors Heavy.com Sports Show
The Stifler -- er, Mr. Scott
Seann William Scott — better known as Steve Stifler of the raunchy '90s comedy American Pie — joins male entertainment site Heavy.com as co-host of The Burly Sports Show, a weekly round-up of all things sporting.
"This goes beyond a sponsorship," boasted CEO Si...
The $50,000 T-Shirt from Zappos that comes with a filled RX for shopaholism.
Zappos.com today announces the offering of a limited edition “Cease and Desist??? service and t-shirt designed exclusively for Zappos.com and available at http://www.zappos.com/50k
The rare collector’s item comes with a hefty price tag of $50,000 and a guarantee by Zapp...
I had an idea to get the opinions of a bunch of domainers on what they feel were solid upcoming trends for 2009.? Unfortunately, there didn't seem to be much interest in participating, as only 10 of? 29 replied.? To those 10, many thanks and I appreciate your time.? To the other 19… party poopers!
Anyways,
It’s a new year and I’m back (well almost) from taking a break since Christmas. Blogging is in my blood so I thought that it would be worthwhile reflecting for a moment on my last post about the charity that supports children that are HIV positive that my wife and...
The Mystery Domain Auction is "no more" according to Jonathan on his site at DNXpert. He has refunded all bids and paid all commissions to affiliates. It appears as though the site was hosted in the US and according to his legal advisers, it was in his best interest to shut it down.
No matter what
Today I received an email from the MyLink500 LinkedIn group that I've been a member of. The group is going to rebrand under what may be the best domain name for this purpose: OpenNetworker.com. An open networker is a person who will accept all invitations to connect to further grow her network. As you will Copyright (C) 2003-2009 Dominik Mueller.
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