Google Domain Registration : $10 a year?
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Google has entered into the domain registration game via a partnership with eNom and GoDaddy, wherein Google is only offering the registration of .com, .net, .biz and .info domain extensions. $10 a year is a bit more expensive than some of the other registrars on the market (by a dollar or so) and I find it [...]
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(InfoWorld) - Google introduced a new service for small businesses that allows visitors to search within their Web sites on a customized search page. The product, Custom Business Search Edition, adds to Google'sÂ growing portfolio of paid servicesÂ for businesses. It builds on Google'sÂ Custom Search Engine, a free, ad-supported product launched last October for searching within a predefined group of Web sites. A key difference with the paid edition is that businesses can customize the search page with their own logo and color scheme. They can also modify results by manipulating an XML (Extensible Markup Language) feed of the raw search results, to guide visitors toward products the company wants to sell, for example. The service is priced at $100 per year for Web sites with up to 500 pages, and $500 for up to 50,000 pages, Google said on its Web site. Custom Business Search Edition uses the same index Google uses to deliver its other search results, and Google's own servers are used for searches. To set up the service, customers follow a set-up wizard and copy a small amount of code to their Web site. They get access to a reporting graph with daily and monthly views of how many times people used the search engine and what search terms they used. The service provides an option for businesses who want to bring Google's powerful search technology into their organization but without paying for more expensive products. The company already sells the Google Search Appliance, starting at $30,000 for 500,000 documents, which indexes material in file servers, content management systems, databases and other sources. It also offers the Mini Search Appliance starting at $1,995 for 50,000 documents. Along with English, Google's Custom Search Business Edition supports Bulgarian, simplified and traditional Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish and Turkish. Â
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Web giant Yahoo! is gambling that price cuts on its domain name registration and Web hosting products will make it more competitive with discounters in the space -- which means that small businesses looking to move online get a sweeter deal through ...
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Google launches a search engine service for as little as $100 a year, aimed at attracting small businesses.
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The Internet registrar is being criticized for its practice of putting holds on domain names that searchers on its site may not look for but not immediately register, although it since has backed down.
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Germany plans to introduce a monthly broadcast charge next year for homes and businesses that have an Internet-connected computer and don't already pay registration fees for television and radio service. One business association has called it "a complete rip-off."ADVERTISEMENTMAKE SOA REAL WITH IBM WEBSPHERE PODCASTStreamline processes and maximize efficiency within a proven service oriented architecture. Take back control of your business processes with IBM WebSphere.
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When Internet search engine company Google, Inc., of Mountain View, begins to sell shares to the general public -- something expected to happen later this week -- the initial price is expected to be between $85 and $95 per share. The company had earlier ...
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UPDATED: Search engine darling Google (Quote, Chart) has slashed the price of its long-awaited public offering by about 30 percent to between $85 and $95 per share and plans to sell fewer shares.
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By The Associated Press  MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - Google Inc. on Friday will join the crowded field of services registering Web site addresses in a move aimed at encouraging more usage of the online search leader's free software products.
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A proposal by the overseer of the Internet&#39;s addressing system could make it a lot easier for people to reserve the domain name they want for their Web site.The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is considering keeping the annual fee it charges registries for a registered domain name, even if the domain name is forfeited during the five-day Add Grace Period. ICANN currently charges $0.20 per domain per year.The move is intended to stop &quot;domain tasting,&quot; a practice where thousands of domain names are purchased at a time and monitored to see which get the most traffic during the grace period, said Jason Keenan, media advisor for ICANN.The grace period is intended to let people get a refund if they make a spelling mistake while registering a domain. But rogue registrars have been abusing the grace period by setting up thousands of Web sites stuffed with advertising links on newly registered domains.The domain tasters then keep the ones that generate the most click-through advertising revenue and forfeit the unprofitable domains for a refund before the grace period expires. Some registrars have been known to repeatedly register and unregister domain names as the five-day grace period expires, essentially never paying for use of a domain.Domain tasting is a problem for users since it means a domain they want to purchase may be temporarily or permanently unavailable. It also means more low-quality Web pages on the Internet that are designed only for generating advertising revenue.The imposition of a fee would make it a lot more expensive for domain tasters, Keenan said.