Tag Archives: services

Thu 1st July 2010
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Local.com Buys Octane360 for Up to $11 Million - Company powered by geo domains is acquired. I got a “we should catch up” email from Octane360 CEO Adam Rioux last night. Then this morning I see this – he just sold his company for $5 million in cash and stock plus an earnout of $5.9 million. My first thought: that was fast. My second thought: I’m not too surprised. I’ve been singing the praises of Octane360’s business model for a while, and talking about what it can do for owners of localized domain ... read more ...
 
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Yahoo-Microsoft Ad Transition is Going to be a Cluster… - As we get closer to advertising transition, scope of changes become apparent. We’re getting nearer to D-Day, when the Yahoo and Microsoft ad deal starts to affect advertisers on the former’s platform. Here’s just one example of the headaches ahead for Yahoo advertisers. Today the company sent out an email telling all of its advertisers that it will need to cut their ad headline length to no more than 25 characters. Yahoo currently allows 40. This means that ... read more ...
Wed 30th June 2010
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Domain Companies Head to Austin for HostingCon - HostingCon comes to the Lone Star State. The web hosting industry is descending on Austin, Texas next month for HostingCon. The event will take place at the Austin Convention Center July 19-21. Tickets are still available, starting at $489 for the entire three day conference. I’ve identified a number of domain name related companies that will be in attendance and/or exhibiting: dotMobi eNom OpenSRS (Tucows) LogicBoxes/Reseller Club Dark Blue Sea VeriSign Afilias So ... read more ...
Tue 29th June 2010
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Demand Media Inks Deal with Tyra Banks for Fashion Site - Demand’s deal with Tyra, and what it says about creating profitable content: you need hub sites. Demand Media has entered into a partnership with Tyra Banks to create a new digital brand for the beauty and fashion industry. I expect this to be similar to the company’s deal with Lance Armstrong for LiveStrong.com. Basically, the company created a new branded web site with star power, plugged it into Demand’s content pipeline and social media machine, and started ... read more ...
Mon 28th June 2010
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Afternic Releases New Portfolio Manager for Big Domain Sellers - New API makes it easier for large domainers to manage inventory on NameMedia sales network. Domain name sales venue Afternic has released a new product for large domain name portfolio owners called Afternic Portfolio Manager. The company bills the product as an easy-to-use domain distribution and inventory management tool for selling domain names. Among its features is the ability to instantaneously add, edit, and remove domains from Afternic and its distribution ... read more ...
Wed 23rd June 2010
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Pricing Released for TRAFFIC Dublin - Registration open for August’s domain name conference. Registration for The T.R.A.F.F.I.C. domain name conference taking place in Dublin, August 24-26, is now open. Early pricing until July 15 is €695, although there’s also a link for a lower $730 USD price at the time of writing. Hotel rooms are available for only 159 EUR per night. In a blog post today, show organizer Rick Latona noted: You can’t talk about Dublin without mentioning beers. Folks, the ... read more ...
Tue 22nd June 2010
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DOMAINfest Global Moves to Feb for 2011 - Largest domain conference sets date for 2011. Oversee.net’s flagship DOMAINfest Global conference is moving back a week this year to the first week of February. The conference will take place February 1-3, 2011 and will again be held at the Fairmont Miramar Hotel in Santa Monica, California. Hotel reservations for the event are already available. If it’s anything like last year, the hotel will sell out in a hurry even though the entire hotel is reserved for ... read more ...
 
