Donuts filed a comment with ICANN over the ICANN Last Resort Auction Rules which were up for public comment. Unlike Google which thinks the one year period in which is would take ICANN to hold all Last Resort Auctions is too slow, and Unregistry which think the period is too quick, Donuts thinks the timing is just about right although wants applicants who agree to have a second extension period … [Read more...]
GoDaddy Expands WordPress Offerings with Managed Hosting
GoDaddy Expands WordPress Offerings with Managed Hosting Go Daddy unveiled a new WordPress offering that they announced on Thursday. From the press release they put out: GoDaddy Managed WordPress automatically updates accounts to the latest version of WordPress and ensures that a website’s plug-ins aren’t vulnerable to security attacks or wasting resources, causing a website to perform … [Read more...]
Juan Diego Calle of .CO: Want to Control Your Brand Experience? Look to Top-Level Domains
Tech Cocktail did a piece on Juan Diego Calle from .CO Registry. In the video Juan talks about his start in the Internet in 1999, that his first business went bankrupt, he talks about how he got started with .CO in 2009. He talks about building a community and the ROI on getting early adopters with credibility. He also calls .com a wasteland. From the article: With the gradual release of new … [Read more...]
Top 5 Reasons That Domainers Are Resisting The New Gtlds
Slam Strategy is an Internet strategy firm out of Australia that works with businesses and helping them with their online presence. They are out with an article today on the new gtlds and the top 5 reasons why domainers resist new gtlds. In the opening paragraph the author did note he is an avid reader of the domains, he was inspired to write the current article based on comments from right … [Read more...]
Google Removed 350 Million Bad Ads in 2013
Google is out with their bad ads advertising report for 2013. On their blog they reported: Stopping more bad ads from fewer bad sources We removed more than 350 million bad ads from our systems in 2013. To put that in perspective, if someone looked at each of these for one second, it would take them more than ten years to see them all. This was a significant increase from approximately 220 … [Read more...]
Search Marketers Playing A Virtual Game of Ping Pong
MediaPost took at look at how cost per click rates seem to be bouncing up and down. Depending on which search engine clients advertised on, resulted in very different pricing and pricing trends. From the article: Marketers in the Americas supported by Covario spent 9% more in Q4 2013 on campaigns, and 17% sequentially. Global CPC prices rose 10% compared with the year-ago quarter, but fell … [Read more...]
Bitcoin, Porn and Basketball
Porn.com and the Sacramento Kings are into Bitcoin Two Bitcoin related stories over the last day, the first from The Next Web, "Porn.com’s marketing director: ‘I definitely believe that porn will be Bitcoin’s killer app" From the article: In December, porn.com started accepting Bitcoin for its premium services, and the virtual currency quickly came to account for 10 percent of sales. At the … [Read more...]