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 Dominik Mueller: I am a person who is interested in many things. Although this blog is clearly about domain names, I actually enjoy studying other subjects too, such as finance and economics, but do I write about them? Rarely.
That is so because whenever I have written a post on something other than domain names, interest in that Copyright © 200…

 Dominik Mueller: Search engines have access to tons of valuable information, treasure troves full of clues to human behavior and what their millions of search engine users are up to. That is why the big search engines have great power even beyond their new role as brokers of advertising spaces on the Internet.
Every day search engines analyze Copyrig…

 Dominik Mueller: Yahoo Search Marketing to change its payout algorithms and stop doing business with some of its direct partners. Overall, lower revenues for Yahoo’s pay-per-click advertising partners are expected.
As has been reported by two blogs today, Domain Name Wire and Julia Mackenzie, Yahoo’s search marketing division is going thr…

 Dominik Mueller: Domain auction company SnapNames sells close to $47,000 worth of domains in its September online auction. MillionaireDating.com is the highest sale at $15,000.
As reported by Oversee.net’s public relations department, the SnapNames September showcase auction concluded today with a total of $46,930 in domain sales. Out of the 90…

 Dominik Mueller: The question whether the length of domain registrations had an influence on search engine rankings or not has been around for a while. But so far none of the big search engine companies has given any firm advice on this subject.
Today, however, I stumbled upon a post on Search Engine Land saying that domain registrations Copyright (C…

 Dominik Mueller: The question whether the length of domain registrations had an influence on search engine rankings or not has been around for a while. But so far none of the big search engine companies has given any firm advice on this subject.
Today, however, I stumbled upon a post on Search Engine Land saying that domain registrations Copyright (C…

 Dominik Mueller: According to a company press release (German), the domain name Shopping.de was sold for €1,960,000 (~$2,800,000) in 2008. The domain was purchased by Unister GmbH, a company also operating other popular online portals such as News.de, Auto.de, Geld.de (”money”), Kredit.de (”credit”, “loan”) and Pre…

 Dominik Mueller: In a startling move, the Swedish regulator PTS apparently has declared that it wants to ban the term “bank” from all domain names registered under the Swedish .SE top-level domain. It notified the .SE registry about its decision in a letter (PDF, Swedish) on August 27, 2009 and requested the domain registration rules to b…

 Dominik Mueller: The two domain names ElkInsurance.com and HousesNorthwest.com are currently for sale in auctions on SnapNames.
ElkInsurance.com is a domain that was originally registered in 1999, according to Archive.org. It was used by an insurance company offering animal insurance services for elk and deer. Providing insurance on elk is something …

 Dominik Mueller: I just received the newsletter including the latest WIPO decisions. Some prominent companies have won domain disputes again, including Deutsche Lufthansa AG and Burberry Limited.
Both companies were able to achieve the transfer of the disputed domain names: Lufthansa won Lufthansa.com.au and Burberry won BurberryGroup.com.
In the cas…