- Booking.com Argues It's Entitled To Trademark
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, August 9, 2019
The Supreme Court should leave in place a ruling that online hotel reservation service Booking.com is entitled to trademark protection for its name, the company says in papers filed th ...
- The Inside Skinny Of Link Manipulation
Inside Performance, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, March 6, 2019
Russ Jones, principal search scientist at Moz, talks about link manipulation and how to deal with the challenges. ...
- New Tool Is Designed To Let Only Trusted Emails Into The Inbox
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Wednesday, February 27, 2019
Valimail Defend is part of a suite of three email-security services. It prevents BEC attacks, the company claims. ...
- Microsoft Confirms Its Search Engine Bing Is Partially Blocked In China
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Thursday, January 24, 2019
Bing has been banned using domain-name system corruption -- a method that blocks websites -- in China, which has tightened control of the news its citizens can see within t ...
- DHS Reports Cyber Attacks Against Government Agencies
Digital News Daily, Ray Schultz - Wednesday, January 23, 2019
The hacks come at a time when the DHS is closed due to the government shutdown. ...
- Only One Third Of Emails Make It Into Corporate Inboxes: Study
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Friday, December 21, 2018
Impersonation attacks are shifting from domain-name spoofing to friendly domain-name spam. ...
- Google, White Ops Uncover Massive Digital Ad-Fraud Scheme
Digital News Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, November 28, 2018
The U.S. Department of Justice on Tuesday announced the indictment of two people from Kazakhstan and six Russian nationals for alleged involvement in a digital ad fraud scheme worth million ...
- Cyber Group Launches Tool For Measuring DMARC Use
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Tuesday, November 20, 2018
The Global Cyber Alliance hopes to see universal acceptance of DMARC as an anti-phishing measure. ...
- Study: Only 32% Of First-Half Emails Were 'Clean'
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Thursday, September 13, 2018
Malware-free attacks -- which involve impersonation -- are the most dangerous because they look like they came from a trusted source, FireEye reports. ...
- Email Volume Down -- And So Is Spam -- In Wake Of GDPR
Email Insider, Ray Schultz - Thursday, August 30, 2018
Experts feared that GDPR would open the door for spammers. But a study by Recorded Future shows that it hasn't. ...
- Federal Contractors Open To Phishing: Study
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Sunday, June 24, 2018
Firms that serve the federal government have a high rate of DMARC adoption -- and a low rate of enforcement, Valimail finds. ...
- Tronc Nixes Mocked Name, Becomes Tribune Publishing Again
Publishers Daily, Sara Guaglione - Tuesday, June 19, 2018
The Chicago-based publisher of 'Chicago Tribune' and 'New York Daily News,' among others, is believed to be changing its name back to Tribune Publishing, after a year of disappointing revenue ...
- European Firms Most Vulnerable To DNS Data Attacks, Study Shows
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Monday, June 11, 2018
Now that GDPR is here, European companies face compliance issues. Over three-fourths have suffered DNS attacks in the past year. ...
- German Court Says GDPR Outweighs ICANN Need For Domain Data
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Friday, June 1, 2018
Only days after it was filed, the court has rejected ICANN's motion to force EPAG to collect certain data on domain registrants. ...
- Yet Another Wrinkle in GDPR: ICANN Sues To Force Data Collection
Email Insider, Ray Schultz - Tuesday, May 29, 2018
A legal action filed on Friday asks a court to force a registrar based in Bonn, Germany to collect email addresses and other information. ...
- European Commission Requires Website Owners To Relinquish .EU Names Prior To Brexit
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, March 30, 2018
The European Commission announced this week that UK-based companies and residents who own .eu country code top-level domain names must enter into a "withdrawal agreement" from those domain names aft ...
- ImpeachTrump.com Domain Name Goes Up For Auction
Marketing Politics Weekly, Fern Siegel - Monday, March 12, 2018
As a man who trumpets his brand, Donald Trump should appreciate the irony. The domain name ImpeachTrump.com will be sold at an online auction ending March 24. ...
- Booking.com Entitled To Trademark
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, August 14, 2017
In a surprising decision, a federal trial judge has ruled that online hotel reservation service Booking.com is entitled to trademark protection for its name. ...
- New Domains Showing Strong Performance On Par With .Coms
SearchBlog, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, April 25, 2017
Knowing that well-established TLDs such as .com and .org can perform positively, a recent study set out to find examples of strongly performing domains for the less common new TL ...
- Rush To Collect Obama-Era Digital Footprint
Around the Net In Marketing Politics, Philip Rosenstein - Wednesday, December 21, 2016
A team of computer-savvy researchers is in a rush to collect all the data they can from the Obama-era that is on .gov websites. The team includes researchers from t ...
- David & Goliath Relents, Pays Slingshot Ransom For DavidAndGoliath.com Domain
Mediapsssst, Richard Whitman - Wednesday, August 31, 2016
It was all tongue and cheek, of course, with the ultimate goal of Slingshot raising money for a charity -- to which David & Goliath happily contributed. ...
- Dallas Agency Holds DavidAndGoliath.com Ransom, Wants David & Goliath To Pay Up
Mediapsssst, Richard Whitman - Tuesday, August 23, 2016
Very popular El Segundo-based ad agency David & Goliath does not own davidandgoliath.com. Nope. It's owned by a Dallas-based agency. ...
- U.S. Cedes Power Over Domain Naming System
Around The Net in Daily Online Examiner, Wendy Davis - Thursday, August 18, 2016
The United States will give up control over the Internet domain naming system as of Oct. 1, the the US Department of Commerce said this week. The government will tu ...
- How To Choose A Domain Name
Around the Net in Search Marketing, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, July 15, 2016
Rand Fishkin runs through some tips on what marketers should you keep in mind when choosing a new domain name. He covers eight criteria for picking a name that wi ...
- Be The Master Of Your Domain
Inside Performance, Aaron Baar - Tuesday, June 14, 2016
A recent survey of small businesses found that only 9% of small business owners are satisfied with their Web sites; nearly half (47%) said their biggest issue was that th ...
- DMARC Changes Coming Soon To An Inbox Near You
Email Marketing Daily, Jess Nelson - Saturday, June 11, 2016
Google and Microsoft both plan to update their DMARC policies by the end of the month -- potentially dropping deliverability rates overnight for email marketers, according to email deliverability provid ...
- MPAA Teams With Domain Registry For Copyright Enforcement
Around The Net in Daily Online Examiner, Wendy Davis - Friday, February 12, 2016
Donuts, which operates the top level domains .movie and .theater, will work with the Motion Picture Association of America to take down material that infringes copyright. Variety reports that Donu ...
- Google Reveals Reward Paid To Guy Who Surrendered Domain Name
Around the Net in Search Marketing, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, January 29, 2016
Do you remember the former Google employee Sanmay Ved, who somehow managed to purchase the domain name google.com from the Google registry? While he owned it for about a minute before Google revers ...
- Google, Alphabet, China And .XYZ Domain Fiasco
SearchBlog, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, November 6, 2015
Google's forthcoming play in China could have something to do with Sergey Brin and Larry Page choosing the last three letters in the English language as the top-level domain extensi ...
- Google Becomes Registrant For Alphabet Domain Name
Around the Net in Search Marketing, Laurie Sullivan - Thursday, October 8, 2015
From A to Z, Google now owns the entire alphabet domain name, but why didn't the name go to the registrant Alphabet? The whois
record shows that the domain name abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz.c ...
