According to the inquisitr.com, an Australian governmental committee is proposing a whole set of new rules on internet users, domain owners, and registrars. """The Hackers, Fraudsters and Botnets: Tackling the Problem of Cyber Crime report from the House Standing Committee on Communications Inquiry into Cyber crime makes 34 different recommendations"" Recommendation 20 of the bill states … [Read more...]
Archives for June 2010
ICANN Day 2: The Heat Is Turned Up On Registrars : How Much Will This Cost Us?
At ICANN today the hot discussion centered around registrars, and the roll law enforcement wants to place on them to curb illegal activity on the net. The bottom line is that if law enforcement gets their way, registrars are going to have a lot more obligations and therefore a lot more costs and guess whose going to foot the bill You The domain registrants. In attendance today were … [Read more...]
Our Picks From The Extended Auction From TRAFFIC Vancouver Ending Tomorrow
The RickLatona.com Extended domain auction from the TRAFFIC Vancouver Show closes tomorrow on Tuesday June 22nd at 6pm EST. All of the unsold domains from the live auction are back. (You can see our original picks from the Live domain auction, but some of these domain have been sold). Here are our picks out of the domains that were not in the Live domain auction, those domains that had … [Read more...]
1st Report From ICANN: Looks Like The Next Version Of the gTLD Guide Book Will be The Last
My first ICANN meeting ended with one of the GNSO Committee members calling for an end of the cycle of Guidebooks, comment periods and revised Guidebooks for the new gTLD's stating: "This will be an endless process if it keeps going as it has been going" said GNSO member Andrei Kolesnikov Calling the 4th Version of the Guidebook, "a beautiful document", he urged ICANN to simply approve the … [Read more...]
Sedo.com’s Contract Protects Sedo, But Not Sellers Or Buyers
Almost 2 months ago I won an auction at Sedo for TrademarkLawyer.com for just under $10K. This was one of 7 legal domains one seller put up for auction. The total winning bids for the 7 domains totaled almost $200K. (You can read the entire story here). Shortly after the auction ended the Seller notified Sedo that he was not going to transfer the domains. After a cure period of 30 days Sedo … [Read more...]
Job.Com Says 50% Of Its Visitors Come From Direct Navigation (Type In Traffic)
The owner and CEO of Job.com, Brian Alden, was interviewed by Fredericksburg.com, and a couple of very interesting items came to light. For one the owner says that 50% of the 8 million monthly visitors come to the site simply by them typing the domain into the browser. Good old direct navigation which the search engines want us to believe is all but dead. "About half of the site's roughly … [Read more...]
MAGNAGLOBAL: Online Advertising To Grow 11% A Year Through 2015
According to MAGNAGLOBAL, a media forecasting company, global online advertising will rise by 12.4% during 2010, to $61.0 billion dollars. In 2010, Paid Search will account for $29.8 billion of that $61 Billion, up by 16.5% over 2009. MAGNAGLOBAL says over the next five years, online advertising is expected to by an average rate of 11.0% through 2015. So by 2015 online advertising will … [Read more...]