According to a recently released study by IDC, , Internet advertising revenue will double from $25.5 billion in 2007 to $51.1 billion in 2012. During this period Internet advertising will grow about eight times as fast as advertising at large. In this five year period the report says that The Internet will go in the next 5 years from the number 5 advertising medium all the way to the number 2, … [Read more...]
McAfee: .hk, .cn and .info most dangerous domain extensions
Antivirus software vendor McAfee published a report today found the most dangerous domains to navigate to are “.hk” (Hong Kong), “.cn” (China) and “.info Of all “.hk” sites McAfee tested, it flagged 19.2 percent as dangerous or potentially dangerous to visitors; it flagged 11.8 percent of “.cn” sites and 11.7 percent of “.info”. A little more than 5 percent of the sites under the “.com” … [Read more...]
Report: U.S. Internet: The End of the Beginning
An Internet analyst for Jeffrey Lindsay, a major Wall Street firm, published a report today entitled U.S. Internet: The End of the Beginning, stating that Google and Amazon.com will be long-term winners, while Yahoo and IAC InterActiveCorp fall by the wayside and eBay will become a merger target. Sanford C. Bernstein the author of the 310-page report says that Google and Amazon are best … [Read more...]
If Fantasy Leagues can use Famous Players names, why can’t domainers?
The Supreme Court refused to overturn a lower court ruling that fantasy sports Web sites operators had the right to use major league baseball players names and statistics without Major League Baseball or the Players permission and without compensation. The lower Court said the sites right to free speech over weighted the players and Major Leagues Baseball rights to the players names and the … [Read more...]
Careers.Org enter into Partnership with Domain Strategies
According to a press release issued today, Domain Strategies, which develops premium domains like Healthcare.com, Patents.com, Alerts.com and Wifi.com, announced a partnership with www.Careers.Org to develop the site into the next generation career development and management resource. According to Nielsen Online, career based websites garner almost 10% of the internet audience for the week … [Read more...]
Report: Apple acquires Me.com
It appears the apple.com has acquired the domain ME.com The domain is now registered at markmonitor.com and the DNS servers have been recently updated. Me.com points to the domain administrator as Apple's Ken Eddings, the same employee responsible for MobileMe.com as well as many other Apple-owned domains, including iPod.com. Apple uses markmonitor.com for most of its domains including … [Read more...]
Google: Microsoft-Yahoo Deal is a Monopoly, Google-Yahoo Is Not
Google co-founder Larry Page said Thursday the Internet search leader opposed a Microsoft-Yahoo deal because it would monopolize the online communications market, stifle innovation and curb competition. But he discounted the idea that an advertising deal between Google and Yahoo would present any potential antitrust problems. Page said a successful Microsoft-Yahoo deal would have closed "a … [Read more...]