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Imagine you're at a social function and you're meeting people for the first time.
When the ineviatble question about what you do for a living crops up, how do you answer it?
I'm interested to find out, because I am in the middle of an exercise to help somebody out at the moment,?so please drop a comment
Last night I was informed that Aris? sister , Leora passed away. Leora was a wonderful person. If you were an old Smartname customer or even a client of Ari?s, you would remember her friendly voice answering his office phone. Lala, as she was called by many, will be greatly missed. Leora, we love you and miss you. You will always be in our thought...
Verisign's latest quarterly Domain Name Industry Brief reports the total number of registered domains worldwide jumped 9% from the same quarter last year. ccTLDs rose even faster, soaring 14%, however growth has slowed across the board this year, with just a 1% quarterly increase from 1Q to 2Q.
I always hear people say, if you own a .com domain name buy the other extensions to protect your brand. Well I am here to tell you it works both ways.
For my example, I am using Justin.tv. Justin.tv has an Alexa rank of 253 with Compete.com showing over 3.5 million visitors each and every
Today I am going to take some time and evaluate SitePoint's new marketplace, Flippa.com. One of my main businesses revolves around flipping websites. I'll make a wordpress blog, add some keyword-rich content to it, spiff it up a bit, and sell it for a small profit. While listing a website on the forums (for free)
MeetDomainers is a Truly European Meeting of Domain Investors. Second edition will be held at Warsaw Marriott Hotel, Poland, September 25-27. Almost one hundred people will participate in this event ? experts in domain investing, domain name law, web development, domain parking and representatives from registries and registrars. Please check http:/...
Sedo reported a massive week in domain sales featuring Jets.com for $375,000, NewBrand.de for $175,000 (?120,000), and TradeTracker.com for $146,000 (?100,000).
Jets.com is an impressive domain with a lot of potential - whether for a travel-related website or team-related (New York Jets of the NFL).
Other top sales this week include Production.com ...
New domain registrations fall.
New registrations of domain names were down 15% in the second quarter of 2009 compared to the same quarter in 2008, and down 14% from the first quarter of 2009, reports VeriSign (pdf). The overall base of registered domain names ticked up 1% to 184 million compared to last quarter and
The number one way to get search engine traffic to your web site.
Want to know a search engine optimization technique guaranteed to get "loads of traffic" to your web site? How to get "laser-targeted" visitors? I'm "going to spill the beans".
It's not the SEO secret Google doesn't want you to know...
Go Daddy and Google popular among Y Combinator companies.
Where do Y Combinator's startups register their domains and host email? Here's a handy chart generated in August using domain-profiler.
Go Daddy dominates the domain registration business for Y Combinator startups, according to the chart. Go Daddy also has a large share of the SSL market....
Don't bother with keywords meta tag, and focus description tag on what makes users click.
Spending time stuffing the keyword meta tags for your web page? Don't bother.
That's the official word from Google, which says it doesn't consider what you put in your keywords meta tag at all. You may as well leave it
Jets.com leads pack at Sedo.
By now you've probably heard that Sedo brokered the sale of Jets.com last week for $375,000. But that's not the only great sale from Sedo this page week; it also sold two other six figure domains.
But first let's discuss Jets.com. The domain is still in the transfer process so
Individuals and entities push ICANN to move forward with new top level domain names.
Many organizations that seek to benefit from the introduction of new top level domain names — including eNom, Network Solutions, Tucows, and Minds + Machines — have sent a letter (pdf) to ICANN CEO Rod Beckstrom asking him to implement the plan
DomainReport.ca - I came across news of a new domain law blog today by Zak Muscovitch of Toronto, Canada.Zak has been a domain lawyer for 10 years, and has also handled .ca cases from what I've heard.His new blog can be reached at:http://dnattorney.com/blog.shtmlBio and contact info from his site:Zak Muscovitch is a domain name lawyer. He has been ...
Funny title, powerful tool! Yahoo offers a tool called Pipes and offers this free tool at pipes.yahoo.com . The basics of the tool are simple. Create or join data mashups into a single feed.
