The application was filed by TBGK Trademark Holdings,  Beyoncé’s company to cover all things fashion as well as baby carriages, baby cosmetics, and diaper bags.

The article goes on to say that two other trademark applications filed after the babies birth have already been turned down:

“Fashion designer Joseph Mbeh, who submitted an application to trademark “Blue Ivy Carter NYC” on Jan. 11 — just four days after the baby was born. Another applicant filed on Jan. 20 for “Blue Ivy Carter Glory IV” to use on a line of fragrances. The trademark office has already denied both filings, saying the name belonged to a “very famous infant ” and consumers would falsely assume that the products were approved by the celebrity parents”

Of course since we are a publication concentrated on domain names, we checked it out and the domain name BlueIvy.com was registered way back in 1999 and goes to a placeholder for the registrar.

The domain name BlueIvyCarter.com on the other hand was registered on January 8th, 2012.

The baby was born on Saturday night January 7th and announced to the world on January 8th along with the name of the baby.

Were some of the most successful people in the entertainment world with their own highly successful businesses on top of the domain game and smart enough to register the .com domain name of their baby?

Look like they were not.

The domain name is under privacy at Godaddy.com, but if you check DomainTools.com to see the original registration it looks like the parents missed on registering the .com version of their baby’s name that they just trademarked.

The domain name BlueIvyCarter.com is going to a Godaddy default registrar PPC page.

BlueIvyCarter.net was also registered on January 8th and is going to a “tribute page” which indicates the domain is for sale.

The same person that registered the .net also registered the .org but that domain is going to the Godaddy default PPC page.

BlueIvyCarter.me didn’t get registered until January 13th, also not owned by the parents.

As for BlueIvyCarter.xxx that domain was registered on January 11th to an address in NY.

Hum

That domain does not resolve.

The bottom line this is a good lesson for all celebrities actually all parents,  maybe you should secure the matching .com domain name of your baby before announcing it to the world, especially if your planning on trademarking the name.…

Richard Rosenblatt, the CEO of Demand Media, Inc. is listed as number 34 on the list with a Klout Score of 56.

Bob Parsons, the Executive Chairman of Godaddy.com is listed as number 40 on the list with a Klout Score of 53. (It should be noted that Klout incorrectly still has Parsons listed as the CEO of Godaddy).

Both Richard and Bob’s Klout score are higher as that of the CEO of Group On, LinkedIn and Zynga.

Also making the top 50 list is Esther Dyson one of the most vocal opponents of the new gTLD program who made the list at number 46 as the CEO of EDventure Holdings.

It took a Klout score 51 to make the Top 50 list.

The number one spot went to Pete Cashmore the founder and CEO of Mashable with a Klout score of 89.

Oprah, Rupert Murdock, Richard Branson, Mark Cuban, Steve Forbes, Michael Dell all made the list.

Mark Zukerberg of Facebook did not.

In the spirit of full disclosure, and for the record I have a Klout score of 47.

To see the entire Top 50 list click here.…

“Yahoo! is retroactively charging Tsavo for what Yahoo! is now saying was actually low quality traffic, ranging back over many months during 2011.”

“While the Company and Yahoo! remain in discussions on this issue, the Company now expects that Yahoo! will enforce its decision to charge back this amount citing its right to do so pursuant to the terms of Tsavo Media’s agreement with Yahoo!.”

“Cyberplex also announced today that its President, Ted Hastings, has provided his resignation.”

According to TechCrunch.com, Tsavo Media  operates a network of roughly 300 websites and blogs which generated the traffic.

“‘The company’s network of Internet publications includes crappy websites like LumaGardening.com, ThinkFashion, TechSerious, WealthyGeek, Twirlit, DiscoverFame and KidGlue.”"…

The top three rated ads all featured dogs.

The Doritos commercial where the big Dog bribes the cat owner was the top rated rate.

The Volkswagen ad where the overweight Dog gets fit took second and the Sketchers ad where the Boston Terrier in Dog in sneakers wins the greyhound race finished third.

