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Google Greatly Limiting Adult Advertisers on Adwords Starting Later This Month
Xbiz.com is reporting that Google has sent out letters to adult content marketers warning that they are greatly limiting their ability to advertise on Google AdWords starting later this month: “Beginning in the coming weeks, we’ll no long...
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Google Greatly Limiting Adult Advertisers on Adwords Starting Later This Month
Xbiz.com is reporting that Google has sent out letters to adult content marketers warning that they are greatly limiting their ability to advertise on Google AdWords starting later this month: “Beginning in the coming weeks, we’ll no long...
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June 10, 2014, 3:32 pm

The Domains
Cisco Predicts There Will Be 1.5 Billion More Internet Users By 2018
Cisco released the complete VNI Global IP Traffic Forecast Global highlights from the updated study include the following projections: By 2018, there will be nearly four billion global Internet users (more than 51 percent of the world’s populat...
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Cisco Predicts There Will Be 1.5 Billion More Internet Users By 2018
Cisco released the complete VNI Global IP Traffic Forecast Global highlights from the updated study include the following projections: By 2018, there will be nearly four billion global Internet users (more than 51 percent of the world’s populat...
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June 10, 2014, 2:20 pm

The Domains
Famous Four Off To Slow Start; .Webcam 3,675 Registrations; .Trade 3,235; .Bid 629
Famous Four Media first new gTLD launched yesterday at 10am into general availability and got off to a slow start overall. .Webcam as predicted had the most registrations at 3,675 according to ntldstats.com, placing it as the 70th most register...
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Famous Four Off To Slow Start; .Webcam 3,675 Registrations; .Trade 3,235; .Bid 629
Famous Four Media first new gTLD launched yesterday at 10am into general availability and got off to a slow start overall. .Webcam as predicted had the most registrations at 3,675 according to ntldstats.com, placing it as the 70th most register...
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June 10, 2014, 1:44 pm

The Domains
Minds + Machines Swings To A Profit in 2013, From Losing New gTLD Private Auctions
Minds + Machines Group released its earnings for the year ending December 31, 2013 and swung to an operating profit of £776,000 against a loss of £3.07 million loss in 2012. All the profit came from losing private auctions on New gTLD str...
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Minds + Machines Swings To A Profit in 2013, From Losing New gTLD Private Auctions
Minds + Machines Group released its earnings for the year ending December 31, 2013 and swung to an operating profit of £776,000 against a loss of £3.07 million loss in 2012. All the profit came from losing private auctions on New gTLD str...
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June 10, 2014, 1:20 pm

The Domains
Owner of x.uk expects the short web address to fetch a record £10m
The Telegraph is out with a couple stories about the .UK extension. Stephen Fry is the first Brit to make the switch From the article: Stephen Fry has become the first person to make the switch to a .uk web domain as the service becomes availab...
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Owner of x.uk expects the short web address to fetch a record £10m
The Telegraph is out with a couple stories about the .UK extension. Stephen Fry is the first Brit to make the switch From the article: Stephen Fry has become the first person to make the switch to a .uk web domain as the service becomes availab...
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June 10, 2014, 11:11 am

The Domains
New York Times Reports On Godaddy IPO: Its Go Time
The New York Times is reporting that Godaddy IPO is a Go According to the New York Times, Godaddy had 57 million domains under management as of Dec. 31. GoDaddy reported $1.1 billion in revenue for 2013, a 24% increase from the previous year. Accordi...
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New York Times Reports On Godaddy IPO: Its Go Time
The New York Times is reporting that Godaddy IPO is a Go According to the New York Times, Godaddy had 57 million domains under management as of Dec. 31. GoDaddy reported $1.1 billion in revenue for 2013, a 24% increase from the previous year. Accordi...
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June 9, 2014, 9:52 pm

The Domains
Ad Impersonation Is The New Click Fraud
Lori Weiman wrote an interesting piece on Search Engine Land a few hours ago, the article focused on a different type of click fraud. PPC Ad impersonation occurs when an impostor advertiser takes a well known website address, and uses it as the...
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Ad Impersonation Is The New Click Fraud
Lori Weiman wrote an interesting piece on Search Engine Land a few hours ago, the article focused on a different type of click fraud. PPC Ad impersonation occurs when an impostor advertiser takes a well known website address, and uses it as the...
Discussion
June 9, 2014, 9:21 pm

The Domains
Two “Premium Domain” New gTLD Auctions Start; Namejet For .Build; Sedo for .Bid
I see a couple of “premium” domain name auctions are starting this week one at Namejet.com and one at Sedo for the new gTLD extensions .Build and .Bid respectively At Namejet.com they are auctioning off 35 .Build Domains. I have to say I ...
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Two “Premium Domain” New gTLD Auctions Start; Namejet For .Build; Sedo for .Bid
I see a couple of “premium” domain name auctions are starting this week one at Namejet.com and one at Sedo for the new gTLD extensions .Build and .Bid respectively At Namejet.com they are auctioning off 35 .Build Domains. I have to say I ...
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June 9, 2014, 2:38 pm

The Domains
Brand Protection Fail!: 25 More Trademarked Domains Drop Including MicrosoftSoftware.com
As we go through Drop lists of domain name in an attempt to acquire some of them, we typically see a good number of what appear to be trademark infringing domain names. As usual we do not point out typo’s but mostly domain names that seem to be...
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Brand Protection Fail!: 25 More Trademarked Domains Drop Including MicrosoftSoftware.com
As we go through Drop lists of domain name in an attempt to acquire some of them, we typically see a good number of what appear to be trademark infringing domain names. As usual we do not point out typo’s but mostly domain names that seem to be...
Discussion
June 9, 2014, 2:06 pm

The Domains
Famous Four Sells 15 .WEBCAM Domains For $175K, including Tube.Webcam & Asian.Webcam
In a press release Famous Four Media, Inc, sold a package of 15 domain names to a single buyer netting them $175,000 after commission in a sale brokered by Hunting Moon All of the 15 domain names were ” for adult oriented terms in the .WEBCAM r...
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Famous Four Sells 15 .WEBCAM Domains For $175K, including Tube.Webcam & Asian.Webcam
In a press release Famous Four Media, Inc, sold a package of 15 domain names to a single buyer netting them $175,000 after commission in a sale brokered by Hunting Moon All of the 15 domain names were ” for adult oriented terms in the .WEBCAM r...
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June 9, 2014, 10:00 am