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On Election Day, I commented about how the aesthetics of politics assisted to the outcome of the elections. It was evident that the Obama campaign listened to the hopes and aspirations of the American people, offering visuals that support such a choice - a genius approach, given that millions of new and younger voters are
The Kentucky Court of Appeals has overturned a local judge's controversial order that 141 gambling related domain names be turned over to the state. The appeals court ruled that the lower court was wrong in claiming that the domains were "gambling devices" that are illegal under Kentucky law. Michael Berkens has been on top of this story from the s...
I never talk politics, personally I don't believe this is the forum for me to discuss my political, religious or educational beliefs. I do feel that today is special and something I must write about.
Today we the United States have sworn in the first African American President, Barack Obama. Obama was sworn in using the
Go Daddy have announced they are adding .IN to their long list of domain offerings.
The .IN extension is the official country code top level domain (ccTLD) for India and it has been available for registration to anyone in the world for a while now - it is only now though that GoDaddy customers can purchase .IN domain names through their favourite ...
Network Solutions have announced on their blog that their free whois tool has been voted as the number one whois tool on Google? gadgets.
Google gadgets are mini-program applications that add features to an existing web page or mobile device and Network Solutions released their free whois tool to allow easy lookup for domain names. In addition, if ...
The Kentucky Appeals Court has ruled in a 2-to-1 majority decision against the Commonwealth of Kentucky in its attempt to seize 141 valuable gambling domains, overturning the previous decision by Judge Thomas Wingate of the Kentucky Circuit Court and finally putting an end to Governor Steve Beshar's efforts to shut down any online gambling websites...
There were several impressive sales on AfternicDLS this week including PhotoSight.com for $15,000, LaParisienne.com for $9500, and TTBC.com for$7480.
Check out the entire sales list, with nearly $70,000 worth of domains, after the jump…
Domain
Price
photosight.com
$ 15,000.00
laparisienne.com
$ 9,500.00
ttbc.com
$ 7,480.00
k...
Last week I was surprised to see only three Sedo sales reach over $30,000 USD. This week there were only two - BoutiqueHotel.com for $40,000 USD and CaptchaCreator.com for $30,000 USD.
Although there aren't as many high-profile domains changing hands, there are still plenty of valuable names available. Check out last week's full list after the...
360.org domain was purchased for only $2,000 a year ago.
Sedo has completed the sale of 360.org for $25,500. The seller is likely to be familiar to people on DNForum, as active member "Acro" (Theo Develegas) flipped this domain for about a dozen times what he paid for it.
On his blog Acro.net, he
Traffic to cedar allergy domains spikes from December to February.
A nice Austin view, if it weren't for the cedar trees.
Most domain names get relatively even traffic throughout the year. Some are more seasonal in nature, such as holiday domains (some even spike for just one day). Last year I wrote about another type
Furniture company tries its luck at UDRP but loses.
I've seen it happen many times: a company starts filing UDRP arbitrations for a number of obvious trademarks. After winning a handful, it gets bold and goes after a generic domain.
That's exactly what happened with Ashley Furniture Industries, Inc. The company has won
Kikabink News is running a series of articles around tips for domain name acquisitions. This is an area that is often under the radar of many people, not just newbies. Here are a few that I really like:
"when it comes to making an offer? don?t…..instead…. ask the domain name holder what they would be prepared
This is a very interesting video I must say! 31 Billion monthly searches on Google! Holy Smokes!!!! Throw that at your next domain name buyer with a nice twist and see if it get's there attention!
I sure hope he does, because he is now our leader in the United States! I do get moved when I see the reaction of the people who attened the events in DC. Crying, hugging, cheering etc! A lot of excited people. This is something I have never seen before. Let along the million +
A new day has begun in American politics. The world watched as the first black man was sworn in as the President of the United States of America.
President Barack Obama taking office for many, is like seeing a dream come true (Dr Martin Luther King). It was just simply historic.
This is a day for every
When I was on WebmasterRadio.fm, I was asked to make domain industry predictions for 2009.? I hate making predictions, but one of my off the cuff answers was that I thought there would be less development by domain investors by the end of 2009 than there is now.? Although this contradicts what has been going
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Say you have a product that is in a quickly saturating market.? How do you get your product to the forefront of this market?? If you are Unilever, you rename the market and own the new market.
