Applications are being called for people interested in attending the third European School on Internet Governance (Euro-SSIG ) with applications closing on May 15, 2009. This year’s course is scheduled to run from July 26 to August 1 and will be held in Meissen (near Dresden), Germany.
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This post was written by Andrew on April 30, 2009
Cadbury Adams,a candy manufacturer,wants to take the domain name SwedishFish.com.
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This post was written by Andrew on April 30, 2009
Parked.com has bought the domain development company WhyPark as per the news release below. Parked.com believes the purchase will create synergies between the two companies by combining WhyPark’s strength in developing traffic with Parked.com’s competitive advantage in monetising traffic. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
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This post was written by Andrew on April 30, 2009
Company to cater resellers, ISPs and hosting companies for wholesale email hosting services.
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This post was written by Andrew on April 24, 2009
New product is a multi-tenant development environment built in Ruby, on top of the Amazon cloud platform.
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This post was written by Andrew on April 24, 2009
Trumpet.com appears to be back up on the auction block at NameJet.com
The domain which sold for $35,000 at TRAFFIC New York, last September, started with a reserve price of zero.
Already 134 people have backordered the domain, although it does not appear to be a “expired” or dropped domain” as it currently has an expiration date of July 2015.
So it appears to be a private sale through NameJet.com, and it will be interesting to see if the domain brings in more or less than its previous sale less than a year ago, in a better economy.
The domain is currently at $3,500 although the auction has not started yet.
My prediction is $25K.
To join the auction, click here. (you have to have a NameJet.com account and be logged in for this link to work)
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This post was written by Andrew on April 24, 2009
Its official, in just nine months after launching the revolutionary Apple App Store, the 1 billion downloads mark has been met.
Connor Mulcahey, a thirteen year old from Weston, CT, downloaded the one billionth app, Bump, a free contact swapping app created by Bump Technologies.
The teenager became the grand prize winner of Apple’s one billion app countdown contest and will receive a $10,000 iTunes gift card, an iPod touch, a Time Capsule, and a MacBook Pro.
As we spoke about last week when facebook hit 100 million users, the numbers the Internet can hit are just truly staggering.
If you have the right product or service, the numbers of customers you can reach are no longer measured in the thousands and tens of thousands, but in the hundreds of millions and now billions.
Certainly the reach of the Internet is unprecedented in world history.
History is being made.
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This post was written by Andrew on April 24, 2009
EuroDNS offers 10 free entrance passes for the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. ccTLDs held in Amsterdam on June 1st 2009. To win one of the passes simply fill in your details by clicking on the link below! The limit date to participate is the 15th May and the winners will be contacted on the 18th May.
http://www.eurodns.com/eurodns/trafficAmsterdam
Take part in one of the biggest events in Europe for domainers. T.R.A.F.F.I.C. ccTLDs 2009 will bring domainers together from around the world, and it is entirely dedicated to ccTLDs.
Hosted in Amsterdam, this event will assemble the Biggest and Best of the Domain Industry in Europe.
T.R.A.F.F.I.C. ccTLDs 2009 will take place 1 – 4 June, 2009 in Amsterdam. The conference will be held at the NH Grand Krasnapolsky located across from the Royal Palace on the Dam.
You may view the current schedule of seminars and events by going to www.targetedtraffic.com/cctlds.
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This post was written by Andrew on April 24, 2009
What if a search engine blocked a company who cut back its PPC spending, from appearing in non-paid search results?
That is exactly what Renren Information Services is accusing Baidu.com, China’s leading search engine, of.
Renren says that Baidu.com basically blackballed the site, after the company dramatically lowered its PPC spending with Baidu
Renren is suing Baidu for the equivalent of $161,000 in damages, and the case in currently at trial in a court in Beijing.
For a public company with a valuation of over 7 billion dollars, that’s basically a small claims case.
But this case is putting the search engine’s reputation and business ethics on trial.
According to Reuters, “Renren told the court the number of visits to its website dropped sharply after it reduced its spending with Baidu,”
According to the Renren, a search for the company’s sponsored subsidiary had returned over 80,000 page results while it was heavily running its PPC campaign but when it reduced the ad buy substantially, the same search yielded just 4 results.
Would a public company be so brazen to tie in natural search results with the amount spent on PPC advertising?
Stay tuned.
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This post was written by Andrew on April 24, 2009
It will be given by Rick Schwartz a free ticket to TRAFFIC New York city,which it will take place October 26-29,2009 to whoever guesses correctly the future price of SmartPhones.com.
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This post was written by Andrew on April 24, 2009
