Gene McKenna wrote an interesting article on Search Engine Land, that referenced an experiment that showed up to 60 % of direct traffic was actually organic search. In testing with default browser…
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Napster.FM Hit With a UDRP by Rhapsody
A name from the past is back in the news, this time the second coming of Napster located at Napster.Fm was hit with a UDRP by online subscription service Rhapsody International, Inc….
Company that bought Mi.com for $3.6m sells 50,000 Tablets in 4 minutes
Xiaomi paid $3.6 million for the domain name Mi.com back in April, and today they sold 50,000 MiPad tablets in four minutes. The company said on their website: Good news! Mi Pad…
California Democrats and Wineries Around The Country Oppose .Wine and .Vin
Tech Crunch covered the .Wine and .Vin extensions and the resistance from politicians in California. Apparently many vineyards and wineries are fearful of someone scooping up their name in .wine and .vin….
Google’s Matt Cutt to take a break
Head of Google web spam Matt Cutts said that he is taking a break and going on leave. Matt certainly does take a lot of abuse defending the Panda and the Penguin…
Silicon Valley VC is the sole Winner of Government Bitcoin Auction
Last week the U.S. government held an auction for 30,000 bitcoins that were previously seized. Reuters is reporting that Tim Draper a well known Silicon Valley VC purchased the coins. In the…
Warning: Expired Domains Are Easy Pickings for Hackers
GroovyPost.com did a piece written by Jack Busch about his experience with an expired domain and hackers. From the article: I learned a hard lesson this week. Long story short, a spammer…