The new phone books are here, the new phone books are here, a phrase burnt into everyone's memory by Steve Martin in the movie The Jerk. That's what came to mind a week ago when I saw a stack of "the real yellow pages" sitting in the mail room of the condo i live in. Now as you look at the picture keep in mind that my condo is pretty small, by Florida standards, only 76 units. Right off … [Read more...]
Archives for February 2009
Enom Offering Discounts On .TV Renewal Premium Pricing
My representative at Enom.com informs me that they are offering discounts on any premium .tv domains you may have, if your willing to renew them now. I just renewed one of my few premium .tv domains, great.tv for 2 years. With interest rates at 2% you could save a lot more by renewing any premium .tv domains now. For rates and information you should contact Deborah Burditt at … [Read more...]
Volvo Loses A Domain “Trademark” Dispute On Domain Used In Commerce
The car maker Volvo, filed a case under the dispute resolution panel of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), against the owner of a spare parts seller, for control of the domain volvospares.com. The panel found that the owner of volvospares.com was found to have legitimate interests in the name. The panel said that although the domain was confusingly similar to Volvo's … [Read more...]
Yahoo Rolls Out New Targeted Ad Products For PPC and Display: Will It Effect Your Bottom Line?
Yahoo announced today the launch of three new targeting products for advertisers. Two of the products are for display advertising, and one if for the PPC channel. The new products include: Search Retargeting, which gives advertisers the ability to target display advertising based on user … [Read more...]
Getty Images Acquires Photos.com
Jupitermedia Corporation ("Jupitermedia") (NASDAQ: JUPM) announced today that it completed the sale of Jupiterimages Corporation ("Jupiterimages"), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Jupitermedia, to Getty Images, Inc. for $96 million in cash. Included in the assets acquired by Getty Images is the prized domain name Photos.com Jupitermedia meantime announced that it will change its name to … [Read more...]
.TV Domain Sells For As Much As A 3 Letter .com on NameJet.com
Yes shocking, but true. A .tv domain sold on NameJet.com for just $100 less than a three letter .com sold for the day before. Interracial.TV sold for $5,000 yesterday while GGK.com a very good three letter .com fetched just $5,100 the day before. Here are the other sales from NameJet.com over $1,000 that sold this weekend that were on my list partsforsale.com … [Read more...]
ICANN Hands All Geo gTLD Extensions Over To Governments & That’s Just The Start Of The Problems
When it comes to applying for a Geographic (GEO) New gTLD, The Second draft of ICANN's Guidebook makes it pretty clear that you better either do it with the underlying jurisdiction or their blessing in writing. We all know that the government of cities of New York (.nyc), Paris (.Paris) and Berlin (.Berlin) were at the forefront of pushing from the new gTLD's to be apporved as they already have … [Read more...]