According to a 20 month study conducted by SolveMedia.com 10% of all Internet Traffic is generated from Bots. Based on those numbers the company found that $1.5 Billion dollars in online advertising is wasted generated by Bots. "eMarketer predicts online display ad spend will reach $15.3 billion globally in 2012, which means that potentially $1.5 billion in ads will be served to … [Read more...]
Archives for September 2012
The CEO Of Name Media Chats About NameFind & The New Afternic & How it Compares To Sedo
I had a chance to chat Kelly Conlin the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Name Media last week about the "new Afternic", its new NameFind.com product and how its DLS compares to Sedo.com and its MLS product "Afternic.com is all about broadening the market for the purchase and sale of domain names" "We are concentrating on increasing our distribution market. We have assembled a … [Read more...]
Search.XXX On The 2nd Day: 344,000 Visitors, 2M Page Views, Since Launch: 677K Visitors, 3.6 Million Page Views
On The second day after the launch of Search.XXX according to ICM Registry the operator of the .XXX TLD, the site has logged over 344,000 unique visitors with almost 2M page views. After two days 677,000 Unique visitors and 3.6 Million Page views. Maybe the most impressive stats on the second day is how long surfers are spending on the site. As you can see from the chart below the average … [Read more...]
ANA Warns Commerce Department About “Top-Level Domain Tsunami”
According to marketingvox.com, The Association of National Advertisers (ANA) urged the US Department of Commerce (DOC) to work within the Internet stakeholder processes of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to advocate for a "Do Not Sell registry" at the upcoming ICANN Board meeting next month in Toronto. The letter went on to note that "it would be a disaster for … [Read more...]
.Com/.Net Total Registrations Slows To A Crawl
According to Verisign's Zone File Information site the total amount of .com/.net registered as of today is 119,700,000 million As of March 31st the amount of .com/.net domains stood at 116.7 million domain names. As of the March Verisign State of the Domain Report ".com/.net registrations grew 8.1 % over the first quarter of 2011" or 8.9 million during the first quarter of 2012" So we … [Read more...]
Goog Grief: UDRP Filed On Grief.Net and Grief-Recovery.com
A UDRP has just been filed against the generic terms Grief.net and Grief-Recovery.com. The two domains are owned by the Grief Recovery Institute of California Grief.com goes to a site offering a Grief Recovery Program while Grief-Recovery.com seem to go a page reported as have malware or other issues found to be not sale by the browsers. In any event but terms are highly generic and of … [Read more...]
Buy.me Sells For $150K on Sedo.com; Bought In 2008 For $17,500
Buy.Me just sold on Sedo for 115,000 Euro's or almost $150,000 Its another great verb.me domain and a nice price. .Me continues to be a highly brandable domain especially with a great verb in front of it The buyer according to the whois record is a Denis Antsiferov of Russia. The domain sold in the Moniker.com TRAFFIC auction in 2008 by the .Me registry for $17,500. It was the same … [Read more...]