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- Microsoft
Offers $44.6B for Yahoo.com- Microsoft
Corp. has pounced on slumping Internet icon Yahoo Inc. with
an unsolicited takeover offer of $44.6 billion in its boldest
bid yet to challenge Google Inc.'s dominance of the lucrative
online search and advertising markets. The Justice Department
says it is interested in reviewing antitrust issues associated
with it.
Ad spending on the internet continues to boom. A new report
released today by the Internet Advertising Bureau and PricewaterhouseCoopers
says web ad spending soared 33% in the third quarter of
2006 over the same quarter in 2005. Companies spent an estimated
$4.2 billion for online ads in Q3-2006, a new record for
a single quarter. The IAB estimates ad spending for all
of 2006 will end up around $16 billion, easily eclipsing
the $12.5. billion spent last year.
Posted Nov. 15, 2006
- Dec. 15, 2006: Vodka.com
domain sells for $3 million-The billionaire
Russian entrepreneur behind Russia's biggest vodka maker
has paid $3 million to acquire the vodka.com domain, part
of a bid to expand into the U.S. market, a broker said on
Thursday.
Why domain names
dot-com so important?
People will sometimes ask you "What's your URL?".
URL is an acronym for Universal Resource Locator, but
is often used interchangeably with domain name, Internet
address, or web address. Selecting a domain name, or web
address, is the most important task you will undertake
when developing for your website.
- The golden rule of selecting a good name is short is
sweet.
- Domain name can contain are letters, numbers, and hyphens.
Spaces and other special characters are not allowed. Domain
names are not case-sensitive, so BestBuys.com and bestbuys.com
are the same name, and can never point to different sites.
- Although hyphens are allowed in domains, there is a
golden rule to follow here: It's OK to register a name
with hyphens in, but only if you also register the hyphen-free
version.
Two main reasons:
- A catchy and memorable name helps people remember it.
- A well name will enable you to attract people through
the search engines
The bottom line is that a good domain name can go a long
way toward generating traffic to your Web site and building
your reputation. It means more customers and better sales.
In 1999, the year of the big dot-com boom. Everybody was
feeling that there were huge sums of money to be made from
the web dot-com. There was a huge land grab for virtually
all words in the English dictionary, plus every other combination
of words people could think of. Most of these sites were
never developed, but domains were often priced at huge prices.
As good dot-coms become more and more scarce, the demand
and prices for premium domain names has continued to increase.
As good dot-coms become more and more scarce, the demand
and prices for premium domain names has continued to increase.
Premium domains are high quality domain names that are
for sale and only available in the secondary domain market.They
have excellent marketing and branding value, but also serve
as an investment.
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