Reinvent.com a/k/a HitFarm.com is planning to launch a new domain optimization and monetization platform called Proto, next year. According to their site Proto goals are to: "Improve returns by providing better monetization through innovative optimization and precisely targeted PPC advertising; Analyze the aggregated traffic for valuable trend data to share with clients and inform R & … [Read more...]
Archives for November 2011
101Domain.com Suffers Securty Breach
101Domain.com has apparently suffered a security breach which "may have resulted in unauthorized access to your personal information and possibly payment information." According to Webhosting.info, 101domain.com has around 10,000 domain names under management. Here is the full message received by 101Domain.com customers: "We are writing to you as a primary contact on your account with … [Read more...]
Online Shopping Is Up Big This Shopping Season According to comScore, IBM & Buy.com
Three reports out today indicate that online shopping is up big so far this holiday season. comScore (NASDAQ : SCOR), reported that holiday sales season-to-date, are $9.7 billion 14% increase versus the corresponding days last year which was $8.4 Billion in sales during the same time frame. "The official comScore 2011 holiday season forecast is that online retail spending for the November – … [Read more...]
What Does A Weekend of Media Get You? In The Case Of Buy.XXX: 500,000+ Visitors
I reached out to Stuart Lawley the CEO of ICM Registry the company that operates the .XXX registry about how much response they received to the big media push this weekend. As of today over the weekend 500,000 visitors have gone to Buy.xxx, the URL used in all the TV commercials for the .XXX registry. Alexa.com is reporting the same type of results. From the chart below you can see that … [Read more...]
Another Thanksgiving & Another 131 Domain Names Seized By Homeland Security
Last year we wrote a post right after Thanksgiving entitled: "While You Were Eating You're Turkey Homeland Security Was Seizing 9 Domains". Well I could have repeated the headline today except the number would be 131 domains rather than just 9. Looks like Homeland Security is going to make domain seizures on Thanksgiving as common in the US as Turkey and Stuffing. Here are the domain … [Read more...]
Court of Justice of the European Union: “EU Cannot Order ISP’s To Prevent illegal Dowloading Of Files”
While The US is proposing laws to make all sorts of Internet providers and companies to filter and block certain content in a ruling issued by the Court of Justice of the European Union today, the court ruled that "EU law precludes the imposition of an injunction by a national court which requires an internet service provider to install a filtering system with a view to preventing the illegal … [Read more...]
Buy.XXX Media Blitz Starts Tonight
ICM Registry is starting to run a huge Media Blitz for .XXX tonight using the domain name BUY.XXX Television Ads will be running in heavy rotation starting tonight on ESPN, A&E, Comedy Central, FX, SYFY, Spike TV, Discovery, History Channel, TNT, AMC, National Geographic Channel, & Fox Sports and that seems to be just for starters. TV ads will also be starting in Germany and the … [Read more...]