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Ocersee.net has a press release confirming the completion of the acquisition of Snapnames
Interesting stats
Oversee has a portfolio of some 600,000 names and
DomainSponsor monetizes more than 2.0 million domains for third parties.
This year, up to 10 million previously registered domain names will pass through SnapNames’ auctions.
In a huge study Efficient Frontier has looked at PPC advertising for their automotive clients and found their clients receive twice the conversion rates from domains at a comparable cost per click as search.
“The benefits of separate content bidding are apparent in the results. When Efficient Frontier started implementing content bids for their clients, they observed an average 250 percent lift in conversion rates on the content network, including on domain park sites. In addition, Efficient Frontier utilized site exclusion to refine targeting and boost conversion rates further. “We try to educate our clients on the positive ROI impact of content bids and site exclusion,” states Hanson. “Sometimes excluding even a single site, which isn’t performing well, can have a drastic positive impact on conversion rates.”
Snapnames has agreed to be acquired by Oversee.net Press release here
Business 2.0 Magazine has a detailed article on how Kevin Ham, probably the most powerful dotcom mogul you’ve never heard of, built his $300 million domain empire.
Footnotes also on Garry Chernoff, Scott Day, Frank Schilling, Yun-Ye and Craig Lovik.
ICANN has published their audit of Registrar compliance with the RAA Registrar Accreditation Agreement.
19 registrars were found to have non working websites
20 registrars were found to not have a WHOIS service available on their websites.
from a total of 881 accreditted registars.
Over 50% of the failing registars were based in North America.
Registrars which failed the audit will now have chance to rectify the situation, faliure to do so will result in being sent formal notices. ICANN report
.ms is the ccTLD for Montserrat in the Caribbean. There are no restrictions on .ms names which are available for $90 a year (2 year minimum)
ICANN is considering adding new gTLDs (generic top-level domains like .com, .org etc) to the Internet from August 2008 and is seeking public input on its proposed development of a new process for creating, approving, and adding new gTLDs.
Take part in the online discussion at http://forum.icann.org/lists/newgtld
Email questions and comments to newgtld@icann.org
ICANN has posted a very useful new gTLD FAQ page
ICANN will hold WHOIS accuracy audits later this year. Accredited registrars will each be subject to an anonymous ICANN audit of their domain names. Names breaching the WHOIS requirements (inaccurate or incomplete entries) will be reported via WDRPS. ICANN will then double check the WHOIS 45 days later. Registrars with names still in breach of the WHOIS requirements will be notified of a failure to comply with Section 3.7.8 of the Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RRA) with an explanation expected within 5 business days.
Full details of the new Compliance Initiative report at the ICANN website
ICANN’s Whois Data Accuracy and Availability Program:
Description of Prior Efforts and New Compliance Initiatives
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