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With the DOMAINfest Global Conference running this week in Hollywood, California, we're on the road again! We have some notes on that event as well as who was named keynote speaker for next month's Domainer Mardi Gras in New Orleans and what is on tap for the first ever European T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Conference coming to Amsterdam in June.
Such a simple task but not everyone is doing it. If you do not know how to backup your data please call your hosting company and ask them to walk you through it. I know HostGator has a tutorial video in their cPanel.
Three Examples:
Andrew, a friend of mine and one of my developers almost lost
Just a few days after Godaddy was hit by a DDoS attack that took out a number of its shared hosting accounts for quite a few hours, Royal Pingdom reports that another popular registrar has suffered the same fate.
Network Solutions suffered a DDoS attack last Friday that slowed down access to thousands for quite a few hours. NetSol themselves wrote ...
The domain name TOP.com is on auction at Sedo.com at the moment with some 2 days 12 hours left at the time of writing this.
This premium 3 letter generic domain name gets some 33,230 visitors per month according to Sedo stats and with 38 bids placed the price is currently at 101,000 EUR with the reserve met.
If you are looking for a top of the line...
SEO Expert and author of the SEO Book and course Aaron Wall has praised newly inaugurated US president Barack Obama for his choice of domain names in recent times awarding him a 2009 domainer of the year award in a post on his blog.
Wall points out that Mr Obama smartly chose the domain name Change.gov to reflect his intentions prior to him being s...
We are in a niche market. Ask a random person on the street if they know what "Domaining" is and 999 out of 1000 times - they won't know. I live in Los Angeles and went to the local Borders...
How ironic is this ? Guests checking in online at the Hollywood Renaissance hotel were greeted with a familiar website today.? The domain name RenaissanceHollywood.com expired on January 19, 2009.
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DOMAINfest 2009 kicks off tomorrow evening in Hollywood, California. The lineup is solid and this looks to be a great event. Here's my "practical" guide to attending the show.
When to Arrive
If you're new to domaining, or even intermediate, you should try to arrive Tuesday at noon.
Marketing potential of brand-name top level domains seems limited.
I've had a question about the proposed new top level domains for a long time. And no one has provided me with a good answer. Hopefully someone reading this can provide one.
A handful of people have suggested new top level domains are an excellent global
Domain has met reserve and will sell for six figures.
The domain name Top.com has met its reserve at Sedo and is currently at EUR 101,000 ($133,000 USD). 38 bids have been placed. The auction ends January 29 at 7 am EST.
The auction should give a confidence boost to the domain industry
This pertains to offers on your domain names that are not through a 3rd party listing service like Sedo or Afternic.
You get an offer via email, send a reply and likely get another reply back. After several emails you and the interested party have come to terms on a sales price. Don't get overly excited
No really! A really big ass slot machine!
This has to be the first EVER ".com company" to get a slot machine in a casino that I am aware of! My wife and I stopped at our local casino yesterday for a little to burn up some time and I seen this monster. I had to
I landed in Burbank, California last night, ahead of the DomanFest Global show. It was neat having Michael Eisner (former CEO of Disney) on my flight from JFK to Burbank, although the unexpected stop in Salt Lake City to refuel (and then deice in a snowstorm) wasn't exactly appreciated. When I arrived at
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While I am away for DomainFest Global, I asked a couple of industry friends to write guest posts for my blog.? My preference was to write about something with which I am not familiar, to help me learn as well.? Today's guest post is from Jeff Behrendt of INForum.in, the leading Indian domain forum.? As
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I was just checking my Tweets and found that there was a new Wordpress Plugin released by DropBuzz.com. What's so special about this plugin? Well, as PPC continues to diminish, domainers are starting to figure out better ways to monetize their domain names (there was even a recent thread on Namepros that the number of
There was a solid earthquake in Santa Monica on Friday night.? It hit during a small dinner party at my place. We discussed briefly whether it was an earthquake or just a large truck driving down the road.? Then, about an hour later we received another little shake. I was the only one
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Last week, my boss spent the evening in London with some prominent domainers - and by all accounts a good time was had by all.
