NEW YORK, NY – Two things happened on November 1, 2018, when the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) announced it would renew its Cooperative Agreement with Verisign while removing price caps on fees it charges registries: Verisign’s stock (VRSN) shot up $25 per share in a single day (then levelling off at still a healthy gain), Verisign came out blasting domain industry participants, calling them “Domain Scalpers” near suggesting that … [Read more...]
Google Finally Taking Action Against Callers Claiming They Are from Search Giant
NEW YORK - If you run a small business, especially a brick and mortar business with a physical address you are likely being solicited, potentially multiple times per day, by different companies often over robocalls from companies who claim they are Google. Often these calls are regarding your Google listing or Google Maps placement which is being reported to you as being inaccurate and out of date. To unsuspecting businesses this can be alarming and tricky to detect as … [Read more...]