Posts Tagged ‘Europe’

Oversee.net Discusses Layoffs and Its Future

Company co-president explains Oversee.net’s business shift. News of Oversee.net’s layoffs didn’t come as a huge surprise last week. This sort of shuffling the deck is common when there’s turnover at the top. I caught up with Scott Morrow, co-President of Oversee.net, to find out what’s going on at the company. Morrow told me that Oversee.net [...]

DOMAINfest Barcelona Registration Opens and TRAFFIC Price Increase Imminent

Registration is now open for DOMAINfest’s return to Europe, and prices are about to increase on TRAFFIC. Registration for DOMAINfest Barcelona is now available for $695 through the end of April. The event takes place June 7-9 at the Pullman Barcelona Skipper hotel. Barcelona was the location of the first ever DOMAINfest. Group rate hotel [...]

Demand Media to Expand to Europe in 2011

According to an interview by PaidContent:UK, Demand Media’s content division will expand to Europe this year. [...] Demand’s European sales and business development VP Stephanie Himoff tells paidContent:UK Demand will start filling its gaps on the continent from this summer. “Through 2011 – and particularly in the second half of the year – you’ll see, [...]

Health Officials Find Source of Legionella at Playboy Mansion

The LA Times is reporting that Los Angeles health officials have discovered the Legionella bacteria in a water source at the famous Playboy Mansion.  In case you haven’t been following the story, hundreds of Domain Fest attendees reported symptoms similar to those common in cases of Legionnaires and Pontiac Fever after attending Domain Fest events. [...]

Afilias Announces Winners of the 2010 .INFO Awards

Greentravelclub.info Takes Top Honor of Best .INFO Web site of 2010

The 2010 .INFO Awards Program highlighted some of the best .INFO sites of 2010 and awarded the top three .INFO sites with cash prizes totaling over US$15,000.Today, Afilias announced…

DOMAINfest Europe 2010 Prague Live Auction Results

[Update]: This post has now been updated to reflect the official results of the auction. We arewere live blogging the auction results of the DOMAINfest Europe 2010 Live domain auction held in Prague by Moniker/Snapnames today. As always we do not guarantee the accuracy of these results. Any unsold names will be sold in the [...]

Google & eBay, Keywords & Domains, & ICANN

Sell a trademark as a keyword for directed search or online auctions and make $billions.

But use a trademark in a domain name for direct search and lose the domain, or worse.

The gap between how trademark law treats the two species of search has gr…