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Report: Paid Search On Travel Continues to Decline & Its Google’s Fault

Fri, 24 May 2013 04:12:08 +0000

According to a blog post on adgooroo.com, in the first four months of 2013. “Paid search spend in the Travel category on U.S. AdWords is down in 2013. At $238 million for the months of January through April, it’s actually down 19% from 2012’s $295 million during the same period, which was down 17% from 2011…

Aftermarket.com to Combine Parking and Selling

Fri, 24 May 2013 03:53:34 +0000

Thought Convergence’s domain marketplace will integrate domain parking and the company has switched ad feed providers. Aftermarket.com, the domain name sales platform by Thought Convergence, is getting ready to launch a combined parking and selling platform. In a blog post today, the company said it will start offering a parking platform integrated into Aftermarket.com. Domain [...]

91 New gTLD Pass Ie: .nyc, .microsoft, .gop; .kiwi, .monster, .berlin, .youtube

Fri, 24 May 2013 02:51:37 +0000

a Total of 91 new gTLD applications passed ICANN Initial Evaluation (IE) including 8 applications which were previously passed over. This is the most new gTLD applications to pass IE in a single week and ICANN is now processing 100 new gTLD applications up from 50 per week as they promised would happen in June…

Now We’re Getting Serious: 92 New gTLD Bids Pass

Fri, 24 May 2013 02:43:18 +0000

ICANN has stepped up the pace of its Initial Evaluation results schedule, this evening publishing the results of 92 new gTLD applications. Applications for the following strings have passed IE this week: .fishing, .casa, .gop, .home, .love, .budapest, .book, .kiwi, .llc, .iselect, .audible, .wedding, .cpa, .earth, .delivery, .tickets, .msd, .neustar, .ski, .lease, .salon, .monster, .immo, [...]

Bloomberg Reports Google Facing New FCC Antitrust Probe Over Display Ads

Fri, 24 May 2013 02:07:01 +0000

According to Bloomberg.com, Google is facing a new Antitrust Probe Over Display Ads by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission. According to the story the FCC is looking into “into whether the company is using its leadership in the online display-advertising market to illegally curb competition”…

Demand Media Commits Five TLDs to Private Auctions, But Three are Dead On Arrival

Fri, 24 May 2013 01:23:28 +0000

Demand Media throws five domains into private auction ring, but three are against competitors who won’t participate. Demand Media subsidiary United TLD has committed five of its applied-for top level domains to the first private domain auctions to be handled by Peter Cramton. The five domains are .fishing, .green, .mom, .rip, and .wow. Donuts recently [...]

Microsoft Doesn't Own Xbox One Domain Names, But is Fighting to Get Them

Thu, 23 May 2013 22:34:46 +0000

You’d think when a company is about to unveil a new product they’d ensure that they own the associated domain names….

Ron Paul Found Guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking

Thu, 23 May 2013 04:29:37 +0000

Former congressman guilty of reverse domain name hijacking, says WIPO panel. Earlier today I wrote about how Ron Paul lost both of his domain disputes brought before the World Intellectual Property Organization. The disputes were filed against RonPaul.com and RonPaul.org and were both heard by the same arbitration panel under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute [...]

Afternic & Directi Partner Up

Thu, 23 May 2013 04:16:05 +0000

Afternic, announced their partnership with Directi, the largest domain registrar in Asia and seventh-largest registrar in the world. Directi will join the Afternic reseller network as a Premium Partner, incorporating Afternic’s vast inventory of premium domains for sale through their BigRock brand. This exclusive relationship brings premium domains to India for the first time, opening up new domain options for small to medium size business owners and domain investors across the globe. The entire Afternic portfolio of six million premium domain names will be available to BigRock customers, many of which are eligible for immediate ownership through Afternic’s Fast Transfer network…

H2.co Launched By Linkedin Co-founder & Ex

Thu, 23 May 2013 03:18:22 +0000

Another .Co is in the news today as H2.co announced its holding its inaugural meeting at LinkedIn’s global headquarters in Silicon Valley in October 2013. Talk about name dropping. Lets start with Reid Hoffman who is a Partner at Greylock and Co-Founder and Executive Chairman at LinkedIn. Then we move over to Nayan Patel and Jeff Merkel who between them are ex-Google, Verisign and Apple exec’s….