Monthly Archives: October 2012

Mon 1st October 2012
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Our Chat With The Owner Of Urban Times On Why They Moved From a .Com To A .Co - We had a chance to chat with Charlie Hilton-Petrou who changed the domain name of his site from a .com to a .Co domain last week. We wrote about the planned move of the Urban Times which used the domain name theurbn.com and decided to switch over to urbantimes.co There were plenty of comments to the previous post, many quite negative of the move so Mr. Petrou wanted to explain his move: “”Firstly, I want to state that our company is not a large corporation, nor even a medium sized one.” “I ... read more ...
 
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SolveMedia: 10% Of All Internet TRAFFIC Is From Bots - According to a 20 month study conducted by SolveMedia.com 10% of all Internet Traffic is generated from Bots. Based on those numbers the company found that $1.5 Billion dollars in online advertising is wasted generated by Bots. “eMarketer predicts online display ad spend will reach $15.3 billion globally in 2012, which means that potentially $1.5 billion in ads will be served to bots.” “Since 2011, Solve Media has witnessed a 400 percent rise in aberrant traffic across registration, voting, ... read more ...
 
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Amazon’s Quidsi lauches Vine.com for healthy products - Quidsi’s latest generic domain store: Vine.com. I’ve scooped a number of Quidsi store openings based on generic domains they’ve bought — from Afterschool.com to Casa.com. But I missed this one: Quidsi just launched Vine.com, a store with “natural products for green living”. George Kirikos points out that the company appears to have acquired the domain name through Mark Monitor over the past few weeks. It was previously owned by a company called Vine Technology. It’s ... read more ...
 
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Print media is alive and well - I could quote Mark Twain… Last week I attended the Niche Digital Conference in Chicago for Media.net. The conference is designed primarily for print publishers who are trying to enhance their online revenues, be that from tablets, mobile, or just getting online in the first place. What I found was somewhat surprising. I live in a world where everything is online and printing a publication is deemed a waste of time and money. While that may be true when it comes ... read more ...
 
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Top 5 domain name stories of Sep 2012 - Patents, the Go Daddy outage, and the French. Here are the top five stories from Domain Name Wire last month, ranked based on page views. Go Daddy patents “announcing a domain name registration on a social website” – Go Daddy got a patent on a way to announce your latest domain name registration on a social networking web site, such as Twitter. (And this post got a lot of traffic from Hacker News.) On day of iPhone 5 announcement, iPhone5.com sits dark – despite ... read more ...
 
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A new Afternic on a approach this week - A completely refreshed Afternic.com will be released this week. On Friday Afternic sent a notice to its registered users that the site is getting a major overhaul sometime this week. When I was at Afternic’s office back in July they gave me a sneak peek of the new system. From what I saw, the new site will be a huge improvement. Both major domain name marketplaces — Afternic and Sedo — were originally built for the old way of selling domain names. Back then ... read more ...
 
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Nominet proposes second turn .uk domain names - Hi @Nic and all: The “Sunrise” period has, to my knowledge no legal standing in Court, anywhere; and if an owner of a Trademark happens to miss the window, offered by Nominet, the “registered” owner, has recourse through the UK (or any) Federal Court and the IPO.gov.uk, issued document will win well after the sunrise. Side note 1 Nominet are an appointed Government agency; and where they use the word “Registered” gives you as an official government sanctioned, domain name. ... read more ...