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Captain Kirk is not high on the new Celebrity only Facebook App
William Shatner of Star Trek and Priceline fame, is a big social media user, Shatner runs a popular blog on Tumblr and is active in a lot of places. He recently put together a review of the new Facebook Mentions app, our readers probably have not bee...
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Captain Kirk is not high on the new Celebrity only Facebook App
William Shatner of Star Trek and Priceline fame, is a big social media user, Shatner runs a popular blog on Tumblr and is active in a lot of places. He recently put together a review of the new Facebook Mentions app, our readers probably have not bee...
Discussion
July 29, 2014, 5:23 am

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The other Click Fraud
Krebs On Security took a look at the practice of click fraud that depletes a competitors ad budget. The practice is to run up the costs and maybe get them to blow their wad early in the day. I have spoken to people over the years who certainly felt t...
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The other Click Fraud
Krebs On Security took a look at the practice of click fraud that depletes a competitors ad budget. The practice is to run up the costs and maybe get them to blow their wad early in the day. I have spoken to people over the years who certainly felt t...
Discussion
July 28, 2014, 9:05 pm

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Vertical Axis Hit With UDRP on 8 Year Old Domain GlobeWay.com
Vertical Axis has just been Hit With a UDRP on the domain name GlobeWay.com The domain according to DomainTools.com has been owned since at least 2007 and possibly 2006 by Vertical Axis. The domain name is parked to a very generic parking page....
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Vertical Axis Hit With UDRP on 8 Year Old Domain GlobeWay.com
Vertical Axis has just been Hit With a UDRP on the domain name GlobeWay.com The domain according to DomainTools.com has been owned since at least 2007 and possibly 2006 by Vertical Axis. The domain name is parked to a very generic parking page....
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July 28, 2014, 8:56 pm

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As Rightside (futures) Starts Trading Its Market Cap Is 260M Of Demand’s $465M
Rightside, the spin off of Demand Media which begins formal trading on August 1, started to trade on Friday on a pre-issue basis on the symbol NAMEV. Although shares are lightly traded the price is $14.30 which is up from an opening of $14 a share. I...
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As Rightside (futures) Starts Trading Its Market Cap Is 260M Of Demand’s $465M
Rightside, the spin off of Demand Media which begins formal trading on August 1, started to trade on Friday on a pre-issue basis on the symbol NAMEV. Although shares are lightly traded the price is $14.30 which is up from an opening of $14 a share. I...
Discussion
July 28, 2014, 3:27 pm

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3D Search Engine Launching to Protect 3D Content
The longest comment thread in the history of domaining is the post that Michael wrote four years ago about 3D, it has 5,371 comments. So for those interested in the topic of 3D there is a new search engine launching on a .es domain is all about 3D co...
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3D Search Engine Launching to Protect 3D Content
The longest comment thread in the history of domaining is the post that Michael wrote four years ago about 3D, it has 5,371 comments. So for those interested in the topic of 3D there is a new search engine launching on a .es domain is all about 3D co...
Discussion
July 28, 2014, 7:18 am

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Tech Radar: “The new domain name system is causing problems for brands”
Tech Radar published an article todayon new gtlds and the problems brands are already having with protecting their brand. The article references a study from Brad Newberg at Reed Smith, the sample study took a look at 20 brands in the bicycle industr...
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Tech Radar: “The new domain name system is causing problems for brands”
Tech Radar published an article todayon new gtlds and the problems brands are already having with protecting their brand. The article references a study from Brad Newberg at Reed Smith, the sample study took a look at 20 brands in the bicycle industr...
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July 27, 2014, 11:13 pm

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Actress Blake Lively Launches New Lifestyle Brand on a .US
Actress Blake Lively launched her new lifestyle website on a .US rather than say going the Blake.Luxury route or Lively.social. The Gossip Girl star is going with the name Preserve.Us. The Huffington Post covered the launch and the feedback from all ...
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Actress Blake Lively Launches New Lifestyle Brand on a .US
Actress Blake Lively launched her new lifestyle website on a .US rather than say going the Blake.Luxury route or Lively.social. The Gossip Girl star is going with the name Preserve.Us. The Huffington Post covered the launch and the feedback from all ...
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July 27, 2014, 4:26 pm

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e-Commerce may be the sizzle, but brick and mortar remains the steak
e-Commerce is certainly one of the largest trends to affect business and culture over the past 25 years. In 2013 Amazon did $74.45 billion in revenue, but when compared to Walmart that number looks small. The Arkansas based retailer is close to half ...
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e-Commerce may be the sizzle, but brick and mortar remains the steak
e-Commerce is certainly one of the largest trends to affect business and culture over the past 25 years. In 2013 Amazon did $74.45 billion in revenue, but when compared to Walmart that number looks small. The Arkansas based retailer is close to half ...
Discussion
July 26, 2014, 10:43 pm

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Exclusive – Interview with the Buyer of Digital.com, Richard Kershaw
Digital.com sold in the Heritage Auction for $325,000 and with the buyers premium the total price to the buyer came to $373,750. After the auction we communicated with the gentleman who purchased the domain name, Richard Kershaw. We decided to ask Ri...
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Exclusive – Interview with the Buyer of Digital.com, Richard Kershaw
Digital.com sold in the Heritage Auction for $325,000 and with the buyers premium the total price to the buyer came to $373,750. After the auction we communicated with the gentleman who purchased the domain name, Richard Kershaw. We decided to ask Ri...
Discussion
July 26, 2014, 10:46 am

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It’s All About Branding
Nathan Safran wrote a piece on Search Engine Land that had to do with the branding benefits of search. In his piece entitled, It’s Time For Marketers To Attend To The Branding Benefits Of Search, Safran cited a Google study that concluded, &ldq...
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It’s All About Branding
Nathan Safran wrote a piece on Search Engine Land that had to do with the branding benefits of search. In his piece entitled, It’s Time For Marketers To Attend To The Branding Benefits Of Search, Safran cited a Google study that concluded, &ldq...
Discussion
July 25, 2014, 8:58 pm