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Nothing really spectacular for a Sedo user but it shows how easy it is:
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Sedo has been voted #1 eCommerce host by the Webhostdirectory community!
“Sedo.com: With more than 500,000 members around the world trading domains in more than 21 languages, Sedo stands alone as the world’s only global domain marketplace. It may be close to impossible to directly register good domains anymore but the Sedo domain marketplace offers the world’s largest selection of premium domains with more than 8 million available for sale! “
Wow! Even before Hostway (placed #2)
Sedo’s press release:
Sedo is happy to announce that we were recently voted as the #1 “E-commerce Host” by Webhostdirectory, an online leader for comparing and purchasing hosting products. Webhostdirectory has announced Sedo as the winner of this month’s Ecommerce Host award after tabulating the votes received from their online community and the Webhostdirectory Review Board. Awards are given to the best Web Hosts in each of Webhostdirectory’s seven hosting categories (Shared, Ecommerce, Dedicated Server, Reseller, Unix, Windows and Budget hosting) by rating each host in six areas of performance, including cost, features, support, reliability and speed.
Sedo is honored to be chosen as the top in our field in one of the fastest growing segments of the internet, E-Commerce. With more than 68,000 members around the world trading domains in more than 21 languages, Sedo has always taken pride in serving as the world’s only global domain marketplace. There are more than 9 million domains listed for sale on Sedo’d premier domain marketplace and more than 4 million domains monetize their traffic with Sedo’s award winning domain monetization program.
For more information and survey results please see:
http://www.webhostdir.com/webhostawards/ecommerce.asp
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Today I stumbled on this excellent article by Matt Bentley, CSO at Sedo in the eCommerce Times:
“Why should you consider using .mobi for your mobile domain extension? For starters, although growing fast, the mobile Internet is still relatively early in its development: Only one-quarter of mobile subscribers have a mobile Internet plan. That means that mobile browsing habits are not fixed on using a particular domain extension. […]“
The article has some good insights as well as analyst data. Good reading!
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There’s (at least) one market where Yahoo! beats Google hands down: the very promising local search!
Here’s what Jupiter Research recently released.
advertising“Yahoo! currently has more market share than the next five services combined, including both Google’s and MSN’s local services.” said David Schatsky, President of JupiterKagan.
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Yesterday, local ad specialist and local content publisher Marchex (NASDAQ: MCHX, MCHXP) and Yellowpages.com, a subsidiary of AT&T (NYSE: T) announced that they signed a multi-year agreement in which Marchex will provide its local Internet search marketing services to Yellowpages.com.
The agreement will allow YellowPages.com to utilize Marchex’s local ad services for the YPclicks! Search Engine Solutions packages sold across the United States. The ads will be created under the Marchex platform and allows advertisers to target and manage ads through placements with the major search engines and the Marchex local content network.
Under the terms of the new agreement, Yellowpages.com will continue to leverage Marchex’s services to fulfill the YPclicks! Search Engine Solutions search marketing packages sold by Yellowpages.com and AT&T across the United States.
Marchex Connect, Marchex’s highly scalable private-label search marketing platform, is used to create, target and manage Yellowpages.com’s advertiser campaigns and fulfill them through placements on major search engines and Marchex’s local content network.
Charles Stubbs, President and CEO of Yellowpages.com said:
“Yellowpages.com’s online advertising products deliver value to local advertisers across the nation. This new agreement with Marchex extends our ability to offer our customers best-in-class search marketing solutions.“
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eNom and Network Solutions, number 3 and number 2 largest registrars (> 13 million domains), partnered to stem a new domain aftermarket marketplace specialized in expired and deleted domains: NameJet.com.
Namejet is based on eNom’s technology (eNom.com, eNomCentral.com, ClubDrop.com and BulkRegister.com) and populated with premium expiring domains from Network Solutions.
This is bad karma for SnapNames which might loose its leadership in the Pending Delete Auction marketplace.
Moreover, SnapNames had exclusive contracts with Network Solutions and eNom to handle expired/deleted domains. This is now gone! Historically as one of the oldest registrars, Network Solutions has a lot of valuable generic domains.
Good luck SnapNames and welcome Namejet!
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Here’s an useful presentation held by Sedo’s CSO Matt Bentley at the SedoPro Partner Forum earlier this year.
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United Internet acquired 50% of Drillisch through 151,3 million Euro cash. Drillisch is one of the major shareholders of the Freenet Group (Freenet, Mobilcom, Strato).
The Drillisch holding currently owns “only” 6,01 % of shares but has the right to buy additional 18,49% shares of Freenet.
One reason for this deal is that United Internet wants to strengthen its position in the german DSL market (second behind T-Online). But above all this might be a nifty way to gain access over Strato that would then be integrated into 1and1. Now that would be an interesting “merger” !
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The beta phase from July is over and Google now announced the availability of AdSense for Mobile, a program that contextually targets ads to mobile website content. This makes absolutely sense! The ever growing mobile web has been ignored for too long.
AdSense for Mobile will be available in the following countries: US, England, France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Ireland, Russia, Netherlands, Australia, India, China and Japan.
I wasn’t part of the invited beta testers but I hope that it’ll be well adapted to the mobile world: no scripts, no big towers/images, not increasing significally page size,…
And it seems that it is! 
It supports Text Ad formats only and it doesn’t use any scripts (which would have really surprised me). Instead it generates server-side code.
The following server-side languages are supported:
- PHP Version 4.3.0 or higher
- CGI/Perl Version 5.8 or higher
- JSP Version 1.2 or higher
- ASP Version 3.0 or higher
And what about ColdFusion ?!
The mobile sites itself must be written in WML, XHTML or CHTML. You can find all requirements here.
See official press release here
Official blog entry
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And yet another strategic purchase of Yahoo: they acquired leading open source eMail software and groupware provider Zimbra for $ 350 million. Zimbra was financed $ 30 Millionen venture capital through Benchmark Partners, Redpoint Ventures and Accel Capital. Through this acquisition Yahoo will expand its presence in universities, businesses and ISP’s.
This is a direct confrontation with Google apps of course. Yahoo! having the higher customer satisfaction (according to the American Consumer Satisfaction Index) this is again very good karma for Yahoo!
Yahoo’s CEO Jerry Yang said:
“Zimbra’s tremendous talent and innovative technology will help to extend our core Mail offerings, further strengthening
our strong leadership position in this space. Additionally, Zimbra’s successful relationships with large ISPs are
key as we expand our worldwide partner network and continue to focus on our commitment to being the partner of choice.”
And the big differentiation, the competitive advantage, vs. Google Apps and MS Exchange is that businesses can host their own collaboration softwares like email, contacts, shared calendar and document authoring tools. And it all works in a browser. Businesses are often reluctant to use Google Apps since crucial business data is hosted on Google’s servers. Oh, Zimbra is also offered as a hosted app by the way.
It is also very likely that Zimbra technology will be integrated into Yahoo’s webmailer.
Clever move…
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Official blog post
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