LogicBoxes announced today that it is launching the Domainer Accreditation Program, a new initiative targeted exclusively at large domain name portfolio owners. The program is designed to educate domain buyers of the many risk mitigation benefits that an ICANN accreditation has to offer them, and subsequently helping to obtain and manage their own ICANN accredited registrar. "We've recently … [Read more...]

According to a story in the Wall Street Journal Microsoft says it will publish evidence in the coming week that proves display ads are actually better than searches when it comes to get consumers to take auction. The question is what leads consumers to take action on the Web.  Either to buying something, or do something like printing a coupon. The research concludes that by the time … [Read more...]

U.S. Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson, today called for "further, decisive action to fundamentally and comprehensively address the root cause of our financial system's stresses," adding that hundreds of billions of dollars may be needed to fix the problems. Hundreds of Billions more? On top of the Fannie and Freddy bailout, the "loans" to AIG. Where is this money going to come from when … [Read more...]

Having been in New York, all week, though this very shaky stock market, I can report that life goes on in New York. The kids are still playing in central park. The Dogs are still sniffing each other's butts. The Met's still look like they are going to fold again in September. On Wednesday the day of the second 400+ drop in the Dow this week, Gordon Ramsey restaurant at the London Hotel … [Read more...]

Rick Latona has now published the domain to be auctioned off in the New York TRAFFIC auction with the reserve prices. Here is the complete list: BroadwayShows.com - Reserve: 1,000,000 USD to 1,500,000 USD GolfClubs.com - Reserve: 2,000,000 USD to 2,500,000 USD CR.com - Reserve: 300,000 USD to 400,000 USD CatFood.com - Reserve: 75,000 USD to 100,000 USD 423.com - Reserve: 20,000 USD to … [Read more...]

According to ComScore Inc., Google accounted for 63 percent of searches by U.S. surfers in August, up from 61.9 percent in July and 56.5 percent in August last year. The increase came at the expense of the second- and third-largest players in the market, Yahoo Inc. and Microsoft Corp. Yahoo's share fell to 19.6 percent from 20.5 percent in July and 23.3 percent a year ago. Microsoft's … [Read more...]

Moniker announced today the domains that will auctioned on the opening night of TRAFFIC to be held Opening Night Tuesday, September 23 at 7:30 p.m. ET. I believe this was originally suppose to be an Auction of only Rick Schwartz domains.  It looks like it has been opened up to include other domains as well, although many of them are owned by Rick. These are the domain with the actual reserve … [Read more...]