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Google Opens up Adsense for Domains

By Michael Sumner • Dec 11th, 2008 • Category: Domain Industry News

Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) announced this morning that it opened up Adsense for domains to all North American publishers.  The program was previously limited to large portfolio holders with premium generic domains that attracted large volumes (750k+ UV/Month) of type-in traffic.  There was even talk that Google would close down Adsense for domains entirely after it [...]



gTLD Price Control Battle

By Michael Sumner • Nov 12th, 2008 • Category: Domain Industry News

Veteran domainer George Kirikos noticed some potentially disturbing language in ICANN’s draft of new Generic Top-level Domains (gTLD) contracts.  In his post on CircleID, he notes section 7.3:
Price controls have been removed for 2008 in favor of the transparent pricing model outlined above.
He also highlights Section 3.2.b) of the .com registry agreement:
ICANN shall not apply [...]