April 28, 2009 Posts

With the week almost at midpoint, I had a fun one-hour session on twitter, with regards to humoring the fears of swine flu epidemic. Consider this to be my first (and hopefully not last) session of twitter stand-up comedy. All the jokes below are mine. If you don't like them, I will gladly refund your ticket

Hi guys and gals! I arrived here a couple of days ago. There's an active group here which attend the show but do not really like the format, the way it is executed, Rick's approach to it. I was surprised to meet some of the folks who usually are within that group. on first day of arrival, telling me that "Rick is onto something", "With all my compl...

I was looking through the auction listings for the next live domain auction at Moniker (see http://domainauctions.moniker.com/viewCatalog.php?id=199), when I noticed the name, findjobs.com.The reason it attracted my attention was because I own the .co.uk version. It's one that I've had a few enquiries about during the time I've owned it and also on...

The Best LLLL.com You've seen so far! :: Click NOW :: Bulg.com, Afff.com, Bune.com That's right! Prepare to see some of the best 4 letter domains available for sale. For a short time I'm listing my top LLLL.com's: eFav.com - $4950 _The_ Best name for a social bookmarking site! Could be developed into something like Faves.com or Fark.com, or...

Minds + Machines announced in a press release that it will work with BRS Media, a diverse media e-commerce firm, to provide all the technical services for the new .radio TLD. "BRS Media is an Internet legend," said Antony Van Couvering, CEO of Minds + Machines. "They were pioneers in their field and today their name

If you are willing to pay the price ($11.95) @Tweetname Lets buy Domain Names via Twitter. http://xr.com/nng # ICANN staff gets bonuses if new TLD launch is not delayed (DNW) http://xr.com/kj7 # ICANN looking for new TLD application evaluators - http://xr.com/wlq [Stephane Van Gelder] # (c) 2009 DomainNameNews.com Upcoming Domain Industry Events...

Two number domain name leads weekly sales list. Sedo's top completed sale for the past week was 90.com, which sold for EUR 56,000 (about $73,000 USD) to a buyer in China. The seller of 90.com may have missed an earlier opportunity. According to a March 19 email from Sedo's Great Domains group, 90.com received

Man loses DEACOM.com despite overwhelming evidence of rights and fair use. Businessman Ben Dean lost a UDRP this month for deacom.com, a domain name he's owned since 1997 and used for his business. He says he can't afford to fight the action in court, but set up UDRPfail.com to tell the world about his predicament.

A domain name can be the Most Important choice you make before you start your site. Right out of the gate you have a vital choice to make but the majority of the time it's over looked and No budget is in place for your domain name. If it wasn't over looked, one may have had

The Rick Latona auction today was pretty interesting. I watched it all and was logged into my "bidding" account, but didn't bid on anything–just in case some of the "big" names (Shows.com at no reserve) were going way too cheap :P. Take a look at the list: Shows.com US$ 102,000 SmartPhones.com US$ 95,000 RemoteControls.com US$ 32,000 Mortuary...

Morning Folks!! The search for competency in a world of mediocrity is what many of us deal with daily. I expect way too much from folks in everyday life. Way too much. I actually expect them to do their jobs. I expect them to be competent. But in case after case I am finding out that those in power no matter where on the food chain they are located...

Moniker will be holding a live auction from the TRAFFIC show in California Tomorrow, Wednesday April 29th, at 3pm PST, 6pm EST. Remote bidding will be permitted through Snapnames.com, for those not in attendance or for those just wanting to bid online rather than by raising your paddle. Overall the list is quite good but here are

The next big dollar domain to hit NameJet.com is Toxic.com (also Toxic.net). The backorder deadline is April 30th and there are already 175 bidders in the auction. With all the talk of toxic assets and the economy, the domain is certain timely. The domain is at $4,000 pre-auction.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Executives from Google Inc, AT&T Inc, Twitter and other high tech companies are visiting Iraq this week to explore how technology may help fight corruption and build a more accountable society, the U.S. State Department said on Monday.The department, which helped arrange the April 19-23 trip, said the executives would offer i...

I have communicated with Craig Rowe and Stephen Douglas for a long time. I knew Craig back a few years ago when he owned BillingOrchard.com so I have been familiar with the types of projects he dedicates himself to. He sold Billing Orchard and moved on to WhyPark.com which has just been purchased by Parked.com. Congratulations, guys! ...

I've been researching some of the new mini site development services and wanted to share my ‘cheat sheet' containing prices, features and example minisites from nine services. Service Price / Description Examples AEIOU $250 for 5 page minisite with unique content and basic search engine marketing.? Also offers 1 page mini sites for $...