Apparently there is not only domain name squatting, also frequently referred to as cybersquatting or typosquatting, but username squatting too. Most companies do not open an account under their company name at the popular social networking sites, and that’s why about every well-known business name has been taken by users now infringing on the respective companies’ trademarks.
Archive for May, 2008
Yahoo’s board of directors responded to Carl Icahn, who has been going to replace Yahoo’s board in order to bring the company back to Microsoft for a possible merger. Roy Bostock, chairman of the Yahoo board, said in a letter to Icahn that Carl Icahn was wrong about the fact why Microsoft’s acquisition of Yahoo had failed and that he should therefore not be allowed to take over Yahoo’s board. He also said it was in the best interest of Yahoo’s shareholders to not allow Icahn and his nominees to take control of Yahoo, because Microsoft had abandoned the negotiations with Yahoo and there was no acquisition offer on the table anymore.
Yesterday Google added some new features to YouTube Insight, the free video analytics tool available to YouTube publishers. The most interesting feature is the demographics tool, which can display the view count broken down by age, gender and geographic location. This allows publishers to better analyze who is watching their videos, hence allowing them to create more compelling content to meet their viewers’ needs.
(via Google)
Just watched an interesting video post from ProBlogger on the future of blogging. ProBlogger’s Darren Rowse was asked what he thought would be emerging trends in blogging. He said that there were five important trends he had been observing, namely:
- Multiple-author blogs
- Multi-topic blogs
- Blogs converging with other types of sites
- Portal-like design
- Indirect monetization
As you will see, the bigger domain industry blogs are already following some of these trends. For example, DomainNews.com and DomainNameNews.com are multi-author blogs, most domain blogs are converging with web 2.0 sites too, and a couple of bloggers are indirectly monetizing their blogs by offering their own services and expertise to readers.
Here’s the video:
Only a few days after BPHG Media launched the project for its one-word generic domain Prices.com, another company is planning to bring its domain to the next level. Time Inc. is going to relaunch its Health.com portal on Monday. The site was not much more than a so-called brochure site before, which means that it was barely more than the online destination of a Time Inc. health magazine and it did not feature enough original online content or web 2.0 features to compete with other popular websites in the lucrative health sector.
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