Demand Media Files For Its IPO Today - Demand Media Filed its S-1, notice to the Securities and Exchange Commission,  which is basically their prospectus to go public. For the domain industry it would be far better for the IPO to go well than not. However, in 2009,  Demand reported $22 million in losses on $198 million in revenues. In the first six months of 2010,Demand’s net loss was only $6 million, on revenues of $108 million. 44% of its revenues in the first half of 2010 ($47.7 million) came from its domain registration business, ... read more ...

Marchex Loss Widens In 2nd Quarter; Sells $700K in Domains - Marchex reported its earnings after the market closed today for the 2nd Quarter, ending June 30, 2010. Here are the highlights: Revenue was $21.4 million for the second quarter of 2010, compared to $21.1 million for the same period of 2009. Looks like the company lost over $4M in the 2Q 2010 compared to losing just $1.5M in 2Q 2009. GAAP net loss was $3.2 million for the second quarter of 2010 or $0.10 per diluted share, compared to GAAP net loss applicable to common stockholders of $1.2 million ... read more ...

Google Extends US Trademark Policy On Keywords To Europe & Canada - According to a post on Google’s blog, Google is going to extend its US policy on advertising keywords which allows companies to advertise on other companies trademarks to Europe and Canada. Here is the official announcement: “”Last year, in an effort to provide better ads and a higher quality experience for our users, we adjusted our trademark policy in the U.S. to allow some advertisers to use third party trademarks in their ad text even if they don’t own that trademark or have explicit ... read more ...

Did You Know Sedo.com Is A Public Company? Our Domain Parking Stock Index Updated: Sedo.com is In, Dark Blue Sea is Out - We just updated our Domain Parking StockIndex tracking the prices of public companies. We dropped Dark Blue Sea which was bought out, and went private earlier this year, and added Sedo.com (Sedo Holdings) which is traded on the Xetra, part of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. Shares of Sedo.com have a 52 week high of $4.33 a share and a low of $2.52 and are currently trading at $2.72. The companies we currently have included in the Domain Stock Parking Index are: Google Microsoft Yahoo QuinStreet Baidu Sedo Marchex Banks.com Tucows.com Live ... read more ...

Fortune.com: “Google: The Search Party Is Over” - A new post by Fortune.com, entitled Google: The Search Party Is Over” is an  interesting read especially for domainers who do any significant domain parking. The article which in large part discusses the business operations of Google says about search: That there is a real shift going on within the internet where search will soon be less used. “”The shift going on within the Internet, one that is arguably the biggest change to the web and the way we use it since Google came on the scene. ... read more ...

Oversee.net Share Price Is Falling Like A Rock - We wrote about some insiders at Oversee.net were offering shares in the company for sale on SharesPost.com back in may of this year for $7.35 a share. Today a new seller hit the Sharespost site, offering 5,500-20,000 shares for sale for only $4.97 a share. For Oversee a sale of a block at shares at its former asking price of $7.35 would have meant according to Sharespost a valuation of over $1.1 Billion dollars for Oversee.net. At the new asking price, Oversee.net would only have a valuation of $760 ... read more ...

Yahoo Japan Switches To Google - Yahoo Japan just signed a deal to use Google’s search engine rather than Microsoft’s Bing. Daniel Alegre, vice president of Google’s Asia Pacific and Japan operations, said in a post on Google Japan blog, “Yahoo Japan will use Google search results and Google’s technology for supplying the accompanying search ads. With such partnerships, revenue from the search ads is shared between the Web site and the company that supplies the ads, in this case Yahoo Japan and Google, respectively.” Of ... read more ...

Google’s Global Search Share Declines - According to research firm Strategy Analytics, Google’s share of the global online search market fell to 69.7% in the second quarter from 71.1% in the first quarter. Baidu the largest search engine in China, now has a global share nearly as large as that of Microsoft  and Yahoo .  The report shows that Baidu’s global market share is 4.5% compared to 4.8% for Microsoft and 5.4% for Yahoo. The total global advertising search market was $6.2 billion, up 2.2% from the first quarter. The Microsoft ... read more ...

Yahoo Profits Up But Revenue Falls Short Of Expectations & Stock Sinks - Yahoo Inc reported earnings after the market closed today for the second quarter ending June 30, 2010 (2Q). Yahoo said its revenue in 2Q rose to $1.60 billion, a 2% increase from the 2Q of 2009 Yahoo’s net revenue, however was $1.13 billion, below the average analyst expectation of $1.16 billion. Yahoo’s search business declined 8%year-over-year.  Analysts had been expecting search to be in the range of flat to down no more than 5%. Yahoo said net income in the second quarter rose to $213.3 ... read more ...

NexusOne Is Dead & Gone & we Guess So Are The Domains - Google announced through its blog that it’s Nexus One phone has stopped production and Google will stop selling the Nexus One, saying that the next shipment of the phones will be the last. “This week we received our last shipment of Nexus One phones. Once we sell these devices, the Nexus One will no longer be available online from Google. Customer support will still be available for current Nexus One customers.” The Announcement of the introduction of the Nexus One phone caused a stir in ... read more ...

Google Releases Earnings Miss Profit Estimates; Revenue Up 25%; Cost Per Click Up 4%; Stock Down 4.5% - Google released its earnings for the 2nd Quarter ending June 30, 2010 (2Q) last night after the market closed and uncharacteristically missed Wall Street’s profit estimates, blaming a spike in expenses which offset a 24% revenue jump. Here are the highlights of the earnings report: Google reported revenues of $6.82 billion for 2Q 2010, an increase of 24% compared to the 2Q of 2009. Net income in the 2Q of 2010 was $1.84 billion, compared to $1.48 billion in the 2Q of ... read more ...

