Canada's Competition Bureau has launched a review of a proposed search engine partnership between Yahoo and Google amid concerns the deal will lead to rising costs for Canadian companies that advertise online. In July, the U.S. Department of Justice announced it was launching its own investigation into the deal Yahoo would outsource advetising placement to Google. Some experts say the deal … [Read more...]
We Don’t Get it that They “Don’t Get It”
Over the last few years many discussions and domain show panels have been held on why non-domainers, "don't get it" when it comes to the value of domains. Last week Search Engine Strategies (SES) show and woeful domain auction demonstrate the point. Let's look at the numbers. TRAFFIC show attendees, 400-500. SES attendees 6,000. Out of the 6,000 people at the SES show there were only … [Read more...]
China Bans Issuing Domain Names (.cn) of Olympic Winners
China's sport authority has banned the issuing of Internet domain names based on the country's Olympic gold medal-winning athletes to anyone but the medalists themselves, according to the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC). The General Administration of Sport (GAS) had demanded a veto over the registration of domain names featuring the names of Chinese gold medalists, said … [Read more...]
SES: Everything But Google: Media Buyers Say Google is the Most Expensive, So Why Are We Getting Paid So Little
Today at the SES show in San Jose is a panel entitled "Everything But Google: Alternative Search Marketing Options". This is an interesting read because it is coming from the perspective of the media buyers. Interesting from the media buyers perspective, Google is the most expensive choice, but for publishers, our share of the revenue Google pays us continues to decline. Here is a … [Read more...]
Mobile SEO; Death of the .Mobi
At the Search Engine Strategies show being held in San Jose, today's topic was Death of the .Mobi. The first speaker was Dhana Pawar, Co-Founder & VP Products, Yojo Mobile who asked the question; Why is .mobi less than ideal? Her Answers: Bad for SEO (Mobile and Traditional) Splits traffic, you have to duplicate effort. Splits links Splits Index size Doesn’t benefit from … [Read more...]
Oversee.net cuts 10% of its Work force
The DomainNameNews.com has confirmed that Oversee.net has cut 10% of its work force on Friday as a money savings measure in a downturned economy. Oversee.net acquired Snapnames.com and shortly thereafter lost Network Solutions as a drop partner. Certainly the amount paid for snapnames.com included all the then previous revenue that Snap had from auctions involving Network Solution's expired … [Read more...]
If You Can Make This Kind Of Money, Why Not Sponsor a Registry?
Without a doubt the .me launch, from a purely economic point of view, has been a huge success. I added all the winning bid prices from the closed auctions and add all the current high bids on the active auctions and came up to a total of around $2 million. $2 Million dollars for the registry, not including its profit on the 50,000 or so .me domains that were registered in the first days … [Read more...]