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MySpace Boss Peter Chernin Thinks the Site is Underpaid for Ads But Video and Mobile May Change That

Filed under: Uncategorized on 25th Jul 2008 by Domain Name Journal - The Domain Industry Trade Magazine at DNJournal.com
MySpace.com is wildly popular but Peter Chernin, the President of parent company News Corp, says ads on the site don't generate the kind of money they should. He thinks video and mobile may be the key to ramping up their (and your) website revenue.



Drop Wizard Gordon Martin Puts All of His Chips on Country Code Domains

Filed under: Uncategorized on 24th Jul 2008 by Domain Name Journal - The Domain Industry Trade Magazine at DNJournal.com
Drop Wizard Gordon Martin is back in the saddle. After closing his popular drop catching service in 2004 he quietly switched his focus from .com to country code domains and now he has rolled out a new business centered entirely around ccTLDs.



Rick Schwartz Has Sold Property.com In a Deal Believed to Be One of the Biggest Ever

Filed under: Uncategorized on 23rd Jul 2008 by Domain Name Journal - The Domain Industry Trade Magazine at DNJournal.com
Buyer Brad Geisen, the founder of Foreclosure.com, plans to roll out a revolutionary new real estate marketplace on Property.com in 2009.



Is Digg the future of search?

Filed under: Uncategorized on 23rd Jul 2008 by Ryan MacDonald

Google digs digg!Google is arguable the best search engine out there, and yet when using it we sometimes get poor quality search results and “made for adsense” sites. In fact, many of us in the domain and/or SEO industry are responsible for some of those sites. What is a “made for adsense” site? Well, they can be one page landers or they can be large, multi-page websites and they typically have 3 adsense ad areas per page. On the surface, they seem to contain relevant content, but when you actually read the text you discover that it is keyword rich and information poor. For example, here is an excerpt from a site that I would classify as “made for adsense”

Bacardi’s current headquarters and main production facility is situated most fittingly at an island in the Caribbean known as Puerto Rico. It is at the capital of this Caribbean paradise that one of Bacardi’s major facilities is situated.

What? Did it just take 38 words to say “Bacardi is located in Puerto Rico” :roll:

This is where the Digg voting method could help the search results. Google could display their search results along with a way to vote on the results. Useful sites get voted up, bad sites get voted down. This social search feature would not replace their algorithm, it would likely be one additional factor that they could use to improve the results or pagerank. They could also add digg style reviews or comments for each site.

Keep in mind that this is all simply speculation, but perhaps it is part of the motivation behind the rumored Google purchase of Digg. Obviously, any changes to the Google algorithm will have massive impact on domainers and site owners. If people are able to review site content, it could be bad news for meaningless “made for adsense” sites. On the other hand, it could be good news for people who develop sites with great and unique content. Content (ideally combined with a great domain name) is and always has been king, so those who develop quality sites with great content should have nothing to worry about.



Early Statistics From the .ME Launch Show 50% of the Registrants Came From the United States

Filed under: Uncategorized on 23rd Jul 2008 by Domain Name Journal - The Domain Industry Trade Magazine at DNJournal.com
.ME is the country code for Montenegro but when the extension was relaunched in a new disguise last week half of the registrants came from the U.S. See more early .ME stats at DNJournal.com.



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