Tag Archives: Google

Thu 5th December 2013
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“Cloud” is not a community, new TLD panelist rules - Group’s definition of “cloud community” is too broad. Cloud Industry Forum Limited has lost its community objections against three applications for the .cloud top level domain name. The objections were filed against the three applicants who planned to keep their .cloud registries closed to registrations: Google, Amazon.com, and Symantec. Panelist Stephen L. Drymer ruled that the community Cloud Industry Forum claimed in the objection is not “clearly delineated.” ... read more ...
Mon 2nd December 2013
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Has Google Made Domain Migration Harder ? - Patrick Altoft is the Director of Search at Branded3 and he wrote an article today about Google making it harder to migrate to a new domain. From the article: Changing domains has never been something to be taken lightly but in the past year, Google appears to have made it tougher for brands to carry out a legitimate re-brand, or domain change for other reasons, without suffering catastrophic SEO losses. We’ve been talking to a number of businesses that have changed domains and lost huge amounts ... read more ...
Tue 29th October 2013
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GoDaddy signs the 1st Registry-Registrar Agreement with New gTLD .UNO: Paid Pre-Registrations Start In Nov -                   According to a press release we just received, Dot Latin LLC announced today that the world’s largest domain registrar, GoDaddy, has signed the Registry-Registrar Agreement for the .UNO domain extension, specifically designed for the Hispanic and Latino communities, worldwide. .UNO is the first global web extension dedicated to Spanish-speaking businesses, consumers and individuals online. GoDaddy will be the first domain registrar to offer .UNO pre-registrations for ... read more ...
Thu 24th October 2013
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Applicant questions how .Cars collision can be cleared - One applicant for .cars has good questions about how exactly it can resolve its contention set. DERcars, an applicant for the .cars top level domain name, has filed a reconsideration request (pdf) with ICANN’s board after Google won a string confusion objection against the company’s .cars application. I wrote about the .cars case a few weeks ago, and said that ICANN would be forced to act in the wake of the string confusion objection. As one reader pointed out, ... read more ...
Thu 17th October 2013
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Google Reports Paid Clicks Up 26%; Cost Per Click Down: Has $56 Billion In The Bank: Shares Up + 7% - Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) today announced financial results for the quarter ended September 30, 2013. The market loved the news sending Google shares up over 7% to an all time high in after hours trading of $957 a share, up $68. For the domain name industry the takeaways are that the number of  paid clicks are up again. Way up if you measure by the same quarter  of 2012 where paid clicks are up 26% If your just looking at last quarter paid click are up nicely at 8% higher. Down once again was ... read more ...
Fri 11th October 2013
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Google’s Registry For New gTLD’s; Charleston Road Registry Launches the Site - Google’s Registry for that will be the back end operator for Google’s new gTLD strings, CharlestonRoadRegistry.com officially launched their site today (Update I have been informed that this site actually launched on March 29, 2013) “Welcome to Charleston Road Registry, Google’s domain registry. We’re really excited about the domains we’ll soon be able to offer. The Internet has always been first and foremost about self-expression, and the dawn of this era of hundreds of new domains marks ... read more ...
 
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Google acquires CRR.com domain name from Telepathy for new TLDs - Google buys CRR.com domain from Telepathy. It would seem that good .com domains are still highly prized, even by new top level domain name applicants. Google has acquired the domain name CRR.com, and I have no doubt it was acquired for the company’s new TLD subsidiary Charleston Road Registry. [Update: the domain now forwards to Google’s registry page.] Google currently uses the long domain name CharlestonRoadRegistry.com to promote its new TLDs. I’m somewhat ... read more ...
Thu 10th October 2013
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Google and Amazon.com backpedal on sealed tip turn domain names - Google to make one more domain open, Amazon relents on 25. Google and Amazon.com have changed their minds about operating some of their applied-for generic top level domain names as “closed” domain names. For many domains, the companies had planned to not offer second level domain name registrations, such as myname.blog, to the public. Instead, they planned to only register such domains within the company. Amazon wanted to keep all of its domain names restricted ... read more ...
