Juliette Garside wrote a piece for The Guardian today that Google will restrict search terms to a link to a Wikipedia article under the right to be forgotten law. Jimmy Wales founder of Wikipedia said, "You do not have a right to use the law to prevent Wikipedia editors from writing truthful information, nor do you have a right to use the law to prevent Google from publishing truthful information. … [Read more...]
Archives for 2014
Victoria’s Secret Loses Trademark Battle for Pink in the U.K.
The Pink brand of Victoria's Secret is everywhere in the U.S., the local mall I go to has a Victoria's Secret and even when traffic was down and stores closing up, the Victoria's Secret store was always packed. During the 2008 financial crisis the gourmet popcorn store closed, the bookstore closed but there was a brisk business for underwear. The Pink brand was launched in 2004 and has been a … [Read more...]
ICANN 54 To Be Held In Dublin in Fall of 2015 & ICANN Board Members To Get $45K
The ICANN Board selected Dublin, Ireland as the location of the ICANN 2015 Public Meeting from 18-22 October 2015 This meeting with be ICANN 54. There are plenty of companies in the domain space that have offices in Dublin which offers some big tax advantage over countries like the US including; Afilias Rightside Registry Starting Dot Minds & Machines Dot Global TLD … [Read more...]
.Mail Gets Added To .Home and .Corp As Strings Killed Off By Collision
According to a resolution of the ICANN Board the .Mail has joined .Home and .Corp as extension that will not be delegated as part of the collision report. .Mail was basically killed off as part of the "ICANN NAME COLLISION OCCURRENCE MANAGEMENT FRAMEWORK" which is putting into place a plan which will start the process of freeing up domain names on the Collision list: "Registry Operators will … [Read more...]
Fadi Chehadé Gets Two Year Extension & 12.5% Pay Raise From ICANN
The contract of President and Chief Executive Officer Fadi Chehadé has been extended by ICANN for two more years. Chehadé’s base salary will increase by 12.5 percent. Faidi contract with ICANN now expires 30 June 2017. The Board resolution said, “The decision to increase Mr. Chehadé’s compensation was done with recognition and acknowledgment of the work done by the Compensation Committee … [Read more...]
Go Daddy Growing Up
Tony Stewart pranks Danica Patrick in new Go Daddy Ad Go Daddy put out a new ad and uploaded it to You Tube a couple days ago. Media Bistro wrote about the ad and gave mention to an interview on Ad Week by Go DaddyCMO Barb Rechterman from last year on the company growing up and changing their ad strategy. “This commercial marks another milestone in our brand evolution. The ad definitely uses … [Read more...]
Network Solutions Parent Web.com Down 25 % Today & Close To 40% From June
Web.com (WWWW) is down big today after missing their revenue numbers for the second quarter. As of publication with about 40 minutes of trading left, Shares of Web.com are trading at $20 even down 6.55 after hitting an intraday, 52 week low of $19.37. Web.com acquired Snapnames back in May, and they own two of the top ten domain registrars Register.com and Network Solutions. The stock was … [Read more...]