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Move, Inc. Acquires Relocation.com for $11.5 Million
October 11, 2012 @ 12:40 PMRealtor.com operator Move Inc. has purchased Relocation.com, a consumer-facing website that links homebuyers and renters with movers and storage facilities, for $11.5 million in cash, and will merge the company into its existing lead generation business for moving professionals, Moving.com.
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Go Daddy to Auction 42 Single & Two-Character .ORG Domain Names
October 11, 2012 @ 10:45 AMFor the first time in the Internet’s history, the domain name A.ORG and other single-character .ORG names are available to the public. Go Daddy and Public Interest Registry (PIR) are teaming up to auction 42 valuable single- and two-character domain names like I.ORG, S.ORG and TS.ORG on GoDaddy.com. Short and memorable, these domain names are expected to demand high interest in the aftermarket.
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The EMD Update: Like Panda & Penguin, Expect Further Refreshes To Come
October 5, 2012 @ 1:16 PMLast week, Google announced the EMD Update, a new filter that tries to ensure that low-quality sites don’t rise high in Google’s search results simply because they have search terms in their domain names.
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Protrada Partners With Alex Mandossian to Reach New Audiences
October 5, 2012 @ 12:01 AMProtrada, aggregator of major domain auction houses and premier domain name trading platform, today announced their new partnership with internet marketing thought leader, coach and teacher, Alex Mandossian.
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Illegal Medicine Websites Closed
October 4, 2012 @ 12:04 PMMore than 18,000 websites selling illegal medicines have been shut down during a global crackdown on illicit internet trade in pharmaceuticals. Domain names for the websites have been taken down or the payment facilities have been removed, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) said.
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The Exact Match Domain Playbook: A Guide and Best Practices for EMDs
October 4, 2012 @ 12:01 PMExact match domains have always been the source of a lot of contention among SEOs. For quite some time, EMD’s have offered a competitive advantage for SEO’s who understood how to use them.
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GiftCardLab.com Acquires the Domain Name GiftCard.com for over $4,000,000
October 3, 2012 @ 9:16 AMGift CardLab, a leading online provider of gift cards, today announced the purchase of the GiftCard.com domain. Gift CardLab will now use the GiftCard.com domain as its primary URL, where customers can search for and purchase store Gift Cards, e-Gift Cards, Customizable Gift Cards and Corporate Incentive Cards.
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Google Warns of Upcoming Exact Match Domain Algorithm Change
October 3, 2012 @ 9:13 AMLate last week, Google’s head of webspam Matt Cutts announced a “small,” upcoming algorithm change meant to reduce the amount of low quality exact match domains in search results. Exact match domains contain keywords that exactly match the search query. Cutts also tweeted, “New exact-match domain (EMD) algo affects 0.6% of English-US queries to a noticeable degree. Unrelated to Panda/Penguin.”
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Digitaltown Acquires 2,700 .com Domain Names for Its Portfolio
October 3, 2012 @ 9:12 AMDigitalTown, Inc. (OTCQB: DGTW) announced today that it has acquired 2,700 new .com domain names, including 400 new high school spirit sites, 500 plus city names, the top 300 mascot names representing all levels of sports and more than 1,000 professional and business names.
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qz.com Provides "Shortest Domain Names" Tool
October 2, 2012 @ 4:16 PMThere are 676 websites that have two-letter, dot-com domain names. Twenty-two of them, including ours, are news websites. Thirty-one are financial, accounting, or consulting firms… Nine people have their own personal websites on two-letter domains. But a wide swath of them—157, by our count—are parked domains: owned but not utilized.
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