NameJet.com who finished up with its first .Me domain auction of registry owned .me domains, is now going for its second round of auctions. The backorder deadline starts closing on July 2 through July 15th, for 151 .me registry owned domains. Don't expect to find the quality of the domains that was in the first bunch. (If you want to see the results of the first .me auctions click … [Read more...]
Archives for June 2009
It Pays To Work For ICANN, Especially In a Recession: Hey Wait, That’s My Money
George Kirikos posted tonight about the Executive Compensation being paid to some of the higher ups in ICANN and not only does he point out that some people are making big bucks working for ICANN, but actually they got some nice raises in this horrible economy. I kind of got a kick out of it for a few seconds; the only one's making more money this year than last are people working for … [Read more...]
Microsoft Goes “All In” Playing The Cheap Card
After years of battling out Apple over issues like technology, ease of use, compatibility and quality, Microsoft seems to have acceded all those issues to Apple and has gone "all in" on one point: We're Cheaper. Microsoft's new television ads, urge people to buy windows computers because they are cheaper than Apple's. Likewise, for its Zune Mp3 player, Microsoft's advertising strategy is … [Read more...]
The Power of A Great Blog: A Year Without a Post, SevenMile.com Still Gets Serious Traffic
Well its been well over a year since Frank Schilling made his last post on this blog sevenmile.com. However, his blog is still getting serious traffic and referring a ton of traffic to this blog, thedomains.com I was looking over the stats for thedomains.com the other day and its hard to believe how powerful Frank's blog continues to be. Over the last 90 days, sevenmile.com was the second … [Read more...]
Download “Free” Music? Guess Its Not Free If It Costs $80K Per Song
Outside the world of domains, but right up the alley of intellectual property, a federal court just issued a judgment against a "free" music file sharer for $1.9 million dollars or $80,000 per song. Jammie Thomas-Rasset, was found guilty of willful copyright infringement today and was ordered to pay the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) $1.9 million dollars for illegally … [Read more...]
Just Announced: Microsoft To Invest 5%-10% Of Its Income Into Search For Up To 5 Years
The CEO of Microsoft, Steve Ballmer just announced that Microsoft is willing to invest 5% to 10% of its operating income back into its search business for up to five years. "Our shareholders, I told them we were willing to spend 5 to 10 percent of operating income for up to five years in this business, and we feel like we can get an economic return". Ballmer went on to say " "We should have … [Read more...]
Bing.com Market Share Rises For 2nd Week
According to comScore, Microsoft's Bing.com search engine share rose for the second straight week. Bing.com's search share in the United States rose to 12.1% between June 8 and 12 -- up from 11.3% between June 1 and 5, and up from 9.1% during the week prior to the engine's launch. Microsoft's average daily penetration among U.S. searchers also increased by three percentage points to 16.7% … [Read more...]