The rescue dog in the Bud Light that worked tirelessly to supply a thirsty crowd with beer finished 6th.

In 4th place was the Doritos commercial where the Baby grabs the bag of Doritos sling shot style, the M&M/Mars with the ‘Naked” Brown M&M was 5th.

The Godaddy commercials escaped the bottom 5, but were down towards the bottom on the list.

For the record The .Co commercial was ranked lower than the Godaddy.com cloud commercial.

You can see all the results of the USA Today Ad Meter Here…

The show was co-hosted by Godaddy’s Spokesman Jillian Michaels who appeared frequently in Godaddy gear.

Also appearing on the show were Bob Parson’s, and three Godaddy commercials including last year’s .Co commercial featuring Joan Rivers and this years .Co commercial,  Natalia Velez.

Congrats to Godaddy and the .Co Registry on some great extra exposure.

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Stories have been written on the topic,  Sessions at domain name conferences have been dedicated to the subject and we have written about it on TheDomains.com as well.

According to  Adweek.com , Seth Sternberg, CEO and founder of Meebo had a completely different point of view saying that:

“I think apps are dead in three to five years,”

“”Don’t get too used to the app for everything era. In just a few years it could be over.”

He added that:

“As the links between mobile devices and the cloud speed up, applications won’t need to be stored locally to deliver a snappy experience.”

“The cutesy, bright-colored icons (or “chicklets”) that make it easy to open different programs will stay, but the distinct underlying software will go.

Another participant in the session, Shawn Gunn, head of strategic advertising for mapping and location data company Navteq added:

“It’s very hard to understand a unique user in each one of those app environments and so your ability to monetize against them, whether it’s for advertising or other types of models, becomes a lot more difficult,”

“You have much better targeting on the Web because you can kind of persistently track a user. . . . That’s a big challenge today in mobile.”

“As developers move toward more open platforms and remove the silos,  “apps” will give way to mobile experiences that are more like the Web.”

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The dolls have gone through a make over since the original group which featured as lead singer, the now X-Factor judge and Dancing with the Stars winner Nicole Scherzinger.

According to Perez the New PussyCat Dolls will include Chrystina Sayers formerly of the group Girlicious.

We look forward to seeing the commercial and apparently some new star power for Godaddy

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Citibank estimates online advertising will grow 17% in 2012 and 14% in 2013.

“Search will grow more rapidly than online advertising, taking share during the next few years, he said. Growth in display will follow behind search advertising and come from social and digital video ads.”

“If more TV advertising comes online, the 14% and 17% growth estimates for the next two years will become conservative, and the industry could see about 20% growth.”

The article goes on to say that social media sites maybe the biggest beneficiary growth.

According to a Citibank poll of marketing executives, “65% said they will spend more in social media, 50% in Web site upgrades, 53% in content creation, 51% in landing page optimization, 49% in search engine marketing for both SEO and paid search, 42% in online advertising, 42% in email, and 15% in direct mail.”

“Facebook now constitutes more ad impressions than Yahoo, Microsoft and AOL combined,”

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This year they held the iHeart Radio concert in Las Vegas, a two day affair in which some of the most popular music performers appeared including Jay-Z, Lady Gaga, the Black Eyed Peas, Alica Keys and Coldplay just to name a few.

The I Heart Radio Facebook page has almost 1.8 million likes.

They acquired the domain name iHeart.com in February of this year, which is now the centerpiece of what appears to be a new service that may take a serious run at Pandora and even Sirius/XM.

Clear Channel is the original registrant of iheartradio.com which was registered back in 2007.

Yesterday Clear Channel registered the domain names,  ihearttraffic.com as well as iheartweather.com

They don’t own iheartsports.com, something they should have bought earlier this year as well before launching the product but wouldn’t be surprised if they tried to acquire that domain.

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CircleID.com is a great publication with contributions from many different people throughout the domain space but typically not domainers.

The publication chats a lot about ICANN and public policy issues and has a large readership.

I have had it in my RSS feed for quite a while and was asked to write a post on it  a while back.

Yesterday I though of a perfect post for that audience entitled ”