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G.me now registered to brand protection company.
The whois record for the domain name G.me recently changed to DNStination Inc., which is the proxy service for brand protection company Mark Monitor:
The change was just triggered on DomainTools yesterday, although the record shows it was altered on April 20.
The domain name was previously a registry reserved domain name.
Although nothing is definitive, there’s a good possibility that Google is the new owner. Google uses Mark Monitor for some of its domain name registrations. Given Mark Monitor’s need to avoid conflict of interest amongst clients, at a minimum I’d assume that Google was aware of any transaction for G.me.
There’s also a Google Chrome extension called G+Me.
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Company files two patent applications for making online ads social.
Google has filed two patent applications related to social interactions with online advertisements.
The applications, 20120116871 and 20120116867 (pdf), were filed in November and just published today. Both are titled “Social Overlays On Ads”.
The patent applications describe systems in which social overlays are placed on ads. For example, an ad my show how many people in your particular Google+ circles like an ad. It could also integrate into Google’s +1 system. If you +1′d an ad, members of your Google+ circles would then see that you like the ad. Viewers could also republish an ad to their social network, similar to how you can share a photo on Facebook now.
In the example below, the ad has a social overlay that says how many people in the user’s location +1′d the ad.
This idea sounds familiar to me. Let’s see, where have I seen something like this already…
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Lookout, YARPP.
Are you a blogger that uses Yet Another Related Posts Plugin (YARPP)? There are a lot of similar plugins (hence the funny name).
But Google apparently thinks it’s novel, as the company has filed a patent application (pdf) for precisely this.
United States patent application 20120109932, titled “Related Links”, covers the process of identifying keywords within an article and then displaying related articles (or searches) based on those keywords.
In other words, it looks a lot link the “Further Reading” links at the bottom of this article.
Here’s how the inventors describe the problem they’re trying to solve:
Regardless of whether the web is static or dynamic there are cases where website owners want to display on their web pages links to other web pages within the same web domain or one or more other domains whose contents are related to the current web page, for example, to increase the page views on these web sites or pages. A conventional technique for presenting web page links is for a user (e.g., a web site owner or developer) to manually identify related web pages and then embed links to these web pages on one or more web pages of the user’s web site. The user can identify related web pages by conducting searches within the same web domain or one or more other domains based on the contents in the web pages, for example, by manually selecting some keywords from the contents on his web pages as most representative of the contents. These keywords are used as a search query to a search engine. The user can then manually select from the obtained search results. However, If the web site has a large number of web pages, and the textual contents in each web page is different from one another, it can be inconvenient for a web site owner to manually search for such related web pages and embed the links to them in the web pages during creation and setting up of the web site.
On the other hand, for some conventional web pages, especially for some dynamically created web pages, the contents on the web page may change when visited at different times. This can be due to changes to the text data during the time interval between different visits. In this case, it is difficult for the web site owner to predict what kind of content will be presented on the web page to the user in the future, hence it will be difficult for the user to find the web pages that can be considered related to the web page and embed them in the page.
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Lookout, YARPP.
Are you a blogger that uses Yet Another Related Posts Plugin (YARPP)? There are a lot of similar plugins (hence the funny name).
But Google apparently thinks it’s novel, as the company has filed a patent application (pdf) for precisely this.
United States patent application 20120109932, titled “Related Links”, covers the process of identifying keywords within an article and then displaying related articles (or searches) based on those keywords.
In other words, it looks a lot link the “Further Reading” links at the bottom of this article.
Here’s how the inventors describe the problem they’re trying to solve:
Regardless of whether the web is static or dynamic there are cases where website owners want to display on their web pages links to other web pages within the same web domain or one or more other domains whose contents are related to the current web page, for example, to increase the page views on these web sites or pages. A conventional technique for presenting web page links is for a user (e.g., a web site owner or developer) to manually identify related web pages and then embed links to these web pages on one or more web pages of the user’s web site. The user can identify related web pages by conducting searches within the same web domain or one or more other domains based on the contents in the web pages, for example, by manually selecting some keywords from the contents on his web pages as most representative of the contents. These keywords are used as a search query to a search engine. The user can then manually select from the obtained search results. However, If the web site has a large number of web pages, and the textual contents in each web page is different from one another, it can be inconvenient for a web site owner to manually search for such related web pages and embed the links to them in the web pages during creation and setting up of the web site.
On the other hand, for some conventional web pages, especially for some dynamically created web pages, the contents on the web page may change when visited at different times. This can be due to changes to the text data during the time interval between different visits. In this case, it is difficult for the web site owner to predict what kind of content will be presented on the web page to the user in the future, hence it will be difficult for the user to find the web pages that can be considered related to the web page and embed them in the page.
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Algorithm change designed to push parked domains out of Google.com index.
