According to several reports the blog TechCrunch has sold to AOL for "only" $25 Million. TechCrunch has become a go to source for ground breaking internet news, and we hope that continues somehow despite the apparent sale to a huge mainstream media company. … [Read more...]
Archives for September 2010
Now That TRAFFIC Has Announced A Show For 2011, Whose Going To Run The Auctions?
The TRAFFIC show organizers announced yesterday that its going to hold its first show of 2011 right before the ICANN show in March in San Francisco. Now the questions becomes who is going to run the domain name auctions for them. I have checked with the show organizers and they confirmed that they don't have a contract with anyone to run the auctions for them next year. There are … [Read more...]
Here We Go Again: The 1st Quarter of 2011 Shaping Up To Be A Busy Conference Schedule
Just a little over a week ago RickLatona.com announced he was canceling the TRAFFIC Hong Kong show due in large part to the number of domain shows this year: "The simple fact of the matter is that we are in a cottage industry." "The domain world is small and it can’t sustain so many companies fighting over attendees. So, I’ll bow out." So its interesting that 2011 is already setting up … [Read more...]
Is FaceBook A Domain Killer? AdAge Says Yes
A new article by Adage.com asks the question that we have asked in the past, which is whether Facebook is a domain killer. According to Adage, several big brands' Facebook Pages are seeing more activity than their websites. "For example, Kraft Foods' Oreo is the number 3 brand page on Facebook, with a fan base of over 10.1 million growing at a rate of 71,000 new fans each a … [Read more...]
ICANN Coming To America With $2M To Spend in March 2011
ICANN Just announced today that it will be holding its next meeting after Colombia in December 2010, in San Francisco in March 2011. According to the announcement ICANN will have a budget of just short of $2 Million to spend on the March meeting: ""Resolved the Board approves San Francisco, California as the location of the ICANN 2011 North America Meeting to be held from 13-18 March 2011, … [Read more...]
Moniker & SnapNames.com Redesigned Sites To Launch Monday: Here is Your Sneak Preview
Both Moniker.com and SnapNames.com are going to launch redesigned sites on Monday afternoon and we got a sneak peak. Generally the sites both look a lot cleaner and more user friendly. Gone from the front pages of both sites are the banner ads for other products including domain auctions, domain shows which I thought garbaged up the sites quite a bit. Replacing those ads both sites … [Read more...]
Another Generic Taken In A WIPO: AfricaTours.Fr
A One person WIPO Panel awarded the domain AfricaTours.FR to the trademark holder of this very generic term. The facts the panel found were are follows The complainant is a tour operator who is to marketing travel online, including under the trademark Africatours In July 2010, it attempted to acquire the disputed domain name africatours.fr. and following an exchange of emails, the … [Read more...]