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Having a few minutes spare this morning I typed in a few domain names to my browser to see whether they pointed to real businesses.This follows a conversation I was having with the owner of a bar last night, who'd found a neat way of getting customers in during the off-peak season when there aren't many tourists around.In total, I identified around...
According to Jeff Lindsay, an analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein, ?Paid search is holding up better than all other forms of advertising?. This statement was issued after Google beat forecasts yesterday in announcing it?s 4th quarter results. This is a good thing to see. Most domainers revenue comes from paid search. If they are able to hold out durin...
Dr. Kevin Ham's Reinvent Technology and the company's domain parking service provider, HitFarm.com, are planning to open a new office in Dubai. Dr. Ham and Dr. Chris Hartnett, who serves on Reinvent's Board of Directors, just returned from Dubai and Dr. Hartnett filled us in on their trip to the Middle East.
Last week I learned how to forward and mask a domain name. I am extremely excited about this because it is such a powerful and underrated tool. This simple technique can make you hundreds if not thousands every single month. In just one week I have already made a few hundred dollars from this
With 2009 in full swing and our goals set we are moving quickly to start on the multitude of projects for the year. This week with Obama entering office there have been a number of trends that have been getting...
Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear isn't willing to give up on his attempt to seize 141 online poker and gambling domain names. Although the Court of Appeals ruled against the Commonwealth's forfeiture, Beshear has filed an appeal with the state's Supreme Court.
"The Commonwealth will continue its action to protect Kentucky citizens from illegal Inter...
The Executive Director of the Internet Commerce Association (ICA), Michael Collins announced his resignation today. The resignation letter emailed to supporters explains Collins desire to work on his own business ventures.
The ICA is a non profit group organized to lobby on behalf of domain name owners interest. Collins letter also points to a pro...
According to the company website and other reports on the web, registrar Network Solutions experienced a distributed denial of service (DDOS) attack today that brought down it's DNS services.? Any website using DNS services or hosting from NSI could have been down as a result of the attack.? The official post on the NSI blog
Please help me decode this article about gTLDs.
I like reading opinions that are opposite mine. They help me either reinforce my opinions or consider the other side of the story. So when I came across an opinion piece by Naseem Javed this morning in E-Commerce Times that was in favor of new top
Domain registrar feels bite of sinking economy.
Domain name registrar Name.com has laid off 10% of its staff, according to a post on its company blog.
After growing last year, the company started to cut back on costs in October. But the cuts were not enough. Name.com cites razor small margins on domain names and
PeanutButterRecall.com sees surge in traffic from latest peanut butter recall.
In September I excerpted part of an article by Tim Morse of Penguin Search Engine Services about ConAgra and its registration of PeanutButterRecall.com. ConAgra registered the domain name during the last peanut butter recall but never used it.
When a new recall of pean...
DomainReport.ca - Just noticed on the Sedo sales homepage today that words.ca has sold for $1,800 US. Seems like a decent price for a short generic .ca that could have a few uses, such as in games or writing.
Twitter.com the micro-blogging sensation has evolved into a rapidly-growing network of people streaming their thoughts, news, and business live with the world.? These twitter members are finding an audience that listens and grows daily.
Having a presence on Twitter really pays off.?? Big corporations are monitoring their brands and connecting with ...
That may seem like a silly question but for somebody that may own several hundred domain names, you may Think you know what your domain names are doing but do you really?
When was the last time you actually typed in a domain name that you own and paid a visit to it in your web
I wish I had the answer but it appears NamePros.com has been down most of the day. I tried going to the site earlier this morning and tried again just now and got an error.
I get a Failed To Connect, Page Load Error using Firefox.
Using IE7 and typing in NamePros.com brought me directly to Google.
It is estimated that a third of all registered domains are owned by domain speculators. These are people who register domains with the hope of selling them later for huge profits.
Have you ever wondered who will buy your domain name, and what they will do with it? Chances are, if you can narrow down your
Development is the way to go for premium domain names if your company has the time and/or inclination to develop. There are many great development options, as I have mentioned several times on this blog, some of which can be found under the "Sponsors" title to the right. However, I would evaluate the
Related posts:Developing Great Domains vs. ...
