Totalitarianism, Nominet and a Fox in the Chicken Coup Jim Davies, attorney, domainer, voice of reason and all round good guy has been elected to the board at Nominet, the UK’s governing body of the .uk namespace. He was elected to the board at Nominets AGM held in London on Thursday. He was elected to the board despite some heavy lobbying by Nominet to
Julia Mackenzie - 5/3/2008 4:56:25 AM
Best Domainer Bookmark Award - VOTE NOW In conjunction with our friends at NamePros.com, they have kindly hosted the 1st Domainer Best Bookmark Awards. As posted before, the sites chosen for the shortlist are all free to use (in some respect), chosen without bias by the good readers here and all worthy of note. The best site may not be as important
Julia Mackenzie - 4/30/2008 6:08:38 PM
D-Day for Microhoo By all accounts, today, Wednesday is the MicroHoo D-day… I may even be writing this as the news breaks… Or not it may seem.
Latest noise out of MS is that they may back off from the Y! deal altogether. More smoke and mirrors? Who knows.
Favorite Y! bashing site allthingsd.com reports, citing unnamed sources, that Microsof...
Julia Mackenzie - 4/30/2008 5:53:52 PM
2008 Best Domainer Bookmark Awards Seeing as though everyone and their uncle seems to have an awards ceremony nowadays, Ive decided to bring together a definitive list of essential domaining utilities / sites and other online resources that every domainer, from your common or garden n00b to your seasoned professional, should have bookmarked as a matter of course. And ...
Julia Mackenzie - 4/10/2008 7:49:14 AM
The End Might Really Be Nigh Certainly for all the Yahoo partners..! In one of the most eyebrow raising incidents I can remember since domain parking began, Yahoo last night announced they were conducting a 2 week trial to serve Google Adsense on 3% of their search queries.
Ok, not a great proportion of their overall capacity and a trial that won’t
Julia Mackenzie - 4/10/2008 7:31:31 AM
Dumb Brits Winding down for the weekend already, I got this via email and I just love stuff like this. Here are some real examples of dumb Brits on various game / quiz shows.
UNIVERSITY CHALLENGE (BBC2)
Jeremy Paxman: What is another name for ‘cherrypickers’ and ‘cheesemongers’?
Contestant: Homosexuals.
Paxman: No. They&...
Julia Mackenzie - 3/27/2008 5:11:50 AM
Arbitrage, and why greed and the likes of Marchex et al killed it. I have a friend who works in Internet networks, data streams and all that malarkey. Very successful guy, works with all the big banks and search engines etc. His business tests the infrastructure and network capacity for the likes of HSBC, Ebay, Yahoo, Google… You can imagine the list. Recently he was showing me some
Julia Mackenzie - 3/26/2008 11:40:37 AM
Sedo for Sale….
Just hearing on the old gossip wire that adlink (sedo’s parent company) is being touted for sale at a whopping $300m.
Not got anymore info about it than that for now but, as soon as i get this confirmed or denied, you guys will be the 1st to know. A pretty solid source told me this
Julia Mackenzie - 3/12/2008 5:57:31 PM
The story of Geosign, Arbitrage, $160m and Google “A record $160-million VC investment. A rich Web strategy. A quirky founder. For a few weeks last spring, Guelph, Ont.’s Geosign had it all. Then mighty Google stirred. And it was over……[__]“
As much as I hate regurgitating others work (and always berate those that do it) this story is an absolute must read fo...
Julia Mackenzie - 3/6/2008 9:08:40 AM
I know its only Thursday but… I already have that Friday feeling…
Firstly, a confession. Being someone who has on numerous times fallen foul to having ones head bashed in by a lamp post whilst “texting and walking” in the street [obviously then followed by my subsequent “that didn’t hurt” act one has to perform once you’v...
Julia Mackenzie - 3/6/2008 8:33:52 AM
“De Gook was always outside working on his tulips… talking aloud, incessantly, about something he apparently thought was important, but no one could understand a word he said, as we neighbors called it, he just spoke a bunch of Gobbel De Gook.”
“Gobbledygook or gobbledegook (sometimes shortened to gobbledegoo) is an English term used to describe nonsensical language, soun...
Julia Mackenzie - 3/4/2008 7:19:45 AM
The fall out from the ASK sub syndication debacle Whats ironic about the news reported here last month about ASK losing the right to sub syndicate their Google feed to parking companies is that, despite all the pontificating by the companies affected themselves, the news was in fact 100% accurate - as now finally admitted.
