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The Lowdown
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Jan. 13, 2009 Post
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Here's the The
Lowdown from DNJournal.com! Updated
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around the domain name industry!
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We
have several things to touch on today. First,
with Yahoo naming a new
CEO this afternoon, 60-year-old former Autodesk
CEO Carol Bartz, domainers are waiting to see how
the move might affect the PPC business. With
former Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang sent to the
sidelines,
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many observers
think that the company will finally agree to sell its
search business to Microsoft. Many of the top PPC
providers in the domain industry use Yahoo's ad feed but
the company has been a distant second to Google in
search. The hope is that by combining forces perhaps
Yahoo and Microsoft can give Google stronger
competition and assure domain owners that they won't be
left at the mercy of a single dominant upstream
provider. We should see some signals from Ms. Bartz on
that count soon. |
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Fabulous.com
has posted videos of the seminars from November's T.R.A.F.F.I.C.
Down Under conference online. You will find
the links to each video on this
page. This is a very nice gift for the
domain community. The only disappointment is that tight
scheduling on the final business day (November 20) kept
a final session about ICANN's planned new global TLDs
from being recorded. The cameras had to be taken to an
adjacent room and set up for a live auction that
followed the gTLD session.
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Howe speaking at
T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Down Under |
Page Howe, Jothan
Frakes and Edmon Chung spoke about
the proposed new TLDs and at the time I
mentioned here that I hoped that anyone
considering applying for a new TLD would be able
to see Howe's presentation. He went through the
ICANN application meat grinder himself with .kids
in 2000 and had an eye-opening cautionary tale
to tell at T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Down Under. Fab's
Business Development Director Mike Robertson,
always willing to go above and beyond the call
of duty, told me they hope to get the
Powerpoint presentations from Howe, Frakes and
Chung and post those online. |
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In
another conference note, organizers of this
month's DOMAINfest
Global conference in Hollywood,
California (January 27-30), say that
registrations are currently running ahead
of last
year's show when 700 people turned
out. That is an encouraging sign for this
industry at a time when the general economy is
slumping.
Conferences
are always great sources of information. It is
also encouraging to see more companies offering
free webinars to give domain owners advice on
getting the most out of their assets. NameMedia's
BuyDomains division has one coming up Thursday,
January 29. This one will cover "How
to Leverage Google Analytics to Support Your
Small Business Goals". You can register
here
if you would like to sit in on the session.
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Finally,
a press
release popped up on the web
today claiming that the domain name Answers.travel
had been sold for $3.3 million.
Considering that the .travel extension
has been a flop and that we have never
received a single verified sale report
of a .travel domain at ANY price,
I would view this release as an exercise
in creative writing (to put it kindly). Michael
Berkens wrote about it on his blog
today and the comment section there is
filled with information that illustrates
why you can't believe everything you
read (especially in press
releases). |
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(Posted
Jan.
13, 2009) |
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