Google announced today on its blog that is had completed its new web indexing system called Caffeine. It was last August that Google first announced it was working on this project. According to Google Caffeine provides: "50% fresher results for web searches than our last index, and it's the largest collection of web content we've offered. Whether it's a news story, a blog or a forum post, … [Read more...]
Archives for June 2010
Twitter Grabs T.Co For Its Official URL Shortener
With the auction for E.Co hitting $25K today with almost 2 days to go, Twitter.com announced today that it acquired and was going to use T.CO as its official URL shortener. The Whois shows the domain name was registered as part of .CO Internet’s Founders’ Program. T.Co now resolves to a Twitter page which says: ""Twitter uses the t.co domain as part of a service to protect users from … [Read more...]
ITIF Report: Global Economic Benefits Of The Internet $1.5 Trillion, More Than Global Sales of Medicine, Renewable Energy, & Government R&D, Combined
Included in the VeriSign 1Q 2010 Domain Name Industry Brief, is a a new study by the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF), a Washington, D.C.-based think tank. Titled "The Internet Economy 25 Years After .com: Transforming Commerce & Life," the study draws on a variety of research sources to gauge the commercial impact of the Internet, in conjunction with the 25th … [Read more...]
VeriSign Domain Name Report 1Q Is Out: 193M Domains Registrations, Up 6%: New .Com/.Net Registrations Up 10%
According to the latest Domain Name Industry Brief published by VeriSign, Inc. (pdf) the Domain Name Industry ended the first quarter of 2010 with more than 193 million domain name registrations across all of the Top Level Domain Names (TLDs), an increase of 11 million domain name registrations, or 6 percent, compared to the first quarter of 2009. Compared to the fourth quarter of 2009, domain … [Read more...]
CafeInternet.com Taken In A WIPO For “Pornosquatting”
In a three panel decision the generic domain name CafeInternet.com was transferred to the trademark holder ""The Panel determines that while no specific act of bad faith by Respondent...the Panel finds that Respondent, by providing the name of an unidentifiable business entity and misleading contact information, has taken deliberate steps to conceal its identity and make contact or … [Read more...]
Whose The Biggest Buyer Of Oil Spill Keywords On PPC? Looks Like Its BP
A couple of weeks ago I wrote a post about who owned all the Oil Spill and cleanup related domains. The next day Rick Schwartz published a post of his own, talking about some of the domains he registered related to the spill, and that they were getting traffic making money. Which got me thinking again, who was buying the keywords on PPC that was creating revenue on these domains. It … [Read more...]
ICANN Predicts 500 new gTLD Applications & A $2M Profit, but It’s Budget Is Flawed
Courtesy of our friends at Mind +Machines, it appears ICANN has based it budget on its prediction of 500 applications for new gTLD's on the initial roll out. The document showing this is ICANN’s New gTLD Program Budget. As M+M states, ICANN estimate of 500 applications doesn't take into account duplicate or conflicting applications. "If we suppose that 25% are in conflict, that would … [Read more...]