A UDRP has just been filed against a great generic domain name InteriorDesign.com The domain name is owned a by a P. A. Gordon of Guam, who lists as his email address getaway@getaway.com Getaway.com seems to be used as a travel site, however the domain in question goes to a Sedo parked page. The complainant is not yet listed. A quick check of the USPTO did not find a match for a … [Read more...]
Archives for October 2012
Directi Now Employees Over 1,000 People
I had a chance to catch up with Directi at the recent conferences and found the company is growing like crazy and adding jobs. The company recently broke the 1,000 employee mark. The company was founded by Divyank Turakhia & Bhavin Turakhia and according to the company they have over 7 million domain names in their system through one or more of their companies. Directi owns the … [Read more...]
Google: Improving News Search with Expandable Results
Google just announced some new features to its news search according to its blog: ""Last year we updated Google News to make it easier for you to scan for stories that are interesting to you and let you dig deeper when you find them. Today we’re announcing an update that brings some of those same ideas to news search. Over the next few days we’ll be rolling out the following … [Read more...]
Yahoo Beats Estimates & Shares Rise Almost 5% After Hours
Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) reported results for the quarter ended September 30, 2012 after the market closed today Yahoo beat analysts' expectations revenue in the three months ended in September rose 2% to $1.09 billion, yielding EPS of 35 cents. Analysts on averaged had been expecting $1.08 billion and 26 cents a share. Display revenue was flat, year over year, at $452 million, while … [Read more...]
Ancestry.com Sold for $1.6 Billion Dollars
Ancestry.com, the publicly traded online genealogy site, is being purchased by Permira, a European private equity firm, for $1.6 billion. The purchase price of $32 a share is a 9.7% premium from Friday's closing price. Shares were up 7.9% in premarket trading on the news. The purchase price is a 41% premium from its closing on June 5 Ancestry.com went public in 2009 and is 15 years … [Read more...]
Walmart Picks A .Co For Its New Store, Goodies.Co & No It Doesn’t Own the Matching .Com
Walmart Stores, a division of Walmart (WMT) has just launched a new shopping site at Goodies.co. And no Walmart doesn't own the Matching .Com. The store which launched in "Exclusive Beta" this week, has unique product offering. Sign up for $7 a month and you get samples of new food products, you participate in surveys which earns you points to buy full sized versions of the product you … [Read more...]
After TRAFFIC & ICANN Conference Our Winner For Best Swag Award Goes To: Rook Media
After attending both the TRAFFIC conference and the ICANN conference and grabbing all the free giveaways or Swag I could find (all in the interest of research) we are ready to award our Best Swag Award to: RookMedia.Net At TRAFFIC all those who stayed at the conference hotel got an envelope slipped under their door with a very crisp $10 bill. The accompanying letter read in … [Read more...]