This is a guest post by Juan Enrique Sánchez S., President of nameaction.com who is responsible for its content. This Saturday, October 18, Nic Brazil will free more than 100.000 domains which were not renewed by their registrant and become available for registration by anyone. (It seems the registry releases domains only 2x a year). If you want to review the complete list of domains which … [Read more...]
AIG Goes Hunting and Spends Another $86K
Two weeks we reported on the ridiculous spending of AIG while asking for more government money at a resort in California. As you will recall AIG spent $440,000 on a trip for its executives just a couple of weeks after receiving $85 Billion from the Fed. Now it appears, despite the outrage from the public about the California spending orgy, AIG executives went hunting, literally. Four top … [Read more...]
MediaWeek.com: Online Display Prices Hit Year Low
MediaWeek.com reported today that online display ad prices, which have been trending downward for the past year, hit their lowest point in the third quarter of 2008. The average display ad page generated a CPM of just 27 cents during the third quarter, down five cents from the second quarter of 2008 and down 23 cents (or 46%) from the fourth quarter of 2007. "It's not surprising that it's … [Read more...]
WSJ.Com: Google Working on Settlement With Justice on Yahoo Deal
According to the Wall Street Journal, Google and Yahoo are in talks with the Justice Department in an effort to head off an antitrust challenge to their proposed advertising agreement. Although the settlement negotiations are at an early stage investigators are continuing to build a lawsuit to block the deal, worried it would give Google too much power in online advertising. In the … [Read more...]
Kentucky Decision Due Tomorrow
A Franklin County Circuit Judge is still on schedule to render his decision in a controversial case whereby the Kentucky commonwealth is looking to seize some 141 Internet gambling domain names. Judge Thomas Wingate of the Franklin Circuit Courtroom ruled last Tuesday that until he finalizes his decision, the commonwealth must leave a number of online poker and casino sites "as is", meaning … [Read more...]
Help The Industry: Submit A Domains For The ICA TRAFFIC DownUnder Auction
As part of the TRAFFIC DownUnder show next month, there will be a special domain auction with all proceeds being contributed to the ICA. These domains are to be auctioned with no reserve at the conference Gala Dinner on the 19th of November. The Internet Commerce Association (ICA), a grass roots organization formed to ensure domain services and owners are robustly represented in areas of great … [Read more...]
Cold.com to be Auctioned off for a Cool Million?
Cold.com will be auctioned in late November with a minimum acceptable bid of US$1 million, announced Patent Kinetics, LLC, an intellectual property strategy, evaluation, and brokerage company. "We anticipate exceptionally strong interest in Cold.com," said Bob Weber, Managing Director, Patent Kinetics, LLC. "Marketing, advertising, brand management, public relations professionals, and other … [Read more...]