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Web.com buying Register.com for $135 million
Jun 17, 2010 (The Florida Times-Union – McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX).
Web.com Group Inc. announced today an agreement to buy Register.com for $135 million, a deal that will increase Jacksonville-based Web.com’s business by 80 percent.
New York-based Register.com is a privately-held company that provides Internet domain name registration and website design and management services. Web.com also [...]
Police, security officials meet on cybercrime strategies
When the “ILOVEYOU” worm crippled computer systems worldwide 10 years ago this spring, authorities in the Philippines didn’t even have a law to properly charge its author.
Since that time, many countries have developed computer crime laws in part due to the 2001 Convention on Cybercrime, an international treaty that lays out legal guidelines for high-tech [...]
Breaking Domain News
We have just learned, from Sedo, that an Involuntary Chapter 11 petition has been filed against Escom, owner of the Sex.com domain name.
This could mean the scheduled foreclosure auction of the domain, Sex.com, will not take place tomorrow as previously planned.
Sedo will keep you informed of any further updates regarding this breaking news.
For more information please reference [...]
Dressing down over ad that goes too far in boardroom
DANIELLE TEUTSCH
Rubbed the wrong way … the offending advertisement with Pamela Anderson.
A COMMERCIAL featuring Pamela Anderson in a gold bikini rubbing against another scantily clad woman while being sprayed with a white liquid has “crossed the line” in bad taste and been banned from Australian television.
But the company responsible for the ad, Crazy Domains, a [...]
Google probes for enemies within
Google is investigating whether one or more employees may have helped facilitate a cyber-attack that the US search giant said it was a victim of in mid-December, two sources have told Reuters.
Google, the world’s most popular search engine, said last week it may pull out of the world’s biggest Internet market by users after reporting [...]
Aussie Googlers gather for Street View stunt
ASHER MOSES
Passers-by could be forgiven for thinking the entire Google Australia team was on strike today after staff gathered outside the company’s headquarters for a Street View stunt.
The search giant’s army of camera-equipped Holden Astra cars are preparing to traverse the country again from this week to take new, higher quality pictures of Australia’s capital [...]
Who am I? Ask Google Dashboard
November 6, 2009 – 11:11AM
Google is offering a new privacy control that will make it easier for people to see some of the information being collected about them.
The “Dashboard” feature unveiled Thursday pulls together all the data that pour into Google’s computers whenever web surfers log in to one of the company’ services.
That includes summaries [...]
Top 5 SEO Strategy: Getting Your Website to the Top of Google
by David Bayer
Most search engines provide two different unpaid areas where your business can appear: local business listings and web page results. Having a search engine optimization strategy that gets your business exposure in both of these areas will help you maximize your internet marketing efforts. Here are the top five no-nonsense ways to get [...]
Picking a domain name 'is an important task'
You should think carefully before they make a final decision because their selection is an important choice, it has been claimed. “In the Ultimate Guide to Search Engine Marketing published at EntrepreneurPress.com, Jon Rognerud advised against opting for a URL stuffed with keywords unless they make sense for the site.
He said it is also advisable to [...]
Businesses advised to use social media
The Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB) recently published the results of a study which found that 60 per cent of respondents are already using social media or are planning to do so in the near future.
It revealed that 55 per cent of firms have not reduced their digital marketing budgets during the recession, while 39 per [...]