You can use these feeds for your own uses with Google Reader or you can use tools like TwitterFeed.com and feed this
This is more a personal post then anything to do with domain names and I feel better about writing about it then just sitting around and thinking about it.
So today I had an eye doctor appointment and received news that really nobody wants to hear, but many do.
I have optic nerve damage in my left
Ever since my Dad had a heart attack a few years ago, I have been even more vigilant about my health. Fortunately for my family, my Dad fully recovered from his heart attack, but it served as a valuable lesson for me, and it's something I urge you to take to heart.
As a domain investor,
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Anyone who reads my blog can tell that I like "mini sites." This is probably the reason why I've received so many emails over the past few days asking about my take on them given Rick's experience with Google, described in his blog post on Friday.
I want to talk about mini sites in this post,
Related posts:Developing Mini Informational Sites In ...
Last week, I offered TexasBlog.com for sale for just $2,400, and the domain name didn't sell. I even offered to throw in $100 towards a Wordpress theme for the new blog site, assuming the buyer would want to develop it.
A friend of mine told me he thought I over priced the domain name by a
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NameDrive are proud to sponsor and attend MeetDomainers in Poland. We've very much enjoyed any opportunity to visit Poland with possibly the most active domain community in Europe and, if MeetDomainers in Warsaw is half as good as it was in Krakow last year, all attendees are in for a treat!
If you are new to
According to Mediapost, Microsoft is going to launch a pilot program this month to test a new paid search ad format, allowing advertisers to not only use text and links in the ad, but? use logos and favicons embedded in listings.
""The formats are intended to make ads pop in search results and to encourage advertisers
For the biggest domain name sales listed here- each netting from $10-200 million for the founders, (most often one passionate person with a modem and a dream) have something in common that most domain development misses.From TreeHugger.com to Bankoholic.com to Julieb.com to DailyCandy.com to WhateverLife.com to Mint.com, the value is not in the dom...
As we've been reporting, direct navigation is being redefined with a revolution in mobile ordering:CHICAGO (AdAge.com) –- Pizza Hut's iPhone app will be featured in an Apple-sponsored iPhone commercial breaking tonight. The pizza chain's app was the first for the fast-food space, released this past summer.Pizza Hut, which also developed the first o...
Most by now are familiar with cybersquatting, which is the term used to refer to the bad faith registration and/or use of a third party?s trademark in a domain name. However, a new form of trademark misuse is rapidly growing....
Dozens of geo-insurance domains that sold in August between $2,000 and $6,000 are already up and running. Most of the names are owned by 360 Quote LLC (most of you might know them as Domain Superstar), andJoel Ohlmanhasn't wasted any time launching the lead generation websites. From California to Delaware, all the sites have the same look and feel,...
After reading the post over at TeenDomainer.com I thought a little bit about how the acquisition of my namesake domain name occurred and how it ended up being focused on domain investing and development.
A few years back I had done the initial check on my name and had found it taken. As someone who had
Gangsters.com sold on eBay on?Sep 21, 2009 10:00:00 PDT for $16,100. The auction had 30 bids and was one of the most watched auctions in the domain?category?on ebay. This is one of the better names I have seen on eBay in a long time. I think that it sold for a great price. The buyer
Related posts:Gangsters.com Domain for Sale on eBay Gangsters.c...
Believe it or not the person who said "I go out of my way NOT to get search engine traffic" is none other than Rick Schwartz, otherwise known as the "Domain King". I am a big fan of a lot of the things that Rick Schwartz says on his blog as he really cuts loose
That's right – this episode of Domainvestors.tv is brought to you live from the Playback Mansion! This is also my first multi-segment episode in preparation for the filming of my first full episode in November. After the video you will be able to vote – vote on what you ask? Well you'll have to watch
There's been a lot of nattering amongst domainers after Rick Schwartz posted on his blog that his Adsense account had been shut down, the reason given was that Google is on a witch hunt against minisites. 50 blog posts and 500 comments later, people suddenly opened their eyes to the possibility that these minisites were
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