Barry Schwartz wrote a piece on Search Engine Roundtable about Google penalties following to a new website. So we know that if you have a penalty on your site and you move your site to a new domain and redirect the URLs to that new domain, the penalty will flow because of the redirects. That is known. What I did not know is that if you took your site and moved it to a new domain but did not … [Read more...]
Archives for February 2014
Minds+Machines Wins Private Auction For .Wedding Loses .Green Costing a Net of Over $2.3M
Top Level Domain Holdings Limited (LON:TLDH) said on Tuesday it has won won the private auction for the new gTLD .Wedding and lost the auction for .Green The net cost of securing .Wedding after losing .Green was $2,321,300.00 The figure quoted includes funds it will receive from its unsuccessful participation in the auction of the .GREEN domain name as well as a rebate from ICANN for its … [Read more...]
Ga.Me Launches “Revolutionizing The Way People Play & Develop Games”
According to a press release out this morning by the .ME Registry the site Ga.ME, a product that is revolutionizing the way people play and develop games launched today. Developed by Turbulenz Limited in Guildford, UK, Ga.ME is the first unified online game platform and social network capable of delivering console quality games across desktop, mobile and tablet devices. In addition to a … [Read more...]
Mt.Gox Goes Offline, Gox.com is sold and some interesting documents show up
While reading MattVukas.com tonight Matt mentioned that there was a blogger that was posting some interesting stuff. From the article: But tonight, we may have received the final chapter of Mt. Gox’s last saga, courtesy of a Bitcoin blogger known as “The Two-Bit Idiot”. He posted a chillingly titled entry earlier today titled “Bitcoin’s Apocalyptic Moment: Mt. Gox may have lost 750,000 bitcoins”, … [Read more...]
Godaddy Is Not Bringing .Sexy Back; Nor Are 9 Of The Top 10 Registrars
Tomorrow Frank Schilling's Uniregistry is launching their first 2 new gTLD extensions .Sexy and .Tattoo however if you want to register one you won't be able to do it at Godaddy.com Godaddy.com is not carrying Uniregistry strings at the moment, nor is NetworkSolutions.com or Register.com which are part of Web.com (WWWW) or 1and1.com or UnitedDomains.com which are part of the same parent company … [Read more...]
RightoftheDot.com Resolves Contention On New gTLD .One In Single Sealed Bid Auction
RightOfTheDot™, LLC, one of the most well-known domain industry auction Internet consulting and advisement firms, announced today that they and their partner Escrow.com, have facilitated the contention set auction of the new gTLD Web address “.One,” which is expected to be one of the most sought-after new TLD (Top Level Domain) properties on the Internet. The winning bidder for the new … [Read more...]
Web.com (Netsol & Register.com) Join Sedo’s MLS
Sedo, and Web.com Group, Inc. (Nasdaq:WWWW) a leading provider of Internet services and online marketing solutions for small businesses, today announced a partnership that will give customers access to more than 18 million premium domain names, including those under new Internet domain extensions being launched this year. By joining Sedo’s multi-listing Service, SedoMLS, customers of Network … [Read more...]