According to reports merger talks are under way between Yahoo and Time Warner Inc's, AOL unit. While noting a deal was not imminent, sources say the two companies have engaged in "meaningful" due diligence about a possible combination for the past couple of weeks. Talks are focused on how to integrate AOL's content and advertising business into Yahoo. Yahoo and Time Warner began talks … [Read more...]
Archives for October 2008
Tucows Now Selling The Expired Domains They Kept From Their Customers
Well it was bound to happen. We have been talking about this issue for months. Tucows.com has been building up a portfolio of hundreds of thousands of domains by taking ownership of expired domains of its customers instead of letting them drop or sending them to a public auction like, well, almost every other registrar in the world (there are over 900 registrars). Tucows announced today … [Read more...]
Congressman Wants Google-Yahoo Deal To Be “Thoroughly Investigated”
Representative Joe Barton, a Republican from Texas, asked the Justice Department on Tuesday to "thoroughly investigate" antitrust and privacy issues in a search advertising partnership planned by Google and Yahoo. Barton expressed frustration at Yahoo's response to questions, he and his staff posed about the deal, saying they "seemed designed to obscure rather than clarify how the Google-Yahoo … [Read more...]
Rules for New Domain Extensions Announced (gTLD’s)
Last week at the ICANN meeting in Cairo, a rule book for the new extensions, hundreds or maybe thousands of them was published. I wanted to take a few days to read through and I can now summarize these rules as follows: Application fee with be $185,000. In addition, applicants must pay registrar fees and the costs of addressing potential objections. The application fee also does not … [Read more...]
Madision Avenue Still Bullish on Digital Advertising
One of the world's biggest advertising and media services organizations, Publicis, in reported relatively strong third quarter results this morning signaled concern over the weakening global economy and the effect that it will have on advertising. Publicis indicated that digital media will remain the sweet spot. "Our digital businesses and our investments in high growth economies are … [Read more...]
Will 2009 Mark the First Decline in New .Com Registrations?
As we all know, VeriSign has reported growth in each of the last many years for the number of .com registrations. My thoughts is that 2009 may mark the first year in a net loss of .com and .net domain registrations. In 2008 Verisign reported that at the end of the second quarter there were 87.3 million registration representing a 20% increase over the previous year. However "new" … [Read more...]
“B.BR” Alliance between Bank Security and Domains.
This is a guest post by Juan Enrique Sánchez S., President of nameaction.com, who is responsible for it's content """" Today in Brazil it is possible to talk of safe banks on internet. Since September 24 Brazil create a new domain “B.BR” only for financial institutions to allow safe transactions for almost 30 miilions people that use “Internet Banking” in Brazil. This is not a minor … [Read more...]