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In a court ruling out of the UK, a British court has ruled against the Commonwealth of Kentucky’s attempt to seize gambling domains. As you will just over a year ago, before the TRAFFIC NY 2008 show, the the Commonwealth of Kentucky sent a seizure order to the registrars of 141 gambling domain names , demanding that those domains be forfeited to Kentucky. The 141 domains ranged from parked domains, to some of the biggest gambling sites on the Internet. Pocket Kings Limited which owns the d

Sep.20, 2009 in UncategorizedThe age that we live in is called the information age. And it’s said that the Internet is the information superhighway. If you’re an e-business owner, it’s possible that you’ve been run over on the information superhighway. Unfortunately, the traffic is so heavy that it’s difficult to get up! The information just keeps coming and coming and coming. What can be done about all of the information coming at us all at once? What strategies can be used to manage th

You may be the preeminent web consultant in Phoenix, Arizona, but with a name like Steve Stevenson or John Jackson, it’s going to be difficult to be found when employers and prospective clients go a-Googling for you. Even with Google’s regional results helping you along, chances are that numerous similarly named individuals will show up and steal your well-deserved traffic. Not only that, there’s another important perhaps more dangerous persona lurking about using your name: your former self

I’ve always believed that ‘type-in traffic’ for undeveloped keyword domains was vastly over-exagerated. Now I have the figures to prove it. For the unitiated, Wikipedia explains ‘type-in traffic’ as …visitors landing at a web site by entering a keyword or phrase … in the web browser’s address bar (and adding .com or in a mobile browser address bar … rather than following a hyperlink from another web page, using a browser bookmark, or a search-box search. Given some success stories

The auction closes today for GoDirect.com and with almost 4 hours to go the domain is already at $15,100. The are 121 bidders in the closed auction. Godirect.gov is a site where you go if you want to sign up for direct deposits of government benefits. The .gov site gets a lot of traffic, compete.com shows it getting over 70K visitors a month. Compete also shows the .com ranging from 2,500-5,000 visitors a month. The term “go direct” seems to be trademarked. It will be interest to see