The reach of domainers, domaining, direct navigation and the industry-at-large now seems to have reached a new level in the UK; for apparently, included at this get-together was? an IP lawyer
Cocooning is the name given to the trend that sees individuals socializing less and retreating into their home more. This trend was recognized back in the 1990s and has been increasing ever since. Many companies have realised the potential of the cocooning trend and so they market products based on this principle. Video rentals is
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Atlanta, Georgia USA ? January 26, 2009 ? Rick Latona Auctions is proud to bring the famous T.R.A.F.F.I.C. conference to Europe for the first time, T.R.A.F.F.I.C. ccTLDs, 2009 will be held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands from June 1 - June 5, 2009.
T.R.A.F.F.I.C. ccTLDs 2009 is dedicated entirely to the discussion of country co...
Morning folks!! When you look at where we are economically you can boil it all down to one single word. One single pointed word. The hardest thing I have ever had to try and figure out is this economy or lack of one right now. But after a lot of consideration last summer I figured it out. The lynch pin in all this. The word......Confidence. There i...
Each time I have a brush with a potential end user, it is always exciting, When that end user is the Executive Vice President of a Multi-Million dollar Company, excitement?reaches a whole new dimension.
Last weekend I was introduced to a gentleman who ?is the Executive Vice President of?a multi-milion dollar ?company. Some of there products
An article in econsultancy.com, today claims that its a buyers market for domains,
Citing what it calls "the economic downturn and a growing overall trend of declining revenue for parked‘ domains" the article concludes that its a great time t buy a domain from even major players like BuyDomains.com
The article cites a report in In December,...
CHICAGO (AdAge.com) -- Surely, spending $3 million on a Super Bowl ad in the midst of a crushing economic downturn is a foolish waste when chief marketing officers' jobs are on the line? On the contrary, it's a bargain.
READ: Even in Tough Economy, Buy Pays Off Big in Web Traffic, Publicity and Sales
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Groundhog and Shadow: Battle Is Joined Again
By STUART ELLIOTT
Published: January 26, 2009
A new and mostly online ad campaign from the Pennsylvania Tourism Office focuses on whether the groundhog known as Punxsutawney Phil dreams of its shadow.The campaign is mostly online, with the centerpiece a microsite, or special Web site, named groundhogdrea...
Talk about "culture club" -- Boy George moved from prison cell for being too popular: "Inmates lined up for his autograph and guards were caught being "too kind" by bumming him cigarettes. Boy George had his own personal guard because his cell was a hotbed for starry-eyed murders and rapists wanting to hang with the former Culture Club singer. 'It'...
Cadbury's new ad for a choclate bar is sure to raise some eyebrows.
So here I am once again at thirty thousand feet winging my way across the Pacific Ocean to a domain conference in the USA. You would think that I would be sick of the fifteen hour flights by now and you would be right. All international flights from Australia are...
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If your domains receive alot of type-ins, but don't generate that much pay per click revenue, why not just forward those names back tothe homepage of yourDomain Business site or straight to the listing page on your site?If the end game is to sell the names, leverage the traffic to get more eyeballs looking at all your name offerings. Who knows, m...
Domain At Hand: Howtoattractguys.com
What's Going On?
Howtoattractguys.com is a name that we hand registered in July of 2007.
Howtoattractguys.com is keyword specific domain. These keywords generate a ton of searches for consumers looking for dating tips and websites. This is a very competitive advertiser market with high ppc prices. We designed fi...
Over the past couple of months, along with the growth of the domain industry's blogosphere, there have been a bunch of domain news aggregators coming up where you can read articles from most domain blogs and news sites in one place.
One of the newer blog aggregators is NameBee.com, and it's very nice actually. The design Copyright (C) 2003-2009 Dom...
There has been a lot of discussion about geo domains lately from Andrew, Elliot and Rick, to name a few.
In the summer of 2008, we started development on a city.com geo domain. The domain was active with about 150 pages of content and 300 visitors per day. In five months, we have expanded the
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