French Regulators Cite Google For “Lack Of Transparency” Over Keyword Advertising & Give Then 4 Months - France’s antitrust regulator accused Google on Wednesday of a “lack of transparency” over its keyword advertising service and ordered it to clarify conditions for the product within four months. The Autorite de la Concurrence was responding to a complaint filed by a French data services company Navx in February, which alleged the world’s top search engine had abused its dominant position by canceling Navx’s AdWords contract. “Google has implemented the content policy of its AdWords ... read more ...

Google Testing CPA Ads: Is This The Start Of The Switch From PPC - According to Investors.com, Google testing a CPA ads system. CPA stands for Cost Per Action, a service in which advertisers pay for ads they run on Google’s network only when a consumer takes “action.” Action means that the consumer makes a purchase or fills out a form or some sort of registration on an advertiser’s Web site. According to the story, Google uses “software and various means to track its ad-prodded actions, but the model pretty much requires that advertisers go to the expense ... read more ...

Verisign: A New Record, 8.1 Million New Domain Registrations in Q1: Revenue Up 4%, But How Much Did They Leave On The .TV Table - VeriSign Inc. reported earnings after the markets closed. VeriSign’s 1Q profit fell 21% from last year. GAAP net income for the first quarter was $51.4 million or $0.28 per share, compared to $65.0 million or $0.34 per share for the year-ago quarter. Revenue for the first quarter however rose 4% to $264.40 million from $253.56 million in the same quarter last year. First quarter segment revenue for Internet Infrastructure and Identity Services, or the “core” businesses of Naming Services ... read more ...

Google Revenue Up 23%; Earnings Up 37%; Shares Down $30 After Hours - After the market closed today, Google posted a 23% gain in 1st Q revenue and a 37% increase in earnings. Google posted net income of $1.96 billion, or $6.06 a share, up from $1.42 billion, or $4.49 a share, in the year-earlier period. Revenues in the 1st quarter totaled $6.77 billion, compared with $5.51 billion in the year-ago period. Net revenue, (after payouts to partners only increased 2.2% to $5.06 billion. The street was disappointed. Shares of Google are down $30 a share or over 5% to $565 ... read more ...

Its Official, Speed Counts In Google’s Rankings - According to a post on Google’s Blog today, the long rumored move to consider site speed in page ranking is officially in full effect. We talked about this back in November of last year and now it seems Google has made it official. Site speed will be a factor in site ranking “””You may have heard that here at Google we’re obsessed with speed, in our products and on the web. As part of that effort, today we’re including a new signal in our search ranking algorithms: site speed. Site ... read more ...

HitWise: Yahoo Search Market Share Going Back Up - According to Hitwise, Yahoo market share of search results rose to more than 15% in March from 14.6% the previous month. Google had 69.97% of all U.S. searches, down slightly from February’s 70.95%. Bing had a 9.62% market share, down from 9.70% the previous month. This is the first increase for Yahoo in a LONG time. Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...

Head Of Sales Of Yahoo Quits To Join Demand Media - According to AllThingsDigital, Yahoo’s Senior Vice President of U.S. Revenue and Market Development, is planning on leaving Yahoo for a new gig at Demand Media. Joanne Bradford will according to report, leave Yahoo just after 18 months on the job and will join Demand Media as Chief Revenue Officer. In addition to serving as Yahoo’s top sales executive, Ms. Bradford was leading the sales integration for the Yahoo-Microsoft search deal. Yahoo has not named a successor. Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...

Report: Google 99.9% Certain It WIll Close Down In China - According to the Financial Times, Google talks with China have reached an impasse and Google is now “99.9 percent” certain to shut its Chinese search engine, Google.cn. Google.cn is currently ranked as the 14th most visited site on the net by Alexa.org The Financial Times went on to say Google has drawn up detailed plans for closing its Chinese search engine “to bring about an orderly closure as the company takes steps to protect local employees from retaliation by authorities”. Google+Michael ... read more ...

Google Publishes Its Own SEO Report Card & Gives Itself Some Failing Grades - Google just released its own SEO Report Card. In a 49 page report it rates the search engine optimization (SEO) on its various properties including the Google search home page and gives itself a failing grade in a number of categories. One of the biggest areas of failure for is in “search result presentation,” where Google scored itself with a score of  33 out of 100 or lower in three different categories. Here is how the report is describe by Google, you should check out the full report: “”How ... read more ...

You Don’t Think We Live In The Internet Age: Topeka Changes Its Name To Google, Kansas - At 79,  doesn’t exactly understand the Internet boom. The Topeka, Kansas, mayor has an e-mail account, he said, but his assistants take care of most of his online communications and tend to search the Web for him. The mayor of Topeka, Kansas Bill Bunten, signed a formal proclamation Monday, changing the domain of his city from Topeka, Kansas to Google, Kansas. Ok so before the owner of Topeka.com has a stroke, the name change is only last through the month of March. What’s the incentive? Google’s ... read more ...

Chrome Up To Over 5.5% Market Share - According to Net Applications Google’s Chrome browser  has  jumped to a market share of 5.61%, or up almost 1% this year. Here is the current market share and percentage change since the beginning of the year. Internet Explorer 61.5% down .50% since January Firefox 24.25% down .20% since January Safari 4.45% down .08% since January Opera 2.35% Net Applications measures operating system usage by tracking computers that visit the 40,000 sites monitored for clients, which represents a pool of ... read more ...