Google Registering Mashup Search Domains
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Google Registering Mashup Search Domains Gary Price of ResourceShelf has noticed that Google has its eye on some new domain names, this time focusing on Mashup Search. Although Google does not own the domain SearchMashup.com, they are working on cornering the domain market for that term - including misspellings. So, here&#8217;s a list of domains registered by [...]
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ICANN has begun commercial and technical negotiations with the applicant registries, bringing the number of domains in this second stage of evaluations to four. The other two are the .post and .travel domains.
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Ziff Davis - New hires, a domain-name registration and Mozilla bugs lead to speculation that Google is preparing a Web browser, but the clues could point in many directions.
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Found in the search marketing forums: Google Project Knol; Site Created Using All Images; Multiple Hyphens in Root Domain = Spam? and more.
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Building on the Custom Search Engine it introduced last October, Google on Tuesday took the wraps off a new hosted search site designed for businesses, which offers greater flexibility for a small, yearly fee. The service targets small to medium-sized businesses and will surely ruffle the feathers at Microsoft.
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Blog: Google now lets advertisers see exactly which web sites their ads appear
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InfoWorld - Network Solutions is standing by its controversial policy of automatically registering some domain names that are the subject of searches on the company's Web site.
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Today is the day that designated domain name registrars have been given the green light to open up the application process for new .mobi top-level domain Web addresses to anyone seeking to establish a name in the burgeoning mobile Web space.
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You know the name, but Google's probably not your first thought when pondering hosted security options. But a spate of recent buys indicates the company has serious designs on the space.
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Google is firing back at enterprise search vendor Autonomy, saying the company recently distributed a white paper that contains &quot;significant inaccuracies&quot; about&#160;Google&#39;s Search Appliance.The white paper, according to Google, states that Search Appliance &quot;does not index all your critical content.&quot;&quot;On the contrary, the Google Search Appliance was designed to search all critical content in the enterprise, including file shares, intranets, databases, and real-time business data - all from one simple search box,&quot; wrote Nitin Mangtani, lead product manager, enterprise search, on an official blog. Mangtani added that Google has also supplied connectors to products like SharePoint and Documentum, and an open-source content connector framework.The white paper does not appear to be available on Autonomy&#39;s Web site, nor is it provided through Google&#39;s blog post. Autonomy could not immediately be reached for comment Thursday.Autonomy&#39;s document also claimed Search Appliance lacks enterprise-level security, according to Mangtani. It in fact supports a number of security access control systems and also allows security settings at the document level, he said. The latter &quot;ensures that end-users see only those documents in the results list to which they have access,&quot; according to Mangtani.In addition, the white paper noted that the search appliance&#39;s &quot;capabilities are still being honed,&quot; Mangtani wrote.&quot;This is certainly true: We are constantly working to improve the appliance, to make sure it offers ever increasing relevancy out of the box,&quot; he acknowledged.However, he added, &quot;The fact is that we employ thousands of engineers focused on search relevancy and quality. In the last three months alone, seven new Google Enterprise Labs experiments have been launched (by Google, not third parties as Autonomy claimed) to enhance the enterprise search experience.&quot;Meanwhile, a report released in December by the analyst firm CMS Watch also said the company&#39;s technology has certain shortcomings, among them a lack of &quot;advanced tuning controls found in most other enterprise search products.&quot;This is the second time Google&#39;s search team has responded to an Autonomy white paper, and overall the exchange is reflective of the tightening market for enterprise search.Microsoft&#39;s bid this month to buy Fast Search and Transfer (FAST), a key competitor of Autonomy, was seen by some observers as a validation of the market.Autonomy, based in England and San Francisco, is one of the larger independent players in enterprise search. Fourth-quarter revenue released this week stood at $115 million, up 57 percent over the same period in 2006, it said. Adjusted net profits in the fourth quarter were $28.5 million, up from $18.4 million in 2006.
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Apple Computers is attempting to nab the domain www.itunes.co.uk from a British entrepreneur in a true David vs. Goliath battle. Benjamin Cohen registered his domain in 2000 for a music search engine called âCyberBritainâ.
