Google sent out a message today to publishers using Adsense for Domains. After nearly 4 years of running the program, the company has decided to discontinue their hosted Adsense for Domains on undeveloped domain names. The company is recommending migrating your domain names to a parking company.
Domainers relished the[…]
Here are 21 domain purchases made by “end users”.
This week’s chock-full end user sales report has 21 end user domain purchases. Notable buyers include Fool.com, Novartis, Southern Company, and The Future Project.
All sales were at Afternic unless otherwise noted.
Field Fresh Foods, Inc. paid $2,088 for FreshSnacks.com
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CIRA, the .CA registry announced today that they published a Factbook about Domain Names on their site. The new site features information such as:
History of Domain Names
Current Domain Name Registration Statistics
Information on registration trends and growth rates
Statistics regarding the Canadian domain space
Information on the Canadian[…]
The following is a guest post by Paul Raynor Keating (paul@law.es). He is a domain industry attorney with offices in Barcelona and London.
The recent decision in autoownersinsurance.com is a perfect example of things going from worse to horrible. While the decision itself contains many substantive flaws, my overwhelming issue[…]
Group chartered by Congress targets domain names.
The Purple Heart is a military decoration given to those who’ve made the ultimate sacrifice for the U.S. military: being wounded or killed in duty.
The Military Order of the Purple Heart was chartered by Congress in 1958 for recipients of the Purple[…]
ARI Registry Services picks up three more new top level domains.
ARI Registry Services has won a contract with the governments of New South Wales and Victoria to provide registry services for .sydney, .melbourne and .victoria, the company announced today.
ARI definitely had a leg up in responding to the[…]
Program introduced in 2008 will be phased out.
Google is ending its Adsense for Domains program that allowed users of its online Adsense program to park their domain names.
The company recommends that customers migrate their parked domain names to a domain name parking company. A message sent to effected[…]
Recently we’ve seen more and more companies use Facebook URLs in their advertising. While other marketers, and also of course domainers, are against the practice, it appears this is now a more relevant question. Facebook recently took the URL facebook.com/muenchen away from the official city portal and reserved it for[…]
Soon-to-be-busy web site already attracting cybersquatters.
25 million people will soon be sent an email telling them to go to iPhone4Settlement.com. And someone has already typosquatted it.
iPhone4Settlement.com is the URL selected by Kurtzman Carson Consultants to manage the claims process for a proposed settlement with Apple over antennae problems[…]
