The .Co.Com registry just announced on their blog, that they were dropping "tens of thousands" premium domains from their reserved list and placing them into availability where they can be immediately registered in the Landrush period. The .Co.Com registry furnished this list (excel) of over 23K formally reserved premium domain names with Google Searches Per Month, Google … [Read more...]
Google Basically Shutting Down Adwords On Adult Starting Later This Month
Xbiz.com is reporting that Google has sent out letters to adult content marketers warning that they are greatly limiting their ability to advertise on Google AdWords. Starting later this month they are basically shutting down Adwords advertising for adult sites. “Beginning in the coming weeks, we’ll no longer accept ads that promote graphic depictions of sexual acts including, but not limited to, … [Read more...]
Brand Protection Fail!: 25 More Trademarked Domains Drop Including MicrosoftSoftware.com
As we go through Drop lists of domain name in an attempt to acquire some of them, we typically see a good number of what appear to be trademark infringing domain names. As usual we do not point out typo's but mostly domain names that seem to be right in the wheel house of a trademark holders. Trademark holders have been complaining (and rightly so) about the cost of defensive registrations … [Read more...]
Google Says Keywords In Domain Are Not Needed To Be Successful
Barry Schwartz on SERoundtable.com put up a quick blurb about a comment from Google's John Mueller. Mueller was apparently responding to a Google Webmaster help question on whether the user needed the keyword in their domain. You don't need your keywords in your domain name. Websites without them in there rank just fine. Instead of focusing on that specific keyword, I'd recommend spending the … [Read more...]
My Preorder For Cool.Vegas Just Got A $35,525 Bill & CoolVegas.com Is Priced at $12K
I placed a pre-order for the domain name Cool.Vegas on a landrush basis with 101domain.com a while back. I got word the other day that the domain name was placed on the reserved list of the registry and made a premium domain. So I got a bill for the difference between what I previously paid for the pre-order $234.99 and the new premium price for the domain name of $35,760.00 I have no … [Read more...]
ReturnMoi.com, the Largest Lost & Found Co In The World Switches To Return.Me
According to a press release out this morning by the .Me registry, the largest Lost & Found Company in the World has switched their domain name from ReturnMoi.com to Return.Me "ReturnMoi was our original company name." "Due to our international success and growth we decided this year to change our name to ReturnMe. "After looking at many domain name options and setting up a focus … [Read more...]
NameCoin Wants You To Forget About The New gTLDs and get Decentralized
Namecoin is a crypto currency that acts as a decentralized domain name system. They released a video yesterday that does a nice job giving the quick facts behind the ideology. NameCoins end in .bit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMgbcXHX0xM … [Read more...]