Posted by Chief Editor , Saturday, 24 May 2008

San Jose, California – Gaining visibility on the Internet is a tricky process that is governed by search engines. Willow Glen Lighting learned this lesson when they gave up their web address to a community in San Jose, California with the same name.

Their subsequent fall from search engine status inspired a unique contest designed to bring them back up the ladder. Beginning on May 24, anyone who provides valid links to their site could win up to $1,000.00 in home lighting products...

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Posted by Chief Editor , Friday, 23 May 2008

Christopher William Hartnett, Ph.D. is the founder and retired Chairman of USA Global Link, Inc., Global Online, Inc.(GOL) and the publicly traded Global Online India, Inc. (GOLX) spoke about alternatives to monitize domain names at T.R.A.F.F.I.C. East Orlando.

 

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Posted by Chief Editor , Friday, 23 May 2008

Arnhem, May 20th, 2008 - SIDN, the .NL registry, realized a growth of more than 509,000 .NL  domain names in 2007. The total number of .NL domain names was at 2,695,454 on January 1st, 2008, a net growth of 23%. These figures are listed in the 2007 annual report that SIDN published on www.sidn.nl today.

In 2007 SIDN took various measures to improve the service it offers to nearly 2,100 brokers and registrars. For example, the zone file frequency was increased, activating newly  requested .NL domain names faster and there is also a new monitoring system in place to monitor and track all incoming telephone and e-mails to the help desk...

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Posted by Chief Editor , Friday, 23 May 2008

Still reporting Live! from T.R.A.F.F.I.C. East Orlando. On Day 3, Divyank Turakhia, President of Skenzo and co-founder of the Directi Group (the parent company of Skenzo) talked to us about your option to move your domains offshore and why you should consider doing it. He has been chiefly responsible for transforming Skenzo from a fledgling startup within the Directi Group, to one of the world's leading companies in the traffic monetization business.
  

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Posted by Chief Editor , Friday, 23 May 2008

  
Hong Kong – the DotAsia Organisation (DotAsia) and the International Federation Against Copyright Theft – Greater China (IFACT-GC) representing the Motion Picture Association (MPA) in Hong Kong, are proud to announce the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to establish a cooperative mechanism for the online protection of movies.  The signing took place today at the ISP Symposium 2008 being held at the Hotel Royal Macau on May 22nd and 23rd.

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Posted by Chief Editor , Friday, 23 May 2008

Adding extra excitement to the ongoing .Asia Auctions, DotAsia‘s "Hot or Not Contest" allows anyone to participate and pick which .Asia domain will fetch the highest auction price, and what that price might be. Fantastic Cash Prizes totalling US$15,000 will be handed out throughout 4 weekly contests in June and there will be a Grand Prize for the overall Winner!

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Posted by Chief Editor , Friday, 23 May 2008

Our friends at Domaines.info were present at the INTA conference in Berlin. They interviewed ICANN chief registrar liaison, Tim Cole after he discussed new gTLDs and IDNs during a workshop held at the International Trademark Association’s 130th meeting in Berlin.

After speaking at a session entitled "Trademarks and the Internet, Hot Topics" in the main auditorium, Tim Cole said, "As a former trademark attorney and INTA member, I was very happy to come here and discuss what’s going on at ICANN and in the domain name industry."

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Posted by Chief Editor , Friday, 23 May 2008

Gregg McNair, Director of Domain Holdings Group discusses a hot topic. Domainers who utilize parking companies to generate revenue have been experiencing a 20 to 30% drop in parking revenue over the past few months and the question whether or not PPC (pay per click) revenue will stabilize or disappear seems to be valid...

Source: Copyright DomainNews.com - Posted by Chief Editor - May 23rd, 2008

Posted by Chief Editor , Friday, 23 May 2008

Today, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysian-based Qinetics Solution Berhad (“Qinetics”) has been awarded by Singapore Network Information Centre (SGNIC) Private Limited (“SGNIC”) for the provisioning of a registry-registrar domain name system for .SG domain name.

 

SGNIC has gone through a thorough tender process to upgrade the current Registry-Registrar system, in anticipation of further growth in the Internet industry in Singapore and also to streamline SGNIC’s operation...

 

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Posted by Chief Editor , Friday, 23 May 2008

Loren Baker, Editor at the SearchEngineJournal published an interesting article today asking the question whether keywords in domain names (URLs) are important and how does it differ across various search engines? Read his analyss and the user comments here.