March 15, 2009 Posts

An official statement on the status of next month's GeoDomain Expo may be delayed until the attorney for show organizer Associated Cities weighs in on who has final authority. Board members disagree over whether the show will be held or not and three members, including the chairperson, have now resigned.

In an update to a story we posted earlier today, we now expect the remaining board members at Associated Cities to vote Monday to proceed with next month's show in San Diego. After six board members resigned there were still issues between those who remained, but it appears those have been resolved.

Rick Schwartz wrote an incredible post this morning titled - Why I came up with a 20 Year plan……Progress Report. In his post Rick says: "See I believe and have always believed that domains would be an overnight sensation that would be 20 years in the making. The next 20 years I believe are

Net Builders will be announcing the new contest keyword today, some 9 hours from now. 10 pm GMT on March 15. The contest would be simply about ranking in Google for that keyword 3 months from now. The person to rank the first there will get $1,000, second $500 and third $250. As SEO contest usually are

DomainReport.ca - This is what's wrong with the economy, AIG company receives $170 Billion dollars in bailout money from the US government and pays out $165 million in bonuses to executives. I don't know how American tax payers can stand it. This is a company that lost 62 Billion dollars in the last quarter of last year. What kind of company pay...

FastStone.org offers a pretty cool little tool called FastStone Capture which currently has version 6.3 available for the screen capture software. The cost is $19.95 and is a one-time fee. The tool is a screen capture software that is light weight but still very powerful! The reason I am writing about this tool, is because I

I am sure you know it already, but as a reminder, taxes are due in one month from today, April 15th. If you have been procrastinating, now is the time to buy the Domainer Tax Guide, the resource I gave to my accountant in order to figure out my tax obligation. The guide is written Related posts:Be Prepared for Tax Time It's only February 12, but...

Morning Folks!! It is amazing to witness a phenomenon. Our entire industry could be labeled that. The growth of the Internet itself. I think the hardest and also the most magnificent thing is how far we have come and how fast we got here and even then it is all in super slow motion when you are part of it. In 1996 it is hard to believe that just 5%...

Here we are in 2009 and the WWW or as most simply refer to it the web has been around for 20 years strong... The internet had it's 20th birthday few days ago. Good stuff! Some of my more "geeky friends" had a big time bash down in an NYC club to celebrate. Unfortunately I had to work it up so couldn't make it. Seriously.. Some of them celebrated be...

There is all this myths about website development and search engine optimization that in order to have a truly successful website / business you need a ton of unique content and constant updates and tons of link building and all kinds of other seo... Well, of course none of that stuff will hurt to have and it can only help but it is not required. J...

It's funny but some people just don't know when it's time to cash out. They couldn't pick the right timing or make the best decision when it comes to this stuff even if their life depended on it. I understand this problem many people have though. It is not an easy decision and pretty difficult to decide and make up your mind on when it is best to c...

Keyword research is very important to anybody who controls a web site or does search engine advertising / search engine marketing and any type of optimization. You gotta be able to do the proper analysis each and every time and not spend a whole lot of time on this. You need reliable SEO tools with advanced research capabilities to help you get the...

I get asked around all the time by clients about running your own ecommerce website store or how to go about somehow teaming up with some of the larger retailers online and creating one big mega store. Whether it is possible at all, how it can be arranged, etc. Well, of course most online retailers do offer api's and customized and whitelabel produ...

Thanks to Bernie Madoff, Sonja Kohn and Bloomberg.com we got loads of traffic and free publicity and maybe even a few $xx,xxx real estate deals in the works for one of my clients... OK, so you are probably wondering, what the hell are you talking about? Well, let me explain how and what went down. So as a routine check of all of my clients websites...