Three companies from the domain name industry have been Nominated for the Eco Internet Awards The Association of the German Internet Industry which honors the most innovative Internet solutions announced that three German companies have been nominated for the awarded given by eco – Association of the German Internet Industry in the Domains & DNS category. The Award winner will be … [Read more...]
Archives for May 2013
Sedo To Hold Auction Of Registry Owned .Info Domain Names
Sedo, announced today that it would be holding an auction of 100 registry owned "premium" .INFO domain names that will run from May 29 through June 4, 2013. All domain names in the auction will have reserve prices that start at $99 USD "The auction will bring more than 100 premium .INFO domains to market, including geographical names and strong keywords in German, English and … [Read more...]
Domain Name Registrations Indicate Emirates Airlines Is Getting Into The Private Jet Business
Emirates Airlines is regarded by many to be amongst the top airlines in the world especially as a kluxury airlines offering exceptional business and first class. According to some domain name registrations yesterday it seems the Emirates soon be getting into the private jet/charter business as well. Here are some domain that Emirates registered yesterday through brand protection company … [Read more...]
ICANN Orders Further Study On Dotless Domains
ICANN announced last night they were authorizing further study into dotless domains. Google recently announced that they were changing their application for .Search to an open rather than closed registry and they want to operate the registry as a Dotless Domains. Here is the announcement: "On 23 February 2012, the SSAC published the SAC 053: SSAC Report on Dotless Domains. A domain name … [Read more...]
Alabama Moves Its Official Travel Site From AlabamaTravel.org/.Gov to Alabama.Travel
The state of Alabama has become the latest jurisdiction to move its official travel site to a .Travel domain name. I was at a movie last night and saw an ad for Alabama.Travel and today I checked and it appears the state has moved their official travel site from Alabama.gov to Alabama.travel Alabama becomes the latest in a what is becoming a trend for official travel sites switching over to … [Read more...]
Ad Execs: Online Videos Ads More Effective Than TV Ads & Are Fastest Growing
According emarketer.com a March 2013 survey of US advertising agency executives conducted by online video ad platform BrightRoll found that the vast majority of respondents (75%) said online video ads were equally or more effective than traditional TV. Nine out of 10 also thought online video ads had equal or greater impact than display ads. eMarketer estimates that video ad … [Read more...]
It’s Official, You Could Have Doubled Your Money This Year Buying Marchex
Share of Marchex have been on a tear of late up over 50% in the last month and over 100% in the past year and have hit a new 52 week high today of $6.30 As of publications shares of Marchex are trading at $6.30 up over 6% on the day. A month ago on April 29th, shares were trading at $4.08 a share meaning that shares of Marchex are trading more than 50% higher than just one month ago. The … [Read more...]