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7 Steps to a Launch of New TLDs - Kurt Pritz explains what’s left to do in the long march to new top level domain names. During Monday’s New gTLD Program Update session during ICANN’s meeting in Brussels, ICANN Senior Vice President Kurt Pritz spelled out the steps remaining to launch new top level domain names. Here they are in his words. 1. “So we’ll take the public comment in and then make a recommendation for community and board decision whether this should be the last draft version ... read more ...
Tue 15th June 2010
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AfternicDLS Offers Free Memberships Again - Membership offer good through the end of the month. Afternic is again offering a free membership, a $19.95 value. The membership allows you to list domain names for sale on AfternicDLS, including Expanded and Premium promotion. Using these listing options enables you to get your domain name listed on a number of sites. Afternic’s partner sites include GoDaddy Auctions, Register.com, Network Solutions, and of course sister site BuyDomains. Premium promotion allows ... read more ...
Mon 14th June 2010
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DevHub Launches Latest Web Builder Release - Company targets niche enthusiasts with latest release. Last Monday I made a quick stop at DevHub’s offices in Seattle before heading to the DomainTools open house. From the moment I walked in to the office it was clear that people hadn’t been getting much sleep there. The company just launched the latest version of its easy-to-use web site creator and there have been a lot of sleepless nights getting it into production. Most notable in the new version is a ... read more ...
 
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Thoughts About TRAFFIC Vancouver - A mostmortem on last week’s TRAFFIC conference. I enjoyed last week in the Pacific Northwest. Sometimes it’s hard to provide updates on the blog during a conference because you’re too busy meeting with people. That was the case last week. So here’s a recap of some of my thoughts from last week: Attendance - About 150 people showed up for the event. Many more had registered but were unable to make it at the last minute, so I figure about 175 registered. ... read more ...
Thu 10th June 2010
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Poll: Choose Your Domain Conference Location -

Help name a domain discussion location.

This is a suppositious here. And no, I’m not operative on a domain name conference. But let’s contend we were going to attend a domain discussion over a winter. Which of these locations would we prefer?

Feel giveaway to leave comments with specifics if we want.

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Via: domainnamewire.com

Wed 9th June 2010
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TRAFFIC Kicks Off in Vancouver - A TRAFFIC conference in Vancouver, eh? Yesterday afternoon I carpooled from Seattle to Vancouver for the TRAFFIC conference. As we crossed the border, the border agent was very stern. Why are you entering Canada? For a conference. What kind of conference? A domain name conference. A what? I thought we were about to get into one of “those conversations” where you try to explain the domain name industry. But we didn’t and were shortly on our way into the city. Vancouver ... read more ...
Tue 8th June 2010
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Demand Media Rebrands with New Web Site and Logo - Content and domain name behemoth Demand Media splashes more color. Demand Media’s business model has evolved over time, so it’s only natural that the company is refreshing its image. Today the company released a new web site and logo. The top image in this post is the company’s new logo; the bottom image is the old. The old image was much more reserved and corporate, while the new one is on the fringe. My first thought when I saw the new home page was similarity ... read more ...
 
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DomainTools Takes Investment, Forms Advisory Board - Whois data service takes outside investment. File this in the category of “happened a while ago, but no one knew about it”. During yesterday’s DomainTools Open House, DomainTools CEO Tim Chen said that the company had taken on outside investment and formed an advisory board. Here’s an official statement from the company: As part of Thought Convergence’s goal to expand the DomainTools brand, products and services globally, we have taken on a group of strategic ... read more ...
Mon 7th June 2010
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The Week Ahead: Seattle, Then Vancouver - Stay tuned to DNW for reports from TRAFFIC. I’m headed up to the Pacific Northwest this week, and the timing couldn’t be better. It’s getting hot in Austin. It’s near 100 degrees, which is hot enough that I’m asking myself why I live here. My first stop will be Seattle on Monday (high temperature 71) to visit DomainTools’ new offices. I checked out their old digs a couple years ago, and they were nice. But word is the new offices are a nice improvement. ... read more ...
Thu 27th May 2010
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DOMAINfest Europe to Mix Business and Fun - DOMAINfest sets preliminary agenda for Prague show and opens registration. DOMAINfest has opened registration for its European show taking place Wednesday and Thursday, October 6 and 7, 2010, at the Hotel InterContinental in Prague, Czech Republic. The agenda looks very different from most of the company’s previous events, as the second day is dedicated to fun networking and social events. Wednesday will include a number of session geared to the European audience ... read more ...
Wed 26th May 2010
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Neustar Proposes Release of 1 and 2 Character .Us Domain Names - Short .us country code domain names in the works. Neustar, the registry that manages the .us top level domain name, is proposing to release available one and two character .us domain names for registration. In a post on its new .us blog, the company explains that its distribution of one and two character domains will be handled in a matter similar to what it did with .biz domain names: (1) an RFP round that invites interested registrants to propose specific plans ... read more ...
 
