The European Commission has opened an investigation into possible anticompetitive conduct by Google in the online advertising technology sector. It will examine whether Google is restricting access by third parties to user data for advertising …
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Vimeo is now a separate, publicly-traded company
Vimeo, an all-in-one video software solution, began trading on Nasdaq under the symbol “VMEO.” As a result of the spin-off, IAC’s interest in Vimeo is now held directly by IAC shareholders, and Vimeo is a …
Read More »Peter Sunde says ICANN is not a democratic institution
Peter Sunde provided an update about his domain name registrar application that was denied by ICANN. It turns out that he is actually banned from doing business with ICANN. ICANN will not say when (if …
Read More »ICANN denied Peter Sunde’s registrar application
Peter Sunde, co-creator of Njalla, says that ICANN denied his application to become a domain name registrar. (You can read more about the Njalla privacy domain registration service here.) Peter Sunde was also the co-founder …
Read More »Alarming Coronavirus messages in domain inquiries
I have put up a contact form on a lot of my domains and I get quite a few odd requests on a variety of subjects instead of valid domain name inquiries. Most of the …
Read More »Did billionaire Republicans just buy the .ORG domain extension?
I guess you have by now heard the news about the .org extension being sold to Ethos Capital. A Medium post claims that there are more investors besides Ethos Capital and behind these investment firms …
Read More »ICA asks ICANN to stop the .Org registry sale
ICA calls for ICANN to withhold approval of purported .Org registry sale. The original justification for awarding the .Org registry contract to ISOC was its public interest focus and commitments. If ISOC is no longer …
Read More »CentralNic acquires Team Internet (ParkingCrew and TONIC)
CentralNic Group plc (AIM: CNIC) announced it has signed a conditional agreement to acquire the entire share capital of web services provider, Team Internet AG, Germany. Team Internet consists of two products: ParkingCrew that offers …
Read More »New reports for video results in Google Search Console
Video is an important and growing medium used to consume information online. Google introduced today two new tools to help you understand your videos’ performance in Search and identify opportunities to improve your video markup. …
Read More »Google releases a broad core algorithm update
Google announced that it released a broad core algorithm update, as they do several times per year. It is called the September 2019 Core Update. The September 2019 Core Update is now live and will …
Read More »Mike Mann sells 3 domains for $68,288 in July
Mike Mann reported selling 3 domain names in July for a total of $68,288. Prices started at $18,000 and went up to $25,400. Mike Mann sold 3 .com domains which you can see further below. …
Read More »How Google lost part of the search index!
Most of the time, Google’s search engine runs properly but in April 2019 many different issues appeared at about the same time. “Our teams work hard to prevent technical issues that could affect our users …
Read More ».EU domain extension is shrinking
EURid released its 2019 Quarterly Progress Report. .EU is shrinking ending Q2 2019 with 3,623,691 domain registrations. The extension had 3,790,450 domains ending Q2 2018. But you will not find this number comparison in the …
Read More »Google dumps another app!
Yes, Google keeps dumping more mobile apps. After announcing it will be discontinuing the AdSense Android and iOS apps it now announced that it stopped supporting Google Trips on August 5, 2019. Google Trips has …
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