Mail Online to switch to .com domain name

Publisher thought to have paid potentially as much as £1m-plus in bid to boost international traffic, particularly in the USMail Online is switching from a .co.uk to .com homepage address, following protracted negotiations with the US paper that owned the dailymail.com domain name.Owner Daily Mail & General Trust is thought to have paid potentially as much as £1m-plus to secure the valuable domain name. The technically challenging domain shift will see the 161 million monthly unique browsers who visit Dailymail.co.uk instead land on dailymail.com.Mail Online is adopting a .com homepage domain name in recognition of the growing importance of international markets. Almost 70% of its monthly web traffic comes from outside the UK, with most of that from the potentialy lucrative US market."The US market is hugely important for the Daily Mail as well as other international digital publishers and a .co.uk domain name just doesn't cut it in ad sales over there," said one source.Mail Online has been aggressively targeting growth in the US, doubling staff numbers to 80, as well as launching into Australia in partnership Mi9, the digital media company owned by Nine Entertainment.The Daily Mail website missed its target of £45m in revenues in the year to the end of September, making £41m. However, it is still expected to deliver 50% year-on-year growth in 2014 with a target of breaking £60m.Parent company Daily Mail & General Trust is understood to have been pursuing the... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'

[ The Guardian | 2014-01-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Mail Online to switch to .com domain name

Publisher thought to have paid potentially as much as £1m-plus in bid to boost international traffic, particularly in the USMail Online is switching from a .co.uk to .com homepage address, following protracted negotiations with the US paper that owned the dailymail.com domain name.Owner Daily... Continue reading at The Guardian

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Telegraph and Spectator takeover: News Corp and Mail owner consider bids

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