TechCruch.com is reporting that Amazon.com, as part of its acquisition of Zappos.com, is getting the domain Clothes.com thrown in. Amazon agreed to buy Zappos.com for $847 Million in cash and stock a couple of weeks ago. According to TechCrunch, the domain name, clothes.com was purchased by Zappos.com, from IdealLab.com for $4.9 Million in 2008. The article points out had that domain … [Read more...]
LA Times: Domaining is “Shady”
Out of the news yesterday, of the first ever arrest of a person for domain theft, came this gem from the LATimes.com: ""In a strange series of events befitting the shady world of domain name speculation, New Jersey state police arrested a man on suspicion of stealing the rights to p2p.com and selling them to Los Angeles Clipper forward Mark Madsen"" I'm not going to rehash the story of … [Read more...]
Plenty Of Opinions On Yahoo-Microsoft
Seems like everyone has an opinion on the Yahoo-Microsoft deal. Here are some stories you might want to check out: New York Times. The CEO Of Microsoft is surprised at the stock market's reaction to the deal. The CEO of Microsoft says the market undervalues the deal to Yahoo Google VP: Deal May Hurt Competition TheStreet.com: "Microsoft get's the milk without having to buy the … [Read more...]
Front Running On Proposed g’TLD’s: Companies Are Getting Trademarks On g’TLD’s
You need to check out a very interest article just published by Michael Palage, who is an adjunct Fellow with The Progress & Freedom Foundation, entitled "New gTLDs: Let the Gaming Begin, Part I: TLD Front Running" The article talks about how certain companies, which are prospective g'TLD applicants, have already filed trademark applications associated with generic TLD strings such as … [Read more...]
Google Launches “Create Your Own Profile” Service: Is This Death For .Tel?
Google has launched its own "create your own profile" service pretty much along the lines of what the .Tel extension is suppose to be for. If your logged into your gmail account and Google yourself, you will be prompted to fill in your all your contact info, which others can then use to find or contact you. A friend pointed this out to me yesterday in congratulating me on the DnJournal … [Read more...]
Done Deal: Yahoo Gives Microsoft Its Search Business
Well its finally a done deal. After turning down $44 Billion from Microsoft last year for their company and after reportedly turning down Billions from Microsoft for just its search business, Yahoo finally made a deal with Microsoft for control of its search business. The final price: Zero. Not a dime upfront, nor a dime guaranteed. Certainly not the "boatloads of money" CEO Carol … [Read more...]
New Study: Bing.com Ads More Likely To Clicked Than Google Ads
A study by the search advertising network Chitika , says that people who land on sites from organic search results are 55% more likely to click on an ad from Bing.com than on Google. Analyzing click-through rates from 32 million ad impressions across a network of more than 50,000 sites during seven days in July, Chitika found that Bing users clicked on ads 1.5% on average, compared with 0.97 … [Read more...]