Flickr.com is of course the huge photo sharing site owned by Yahoo. However, Yahoo does not own the .com for the proper spelling of the word, which is Flicker.com Flicker.com, in a pretty rare move, recently posted it traffic stats on its home page along with click through rates and the stats are pretty impressive. According to Flicker.com "by the numbers", they receive: Unique … [Read more...]
Archives for June 2009
AdSense For Mobile Apps Launches Today
According to reports Google unveil a beta version of AdSense for Mobile Applications yesterday which allows companies that develop mobile applications that run on devices like Apple's iPhone and Google's Android system. AdSense for Mobile Applications allows developers to integrate AdSense network ads into their mobile applications and to allow advertisers to bid for placement in their apps. … [Read more...]
It’s Official: ICANN Wants The Proposed Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) Rules To Apply To .Com’s
Back on June 1 we told you about a new proposal by the IRT a group of trademark holders who have committee status with ICANN and their proposal for a Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) for all new gTLD's. In that post we told you that this was going to be a problem for all domains holders, including existing extensions like .com, .net and .org. Today, in a very negative article on domaining, … [Read more...]
Warning: A Brazen Phising Attack Underway Aimed at GoDaddy.com Account Holders
Just to warn everyone, there is a phishing attacked underway, aimed at Godaddy.com account holders. I received over 100 e-mail overnight purporting to be from Godaddy.com seeking you to log in to your account, however the link in the e-mail goes the domain cyber-edge.com which is unrelated to Godaddy.com. I consider this a a brazen attack, because the domain used in the phishing e-mail is … [Read more...]
NameJet.com Announces New DeadBeat Bidder & Re-Auction Policy: Is It Enough?
Back In March we posted a blog, about the problem that NameJet.com was having with non-paying bidders. Today NameJet.com announced, a tougher new policy towards deadbeat bidders (my term, not NameJet's; Namejet calls them non-paying or defaulting bidders) NameJet.com amended its TOS, regarding payment, as follows: """2. Payment For Domains. 2.1. Creating an account with us and … [Read more...]
eHelp.com Sells For $43K At NameJet.com
Just following up on our story yesterday, the domain eHelp.com sold for $42,801 and is a nice sale if its get's paid for and sticks (Toxic.com still looks like its unpaid for the 2nd time). Yesterday, a couple of other nice domains sold at NameJet.com including santabarbarajobs.com for $1,550, InformationAge.com for $2,665, moneyplanning.com for $3,412, GameMall.com for $3,780 and … [Read more...]
Group Of Registries Want ICANN Privatized & Out Of US Control
The world's regional Internet registries (RIRs) have annoucend they support the European Union's demand, proposed by European Commissioner Viviane Reding last month, for ending of the collaboration agreement between ICANN and the US Department of Commerce. The RIRs, responsible for IP address allocation within geographic regions, have put out a joint statement saying that it was time for … [Read more...]