Registered Rights Sunrise for short .uk domains started

December 12, 2010
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Registered Rights Sunrise for short .uk domains started

The application process for the previously reserved short .uk domains opened , with a Registered Rights Sunrise phase for trade mark holders.This phase consists of a two stage application process.

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DOMAINfest Global 2011 Announces Fantasy Domaining Contest + PITCHfest Changes

December 12, 2010
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The 2011 DOMAINfest Global conference coming up February 1-3 has announced a new Fantasy Domaining Contest (similar to Fantasy Football) with some attractive prizes up for grabs. They have also made some key changes in the PITCHfest Contest that debuted at the 2010 show last January.

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GoDaddy Auctions Go Wild Sweeping 4 of the First 8 Places on New DN Journal Sales Chart

December 12, 2010
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The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. GoDaddy Auctions staked their claim as a viable high end marketplace this past week when they closed a huge $350,000 sale that leads our latest all extension Top 20 Sales chart. Sedo is also set to close an even bigger six-figure blockbuster.

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Companies in the News: .INFO Registry, .CO Registry & Warren Royal’s Bobbleheads.com

December 12, 2010
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Today in the Lowdown at DNJournal.com: The .INFO registry’s latest annual report shows a 30% jump in registrations over the past year….The .CO Registry is celebrating an upcoming appearance in a GoDaddy Super Bowl commercial….and domain investor Warren Royal of Bobbleheads.com makes his TV debut.

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DomainAdvertising Issues Study Showing Impressive Results for Their New Approach to Parking

December 12, 2010
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I have been hearing positive feedback from many who have tried the new graphics rich parking platform at DomainAdvertising.com (where landing pages favor stunning photos over text). Now I also have some hard numbers put forth in a new case study produced by the company’s CEO, industry veteran Dan Warner.

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NamePros.com Gets Outed In Browser History Sniffing Fiasco

December 12, 2010
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NamePros.com Gets Outed In Browser History Sniffing Fiasco

In a story on ZDNet this week, adult website YouPorn.com is being sued for “browser history sniffing”.  ZDNet points to a study conducted by University of California, San Diego of the global to 50,000 sites on the internet. In the study the researchers claim to have “confirmed that 46 websites used browser (history) sniffing...

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Salute to Cyber Monday: “20 Great Gifts for the Green Geek in Your Life”

December 4, 2010
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Salute to Cyber Monday: “20 Great Gifts for the Green Geek in Your Life”

As a salute to Cyber Monday, here is a great list of 20 gifts for us “Green Geeks” out there provided by The E-Advisor Blog. According to E-Advisor “If you haven’t yet joined the green revolution, then you probably don’t know what exactly they’d want or need, or whether or not they already have...

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A PPC Geeks View of the LinkedIn DirectAds Network

December 4, 2010
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A PPC Geeks View of the LinkedIn DirectAds Network

If someone asked me “what’s your opinion of LinkedIn DirectAds” my elevator speech would be “It’s not for everyone. It’s a little expensive. But man, it has some amazing targeting abilities that Google doesn’t even have. So it’s worth testing depending on the business” As a PPC Marketer I typically would not even consider...

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Register & Save 50% on Landing Page Success Summit

December 4, 2010
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Register & Save 50% on Landing Page Success Summit

How To Achieve Customer Conversion Success… Discover how to CONVERT MORE VISITORS TO CUSTOMERS from your website or landing page. We’re proud to partner with the Landing Page Success Seminar, a three-week online conference led by Internet Marketing’s Top Conversion Experts. Not only will you gain amazing sales results and conversion rates with these...

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Attention Sales Teams! PPC Marketers are More Than Just Geeks!

December 4, 2010
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Attention Sales Teams! PPC Marketers are More Than Just Geeks!

FYI. Not all of us PPC Geeks look like this. Based on the title of this post, you kinda get the picture that just because us PPC Geeks can figure out a Quality Score Algorithm doesn’t mean that we cannot switch gears and help increase the client pipeline. In fact, in my opinion, more...

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