Dominik Mueller's Blog

AllTop.com Adds Domain Name Category

Dominik Mueller — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 13:13:44 +0000

I’d like to thank Guy Kawasaki and Neenz Faleafine for having added a domain name category to the popular AllTop.com news aggregation site! The listing of domain-related news feeds on Alltop will help further promote the domain business. Also, thank you to everyone who submitted the blog feeds! Copyright (C) 2003-2008 Dominik Mueller. Follow me on Twitter. AllTop.com Adds [...]

Election Day Sets Traffic Record

Dominik Mueller — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 21:59:54 +0000

http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/gigaom/media/2008_11_05_historic_election_day_sets_traffic_records.html According to this GigaOM article on CNN Money, yesterday’s presidential election has set a traffic record as people from all over the world went to news websites in search for the latest information on the candidates or the election in general. What’s especially interesting, is that some television networks actually saw viewer numbers tumble compared to [...]

Google and Yahoo ending ad agreement

Dominik Mueller — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 16:56:58 +0000

Today, one day after I wrote about Google and Yahoo having modified the terms of their search advertising partnership, Google officially announced on its blog that it would end the agreement with Yahoo. Google justifies its decision with the ongoing criticism from government regulators and some of its advertisers. The search engine company wanted to avoid [...]

Google/Yahoo modify ad deal; Carl Icahn still pitching to Microsoft

Dominik Mueller — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 17:46:52 +0000

Web search leaders Google and Yahoo have formulated and submitted a new agreement outlining their advertising partnership to the U.S. Justice Department. The companies have been subject of discussion due to Google gaining too much power in the competitive online search market, hence the Justice Department has been investigating whether the GOOG/YHOO partnership would lead [...]

AOL Launches When.com Local Event Search

Dominik Mueller — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 15:41:42 +0000

AOL unveiled its new When.com project this morning. It’s a search engine for local events. The media company already owns some other websites for local content, including MapQuest and AOL CityGuide. When.com automatically recognizes where you’re located when you go to the website, but more personalization is available upon registration. It’s working for international users, too. [...]

Stock Markets Crash, Banks Crunch

Dominik Mueller — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 11:37:57 +0000

For the past few weeks I’ve been watching the stock market - not in fear, but in amazement. Before you continue reading you should know that I’m based in Germany, so lots of what I’m saying here is directly related to what I perceive to be the current economic situation in Europe, especially in Germany. [...]

Get Ready for TRAFFIC Down Under 2008

Dominik Mueller — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 14:00:57 +0000

The much-anticipated TRAFFIC Down Under domain name conference will be held on Australia’s Gold Coast November 18-20, as I’ve been told by Dan Warner of Fabulous.com. This will be the first time that there is a TRAFFIC show outside the United States. Dan, Michael Robertson and others from Fabulous.com have been working hard to make [...]

Traverse Legal launches UDRP Search Engine

Dominik Mueller — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 10:30:28 +0000

Intellectual property and domain law firm Traverse Legal has launched a new UDRP search engine, as pointed out to me by Traverse Legal attorney Enrico Schaefer. The search engine can be found at DomainFight.net. DomainFight.net comes in pretty handy, because it is a tool that allows you to search both NAF and WIPO UDRP decisions at [...]

Pizza Hut Rebrands as Pasta Hut, Forgets about Domains

Dominik Mueller — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 10:19:44 +0000

Earlier this week Pizza Hut announced that it would definitely be rebranding itself as Pasta Hut in the United Kingdom. But despite the vast spendings on the advertising and rebranding efforts, the company apparently forgot to register or buy the Pasta Hut name under all major generic top-level domains. Pizza Hut/Pasta Hut did register PastaHut.co.uk and [...]

America’s Most Expensive ZIP Codes (.com)

Dominik Mueller — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 19:33:44 +0000

Forbes released the new list of America’s most expensive ZIP codes, which the company compiled by looking at the median sales prices of homes in those areas. From a domainer’s perspective, it is interesting to note that Marchex (NASDAQ: MCHX) does not own many of those ZIP codes, although Marchex is the owner of MyZip.net [...]