Google released its Better Ads Report 2015 and Mike O'Brien at Clickz.com brokedown the report. It seems that Google blocked 780 million bad ads in 2015. From ClickZ: Some of the main perpetrators include: More than 12.5 million pharmaceutical ads violating Google’s healthcare policy, which doesn’t allow misleading claims or products that haven’t been approved. Scammers – more than … [Read more...]
Archives for January 2016
.Green Is Raising $3.5 Million Through CrowdFunding
DotGreen Community, Inc., the company behind the new .GREEN top level domain name, announced today in a press release we received, the launch of an Internet capital raising campaign to raise $3.5 million. The first offering, a Regulation D 506(C) Private Placement solely for accredited investors, provides an early-stage opportunity of common shares with voting rights for accredited investors … [Read more...]
All Single Character .Car Domains Are Registered: Here Are the Available .Cars
I did a quite whois check and found that all single letter .Car and single number .Car domain names are now registered. Probably not shocking to anyone but of the 40 single charter .Car domain names that have been registered, 27 were registered at Chinese registrars and 3 more appear to be owned by people in China at US registrars so 30 out of 40 are owned by Chinese domain investors. The … [Read more...]
CENTR Reports There Are 311.5 Million Domains In The World
According to a new report out today (PDF) by CENTR, which is the European country code TLD organisation, as of December 31, there are 311.5 million domain names in the world. 158.7 million domain names are Legacy TLD's including .com, .net and .org; 140.1 million are ccTLD's (country codes), 1.6 Million are IDN ccTLD's, and 10.9 Million are New gTLD's. The CENTR writes: "In absolute … [Read more...]
Report: Ad Fraud to cost advertisers $7.2 Billion in 2016
Mike O'Brien wrote an article on Clickz that delved into just how much ad fraud is costing companies. The article referenced a study called The 2015 Bot Baseline Report, that report concluded that advertisers will lose $7.2 billion in 2016. The report breaks things down by media buys and what percentage are bots. The article goes on to look at ways advertisers can fight ad fraud. From the … [Read more...]
Live Tweeting During NameJet.com Extended Auction from Namescon
Just a quick note that I will be Tweeting some bidding and auction results in real-time on our Twitter feed which is @thedomains We already pointed out all the domain names that have met reserve and will sell today over the last couple of hours, please check us out. … [Read more...]
1st Day New gTLD Totals: .Family; .Feedback
Earlier today we wrote about .Car, .Cars and .Auto which ended its first day of general availability with around 650 domain registrations. Two other new gTLD's launched yesterday Rightside (NAME) .Family and Jay Westerdal's .Feedback. .Family domain names ended the day with 3,745 domain name registrations. .Feedback currently has 438 domain registrations. A .Family registration cost … [Read more...]