Google is celebrating the 10th anniversary of its Adsense program.

Here is what Google had to say about the 10 year anniversary:

“Ten years ago we launched AdSense to help publishers earn money by placing relevant ads on their websites. I can still remember the excitement and anticipation as AdSense went live that first day. Our small team huddled together in a cramped conference room, and right away we saw that publishers were as excited about AdSense as we were.

Fast-forward 10 years, and AdSense has become a core part of Google’s advertising business.

The AdSense community has grown to include more than 2 million publishers, and last year alone, publishers earned more than $7 billion from AdSense.

AdSense is a community that thrives because of all the content creators we are so fortunate to partner with. Their stories inspire us to do our part to make AdSense great.

On this occasion, it’s especially inspiring to hear the stories of partners who have been with us since the very beginning—like a retiree in New Zealand who was able to pursue her dream of writing about her garden, a tech support expert in Colorado who can spend more time with his kids, and a theme park reviewer who now sends employees around the world to test and review rides—all thanks to money earned from AdSense.

The NewDomains.org conference is coming back to Munich on October 27th-29th and the CEO of ICANN Fadi Chehadé is going to be the headline speaker.

The program focuses on three tracks: Legal, Marketing and Registries/Registrars for the new gTLD program.

The conference is being put on once again by United-domains AG.

I attended the last conference which was in 2011 and it was a very well run conference, with great networking events.

The draft agenda is already published here

Registration is already open.

At present we are offering an early bird special for 490,00 + VAT until July 15, 2013.

Thereafter it’s 690 + VAT.

All prices in Euro’s

The event will once again be held at the  Sofitel Munich (The same as 2011) which is  a very nice hotel and convenient to everything in Munich and being next to the train station easy to get to.

In a blog post, DomainIndex.com looked at  seasonality in parking revenues and concluded what most of us long time domainers already knew.

The summer months are the  slowest and the Winter months of November- February are the strongest months of the year for parking revenues.

In its post DomainIndex.com write:

“We have been able to use a database of 137,000 parked domains across many different verticals and parking companies. ”

“Most of the traffic was type-in traffic we estimate only about 15% is expired traffic. In the 4 full years of data (2009 to 2012)  that we had, this particular portfolio lost on average 7.5% of revenue every year with stable amount of visitors. We normalized this (virtual) portfolio from the overall decrease in revenue and these are the results we found:

There were several interesting UDRP  results today as Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo, Inc./Oprah’s Farm, LLC won a UDRP to the right to the domain names oprahsfarm.com and oprahsfarm.net

The Euro Watergate Hotel Residences, LLC Watergate Holdings, LLC UDRP for the domain names  and watergatehotel.com and thewatergatehotel.com was terminated with the transfer of the domains to the lawfirm presumably representing the complainant Tucker & Latifi LLP.

Walmart gained control of 53 domain names in one UDRP:

Sedo just reported 743 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.2m.

Sedo also reported that their “annual year-to-date sales revenue” was $32.7 Million however as we know the weekly Sedo reports include transaction they just act as escrow agents on and I’m not sure if this figure includes solely sales or includes all transaction.

Just under 47% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings which I think is a new record for Sedo.

Highlights of public sales include:

·         Top .coms: wbm.com at 35,877 USD
·         Top ccTLD: uni.at at 12,800 EUR
·         Top “other” TLD: 5g.org at 7,500 USD