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Epik Acquires Domain Development Company DevRich - Epik adds to development capabilities. Rob Monster’s Epik has acquired domain name development company DevRich. The transaction was an all-equity transaction and the valuation was not disclosed. This is both a talent acquisition and a technology acquisition. Luke Webster, President of DevRich, will become SVP Operations of Epik. He will continue to run DevRich, which will be a division of Epik. I met Webster and his business partner at DOMAINfest this past January, ... read more ...
Tue 25th May 2010
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Sedo Keeps Growing and Growing and Growing… - Brokerage and parking company continues to grow customer numbers. The Sedo customer base continues to grow, according to the company’s first quarter 2010 report (pdf). The domain name brokerage and parking company now has 1,051,000 registered members, 16.1 million domain names on its platform, and 7.1 million domain names available for sale. The same can’t be said for the company’s financials, as sales dropped 6.7% from the same quarter last year. Earnings ... read more ...
Mon 24th May 2010
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Adsense Discloses Revenue Share: 68% - Google discloses how much it pays its publishers. After many years of complaining from publishers, Google has done an about-face on its stance on not disclosing how much money it passes along to its Adsense publishers. In a blog post this morning, the company disclosed the numbers: -68% of ad revenue paid to Adsense for Content Publishers -51% of ad revenue paid to Adsense for Search Publishers Furthermore, the company confirmed that it has paid out the same percentage ... read more ...
 
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If Adsense Rev Share is a Same, Why is My Revenue Changing? - Revenue share will always be different from what lands in your pocket. Earlier today Google announced what percentage it is paying out to its self-service Adsense for Content and Adsense for Search publishers (68% and 51% respectively). It also announced that it hasn’t changed revenue share ever for Content and not since 2005 for Search (when it increased the payout). I immediately heard moans “then why has my revenue been going down?” There are a number of ... read more ...
Thu 20th May 2010
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Epik Provides Excuse to Visit Seattle in September - Epik announces developer conference. Rob Monster’s Epik has announced its inaugural Epik Developer Conference to take place in Seattle September 15-17. Although the schedule is very tentative as of now, Monster says the event will include lessons on the entire lifecycle of domain names: acquiring, developing, operating, and selling. He also promises client case studies with specific examples of sites that are profiting from the Epik network. Epik provides a ... read more ...
 
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Open Thread: Are You Going to TRAFFIC Vancouver? - Start networking now for next month’s TRAFFIC show. The next T.R.A.F.F.I.C. domain name conference is in 2 1/2 weeks, and this will be the first ever of the franchise to travel to Canada. It will take place June 8-10 at the Renaissance Vancouver Harbourside Hotel. Please submit a comment below if you are making it to the show. This will help everyone network. According to the TRAFFIC site, the admission price has increased to $1295 effective today. However, the ... read more ...
Wed 19th May 2010
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Understanding a Value of VeriSign’s Monopoly - The definition of a cash cow. Just how valuable is VeriSign’s monopoly on .com and .net domain name registrations? With rumors that the company is seeking a buyer for its security group, leaving it basically with just registry services, the monopoly is being thrust back into the spotlight. At latest count there are roughly 87 million .com domains registered and 13 million .net domains. As of July 1, the price VeriSign charges on .com will be $7.34 and .net to ... read more ...