The Public Interest Registry, the company that runs the .Org registry released today their first bi-annual domain name report, "The Dashboard". (pdf file) "The Dashboard" revealed that registrations for .ORG domain names grew 11%, up to 7.69 million total registrations in the first half of 2009, compared to a year ago. From January to June, .ORG's experienced the highest percentage growth … [Read more...]
ComScore: Drug Companies “Have Virtually Abandoned Search Advertising” & It’s All Because Of The Government
Maybe here is an reason why some of your PPC revenue is down. According to Adage.com, drug companies, "have virtually abandoned search ad marketing in the wake of the FDA's online ad crackdown earlier this year." The Adage.com article cites a study from ComScore, which showed that "paid search ads by pharmaceutical companies dropped 84% between March 26 of this year and the end of … [Read more...]
Yahoo’s New Program To Lower PPC Click Prices To Advertisers Can’t Be Good For Domainers
According to MediaPost.com, Yahoo has plans to issue a "variety of tools for advertisers aimed at lowering costs for paid search campaigns" On Friday Yahoo is going to announce it will allow advertisers to participate in its BOSS (Build your Own Search Engine) search program through a deal with Domain Development Corp.,(an Advertiser on This Blog). """Advertisers will bid within the same … [Read more...]
Snapnames & Moniker Partner Up With The Domain Distribution Network
Oversee.net announced today that it has partnered with Domain Distribution Network (DDN), a unit of Australia-based Dark Blue Sea to significantly expand marketplace options for aftermarket domain name buyers and sellers. The Domain Distribution Network enables registrars, resellers and portals to earn commission selling aftermarket domains from third party providers via an online, instant … [Read more...]
Hey Rick: Google Doing What Ever The Hell They Want? Nothing New Here
Rick Schwartz has been writing about how Google turned off serving ads on his minisite, a few days ago, without notice or a right to appeal. Rick asks in his 2 posts, what does that type of treatment say, for how Google feels about domainers. Well Rick, Google has been operating like this for years. Many years. Remember when Google Implemented "Smart Pricing" many years ago? At … [Read more...]
Barron’s: VeriSign’s Domain Registration/Renewal Fee To Drop To $4 A Year?
A very interesting post on the financial publication Barron's today discussing VeriSign. In touting its undervalued stock price to investors, Barron's noted that share prices of VeriSign have underperformed, compared to the stock market, and put the blame squarely on the decision Court of Appeals of in the case of CFIT vs. VeriSign. Barron's Says: """The litigation could force a rebidding … [Read more...]
Why Is Traffic From a .Com Typo OK, But Traffic From a .CM Is Not?
As you know, over the last few weeks, I have been reporting on the rollout of the .CM ccTLD, and not a post goes by, where I haven't gotten at least one, and usually several comments from domainers, to the effect that, all that the .cm extension is for, is to serve as a typo of a .com, and its only value is from misdirected traffic. So? For years I have seen .com typos and misspells, sell … [Read more...]