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Yahoo! has just announced an agreement to acquire Right media, Largest Emerging Online Advertising Exchange for approximately $680 million
“The acquisition of Right Media will further Yahoo!’s goal to create the industry’s most open, accessible and vibrant advertising marketplace, which will help democratize the buying and selling of digitally enabled advertising,” said Terry Semel, chairman and CEO of Yahoo!.
The Right Media Exchange is the industry’s largest emerging online advertising exchange, and as publishers increasingly turn to exchanges to monetize their ad inventory, this acquisition will help Yahoo! establish a leading position in this large, attractive and fast growing segment of the online ad market.
Demand Media, Inc. announced today that premium .TV domain names will be made available tomorrow, May 1st, at 1:00 p.m. PT. Interested parties can go to www.domainsindemand.tv to register the nearly 53,000 names that have been off the market for close to five months.
In conjunction is the release of its proprietary tools to create video-centric websites with social networking with every .TV registration, free of charge.
chart.info has a neat .info map showing .info market share by country. They have compared the number of registrations for each of the 5 largest gTLDs (.com .net .info .org .biz) and produced a map showing the relative market penetration of .info for each country in the world. This means you can quickly see in which countries .info is the nearest contender to .com and in which countries .info is slow getting established.
Citizen Hawk have just launched a tool for detecting typosquatting sites. Their full service is expensive but they have an online typosquatting tool which displays a sample of possible infringers. For some marks it even identifies the parking company.
Now you can specify the location of your sitemaps within your robot.txt file and Ask, Google, Microsoft & Yahoo will all locate your sitemaps file. Ask has details here.
Specifications here www.sitemaps.org
Domains will soon be available in .asia the new gTLD from dotasia.org
Here’s the current timetable
June/July 2007 – Sunrise 1: Governments
September 2007 – Sunrise 2: Registered Marks
October/November 2007 – Sunrise 3: Entity Names
February 2008 – Landrush
March 2008 – Live FCFS registrations (First Comes First Served)
Interestingly Sunrise 2 has been split
2a Early Bird Sunrise – Marks registered before March 16, 2004 plus Certified use documents
2b Registered Marks – Marks applied for before December 6th, 2006
2c Extended Protection – Registered Mark + Words from the Class Description
Sunrise 1 is FCFS
Sunrise 2 & 3 to be auctioned between applicants if there is more than one applicant.
The nainstream media WSJ have taken a look at .mobi”
“Johannes Tromp says the Web site for his South Carolina bed-and-breakfast generates good business. But last fall, he found a way to reach even more potential customers: He made a version of the site for cellphones.
Mr. Tromp signed up for a mobile Web address with the newly available suffix “dot-mobi” and used a self-starter kit from a company called Roundpoint Ltd. to build
www.kilburnie.mobi, the mobile site for his Inn at Craig Farm. He says he’s gotten a surprisingly good response, with 30 to 40 new calls per month from interested travelers who heard of his inn by accessing the cellphone site.”
GPM Group 