According to a report by EMarketer online ad revenue for Google will increase 27% in 2008 to $7.6 billion,  nearly twice the estimated growth rate for the next fastest gainer, Microsoft, which will grow 14% to $1.6 billion.
The research firm predicts 8% growth for Yahoo, bringing that company’s total U.S. online advertising revenues to $3.6 […]

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Go Daddy now holds a 20.5 percent share of the SSL market, according to a leading industry analyst firm.
Go Daddy began offering SSL Certs only a little more than four years ago.
Unlike other leading SSL providers, Go Daddy achieved the milestone through pure organic growth, meaning it was not artificially cultivated with mergers […]

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Yesterday as it was reported by several sources snapnames went down for a short period of time right at the close of silent adult auction.
Therefore several domains that had late bids have been extended until today and will close at 3:15pm EST, 12:15pm PST, so if you want to bid on any of these there […]

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Dell a member of CADNA has apparently trademarked the term “Cloud Computing” a very generic term referring to the next generation of computing.
It will be interesing to see what they intend to do with their new trademark as it concerns domain names.

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Talk about a great domain name, MerchantAccount.com a “category killer” premium domain name is up for sale.
According to the press release announcing the sale “When merchants are searching online to set up a new account or to change their merchant processing provider, Merchant Account is one of the most searched terms in the business that […]

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Nothing to do with domains, but it is important to note that the US budget deficit for July 2008 was a staggering $102.8 Billion dollars, almost triple from July 2007 deficit of $36.4.
So far this year, the budget deficit totals $371.4 billion, more than double last year’s deficit through the same time period of $157.4 […]

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With iTunes downloads topping 5 billion, some states have begun to levy sales tax on digital downloads.
Call it the iTax.
In 2008 alone, at least nine states have considered digital download taxes, and at least five of those states have enacted them into law.
Nebraska’s governor signed a digital download tax bill into law in April, and […]

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In the month since Apple opened an online software clearinghouse called the App Store, users have downloaded more than 60 million programs for the iPhone, Chief Executive Steve Jobs said in an interview tody.
While most of those applications were free, Apple sold an average of $1 million a day in applications for a total of […]

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Last month Google’s chief economist Hal Varian in discussing Google business model of PPC advertising site “During periods of slow economic growth, the last thing an advertiser wants to cut is its spending on search-based advertising.”
In other words, display advertising will take a bigger hit than paid search as marketers tighten their purse strings.
Microsoft however […]

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Yahoo will let its Web visitors decline ads targeted to their browsing habits, becoming the latest Internet company to break from a common industry practice as Congress steps up scrutiny of customized advertising and consumer privacy.
Yahoo has been offering that opt-out choice only to ads the company runs on outside, partner sites.
Yahoo said Friday it […]

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