Having already doubled its small and medium enterprise (SME) customer base in India within a year, global Internet search giant Google is now aggressively trying to reach out to the entire sector for online advertising.

India has an estimated 35 million SMEs, out of which only about 200,000 have an online presence through domains, sub-domains and blogs.

“We plan to reach out to all of them, as well as educate the ones who are not online, on the benefits of online advertising,” Google Asia-Pacific Head (Online Sales and Operations) Aliza said.

Google earns the bulk of its global revenue from ‘Adwords’, which allows advertisers to place ads against search results best suited to their interests.
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Moniker® and SnapNames®, both Oversee.net® companies, released the final catalogue of premium domain names for the live domain name auction set for Wednesday, August 18, 2010, from 4-7 p.m. U.S. Eastern time during the DOMAINfest® One-Day Power Networking Event at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in New York, N.Y.

The complete catalog can be found at:

http://domainauctions.moniker.com/2010/DOMAINfest-New-York.

Premium Names Available for Bidding

The Moniker live auction includes a broad selection of premium domains as well as names across all price points. Following the Moniker auction, SnapNames will host an online auction that will run through Wednesday, August 25 at 5 p.m. U.S. Eastern time.

Premium domains include:

Stocks.com

Quotes.com

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After the successful launch of .co dmains, Third Level .CO domains are now available for Booking !

Important Details:

* TLDs offered: .COM.CO, .NET.CO, .NOM.CO
* Registrations, Renewals and Transfer-ins will be available at Rs.739 p.a

Grab them Now !

Internet domain registrars began selling .co domain names on Tuesday, and some of the 11 virtual-real-estate sellers report seeing plenty of demand.

Most domain retailers are selling this first batch of .co names for about $30 per year. Dot-com domains generally go for $10 or so, but the list of memorable .com’s is ever-dwindling.

Major U.S. vendors of Internet land, including Go Daddy in Scottsdale, Ariz., and 1&1 Internet in Philadelphia, are advertising .co’s prominently on their home pages. Australia’s Melbourne IT reports on its Twitter page “a massive success with .co with most customers getting their choice of .co domain name.”

Twitter, the San Francisco company, was among the earliest adopters with T.co, which the company is using for its URL shortening service similar to Bit.ly. Twitter took possession of that Web address before .co names were being widely sold.

Other companies are less enthusiastic about the new Internet subset. Some feel compelled to pay high prices to secure their brand names from domain squatters looking to capitalize on an opportunity.

“.CO domain is yet another reason to be screwed by domain squatters,” read a tweet by Ben Huh, the chief executive of the Cheezburger Network of blogs that includes Fail Blog and the site that launched the Lolcat phenomenon.

Online retailer Overstock.com said it paid $350,000 for O.co and “related URLs.”

— Mark Milian
twitter.com/markmilian

You can now begin accepting Pre-orders for the .CO General Availability period!

The prices for all Registrations during the General Availability period will be Rs.1399.00 per year !

Please Note: Pre-orders are being offered on a first-come, first-serve basis. We will not accept multiple orders for the same Domain Name.

Important Details:

– General Availability Pre-orders can be placed from the 16th of July,2010
– There are NO non-refundable fees applicable to Pre-orders or regular Registrations during the General Availability period.
– You will only be charged Rs.1399.00 only if your Registration is successfully executed post the 20th of July, 2010
– General Availability Pre-orders and Registrations are offered on a first-come, first serve basis.
– There are no restrictions on who can Register .CO Domains during the General Availability period.