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Seven Keys for Successful Domain Portfolio Management

The world of domains continues to change at an alarming pace. In the last several years, there has been a proliferation of new ccTLD IDNs Internationalized domain names, many new second-level, and third-level ccTLD offerings, nine new sTLDs, significant changes to ICANN's Transfer and Whois Policies, and finally, ICANN's proposal...

Tags: ICANN, Domain, Portfolio Management, Domain Name, MarkMonitor, Domain Names, Internet

White papers 2009-03-01

Inside an affiliate spam program for pharmaceuticals

Bargaining with your health doesn't just mean you're heading for a shorter life expectancy, but also, increases the chances that you will either get scammed in the process, or have to pay more in the long-term while dealing with the health issues arising from using expired pharmaceutical with unverifiable origins,...

Tags: Program, Pharmaceutical Company, Pharmacy, Affiliates, Wire Cost, MarkMonitor, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-10-20

Online brand-jacking increasing

With the evolving sophistication of online scammers' understanding of social engineering and trust building online, the techniques they use to build authenticity into their scam propositions have started directly influencing a targeted brand's reputation online in the most negative way possible - the loss of a customer's trust into the...

Tags: Brand, Scammer, MarkMonitor, Phishing, Branding, Cyberthreats, Spam, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Marketing, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-06-03

Gain Control Over the Vast Unknown: Curtailing Online Distribution of Counterfeit and Gray Market Goods

Counterfeiting and gray market activity are major problems for brand owners. They pose serious financial and non-financial consequences for corporations, distribution partners and customers. Although these problems have existed for centuries, they are only exacerbated by the global reach, low cost and anonymity of the Internet. This renders the online...

Tags: Brand, MarkMonitor, Brand Owner, Branding, Marketing

White papers 2007-09-01

Rock Phishing: The Threat and Recommended Countermeasures

Phishing, an online scam in which people are tricked into divulging sensitive personal and account information, is a serious threat both to consumers and institutions doing business on the Web. This paper discusses the history of the Rock Phish Gang as well as their attack methodology and how it has...

Tags: MarkMonitor, Phishing, Cyberthreats, Spam, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing

White papers 2007-08-01

Who Is Fighting Phishing: An Overview of the Phishing Lifecycle and the Entities Involved

Online fraud scams continue to grow by 15% per quarter, targeting financial institutions of all sizes as well as e-commerce venues. Phishing scams are growing in sophistication and often occur in sudden rashes over a several month period, unexpectedly hitting both large and small businesses. This white paper addresses the...

Tags: MarkMonitor, Phishing, Cyberthreats, Spam, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing

White papers 2007-07-01

Google Pagetastic?

Google Pagetastic?I see you've been digging in the trenches again,Nice work, it's all I can do to get thru these reads lol! They maybe be shaping up to be all encompassing but with crap like today's Google Pages release, they have a long way to go. Got GOOG?Data DocketIf you...

Tags: Monitors & displays, Data Docket, Mark Monitor, MarkMonitor, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2006-02-23

Additional Resources

The uncertainties of social media for traditional brands

Guest post: Drew Bartkiewicz is a vice president of Technology and New Media Markets for The Hartford, and author of the upcoming book, Unseen Liability. In today's 24/7 business world, companies and their customers are consuming, sharing and storing data at an unprecedented rate. This data has...

Tags: Web, Brand, Network, Social Media, Tiffany, Web 2.0, Intellectual Property, Internet, Research & Development, Business Operations, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-11-25

Is Apple hording .me domains?

Daring Fireball via Mac Rumors pointed out that Apple may have secured the domain Me.com in December of 2007, lending credence to the rumor that Apple my re-brand their Mac.com service as "Mobile Me" or some variant thereof. There are a couple of decent theories about Apple...

Tags: jason D. O'Grady, Apple Inc., Domain Name, Domain Names, Domain, Internet

Blog posts 2008-06-01

Knol not one of Google's "urgent" projects?

Knol not one of Google's "urgent" projects?Googlepedia.comIf you do a search on "Googlepedia.com", it seems that these domains are registered on Google's Name Servers as are "Google.com" and "gmail.com"... ;-)-----------Domain Name: googlepedia.comStatus: clientDeleteProhibited, clientTransferProhibited, clientUpdateProhibitedRegistrar: MARKMONITOR INC.Whois Server: whois.markmonitor.comReferral URL: http://www.markmonitor.comExpiration Date: 2008-03-04Creation Date: 2004-03-04Last Update Date: 2007-11-15Name Servers: ...

Tags: Google Inc., Knol, Name Servers

Discussion threads 2008-01-21

Google secures GoogleDrive.com and updates name servers

Google already owns GDrive.com, but it's unlikely that will be the final name of the service. Like Gmail is technically "Google Mail", the real name for GDrive will likely be "Google Drive". So that got me wondering about the domain "GoogleDrive.com". Today, the name servers...

Tags: Google Inc., Domain, Server, Garett Rogers

Blog posts 2007-09-12

Google finally gets AdSense.com

After years of fielding Google questions, the owners of a Eugene, Oregon based company "AdSense Consulting" sold their domain to "someone other than Google".  After reviewing the situation, it appears they probably sold the domain to MarkMonitor.If you subscribe to this blog, you already know what that means.  MarkMonitor.com is...

Tags: AdSense Consulting, Google Inc., domain

Blog posts 2006-11-03

Google Partner Page on the way?

Every once in a while Google goes off and gets MarkMonitor to register some domains for them. In some cases it's to protect themselves by registering domains like "googlesucks.com", and other times it corresponds to something they are working on.A couple days ago Google registered some new domains that...

Tags: Google Inc., domain, iGoogle

Blog posts 2006-08-10

Welcome to Google Checkout, that will be $3.14

Welcome to Google Checkout, that will be $3.14E-Mails in WHOIS...Google is always so smart... Look at the contact e-mails for googlecheckout.net and .org, they're for an MSN account... So intelligent...www.k00lstuff.comGoogle to know my purchaces!? No way!Google already has huuuge database of things people are interested in, their emails, discussions and...

Tags: Domain names, Sales channel, E-mail, Financial services, Banking, transaction processing, knowledge, Google Inc., Google Checkout, Google UseMyBank

Discussion threads 2006-05-28

Welcome to Google Checkout, that will be $3.14

The first time I looked up the domain "GDrive.com" it appeared that someone other than Google had it registered. A trip down memory lane takes us to my very first article that describes how I determined GDrive.com is in fact owned by Google, despite what it looks like on...

Tags: Google Inc.

Blog posts 2006-05-28

GDrive wasn't such a bad idea....

Google is making their own G: drive as we speak. You may think this is speculation... but there is lots of evidence to support the idea that google is really digging into "Online Storage"...Just imagine. A place where you can store files which can be used anywhere, anytime on any...

Tags: Google Inc., CA 94043, order:NS1.ALLDOMAINS.COM NS2.ALLDOMAINS.COM MarkMonitor.com, Whois

Blog posts 2005-09-16