May 20, 2009 Posts

Today in DN Journal's Lowdown: Sedo begins a month-long auction binge on Thursday, the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. ccTLDs conference coming up June 1-4 in Amsterdam releases an updated schedule and the .PRO registry signs up to sponsor next month's ICANN Meeting in Sydney, Australia.

Nicholas Bolton, an IT entrepreneur who was recently awarded $4.5 million because of a "secret deal", will now be taking the .AU Domain Administration (auDA) to court after it stripped one of his company's accreditation rights to register domain names. The auDA banned Australian Style, owned by Bolton, from acting as a registrar in February 2009...

Seereise.de ("Cruise" in German) sold for more than $80,000 USD (?59,500) and .ME grabbed the spotlight as Sedo closed more than $500,000 worth of domain sales in the past week. Seereise.de was the top sale of the week and appears to have been purchased by AllTours Reisecenter, a German travel company. The .ME sales included Rock.me...

As announced in corresponding press releases, .TEL has just passed the 200,000 domains registered mark. The .ME registry just passed their 250,000 domains milestone. (c) 2009 DomainNameNews.com Upcoming Domain Industry Events, Conferences & Auctions

250,000 .me domain names have been registered. Here's what it means. 250,000 .me domain names have been registered since its relaunch earlier this year. I draw two conclusions from this. First, it shows the power a registrar has in pushing a domain. .Me is run by a partnership between Afilias and GoDaddy. GoDaddy

Arbitrator rules against large financial firm trying to get three character domain name. A World Intellectual Property Organization arbitrator has ruled against OVB Verm?gensberatung AG of K?ln, a financial firm based in Germany, in a dispute over the domain name OVB.com. The arbitrator decided that it was not clear the domain was registered and u...

I use DomainTools.com aka Whois.sc every single day but today I just happened to notice the SEO Broswer Tool that they offer. In order to use the SEO Text Browser tool, you simply type in the domain name of the site you want to check like you are doing a whois search with whois.sc . Then

The typo potential on Oscar Mayer® is pretty big and today on Google trends shows some clear proof of it. What surprised me the most, was people even were searching the .net version (proper spelling) of the domain.. The proper spelling is Mayer but many search with Meyer. One of the bad things for the Kraft®

Following the success of our first Blockbuster Domaining Contest, we will be launching yet another one. We have learnt a lot from the previous Blockbuster Domaining Contest. We did the tests and we looked at what worked and what did not work. The rules will be much, much more simple and the prizes will be more liquid. It

Morning Folks!! We are all held hostage to “Human Nature.??? Human nature is a prediction of a reaction by someone before it actually occurs. You know the reaction. It’s a knee jerk reaction that can usually be predicted with great accuracy. Someone spits in your face, you spit in theirs. An eye for an eye. Screw you! Screw you! Asshole! Asshole. H...

Google has just introduced a new beta Bid Simulator feature on selected Adwords accounts. Using data from the past seven days, the bid simulator calculates where AdWords would have placed an ad at a different maximum CPC, how many clicks an ad would have received at those simulated positions and how much those clicks would have

From UK--Like many digital marketing people I have numerous sources for information on the market place and often struggle to both keep upto date with the news but also separate the trusted posts from the rubbish. So I started to follow all Ogilvy bloggers. This gave a great point of view from all disciplines, all countries and all levels within t...

On The View Whoopi Calls FOX News Glenn Beck A "Lying Sack Of Dog Mess" Then Barbara Walters Goes After Him For Calling Himself A Journalist. Then On THE VIEW, which aired on 5.18.09, Jesse Ventura PWNED Elisabeth Hasselbeck on the issue of torture.

I have been searching for a good code syntax highlighter for Joomla. SmartSoftwareBits.com just launched their version (called CodeCitation) in April and I wanted to share. The plugin "supports syntax highlighting for bash, shell, csharp, cpp, c, css, delphi, pascal, diff, patch, groovy, javascript, java, perl, php, python, rails, ruby, s...

Not long ago, I helped Alltop.com acquire the domain name alltop.net. Soon after, we were sporting our new Alltop T-shirts all around southern California and, as the picture below clearly shows, off the beaten path as well. ? Thanks Alltop! You Might Also Like: See You At The GeoDomain Expo! Hitting the Ground Running! My Snapnames Picks for Tod...