Elephant Traffic has launched its new online service for direct navigation advertising – offering domainers a risk-free monetization method for high quality, high traffic generic domain names. The Elephant Traffic service allows domainers to use their traffic for direct navigation advertising, offering the traffic from the domain names to advertisers on a cost-per-visitor basis and [...]
Sedo today announced it has acquired the parking company ParkingPanel.com, a domain monetization service provider that is well known for working with large domain portfolio owners and hosting companies to increase revenue. Sedo will be incorporating the ParkingPanel.com brand into its own, transitioning ParkingPanel.com’s members to Sedo’s platform by the end of the month. “This [...]
The .ME Registry has announced a new program for the non-auction allocation of premium .ME domain names to successful companies and organizations that have big ideas for development. In order to apply for a domain, potential recipients need to submit a creative and viable business proposal for the development and use of a premium .ME [...]
Elephant Traffic has launched its new online service for direct navigation advertising – offering domainers a risk-free monetization method for high quality, high traffic generic domain names. The Elephant Traffic service allows domainers to use their traffic for direct navigation advertising, offering the traffic from the domain names to advertisers on a cost-per-visitor basis and [...]
As mentioned yesterday, a group of businesses — mostly consisting of registrars, new gTLD candidates, and new gTLD consultants — sent a letter to ICANN urging the Board of Directors to initiate the new TLD system without further delay. While 61 businesses endorsed the letter, the Internet Commerce Association (ICA) declined the invitation replying that [...]
It seems ICANN is getting it from both sides these days – with Republican lawmakers opposing the new TLDs and trying to delay the process as well as supporters of the new system urging the Board of Directors of ICANN to “initiate the new top-level domain application period without further delay.” Sixty-one businesses, organizations, and [...]
Rod Beckstrom New ICANN CEO Rod Beckstrom has responded to the concerns regarding additional gTLDs raised by two of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee’s top Republicans, Lamar Smith and Howard Coble, saying that “the new gTLD policy development is the very type of process that the United States government envisioned, supported and encouraged through three [...]
Tony Hsieh, the CEO of Zappos.com will be the keynote speaker at the fourth annual DOMAINfest Global event, scheduled for January 26-28, 2010 in Santa Monica, California. Hsieh is one of the most respected and successful business innovators in the online world, founding his shoe company in 2000 with new approaches to marketing, human resource [...]
A group of Iowa investors have big plans for AreaRugs.com, so big that they were willing to shell out $405,000 for the premium domain name. “Our goal is to be the number one shopping destination online for area rugs,” said Randy Ward, CEO and President of AreaRugs.com. “We feel we have assembled a great team [...]
The second edition of MeetDomainers, a truly European meeting of domain investors, will be held at Warsaw Marriott Hotel, Poland, September 25-27. Almost one hundred people — including domainers, domain lawyers, developers, and representatives from registries and registrars — will participate in this live event which features networking sessions, various meetings, and a live domain [...]