Saturday, October 20, 2007
Not many Dallas fans know that their beloved Cowboys were thrown for TWO big loses last weekend. One of which was their failed attempt to beat the Patriots, and the other (which could end up as more costly) was the loss of their own brand on the Internet.
The Cowboys managed to fumble the deal for Cowboys.com at a domain name auction in Florida. Get this, after securing the winning bid of $275k (other domains at the auction went as high as $2.2 million each) Dallas begged out after claiming they thought they'd won the name for a bid of $275. That's right folks, they (said) they thought they had won the name for less than it costs for a family to attend one of their games.
The domain was promptly put back into play and sold for $370k in overtime.
Friday, October 19, 2007
The Department of Commerce has announced the extended award of the registry contract for the United States Country Code Top Level Domain ( .US ) to Neustar Inc. This action has disappointed some of the largest holders and supporters of the extension who were calling for a takeover by the Alliance Registry created by a partnership pf GoDaddy and Afilias. Many of those with vested interests in the .US ccTLD believe that Neustar has mismanaged the extension and has done almost nothing to promote it's use. They say they have little hope that Neustar will change it's ways going forward.
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Friday, October 12, 2007
Just back, but then again I never left in the first place. The EcomXpo is 100% virtual and I think we'll be seeing a lot more of this type of trade show in the future. Just think, you can talk with sponsors at their booths and exchange cards and immediately see presentations of their products and services. Traveling to the next booth is done in the blink of an eye saving a lot of time and allowing you to see a lot more of what you came for. You can see and converse with other attendees and take in several seminars and panel discussions. Now this is without all the cost and time associated with flights, hotels, taxis, meals etc. etc.
It appears to be quite popular as well. Checking some of the stats for this show, there were some 3513 companies represented by attendees. A number of the giants were there such as Google and Microsoft and lots of affiliate related organizations such as ADtech, Linkshare, Doubleclick, Digital River etc. I especially liked the services offered by http://www.yudu.com/us/ and http://wink.com/ take a look.
Over in the education hall the top 5 presentations were; 30 Tips for Web Writing, Future-proofing Your SEO Strategy, Social Networking and Affiliate Marketing, Fast and Easy Affiliate Income, and Word of Mouth Marketing in Five Easy Steps.
I was so impressed by the show's platform, that I contacted the author Inxpo to see what it would take to do something like this for the financial industry.
Amanda Beard and Bob Parsons (CEO GoDaddy)
It's fun to be the first with news and our scoop about Amanda Beard as the new GoDaddy Girl was a kick. I wonder if she'll be wearing that GoDaddy swimsuit in her next olympic swimming competition? I expect Bob will be taking her to the big Motorcycle rallys and she'll be riding her bike to boot.
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