Be nice if someone would enlighten me as to what
Julia Mackenzie - 3/4/2008 3:19:45 AM
Things go from bad to worse for MIVA MIVA.com, the long forgotten pioneer of search marketing have just established a settlement fund of nearly $4m in a class action “click fraud” case. Aside from allegedly trading at a loss for several years now MIVA, who were previously known as findwhat and espotting, will have been hit pretty hard by this settlement. Not...
Julia Mackenzie - 2/27/2008 8:53:13 AM
Dang, just when you thought the fight was over Google stock goes down the proverbial drain. A high of $750 in October down to below $448 on Tuesday. Who’d have thought it? And all this, just as i read from Sahar (although i cant find the article to trackback to, due to all this bido malarkey) that Yahoo have seemingly pulled the rabbit from
Julia Mackenzie - 2/26/2008 7:45:19 PM
Jay’s somewhat confusing haiku or is it hicoo… I read today that Jay has the well respected and seemingly “only” outspoken senior Google employee Matt Cutts speaking at the upcoming domaintools event in San Fran in April.
Few things make me smile about this. First up, Matt Cutts and Domainers.. Not exactly a marriage made in heaven.. Submit your questions here…
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WIPO, The Economist and the ignorant registrant I love WIPO. In fact, I love all those bodies who preside over domain name disputes. I use the word “love” in its broadest possible sense however as my affection stems solely from the entertainment value they give me rather from any affectionate respect. Its important to note at this stage that Ive never been
Julia Mackenzie - 2/20/2008 4:51:49 AM
Lets take time to recap the state of the industry this week -> Parked.com announce that Yahoo arbitrage is finished. Well, they cunningly announced that ‘its finished’ both on their platform and on a global level. Their arbitrage is due to finish about the time… Well, about the time of this post. No news however from the other Yahoo fed providers, which I find interest...
Julia Mackenzie - 2/13/2008 6:58:55 PM
The “King”, his alter ego and why Rick should be pleased. I personally don’t know Rick Schwartz that well. It seems however that no matter which way I turn in the domaining world people are talking about him.. Not always negatively I must say as, generally, hes normally spoken about with affection. Is it me though, or is there not much middle ground when it comes
Julia Mackenzie - 2/12/2008 6:39:57 AM
Google renews ASK.com feed But tells them to kill the syndicated partner deals.
As reported previously, I’m being told that Google have renewed ASK.com’s incredible deal to sub sell their advertisers feed on their own search platform, provided ASK cease re-re-selling it to 3rd party providers - including to ASK’s parking partners.
Im told the...
Julia Mackenzie - 2/10/2008 4:12:44 PM
Heads up to check your Gmail account This was buzzing around my company for a while back in January and, just in case anyone is still in the dark on this, allow me to pass on a little check all you gmail folk should carry out as a matter of urgency.
The beauty with gmail is apparently how its free, how it stores
Julia Mackenzie - 2/6/2008 3:49:23 PM
Another ad network gets gobbled up Which means yet more consolidation in the online ad market space..
“LONDON, - 5 Feb 2008 - AOL announced today that it has acquired buy.at, a leading independent affiliate network that provides a platform for performance based e-commerce marketing programs to advertisers and publishers. buy.at will operate as a wholly-owned bus...
Julia Mackenzie - 2/5/2008 11:46:36 AM
“Waaaaas Up” with the .co.uk market Ok, so they are generic domain names…
But, $7m for casino.co.uk and $2m for sport.co.uk… ..
Welcome to the new en vogue market people…
Julia Mackenzie - 2/5/2008 11:08:45 AM
Google clamp down on publisher adsense “so called” minisites Seems, despite my previous magnanimous and self defamating remarks about my ability to predict the future, the one thing I did seemingly predict correctly (and which now seems to be coming to fruition) is Google wielding and threatening to wield the axe on the mini-site / adsense driven parked domains and their publisher owners.
Julia Mackenzie - 2/4/2008 11:29:37 AM
Why a Yahoo / Microsoft collaboration is good news for domainers. So Microsoft have once again come in for Yahoo for $44.6bn. In 2006 they made what, by all accounts, was a similar offer. At that time the Yahoo stock was trading much higher than of recent weeks and therefore a “not so great” deal for Yahoo’s shareholders. It was then a private takeover bid and