Google released an update on new changes made to its algorithm today, and one of them is bad news for anyone who still manages to get their parked domain names in the search index.
New “parked domain” classifier: This is a new algorithm for automatically detecting parked domains. Parked domains are placeholder sites that are seldom useful and often filled with ads. They typically don’t have valuable content for our users, so in most cases we prefer not to show them.
It used to be that many parking pages got indexed and this delivered a lot of extra traffic to domain owners beyond just type-in traffic and old links. Google has gotten smarter about this in recent years, and it looks like this latest move may be the nail in the coffin.
Although Google hasn’t disclosed how it determines that a page is parked, it’s not that hard to do. It could even do this based on a combination of page structure and nameservers.
Update: As you’ll see if you try it, if you type in an actual parked domain name to Google it will still show it. I suspect they have just heavily demoted them.
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Company that was subject to Google UDRP fights back.
French company Francotel, LLC has filed a UDRP complaint with World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) over the domain name Adwords.com, Domain Name Wire has learned. The case is not yet posted on WIPO’s web site.
Francotel has a French trademark for “Adwords”. It filed to cancel Google’s European Union trademark for “Adwords” earlier this year but lost the case.
Google filed a UDRP against Francotel in May over the domain name ad-words.mobi in a case that’s still pending.
Now Francotel is fighting back by going after Adwords.com itself. In the complaint, Francotel argues that there’s no reason for Google to use the Adwords.com domain name “other than to mislead consumers into inferring an association with Francotel’s adwords Mark and services.”
The company also claims that Google registered the Adwords.com domain name to infringe “thousands of trademark holder” around the world and to use the domain name for “abusive and anticompetitive practices”.
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Google goes after another “survey” site.
Google has filed a complaint with National Arbitration forum to get a hold of Goggle.com, Goggle.net, and Goggle.org.
While the domain names could be considered “generic” for the term Google, it’s the use of the domain names that has the company up in arms.
Similar to another recent complaint over YouTube.ph, these domains forward to a survey page that then entices users to complete a number of offers.
The current page doesn’t imitate Google’s logo, but that wasn’t always the case. The site used to have a logo with a similar font to Google (courtesy DomainTools historical thumbnails):
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Company gets a triple xxx domain name — but I’m not talking about the top level domain.
Google has gotten its hands on GoogleXXX — but not Google.xxx (yet).
The company was awarded GoogleXXX.com in a World Intellectual Property Forum ruling just handed down.
This got me thinking: with the .xxx top level domain name coming out, will it lead to more xxx typos?
One type of domain companies should consider registering is just like what Google just got — trademarkxxx.com. A lot of people are trained to type .com after any web address, so I suspect we’ll see more traffic to domains like these. Googlexxx.com already gets some traffic according to Compete.
Then of course there’s xxx.com, which should see a huge spike in traffic. It should consider wildcarding name.xxx.com.
That said, I’m not sure these typos are a huge risk for brands. People know that coke followed by xxx probably isn’t an official company site, anyway.
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Domain parking ad providers make changes.
There have been two announcements from the big domain parking ad providers over the past 24 hours that may affect your domain parking company.
According to an email from NameDrive, Google is banning URL forwarding as of October 1. The parking company says clients need to switch to DNS parking, although it says it’s also working on other solutions. [Update: DomainSponsor just sent a notice to its customers as well.]
Partners have known about Google’s plan to ban URL forwarding for a long time.
It will be interesting to see what effect Google’s move will have on domain parking split-testing platforms such as Above.
TrafficZ sent an email to customers yesterday informing them that Yahoo is “capping” revenue on .biz, .co,
.info, .tv, and .us domain names. If the cap is hit, Yahoo will no longer show ads on the domains for three days. However, parking companies will likely display ads from different ad feeds during this period. From my experience, some of these secondary feeds perform quite well on certain TLDs.
Both of these moves address challenges with domain parking; namely fraud. URL forward is frequently abused and limits Google’s insight into the traffic it is monetizing. Domains such as .biz shouldn’t get much type-in traffic, which may be the reason for the cap.
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Google evangelizes web sites for small businesses.
Remember all those getonline.com domain names Google registered last month?
Now we know what they’re for, and it’s good news for domain name owners.
Google is going state-to-state, city-to-city to help small businesses get online. They’ve teamed up with Intuit to offer a web site builder, domain name, web hosting, and Google Places listing free for a year.
Right now they’re in Austin holding in-person workshops to help businesses get started. Google has advertised the workshops extensively around town.
According to TexasGetOnline.com, over half of Texas businesses don’t have a web site.
To be sure, you should expect these businesses that don’t have web sites to decide they need to buy an existing domain rather than register an available one. But as more businesses get online they’ll use more web services. A rising tide lifts all boats.
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