Archive for Archive for September, 2009
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 [...]
Ecommerce sites 'should consider other online outlets'
ecommerce store should look into making use of other estores when trying to sell their goods, it has been suggested. In an article for Media Post, managing partner and president of Catalyst SF Cory Treffiletti said this form of online retail is often overlooked by companies.
The expert recommended looking into selling products on websites such [...]
China tops ccTLD registries for Q3 2008
Verisign’s Third Quarter Domain Name Industry Brief included a table from Zooknic that showed .cn to be the most popular ccTLD, ahead of Germany’s .de and the United Kingdom’s .uk.
The Netherlands (.nl), the European Union (.eu) and Argentina (.ar) followed in positions four to six, ahead of Italy (.it), Brazil (.br), the United States (.us) [...]
Tennis Australia plays with domain 'scalper'
Steven Deare, ZDNet Australia
Update Tennis Australia has admitted it paid a “hefty fee” to a scalper of the domain name kind in order to obtain the Web address it wanted as part of a rebranding campaign.
Australian tennis’s governing body this month launched tennis.com.au as part of a marketing campaign. Speaking at the Australian Open yesterday, [...]
Domain Names Growth trends for the past 3 years
China (CNNIC) is the lead contributor to such growth and immense size of domain name which is accumulated to 13,572,326 domain names registered and growing. (They broke the 14m mark this year).
Russia had the fastest growth rate of 11% quarterly , followed by DENIC by 12,448,242 domain names.
Argentina has about 1,767,273 as of Oct 08. [...]
Internet Users 2008
1,463,632,361 The number of Internet users worldwide (June 2008).
578,538,257 Internet users in Asia.
384,633,765 Internet users in Europe.
248,241,969 Internet users in North America.
139,009,209 Internet users in Latin America/Caribbean.
51,065,630 Internet users in Africa.
41,939,200 Internet users in the Middle East.
20,204,331 Internet users in Oceania/Australia.
Nationals register 'Nathan Rees' domain
By Matt Wordsworth
The New South Wales National Party is under investigation for registering the website nathanrees.com.au.
The web is set to play its most prominent role yet in a New South Wales state election.
All parties have taken to it like never before and both leaders and most ministers have a presence on sites like twitter and [...]
Vendor wanted 'tens of thousands' for Rees domain name!
The boss of the New South Wales Labor Party says he rejected an offer to pay tens-of-thousands of dollars to secure the domain name nathanrees.com.au
As the ABC revealed yesterday, the Nationals are under investigation for improperly registering the domain name.
The Nationals say at the time the Premier’s domain name was available, but the carmeltebbutt.com.au website [...]