Yesterday I read many bloggers posting the news that .me registrations, had reached 250,000 registration and that .tel reached 200,000 registrations and generally the tone was that these extension had reached some sort of impressive number. However, today I have to ask is that number really that impressive? Consider last June, the registry administering the the ugly stepchild of domain … [Read more...]
Archives for May 2009
Pool: 10,000 Preorders A Day For The New gTLD’s
A month ago today, we wrote about Pool.com starting to accept back orders on possible new gTLD's. In a press release sent to many bloggers today, Pool.com claims that they have received on average over 10,000 backorder requests every day, over the 30 day period, for the new gTLD's. We need to keep in mind that there is no cost to place a backorder. Still over 300,000 backorders in a … [Read more...]
Google Releases “Bid Simulator” Tool In Beta
Google has just introduced a new beta Bid Simulator feature on selected Adwords accounts. Using data from the past seven days, the bid simulator calculates where AdWords would have placed an ad at a different maximum CPC, how many clicks an ad would have received at those simulated positions and how much those clicks would have cost. Bid Simulator can help answer questions such as “How many … [Read more...]
FCC Gets Restraining Order Agaist Yahoo & Others For Selling Ads Containing .Gov Address
The Federal Trade Commission (FCC) went to federal court yesterday and got a restraining order against Yahoo, MSN, AllTheWeb, and Altavista to prevent the search engines from allowing advertisers from using a government URL in sponsored search results. Apparently certain advertisers were buying sponsored links on the search results pages appearing to lead to the US government’s official site … [Read more...]
Why Would Anyone Pay $69 To Own Real–Estate.net?
Going through the Namejet's backorder list for today I found this gem; Real--Estate.net. A domain with not just one, but two hyphens in and a .net to top it off. I checked Alexa and compete to see if the domain had any traffic but it seems to have none. Some other domains not to be missed are: kinhdoanh.net, iacciamman.com, and gkapllani.com just to name a few. Everyday I see over … [Read more...]
NameJet.com Responds
Yesterday we posted about Toxic.com, and several other domains, that had come back into auction at NameJet.com, due to non-paying bidders and the problem that this situation creates. Today Steve Brown, General Manager of NameJet.com, responded to that post as follows: """We’ve been taking a harder stance against non-paying customers excluding those with non-payment issues from participating … [Read more...]
Our SnapNames Picks: May 18 Edition
Here are our picks for domains currently available for backorder at Snapnames.com. To backorder just click on the … [Read more...]