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Shop.org Study: U.S. Companies to Spend 40% of Marketing Budget On Paid Search & 14% On SEO
July 21, 2013 @ 7:59 AMAs study cited by MediaPost.com conducted by Shop.org and Forrester Research entitled: State Of Retailing Online 2013: Marketing &; Merchandising, found that “U.S. companies will invest about 40% of their $7.6 million aggregate marketing budget in paid search and 14% to organic search.”…
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Apple Files 2 UDRP Seeking 28 Domains Including Findmyipad.com & Macbook7.com
July 21, 2013 @ 7:25 AMApple Computers filed two UDRP’s today seeking 28 domain names in total with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)…
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“Risky” gTLDs Could Be Sacrificed to Avoid Delay
July 19, 2013 @ 4:25 PMGoogle and other members of the New gTLD Applicant Group are happy to let ICANN put their applications on hold in response to security concerns raised by Verisign. During the ICANN 46 Public Forum in Durban on Thursday, NTAG’s Alex Stamos — CTO of .secure applicant Artemis — said that agreement had been reached that […]
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90 New gTLDs Pass IE. Two More Withdrawals
July 19, 2013 @ 3:05 PMICANN has published its weekly run-down of new gTLD Initial Evaluation results and this week 90 applications have passed. There have also been two withdrawals, both made by Uniregistry. It’s withdrawn its bids for .media and .country, leaving Tucows and Donuts duking it out for .media and Top Level Domain Holdings as the sole remaining […]
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Shocker? Publisher of Vogue Loses UDRP On The Domain Name VogueFashionModels.com
July 19, 2013 @ 1:27 PMIn one of the more interesting UDRP decision of the year the publisher of Vogue Magazine, Advance Magazine Publishers Inc. of New York, lost a UDRP on the domain VogueFashionModels.com which is owned by Premier Models International Inc of New York…
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USPS Loses to Amazon.com On .mail Top Level Domain Objection
July 19, 2013 @ 10:39 AMU.S. mail service tried to argue .mail infringed on its rights for “U.S. Mail”. The United States Postal Services’ Legal Rights Objection to Amazon.com’s bid to run the .mail top level domain name has been denied by a World Intellectual Property Organization panelist. The USPS’ objection to all seven applications for .mail was one of […]
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RSS.com Sold for $135,000
July 19, 2013 @ 8:56 AMRon Sheridan just informed TheDomains.com that he has sold the domain name RSS.com for $135,000…
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Network Solutions Recovering From DDOS
July 19, 2013 @ 7:45 AMCompany faced multiple outtages this week. Network Solutions customers experienced outtages this week due to a DDoS attack. The problems appeared to start on Monday. On Tuesday, Network Solutions reported that “On [Monday], some Network Solutions customer sites were compromised.” Then on Wednesday, the company posted to its Facebook page that it was facing a […]
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2 Weeks After Seizing 46 Domains, Feds Allow Domains to Expire & Can They Can Go Back to The Previous Owner
July 19, 2013 @ 7:21 AMOn July 5th we told you that some agency of the federal government seized 46 domain names. We noted at the time all 46 were very close to expiration…
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After Losing UDRP for Wiiu.com, Nintendo Allows Domain Like Wiisport.com Gamesforwii.com to Drop
July 19, 2013 @ 6:55 AMAfter losing a well publicized UDRP decision on WiiU.com, Nintendo allowed other bang on Wii domain names to drop this week only to sit by and watch them be re-registered by companies other than Nintendo…
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