I have high(ish) cholesterol mostly due to genetics, although it has been going down as a result of my
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According to a report on Fox 17 in Nashville, the Kentucky Court of Appeals. has blocked the state's attempt to seize gambling domains. The decision can be read online.
Mike Berkens, who has provided extensive commentary, plans to provide more feedback on the ruling today.
Related posts:Kentucky Domain Seizure: Ruling Delayed Until 10/16 Accordin...
A little slow week for blog posts, so how about a super-simple way to hide affiliate links using PHP? I was at IDNChannel and Administrator mj made a post in July regarding hiding affilaite links using PHP. Ressurecting the thread to help some other members, I thought it might be useful for others who might
Back in December of 1996, a man by the name of?Martin D?rst at the University of?Z?rich?came up with the idea that adding internationalized characters to domain names would be a good idea. ?Much debate was had and now?almost every Top Level Domain (TLD) available supports internationalized characters. There are a few exceptions if I recall,
Maximizing the ROI on Your Super Bowl Spot - Advertising Age - DigitalSuper Bowl 2009 30-second commercials sold for a staggering $3,000,000! The expensive ads will be leveraged online through social medis sites such as YouTube and through blogs, etc. The domain industry will gain maximum exposure on prime time once again with GoDaddy's annual edgy...
'Obamanomics' Yields Big Bucks - Politics - CBN News"Profits from Obama-related merchandise are estimated at $300 million and climbing."... sounds like an understatement.How much will the trophy domain name 'Obamanomics.com' trade for?
Here is the second in the domainer stereotypes series. Background: I was reading an article about stereotypes and how we love to categorize people and put them in boxes. I realized I hadn't seen anyone create domainer stereotypes though we all know they exist. I thought I would put together a series of posts with
7:00 A.M. Woke up
8:00 A.M. Left for the event
8:45 A.M Got in line
11:00 A.M. Still in line and kicked out because Pennsylvania Avenue stands between me and the security gate. Then president elect's motorcade was coming through so if you weren't in you weren't getting in.
11:30 A.M Back at small rented apartment.
11:35 A.M. Sitting on...
Morning folks!!This is just such an historical day and period in history. The first of many firsts. While most will focus on the first Black President being sworn in I see that angle as well as one that I believe has even more meaning. At least to me and my generation. This will be the first time that a President is sworn in that is younger than me...
Whether you have read my blog in the past or not,? you need to read this post if? this title does not ring a bell. More importantly you need to know what may determine about 90% of your happiness or misery. I will share with you? the words of? H. Jackson Brown Jr. This words
So a good friend of mine, who operates one of the largest adult websites in the world, let's call him Joe the website owner, tells me that starting just about 30 days ago, he is seeing about 10% of his attempted re-bills declined by the credit card company.? This mean about 10% of his customers,
The Kentucky appeals court has overturned the Domain Seizure order of 141 "gambling" domain names.
You can read the decision here.
I'm going to read it myself,? and update this post as I get though it, so check back often.
Our first prediction of the year has come true and this is great news for the domain industry.
Facebook, MySpace, iPhone Figure in Efforts by Pizza Hut, Others to Boost Online Exposure While Controlling Costs
It used to be that the premier advertising medium in the US could keep its place on top for a generation or more. Now that cycle has been cut down to years. Newspapers ruled the American market for more than a century. Radio was domina...
Being new to anything, means you're going to make mistakes. However, making mistakes in the domaining world can be costly. I've got to admit, we made dozens of mistakes on our own, before we realized we needed to educate ourselves.n
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Hand registering hundreds of useless names, instead of taking the same cash and buying one or two high quality keyw...
Twitter is a great tool to get your message out to lots of people in a hurry. Twitter allows messages (called ‘tweets') to be up to 140 characters long, which is great for short blasts of useful information.
Since the twitter API is very robust, you can update your twitter page from the web, a
If you're like me, you've recently upgraded to Wordpress 2.7. One of the great features of 2.7 is the built in threaded comments and comment paging features.
Good news
These comment treading features allow your visitors to reply directly to comments on posts instead at at the bottom of the list. You can control how
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