WEST PALM BEACH, FL – I’ve never been particularly enthusiastic about Google’s Local Services Ads program. In my experience working in internet marketing, I’ve generally found the leads expensive, sometimes
Read the Analysis
LOS ANGELES, CA – The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has revealed 1,615 applications for new generic top-level domains (gTLDs), potentially introducing hundreds of additional Internet address
WEST PALM BEACH, FL – Google is accelerating its push into workplace artificial intelligence, positioning its Gemini technology as a tool capable of doing more than generating content, answering questions
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA – Google Ads is relaxing its business name requirements, giving verified advertisers more flexibility when their recognized brand name does not match the domain used in an
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Two of the most security-sensitive organizations in the United States have been dealing with major data breaches at nearly the same time, exposing sensitive information connected to
WASHINGTON, D.C. – A push by President Donald Trump to replace the term “Artificial Intelligence” with “Super Intelligence” is creating an unexpected surge in demand for Slovenia’s .SI country-code domain.
WEST PALM BEACH, FL – This evening I was reading DN Journal’s recent profile of veteran domain investor Yoni Belousov when I found myself asking a fairly simple question: What
The iconic Nashville.com domain name has been sold after more than two decades under the ownership of the Castello Brothers. Here’s what we know about the historic geo-domain transaction, and...
WEST PALM BEACH, FL – Internet users have been told for years to inspect a website address before clicking a suspicious link. A phishing technique known as a homoglyph attack
WEST PALM BEACH, FL – EstiBot has launched SoldNames.com, a free database combining historical domain sales with live domain auctions, adding another piece to a growing collection of tools that
MIAMI, FL – Rick Schwartz’s Beanstalk Challenge has succeeded at one thing beyond dispute: getting valuable domain names developed. In roughly six months, dozens of premium domains that previously sat
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA – Google Ads is sending advertisers an unusual quarterly policy reminder specifically warning about deepfakes, non-consensual intimate imagery and other forms of unlawful synthetic content. The email,
NEW YORK, NY – New York prosecutors have seized 12 domain names used by websites accused of selling and distributing AI-generated pornographic deepfakes depicting approximately 1,200 real people without their
REDMOND, WA – Microsoft Advertising is eliminating the ability to set a maximum cost-per-click limit on many new advertising campaigns, another step toward automated bidding systems controlling how advertisers’ budgets
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA – Google is changing the way AdSense counts display advertising impressions, a move the company says will bring its measurement methodology in line with industry standards but
SAN FRANCISCO, CA – OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra on September 3, introducing what the company calls its most intelligent and aligned AI model yet. The bigger story, however, may not
WEST PALM BEACH, FL – The FBI is investigating what could become one of the largest exposures of government-issued identification documents ever reported, after a new dark-web service began offering
WEST PALM BEACH, FL – Search Engine Journal published an article this week suggesting that JSON-LD schema is an important technical signal for AI search visibility. But controlled testing, Google’s
REDMOND, WA – Microsoft is investigating a widespread Exchange Online outage Monday that is causing email delays, failed messages and authentication problems for businesses and users across the United States.
WEST PALM BEACH, FL – Bill Gates has long presented artificial intelligence as a powerful tool capable of improving productivity, education and healthcare. He is now sounding considerably less optimistic
WEST PALM BEACH, FL – A federal judge is questioning whether Google is using its search monopoly to take publishers’ content while sending them increasingly little traffic in return. During a
WEST PALM BEACH, FL – A lead arrived through one of my client’s websites at 4:45 p.m. Within two minutes, I had reviewed the submission, checked where the visitor came