Google Checkout Launches : But not as we expected.
Google launches the much awaited Google Checkout has launched but it is not a direct PayPal competitor as we thought but instead provides a checkout system for online stores and central place to store payment and delivery details for shoppers.
Find it with Google. Buy it with Google Checkout.
Want a faster, safer and more convenient way to shop online? You got it.
- Stop creating multiple accounts and passwords. : With Google Checkoutâ„¢ you can quickly and easily buy from stores across the web and track all your orders and shipping in one place.
- Shop with confidence. : Our fraud protection policy covers you against unauthorized purchases made through Google Checkout, and we don’t share your purchase history or full credit card number with sellers.
- Control commercial spam.: You can keep your email address confidential, and easily turn off unwanted emails from stores where you use Google Checkout.
June 29th | Google | Comments (0) |
DENIC crosses Ten Million .de Domains
DENIC, the German domain administrator, processed the ten millionth application for a .de domain. This makes .de the second Top Level Domain, after .com, to pass the hurdle of ten million registered domains. The holder of the jubilee domain, huettenberger-case-fabrik.de, is a manufacturer of transport cases from Linden, a small town in the vicinity of Frankfurt.
Sabine Dolderer, member of the Executive Board of DENIC eG, summed up the milestone in these words: “the registration of the ten millionth .de domain represents a major success for DENIC and its more than 250 members. It also shows that the organization of the Top Level Domain .de as a self-regulated initiative of the industry concerned has worked out well. Thanks to DENIC’s open structure as a registered cooperative and its registration terms and conditions, in which restrictions have been kept down to the strictly necessary minimum, a highly diverse provider market has been able to develop over the last ten years. It is a market in which everyone interested in holding a domain can find precisely the offer that suits them best at an attractive price. For German Internet users, .de domains remain the first choice for their presence in the worldwide network. The attractiveness of the German country code TLD is further borne out by the fact that the only domain ending which has a larger worldwide domain base is .com.”
June 29th | Reviews/News, Domain Names | Comments (0) |
[Update] Microsoft Live Custom Domains is out of beta
Microsoft Windows Live Custom Domains team blog that reports that Gmail Hosted’s rival Live Custom Domains is out of beta.
We’re leaving the “Beta tag†blanket at home. That’s right…thanks to your beta testing and feedback; we’ve now officially launched Windows Live Custom Domains. Our colleagues over in Messenger kicked off the Windows Live launch season last week. Along with the launch of OneCare and Live Favorites, we’re excited to continue the momentum. Windows Live is about the Web, the way you want it. Personalization is a key piece here, and let’s face it…your identity online is central to that. Custom Domains enables people to use all of the Windows Live and MSN services they want with an ID that’s as unique to them as they want it to be.
For those who aren’t familiar with Custom Domains, we provide free hosted e-mail for your domain. Let’s say you own the domain name, “wingtiptoys.com.†With Custom Domains, you get unlimited, free e-mail accounts at that domain. You can open accounts for sales@wingtiptoys.com, owner@wingtiptoys.com, etc. Oh wait, did we mention that it’s free? This isn’t one of those “free during beta†trial offers. This is free for life.
New Feature: Open Membership
We’re jazzed about a new feature we’ve added called Open Membership. How does this work? Let’s say you run a website called “soccerfan.com.†Your users love your site and want an e-mail address @soccerfan.com. Prior to this launch, each user would have to request an e-mail account from the administrator. Then, the admin would manually approve and create each account. We’ve made things much easier all around with this launch.
With the Open Membership featured enabled, we provide URL links so users can automatically sign-up for an e-mail account @soccerfan.com. Admins no longer have to burden with the manual creation of email accounts, and users get accounts immediately. Users will love their new email because it’s a brand new MSN Hotmail or Windows Live Mail beta account with a highly personalized @soccerfan.com domain name. Web site owners will love it because their users help promote the site. Also, users will re-visit the host site often to check their e-mail.
June 29th | Domain Names | Comments (1) |
Domain Name Marketplace Workshop June 2006
ICANN has announced a workshop on the Domain Name Marketplace for tomorrow at the ICANN meeting in Marrakech/Morocco.
http://www.icann.org/meeting…n-workshop-27jun06.htm
ICANN is organizing a 3-hour workshop as a first initiative to bring together a broad representative cross-section of ICANN stakeholders to share information about changes and trends in the domain name market.The workshop also is organized to help ensure that policy decisions and potential contractual amendments are made with an understanding of the broader impact that such changes may have on market activities.
June 27th | ICANN | Comments (0) |
Gbuy : Google to launch payment system like Paypal
Google’s online payment system, Gbuy, is expected to launch June 28, further pitting the Internet giant against industry titan and rival eBay, according to a research note released Friday by a Wall Street analyst.
Gbuy is expected to be free during the initial phase, but merchants may eventually be charged a 1.5 percent to 2 percent per-transaction fee, Jordan Rohan, an RBC Capital Markets analyst, said in his research note. A fee of that size would be slightly less than that charged by eBay’s online payment system, PayPal.
June 18th | Revenue, Google | Comments (2) |
eBay to launch advertising like adsense
eBay are going to launch a new advertising service to compete with the likes of Yahoo and Google.
It’ll be interesting to see how their CPC & CPM matches up. Probably the most important issue will be CTR as they cant always be relevant.
Online marketplace eBay Inc. is set to unveil a keyword advertising system for eBay sellers to promote auctions on other Web sites, borrowing from the strategies of Google and Yahoo.
Michael van Swaaij, eBay’s chief strategy officer, told a conference of software developers here on Saturday of plans to allow eBay’s army of auctioneers to run contextual ads on other Web sites in exchange for a cut of the resulting eBay sales.
EBay’s system differs from existing pay-per-click advertising systems offered by Google and rivals Yahoo Inc. and Microsoft Corp. by linking only to eBay auctions rather than serving as a generic advertising network.
The world’s largest e-commerce site said it plans to provide hundreds of thousands of eBay auctioneers with simple snippets of code they can embed on other Web sites that showcase items that are for sale on eBay’s site.
A test of the program, dubbed eBay AdContext, is set to be introduced early next week, Swaaij said. What goods appear in any particular advertisement will be determined by the keywords on that Web page, a technique known as contextual advertising.
EBay’s system scans the text of a Web site for keywords and returns links to relevant eBay sales listings to the Web page. A Web site about sports could automatically feature links to sporting gear or memorabilia available on eBay, for example.
As listings change on eBay, advertising automatically changes on affiliated Web sites to reflect the new products or services for sale on eBay. Web site affiliates receive a cut of 35 percent to 60 percent of sales, depending on volumes.
“It is a way for Web sites to get an additional monetization stream,” Swaaij said. Monetization is Internet industry jargon that refers to the potential for making more money by driving potential buyers to a Web site.
via Reuters
June 18th | ebay, Revenue, Google | Comments (2) |
Google Adsense officially starts Video Ads
There was a rumour that google is testing Video ads, and was seen on few popular websites. Well Google has officially launched the service from this month. Adsense launched click-to-play video ads, a new ad format for sites in the AdSense network. Video ads may appear on your site if you’re opted into image ads for one of the three ad formats that support video ads: the Medium Rectangle (300 X 250), Large Rectangle (336 X 280), and Square (250 X 250).
June 10th | Revenue, Google | Comments (0) |