A interesting article, from the trademark holders perspective, regarding ICANN proposal for issuing an unlimited number of new domain extensions appeared in the Intellectual Property Watch blog. Trademark holders are none to happy about protecting their brands over possibly hundreds of new extensions. J. Scott Evans, former chair of ICANN’s Intellectual Property Constituency and senior legal … [Read more...]
Google Quality Score Changes Hitting All Adwords Advertisers Accounts
According to Google's Adwords Blog the changes to Google's Quality Score improvements will take effect in all advertisers' accounts over the next few days. According to the blog there are three main improvements to Quality Score: Quality Score is now more accurate they are calculated at the time of each search query. Keywords are no longer marked 'inactive for search' -- all keywords are … [Read more...]
Esitbot Starts Publishing Daily Appraisal list for NameJet.com and Drop lists
Estibot announced today that it started publishing Namejet.com and expired domain lists, pre-analyzed with a proprietary rapid bulk appraisal tool. The lists will contain all the domain names that have an appraisal above zero and will be avaliable for all Pro and Exclusive members. … [Read more...]
Newspaper Group Opposes Google-Yahoo Deal
The World Association of Newspapers (WAE) says it opposes a pending deal on advertising between Yahoo and Google. The Paris-based group wants EU and U.S. regulators to block the deal on antitrust grounds. WAN says the agreement would reduce the cost of paid search advertising and lower revenue for newspapers' and others' Web sites, which receive payment from the online giants. WAN says it … [Read more...]
Stock Market Set To Tank Today
At 7:43 a.m. ET, S&P futures were down more than 3%, and Nasdaq futures were more than 2% lower. Dow futures were 3% lower. World markets are sharply lower The UK's FTSE 100 index fell 5.18% in afternoon trade, France's Cac 40 index shed 5.3% and Germany's Dax lost 4.1%. In Asia, the key Australian share index ended down 1.8%, and in Singapore the STI dropped 3.3% to hit a two-year … [Read more...]
NewsDay.com Talks Domains
ANytime we see a mainstream pubication discuss domains, its worth a mention. Today the Newsday, the New York/Long Island newspaper discusses finding a domain for your business. They suggest businesses look for Geo targetted domains since generics are gone. They also mention buydomains.com, afternic, Godaddy.com, DomainTools.com, Dotster.com. Finally the article discusses trademarks and … [Read more...]
Greenspan: Economy in ‘Once-in-a-Century’ Crisis
Alan Greenspan said today that The credit squeeze and mortgage meltdown has brought on a "once-in-a-century" financial crisis that is likely to claim more big firms. Greenspan told ABC's "This Week" that the situation "is in the process of outstripping anything I've seen, and it still is not resolved and it still has a way to go." "Indeed, it will continue to be a corrosive force until the … [Read more...]