Oversee.net has made it official announcing that the 9th Domainfest will return to Hollywood, California at the Loews Hollywood which includes three full days of sessions. Early registration is now open with a price of $695. Onsite registration will be $1,495 Rooms are as low as $249 a night. "This year is proving to be the most impressive line-up of content, speakers and networking … [Read more...]
Tube.xxx and Tubes.xxx Sold for $750,000
ICM Registry the operator of the .XXX Top Level Domain announced today that they have sold the domain names Tube.xxx and Tubes.xxx for $750,000 cash. The buyer of the domains, is the same company which has bought many of ICM's highest .XXX domain sales; Really Useful, whose chairman JT is was a founding member of YouPorn.com. Some of the other premium .XXX domains acquired by Really Useful … [Read more...]
Cobb International Of South Africa; Guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking
Cobb International (Pty) Limited of Wynberg, Sandton, South Africa, represented by DM Kisch Inc., South Africa. has been found Guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH) on the domain names cobbamerica.com and cobbq.com The Complainant contends that the Domain Names are identical or confusingly similar to the Complainant’s registered trade marks, that the Respondent has no rights or … [Read more...]
WSJ: There Real End Users Looks Forward To Moving Their URL To A New gTLD
The Wall Street Journal has become the another major publication to publish a story about the launch of the new gTLD program and has actually talked to some real people, small business owners who are looking forward to registering a new gTLD to replace their longer .com The Story is entitled "Sell Bike's? There's a Web Domain For That" "The World Wide Web is about to get a lot … [Read more...]
Building Your Business on Google +
If you have been looking to improve you Google + account and use it for your business. I know a lot of people don't love Google + but there are some who have been looking to get more active. Google + has made it available now to get custom urls instread of that ugly long string of numbers. You can see how to do that here. Plus Your Business is a site that is providing free training courses … [Read more...]
Now the Makers of Candy Crush Saga Want to trademark the word Saga
On Monday we wrote about King Studios and their trademarking of the word Candy. The company seemed to be going out and trying to enforce the mark even though its still open for opposition at the USPTO. King also received a trademark for Candy in Europe as well. In article out today on Complex.com Hanuman Welch writes that King seems to be looking to protect the word "Saga" The author brings … [Read more...]
Harvard Business School Study: Display Ads Drive Search Clicks After Two Weeks
Greg Sterling wrote an article on Search Engine Land today that related to a study showing display ads drive search clicks with a delayed effect. The study was conducted by Harvard and Ozyegin University researchers. Ozyegin is located in Turkey. From the article: The conclusions and insights are useful, however, and can be boiled down to the following: Display advertising does indeed … [Read more...]