Power.com is a social network aggregator which helps people ?link? all their social networks (Myspace, Facebook, Orkut, etc.). For those that don?t really know, it had a huge start when it was first launched in November 2008. Many users quickly stormed to the site to make it their ?everything? social site. Wanna chat with Robert
As an Internet Publisher and Marketer?with Neptune Ventures, it is important to understand all social media these days.??Facebook continues to grow and amaze me.? Twitter, I do not understand, but I will?try it out.? I feel like I am missing something if I am not a part of?it?or if I do not try it out.?
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Since our last sales report, there have been a few decent Indian domain sales.? The largest one is IKA.in, a great three letter domain beginning with "I" for India, for $1,500.? Trivandrum.in, the English version of Thiruvananthapuram, the capital of Kerala and with a population of about 750,000, sold for $1,000.
A number of smaller sales...
Design News - PhilippeBecker Receives Six Awards For Branding & Package Design Excellence - TAXI Design Network"PhilippeBecker, a San Francisco branding and package design agency, today announced it has been awarded six prestigious American Graphic Design Awards (AGDA) for excellence in communication and graphic design. PhilippeBecker received ...
Name.com has always been a close knit family. Even as we expanded last year we'd kept a very family oriented approach to business. We eat together, we play together, we take care of each other. This week our family is smaller as a result of cuts we've been forced to make.
As I sat with the
Hi everybody,
Obviously a big week in politics (were there some by-elections or something?) but the domain industry seems unaffected as yet, continuing its inevitable decline/inexorable growth, depending on who you believe. Google seems to be doing well though which I'm sure will please all of you - in other news, we have our own
A letter to ICANN from the NTIA, the part of the Department of Commerce that watches ICANN, has caused a lot of speculation about whether the new TLD process would be stopped, or significantly slowed. I don't see that happening.
The web is made up of links and so it is no surprise that links count so much in search engine rankings. The text used for links (anchor text) is critical for you and for those that you link to. For a short period this website ranked in the top ten websites for "catheter fetish"
Opening a browser window and forgetting which website you were going to is the modern day equivalent of forgetting why you opened the refrigerator. I don't know about you guys but I do it multiple times per day.
I have a little system down. First, I'll?alt-tab to go back to the thing I was just looking
In? cost savings move, Yahoo announced this morning that effective immeditatly it would be freeze any wage hikes for the year.
All employee's are included in the freeze.
WIth so many of its most talented people leaving the company already, one has to wonder if this is another Yahoo blunder.
It's fine to try to cut costs, but
The extended online adult auction from the Internext show in Las Vegas, closed yesterday at SnapNames.com with a total of $125,000 in sales.
Here is a complete list of all the domains that sold.
WARNING THE FOLLOWING DOMAINS CONTAIN ADULT TERMS
footjob.com
$53,388.00
sexyladies.com
$29,420.00
chubbychicks.com
$14,120.00
ebony...
Slate throws Apple a $100B idea, suggests iBank
In an interesting -- not to say wildly speculative -- essay, Slate Magazine's Karim Bardeesy says that Apple should take some of its $28 billion and start a bank.
During Wednesday's conference call, Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer made it clear that the company was looking to keep its cash right where i...
This article follows on from the previous two articles in the series that I've been developing on risk. I'd highly recommend that you read the previous articles that can be found be clicking on the links below:
Part 1 Risk - Domain Business Model Analysis (index.php/20081209494/Domain-Analytics/Part-1-Domain-Risk-Analysis.ht ml)
Part 2 Ri...
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Rumorshave beenflying around the internet that Microsoft is going to be renaming several of it's offering and services under thebrand "Kumo". As a result, Microsoft has been buying up several related domain namessuch as KumoWiki.com and KumoPics.com. Here's an excerpt from the story in PC World:n
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"on Dec. 4, 2008, Microsoft filed...
FreshDrop is a service that makes it easy to find quality domain names that are for sale on the major domain marketplaces and drop services. It's really a very useful tool for analyzing a large number of domains so you can then extract and buy only the best of them.
For example, on FreshDrop you can Copyright (C) 2003-2009 Dominik Mueller.
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The DN Journal reports that the Ask.com division Ask Sponsored Listings, which is an IAC company, has acquired domain monetization company Sendori. Founded in August 2006, Sendori is a relatively new service acting as a middle-man between owners of premium type-in domains and advertisers looking to buy additional quality traffic to their websites.
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