Wed 9th October 2013
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Uh-oh: ICANN will be forced to act after opposing .cars decisions - A conflicting opinion over .cars leads to an interesting contention set problem. A panelist for a string confusion objection brought by Google against DERcars, LLC over the top level domain name .cars has ruled in favor of Google. By ruling in favor of Google, that means DERcars’ application for .cars will be put into a contention set with Google’s application for .car. This creates a big problem. You see, DERcars’ application isn’t the only one for .cars. ... read more ...
Tue 24th September 2013
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Google beats Donuts in .Games tip turn domain name dispute - .Games domain names will likely be confused with .game domains, panelist rules. Donuts has lost another string confusion objection for a plural domain name, this time .games. Google, one of five applicants for the .game top level domain, argued that having both .games and .game as top level domain names would confuse internet users. It convinced the panelist of this, which means that Donuts’ uncontested application for .games is now contested. It will have to beat ... read more ...
Thu 19th September 2013
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Donuts loses another conflict to .Pets domain name - Another panelist finds that .pet and .pets are too similar to both be delegated as top level domain names How many pets are there?Apparently two panelists agree: .Pets and .Pet should be in a contention set because they’ll cause confusion amongst internet users. International Centre for Dispute Resolution just posted a decision (pdf) by panelist Richard Page for Google’s objection to Donuts’ application for .pets. Google argued that having both .pet and .pets ... read more ...
Mon 16th September 2013
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Google Buys Bump: Bu.mp - Google (GOOG) just bought Bump, a developer of Android/iOS apps that allow users to share contact info, photos, and other files by bumping their phones together. MarketWatch.com is saying the acquisition was between $30 Millon and $60 Million and the company reportedly took in some $20 Million in investment David Lieb CEO and cofounder of Bump announced the acquisition the company’s blog “We’re excited to announce that the Bump team is joining Google! “Our mission at Bump has always been ... read more ...
Mon 26th August 2013
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Google buys AfricaConnected.com domain name from Mike Mann - Search giant acquires domain name from domain investor. Google has acquired the domain name AfricaConnected.com, likely for its efforts to bring internet access to more people in Africa. It looks like Google acquired the domain name with the help of Mark Monitor through its NameAdvisers group. Until July 11, Mike Mann’s Domain Asset Holdings was listed in whois as the owner. Mann runs DomainMarket.com. The whois then switched to NameAdvisers before changing over ... read more ...
 
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Nau strikes again: Google wins .tours conflict opposite Donuts - .Tours and .Tour top level domain strings found too similar, will be placed in contention set. Another day, another inconsistent string confusion objection for new top level domain names. This time Google has won an objection (pdf) against Donuts’ application for .tours. Google applied for .tour, and now .tour and .tours will be placed in a contention set as a result of the ruling. Once you see the panelist’s name for this decision, you won’t be surprised by ... read more ...
Thu 22nd August 2013
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comScore: Yahoo Beats Google For 1st Time In Years Becoming Most Visited Websites - According to comScore, for the first time in several years, Yahoo (YHOO), web properties were the most visited in the country in July. With 196.6 million visitors who Yahoo properties compared to 192.3 million who visited Google for the first time since May 2011. Yahoo’s unique visitors were up by roughly 20% compared to July of last year, when it came in third behind Google and Microsoft (MSFT, Fortune 500), according to comScore. Here the the top 50 Properties in the US for July according to ... read more ...
Sun 18th August 2013
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So Now What Will Google Do With Its New gTLD Application For .Search - Of the over new gTLD 1,900 applications received by ICANN, Google’s application for .Search has gotten arguably the most attention of the mainstream media (neck and neck with Amazon’s .Amazon TLD) Google originally filed its  application for .Search to operate on a closed basis, meaning that the registry generally would not be open to registrations by third parties, but amended its application back in April of this year to operate it as a open string using Dotless Domains, just days after the ... read more ...
Fri 16th August 2013
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ICANN strictly kills Google’s devise for dotless Search tip turn domain name - Board resolution quashes dotless domains again, at least for now. ICANN’s New gTLD Program Committee has passed a resolution confirming a prohibition on so-called dotless domain names, effectively killing Google’s plans for a dotless .search top level domain name. A dotless top level domain name would resolve without a dot. For example, while something.example will resolve in most browsers, http://example will not. Google had hoped to use “search” as a dotless ... read more ...
