According to reports, the volume of junk e-mail sent worldwide dropped drastically today after a Web hosting firm identified by the computer security community as a major host of organizations allegedly engaged in spam activity was taken offline. The company, McColo Corp is located in a 30 story office tower in downtown San Jose, Calif. Security experts have found that McColo is home to servers … [Read more...]

Enom just announced a new service for domain names called the "Business Listing Service" for $20 per year, per domain. According to their announcement: """"Enom.com says Business Listing service is an incredibly easy and cost-effective way for you to increase your online visibility and boost website traffic Use the power of your domain and enhance your domain registration information, … [Read more...]

Google released today what is calls The Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide (pdf file), a 22 page document. According to Google: """""Our Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide covers around a dozen common areas that webmasters might consider optimizing. We felt that these areas (like improving title and description meta tags, URL structure, site navigation, content creation, … [Read more...]

Shares of Google closed today under $300 a share for the first time since October 2005,, effectively wiping out 3 years of profits. Shares hit an interday low of $287.86 before closing at $291. Shares have been battered this week as analysts predict slower revenue growth for the fourth quarter amid signs that Internet users are growing less likely to click on advertising links, Google's main … [Read more...]

Last week we wrote a post on what our predictions were for the President elect Obama's administration as it relates to the domain industry. One of our predictions was that the new administration would let ICANN go from US control. Today a The Australian IT published an article,  already putting the pressure on the new administration to give up control of ICANN. Australian IT is a widely … [Read more...]

At the start of trading this morning Google hit a new 52 week low. The previous low was $308.70 and shares have already traded as low as $301.80 today. Just a couple of weeks ago, after releasing earnings, Google traded as high as $385. Baidu.com is only $3 from hitting its 52 week low currently at $192.55 share. It's 52 week low is $189.52. … [Read more...]

Tech Crunch is reporting today that the domain name Alice.com was sold for $250,000 (Tech Crunch calls that a "fair price") and belongs to a couple of entrepreneurs who have already started and sold 3 business in the last 10 years. A total of $4.3 million has been raised to start his new venture. """Alice.com will be an open, online retail platform for consumer packaged goods, focused … [Read more...]