A few weeks ago, Google promised that they were gunning for content farms and today it looks that they fired the first shot. According to a post on Google's blog: "In the last day or so we launched a pretty big algorithmic improvement to our ranking—a change that noticeably impacts 11.8% of our queries—and we wanted to let people know what’s going on." "This update is designed to … [Read more...]
Archives for February 2011
As Predicted ICANN Moves June Meeting To Singapore
We heard a rumor a weeks ago that ICANN was going to cancel the June Meeting scheduled for Jordan to Singapore and wrote about it back on Feburary 17th ICANN has just made it official that the June ICANN meeting where the new gTLD's my finally be approved will be held in Singapore. The meeting will be June 19th-24th 2011. As I have wanted to fly on Singapore Air for quite a long time as … [Read more...]
Sedo Heats Up As They Sell 100K Of Domains In A Day But Just Misses On $125k More
The domain name Service.net just sold for $19,000 on Sedo tonight. In a few other auctions that just closed, the domain Oxi.com sold for 8,000 Euro's or around 12K The domain Allspice.com sold for $7,657, yes its trademarked but just since 2006. Watchlive.com sold on one bid for $15,670. Rh.net sold for an even $10K. With about 3 hours to go (as of time of publication) the domain … [Read more...]
DomainSherpa.Com: From A $60 Purchase To A $7,500 Sale: “I Want To Bring More People Into The Industry”
I have noticed over the past few days some consistent traffic coming to TheDomains.com from a new site DomainSherpa.com. DomainSherpa.com which bills its self as "The Domain Name Authority", is the brand child of Michael Cyger. The site launched in January. Mr. Cyger background in publishing. He sold his company CTQMedia.com, in 2008 when it was getting 750,000 unique monthly … [Read more...]
In A Ruling That Will Certain Please My Wife Betty Boop Is Fair Game
According to the Wall Street Journal Betty Boop is now fair game. The U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a lower court’s ruling that animator Max Fleischer doesn’t hold a valid copyright or trademark for cartoon character Betty Boop, as he was unable to prove the chain of how the rights to the character was transferred over the years. “If we ruled that Avela’s depictions of Betty … [Read more...]
7S.com Survives a UDRP Challenge But Dissenting Opinion Is An Eye Opener
A UDRP decision released today held in favor of the domain holder on the domain name 7S.com, despite that the fact that the domain holder did not even respond to the UDRP. The complainant, a German company, holds trademarks on the term "7S" A majority of the three member panel held in favor of the domain holder based substantially by the fact that he domain name was registered 2 years prior … [Read more...]
.Me To Star At Webfest Along With Founders of About.me and Word Press
The .ME Registry announced today that Montenegro will host the opening of the 2011 WebFest, Eastern Europe’s largest Internet conference. "Webfest.me runs September 22th-24th in Budva, Montenegro "World recognized speakers and experts from the region and discussions will be conducted about the use of the Internet on global and regional level, the content and business … [Read more...]