Fri 9th August 2013
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Demand Media successfully defends Motorola plea for .moto - Google subsidiary loses legal rights objection over .moto. Motorola, now part of Google, has lost its legal rights objection against Demand Media subsidiary United TLD over the .moto top level domain. United TLD plans to offer the domain names for motorcycle enthusiasts, while Motorola uses it as a brand for mobile devices. Motorola also applied for .moto through Google subsidiary Charleston Road Registry. Amusingly, Motorola tried to paint United TLD in a bad light ... read more ...
Mon 22nd July 2013
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Google drops hints in domain name registry heading filing - Trademark application includes domain escrow and domain valuation . Google has filed a trademark application for “Charleston Road Registry”, the name of its subsidiary that is applying for nearly 100 top level domain names. The filing (pdf) may include subtle clues as to what Google’s plans are for domain names such as .fun, .play, and .shop. There are six “goods and services” classifications for Charleston Road Registry. Most of them relate to the technical ... read more ...
Thu 18th July 2013
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Google Reports & Miss On Revenue & Earnings: Paid Clicks Up 23%; Cost Per Click Down 6% Stock Sinks Over 5% - Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) today announced financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2013 after the market closed but missed expectations for both revenue and earnings per share, sending shares down more than 5% or $50 a share in after hours trading. Google reported consolidated revenues of $14.11 billion for the quarter ended June 30, 2013, an increase of 19% compared to the second quarter of 2012. GAAP operating income in the second quarter of 2013 was $3.12 billion, or 22% of revenues. This ... read more ...
Mon 15th July 2013
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Google enormous down on wily behind symbol actions - Some sites show a parked page-style lander when you hit the back button. Google published a blog post on Friday about its efforts to crack down on manipulative or deceptive behavior of websites. It details something that some websites have apparently started doing recently, which it will crack down on by possibly removing sites from its index. Say you search for “cartoon” on Google, and go to a site about cartoons. If you hit the back button, instead of going ... read more ...
Sat 6th July 2013
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Google’s .App Draws Fire From The Association for Competitive Technology - Google’s new gTLD application to operate the .APP new gTLD come under fire yesterday by the The Association for Competitive Technology (ACT). In a  a letter to Dr. Stephen D. Crocker Chairman of the Board of Directors and  Mr. Fadi Chehadé President and CEO of  ICANN, Jonathan Zuck President of the The Association for Competitive Technology which boosts having over 5,000 small and mid-size mobile application “app” developers and information technology firms. “ACT is an international group ... read more ...
Fri 5th July 2013
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TM Nightmare: 977 .Com/.Net Google Domains Registered Last Month Only 8 By Google - Over the years we have chatted about over reaching trademark holders and trademark group pushing for great protections and while we have been on the side of the domain holder, in all fairness we do have to admit that for a large trademark holder they have a nightmare on their hands when it comes to domain names. Take Google. In June 2013 we found 977 .com/.net domain names were registered that contained the word “Google” of these only 8 seemed to be registered by Google which uses domain registrar/brand ... read more ...
Wed 3rd July 2013
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123-Reg UK Largest Registrar Becomes Premier SME Partner of Google AdWords In UK - According to a press release we received this morning,  123-reg, the UK’s largest accredited domain registrar, has today announced that it has entered into a strategic agreement with Google to become a Premier SME Partner (PSP) of Google’s AdWordsTM advertising programme in the UK. “As a PSP, 123-reg will gain access to Google’s training and support, to provide an end-to-end AdWords account management service for its customers. “AdWords is a cost effective, efficient way for businesses ... read more ...
Mon 24th June 2013
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Sedo updates remoteness process due to Google changes - Privacy policy explains that it may release your personal information to Google. Sedo sent a notice to its parking customers today to inform them that it has updated its privacy policy. The company has added a line to its policy that states: It may be necessary to disclose your stored information, such as first and last name, company name, address, email and/or phone number, to relevant domain monetization advertising partners for the purpose of providing you such ... read more ...