My first ICANN meeting ended with one of the GNSO Committee members calling for an end of the cycle of Guidebooks, comment periods and revised Guidebooks for the new gTLD's stating: "This will be an endless process if it keeps going as it has been going" said GNSO member Andrei Kolesnikov Calling the 4th Version of the Guidebook, "a beautiful document", he urged ICANN to simply approve the … [Read more...]
Sedo.com’s Contract Protects Sedo, But Not Sellers Or Buyers
Almost 2 months ago I won an auction at Sedo for TrademarkLawyer.com for just under $10K. This was one of 7 legal domains one seller put up for auction. The total winning bids for the 7 domains totaled almost $200K. (You can read the entire story here). Shortly after the auction ended the Seller notified Sedo that he was not going to transfer the domains. After a cure period of 30 days Sedo … [Read more...]
Job.Com Says 50% Of Its Visitors Come From Direct Navigation (Type In Traffic)
The owner and CEO of Job.com, Brian Alden, was interviewed by Fredericksburg.com, and a couple of very interesting items came to light. For one the owner says that 50% of the 8 million monthly visitors come to the site simply by them typing the domain into the browser. Good old direct navigation which the search engines want us to believe is all but dead. "About half of the site's roughly … [Read more...]
MAGNAGLOBAL: Online Advertising To Grow 11% A Year Through 2015
According to MAGNAGLOBAL, a media forecasting company, global online advertising will rise by 12.4% during 2010, to $61.0 billion dollars. In 2010, Paid Search will account for $29.8 billion of that $61 Billion, up by 16.5% over 2009. MAGNAGLOBAL says over the next five years, online advertising is expected to by an average rate of 11.0% through 2015. So by 2015 online advertising will … [Read more...]
NeuStar’s Alternative DNS Service Is Blocking Parked Domains
Quite a few people are using alternative DNS services, like Google DNS (I use Google DNS) to navigate the internet. However as pointed out by one reader to TheDomains.com, one of the alternative DNS services is now blocking parked pages. Most troubling the service, dnsadvantage.com is owned by Neustar, which provides registry services for .biz, .us, kids.us, .cn, .tw, .travel, .tel … [Read more...]
Well I’m Off To My First ICANN Meeting
Well some 13 years after I registered my first domain, I'm heading off to my first ICANN meeting. I'm really not sure what to expect, but we are off to Brussels. If you have attended a show in the past, please feel free to give me some tips or pointers. This show looks like an very important one with the new gTLD's and all the ancillary issues in play. The Guidebook V4 just came out … [Read more...]
Here’s Some Good Advice: Let Go, Your Lego Domains
One thing I've noticed watching the daily WIPO decisions as they come down, every week seems to bring another case involving "Lego". So I did some research and found it wasn't my imagination. So far in 2010 there have been 69 cases filed according to UDRPSearch.com, by the toymaker. and this is just the middle of June. From 2009 to date there have been over 100 cases filed by the … [Read more...]