eNom, announced today the renewal of their Domain Name Services Agreement with VeriSign, under which eNom serves as the registrar for premium .tv domain names. According to VeriSign, .tv domains have experienced annual growth of over 60 percent and a doubling of new .tv domain name registrations. More than 7,000 premium .tv names are currently registered—a 40 percent increase in premium .tv … [Read more...]

First I want to wish all of you and your families a great thanksgiving, as we all have so much to be thankful for.  With so many people out of work; losing their homes, companies out of business and retirement plans wiped out, as an industry, we are very, very fortunate. I see many TV shows giving out their "Turkeys of the Year" award. Here are thedomains.com Turkeys of the Year: 1.  The … [Read more...]

In an interview with iTWire,  ICANN CEO, Paul Twomey, said that he expects ICANN to start accepting application for the new gTLD"s by mid 2009." Aside from restrictions in relation to trademarks, intellectual property rights, potentially confusing names like .kom and some character strings that will cause problems for the Internet's name servers, like .1234, Twomey said names would be allocated … [Read more...]

According to a report today in CNET.com, Google's Chrome browser has a 3.6% usage rate. Browser usage according to CNET are split up as follows: Internet Explorer 40.7% Firefox                 37.4% Safari                   18.2% Chrome                3.6% Opera                   1.2% … [Read more...]

According to CNET,  Google is going to make a major reduction in the 10,000 contractors they use: "We have 10,000, and we have had a plan in place for awhile to significantly reduce that number, This is something we've been thinking about for awhile--six or seven months. It predates the most acute phase of the (present economic) crisis." In an interview, Google co-founder Sergey Brin said … [Read more...]

For the last eight weeks I have been watching an incredible amount of advertising on Television, Print and online for the new Blackberry Storm. The ad campaign was incredibly successful. So successful that by all accounts the Storm was sold out all across America within 48 hours after its release. According to reports somewhere between 100K and 400K phones we sold in the 2 days before … [Read more...]

eMarketer, a marketing research firm is lowering its outlook for Internet advertising for the next four years. eMarketer, estimates U.S. advertisers will spend $25.7 billion on the Internet next year, about $2.7 billion, or 10 percent less, than a forecast from just three months ago. The more sobering projections extend through 2012 when eMarketer envisions $37 billion being spent on U.S. … [Read more...]