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Plus: Is Microsoft search engine crawling Google? [News.com Extra]
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(InfoWorld) - Domain name registrar GoDaddy.com will take over more than 850,000 domain names from RegisterFly, a company involved in a dispute regarding its rights to register names. GoDaddy.com will notify RegisterFly customers of the move and automatically switch their domains. RegisterFly customers that don't hear from GoDaddy.com can contact GoDaddy.com for support. Afilias and VeriSign, two registries that have the most RegisterFly names, have waived fees for transferring the names, the organization that oversees the Internet's address system, ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), said. The announcement begins to remedy a year-long dispute during which some RegisterFly customers were unable to renew their domain names. The problems began with a disagreement between the two RegisterFly owners that resulted in lawsuits and led to poor service to customers, according to ICANN, which has received high volumes of complaints from RegisterFly customers. Throughout the dispute, a "significant" number of registrants found that their domain names expired. Many also were unable to move their domain names to another registrar, ICANN said. ICANN intervened last year, trying to work with RegisterFly to remedy the situation, but failed to convince the company to improve its service. Ultimately, ICANN began proceedings to remove RegisterFly's registrar accreditation, but that process required court action, further prolonging the poor service for customers. Two weeks ago, ICANN issued a formal notice to RegisterFly terminating its registrar accreditation as of May 31. On Friday, the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California ordered RegisterFly to post on its site a notice regarding the termination of its accreditation within 48 hours. Such a notice does not appear to be posted on the site as of Tuesday, and the site continues to advertise domain registration.
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Network Solutions is standing by its controversial policy of automatically registering some domain names that are the subject of searches on the company&#39;s Web site.After testing the concept in December, the domain name registration company quietly began doing this over the past weekend. Potential customers who used the company&#39;s &quot;Find a domain&quot; search engine would suddenly find the domain names they had been searching for were registered to Network Solutions itself, making them temporarily unable to purchase the domain from another provider.Industry watchers were quick to blast the new policy, saying that it either forced searchers to become Network Solutions customers, or exposed their ideas to scammers, who would be able to snatch up the domains the second they were released. &quot;It is a deplorable action that Network Solutions would announce potential domain names to the entire world,&quot; wrote Jay Westerdal, on the DomainTools blog.If cutting down on domain name scamming was the goal, &quot;someone should be fired over the implementation,&quot; wrote Andrew Allemann, a blogger with Domain Name Wire .On Wednesday, Network Solutions CEO Champ Mitchell said that his company planned to change the site&#39;s design to ensure that users are notified of this policy. The company is also looking into adding a feature that would make give users the option of keeping their searches un-registered, although that would require cooperation from domain name registries, he said.Ironically, Mitchell said that Network Solutions came up with the search registration process in an effort to cut down on the scamming that has plagued the industry over the past two years. &quot;We are not trying to make a bunch of money off of this,&quot; he said.By registering the domains immediately, Network Solutions is keeping them out of the hands of scammers who take advantage of a loophole in the way names are registered. It has become increasingly common for scammers to register large number of domains for a short period of time and then to keep the ones that generate Web traffic, a practice called domain tasting. Because a domain can be held without charge for up to five days, this practice costs the scammer almost nothing, but it can be lucrative.In another practice, called front running, scammers have found ways -- some of them illegal -- to keep track of domain name searches and then hold onto those domains themselves, hoping to sell them to the people doing the searching.Some critics have said that Network Solutions&#39; new practice amounts to front running, but Mitchell disagrees, saying the point of the system is to protect customers from the front-runners.His company has developed an algorithm, designed to identify legitimate domain name searches and then automatically register the domain names being searched for on behalf of Network Solutions. These domains are held with a Web-page notice saying that they are available for sale for a four-day period. This gives the Network Solutions customer a window of opportunity to purchase the domain before it snatched up by a scammer, Mitchell aid.Mitchell added that if ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), the organization that oversees the domain name system, would move to cut down on these type of scams, then his company wouldn&#39;t have to engage in this kind of automatic search registration. &quot;We would be perfectly happy to end this process if ICANN or the registries would do something to protect small businesses or other small users,&quot; he said.A $0.25 non-refundable domain name registration fee would probably be enough to make domain tasting or front running unprofitable, he added.
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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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The company that controls domain names ending in .name charges for registration details that are publicly available for other top level domains. Security researchers charge the policy will create a haven for hackers.
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Results from competing engines appear side by side on Australian search site SearchBoth.