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May 15, 2004
How to Leverage Expired Domains to Increase Your Rankings and Traffic

Written by Matt Paolini / Edited by Brent Winters

New sites appear on the Web each day at a blistering pace. Just as thousands of new sites are born each week, according to DomainsBot.com, one hundred thousand other domains will disappear. What happens to these domain names? Unless the owner continues to pay rent on the defunct domain, the name will eventually expire and be offered back to the public.


May 15, 2004
Google Announces “Online Auction Style” IPO

By Brent Winters

Google recently announced that it expects to raise as much as $2.7 Billion in its initial public offering. The long awaited IPO announcement came with a twist. Google has chosen to shun the traditional Wall Street IPO approach of selling shares, but will instead sell them via a Dutch style online auction. Morgan Stanley and Credit Suisse First Boston will underwrite the process.


May 15, 2004
CNN Search no longer powered by Google

Up until February, Yahoo counted Google as its longtime search partner.