Domains, Internet & Gadgets
Google has released an iphone app to allow iPhone users to search without having to type.
Google said “Google Mobile App helps you find the information you need quickly and easily with instant access to Google Search.”
Features include
Voice Search
Search with My Location
Local search suggestions on a map
Instant access to search
Google Suggest
URL suggestions
Contact search
Search history
Easy access to other Google products
Sedo have just completed an auction of premium .mobi domain names. The total sold* was $206,229.
*This is a provisional number because (a) Sedo Auctions are difficult to track, (b) we do not have official confirmation and (c) sometimes bids on Sedo auctions are not honoured. Read the rest of this entry »
The Global Phishing Survey shows that, during the first half of 2008, .INFO has the lowest phishing rate and the lowest average attack duration among the Internet’s generic top-level domains (gTLDs).
.INFO’s attack durations were near the average among all gTLDs in the second half of 2007, so INFO is now even safer than it was in the past.
This improvement began in January 2008, when Afilias implemented a vigorous anti-phishing program. The study results demonstrate the effectiveness of this program, with the average phishing attack durations in the .INFO domain reduced by almost 50%, ahead of all other gTLDs. Reduced attack durations provide greater protection to consumers and organizations that conduct online commerce, demonstrably reducing financial losses and the many other costs of identity theft.
News article
http://www.afilias.com/news/press_releases/pr_articles/2008-11-06-01
Report
www.apwg.org/reports/APWG_GlobalPhishingSurvey1H2008.pdf
UK sales of games will outstrip music and video for the first time in 2008, says a report from Verdict Research. The report predicts spending on games will rise by 42% to £4.64bn in 2008, with sales on music and video at £4.46bn.
“A huge shift in consumer attitudes has turned video games into the UK’s most popular form of entertainment, say the retail analysts. The BBC has more details
The UAE is hoping to become the first country worldwide to offer complete internet domain names in a language other than English by late next year.
China have already achieved partial success however the .com or .info part of the domain must still be in English. ICANN’s ccTLDs (country code top level domains) initiative will allow for the first time the complete domain name to be in non-English letters.
In Q3 09 ICANN hopes to launch these new ccTLDs and “We will start implementing the Arabic domain names,” Mohammad Al Zarouni, chief technology officer at the .ae Domain Administration of the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) told Gulf News.
dotMobi announced yesterday .mobi domain registrations have passed 1,000,000 in just over 2 years since the TLD was launched.
ICANN has opened an area on its website to discuss their proposed new GTLD process. The public comment forum for the New gTLD Applicant Guidebook is divided in to 6 parts
The 6 doucments availiable for commnent are
Full Draft Applicant Guide book (.pdf)
Introduction to New gTLDs Application Process (.pdf)
Evaluation Procedures (.pdf)
Dispute Resolution ProceduresDispute Resolution Procedures (.pdf)
String Contention Procedures (.pdf)
Transition to Delegation (.pdf)
Application Terms and Conditions (.pdf)
Telnic, the registy for the .tel top level domain TLD has released APIs, toolkits, APIs, a developer forum white papers and the .tel code base. Telnic’s resources for developers will allow developers to create applications and web services around the .tel TLD.
If .tel is new to you CNNMoney.com has brief article The Google of online phone books which explains how .tel works and why .tel is different from other top level domains like .info and .mobi
Google has presented to Ad Agencies new options to show different ads in response to searches made from iPhones. The change will allow advertisers will be able to create an iPhone ad group as part of their existing campaign.
Adweek has more
Compared with the first half of 2007, online ad spending grew 15.2 % to $11.5 billion in the U.S., the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) announced Tuesday. The rate of Growth slowed forn from 27% in the first half of 2007 compared with the same period in 2006.
As a percentage of total revenue
Search advertising increased from 41% to 44%
Display ads (Banners, video & rich media) increased from 32% to 33%
Classified ads decreased from 17% to 14%
GPM Group 