&quot;Right now you can go and register a million different names for five days and the cost is zero,&quot; Keenan said. &quot;If this [proposal] comes through, the cost is $1 for five [domains]. It really changes the fiscal model of tasting.&quot;A study released earlier this month by ICANN shows how bad the problem has become over the last two years. In January 2005, there were 1.7 million .com and .net domains registered. Of those, 700,000, or 41 percent, were deleted during the grace period, for a total net increase of 1 million domains.During January 2007, 51 million domains were registered, but 48 million were deleted, or about 94 percent. &quot;There was a net increase of 3 million names but most of the rest were just being &#39;tasted&#39;,&quot; the report said.The fee is also expected to put the brakes on another practice, known as &quot;front running.&quot; Some ISPs and registries sell records of what domain names people have searched for, and those domains will end up being &quot;tasted,&quot; said Susan Wade, spokeswoman for Network Solutions, a registry.Often the tasters will try to sell those domains at inflated prices, she said.&#160;Network Solutions has tried to stop the behavior&#160;by registering a domain name for four day after someone conducts a search for one on its Web site.Critics have decried the approach, saying that it forces customers to pay Network Solutions for a domain or face further competition when the domain goes back on the market. Wade countered that Network Solutions doesn&#39;t charge any more for the domain, and it prevents the domain from being immediately scooped up by a taster.However, Wade said Network Solutions will stop the practice if ICANN imposes a fee.&quot;At that point, we believe that our customers would no longer need protection from front running,&quot; Wade said in an e-mail.The fee proposal is contained within ICANN&#39;s 2009 fiscal budget, which will be discussed in Paris in June, Keenan said. It must be approved by ICANN&#39;s board as part of the budget.It must also be approved by registrars that comprise two-thirds of the revenue ICANN receives from domain registrations, Keenan said. There are about 900 or so registrars for the seven generic Top Level Domains (TLDs) that have the Add Grace Period: com .net .org .info .name .pro and .biz, he said.Registrars have been complaining to ICANN about domain tasting for some time and appear ready to support the plan. Some registrars, such as GoDaddy.com, have dissuaded tasters from using their registration services by reserving the right to charge a fee even for domains that are returned within the five-day period.Network Solutions also deflects tasters by not issuing bulk refunds for registrations before the five-day grace period expires, Wade said.However, most tasters end up become registrars themselves, said Warren Adelman, GoDaddy&#39;s president and chief operating officer. &quot;We hope that we are really beginning to see the end of an era of what&#39;s been negative behavior,&quot; he said.The only other option to stopping tasting would be to get rid of the grace period, which would hurt users, said John Levine, an author and technology consultant. The fee is the easiest route, he said.&quot;It will definitely stop domain tasting,&quot; Levine said. &quot;It&#39;s clear they [tasters] have to register several hundred domains to find one that will pay off. It&#39;s pretty hard to find a hither-to-unknown domain to find $50 of revenue.&quot;&#160;
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LONDON (CBS.MW) -- Credit Suisse First Boston analysts overnight set a 12-month, $145 per share price target for Google (GOOG) , telling clients it expects the Internet search engine to grow revenue by around 50 percent a year over the next five years.
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I&#8217;m playing the devil&#8217;s advocate here, so keep that in mind in case I end up trampling all over anything you hold dear :) Google has taken a lot of flak on a lot of issues in the past few years - it&#8217;s a price an industry leader invariably has to pay.  Apart from Blogger spam [...]
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Google Domains Foreshadow an Archive Search? Will Google be launching their own version of the Archive.org Wayback Machine? Some recent domain name purchases have ZDNet&#8217;s Garett Rogers following his gut and predicting that such a service (perhaps even a paid for professional service?) may be right around the corner. If my gut instinct is correct, it won&#8217;t [...]
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Earlier this year, in January, the WSJ (sub req&#8217;d) speculated that Googlewas acquiring Adscape Media, which inserts ads into video game. The company launched in early 2006. Red Herring confirms that the deal is happening (for $23 million). Sub-$20 to $30 million (with a few exceptions) is Google&#8217;s acquisition &#8220;sweet spot.&#8221; Once a valuation exceeds that [...]
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Google Inc., the Web search engine, on Wednesday slashed the price range on its eagerly awaited initial public offering to between $85 and $95 per share from $108 to $135 per share.
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In a sign that Google Inc.&#39;s initial public offering isn&#39;t as popular as expected, the Internet search giant lowered its estimated price range to between $85 and $95 per share, down from its earlier prediction of $108 and $135 per share.
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A controversial practice enables some domain name registrars to make short-term gains from registering domains that others might want. Now Google -- the vehicle for their revenue -- says it wants to do something about that.