France's antitrust regulator accused Google on Wednesday of a "lack of transparency" over its keyword advertising service and ordered it to clarify conditions for the product within four months. The Autorite de la Concurrence was responding to a complaint filed by a French data services company Navx in February, which alleged the world's top search engine had abused its dominant position by … [Read more...]
Afternic Launches the “Portfolio Manager” Inventory Management Tool; In Beta Sales Increased 20%
NameMedia today announced the launch of Afternic Portfolio Manager a new, easy-to-use domain distribution and inventory management tool for large portfolio owners to sell their names through the industry’s largest domain marketplace at AfternicDLS. Afternic Portfolio Manager is available immediately at no cost. “Afternic Portfolio Manager provides our customers the ability reconcile their … [Read more...]
Google Testing CPA Ads: Is This The Start Of The Switch From PPC
According to Investors.com, Google testing a CPA ads system. CPA stands for Cost Per Action, a service in which advertisers pay for ads they run on Google's network only when a consumer takes "action." Action means that the consumer makes a purchase or fills out a form or some sort of registration on an advertiser's Web site. According to the story, Google uses "software and various … [Read more...]
.XXX Lawley & Godaddy’s Parsons On Fox Business Channel Tonight As Domains Take The Spotlight
I learned that both Stuart Lawley from the ICM Registry, who got tentative approval for .XXX last week and none other than Bob Parsons from Godaddy.com will be on the same program tonight on the Fox Business Channel at 8PM EST. They both will appearing separately on a new program called "Money Rocks" Fox Business Channel can be seen on channel 359 on Directv and I assume many cable networks … [Read more...]
Tell The World HowDoYou.com & Win $10K
At the ICANN meeting, VeriSign had the cameras running to capture attendees answers to how .com changed their life. Its part of VeriSign year long celebration of the 25th anniversary of the 1st .com registration. The campaign is called, HowDoYou.com. Basically VeriSign is looking for you to tell how .com changed your life and is putting up a prizes of $10,000, $5,ooo, $2,500 plus they … [Read more...]
Sticky Points On New gTLD’s: Terrorists, Territories, & Trademark Violators Are Worse Than Child Murders
From the ICANN meeting in Brussels this week there are a few more "sticky points" that coming out of the new gTLD process. The sticky points as I call them are issues raised by commentators in the public sessions on the new gTLD's. Many of the issue surround who is disqualified from owning a gTLD. The guidebook requires a background check on all officers, directors and owners of 15% or … [Read more...]
Domaining & Time Zones: It’s Better To Be Early Than Late
In the past two months I've had the opportunity to be in a time zone 2 hours earlier than EST and in Europe which is 6 hours later than EST and I have to say without a doubt its better to be early than late. Actually I enjoyed being a couple of hours behind EST. I would get up at 8am local time which was 10am EST and worked until noon or 2pm EST, and got most of my work done. However In … [Read more...]