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While at the recent Domainer Mardi Gras show all I wanted to see was the ladies dot com portfolios.
Awesome conference, I'll be back next year!
Previous Comic Strip: Proud Irishman Changing To .ie
A look back at February in the domain world.
It's over already? February is a short month, but it was still packed with interesting domain name news. Here are the top five stories on Domain Name Wire for the month, ranked by views.
1. GoDaddy Rated Best Domain Registrar (Again) – for the fifth year
ICANN Ombudsman upset about service from "the little guy" at Air Canada.
ICANN Ombudsman Frank Fowlie is giving a whole new meaning to "sticking it to the man". The "little man", that is. At the same time, he has learned what it's like to be on the losing end of a complaint.
Here's the story.
Fowlie...
DomainDiscussions.com member "giotech" made a discovery which has taken the industry by storm today: the first (and only) domain with a Valuate.com appraisal of $1 TRILLION! Is it Loans.com? Nope! Games.com? Wrong again!
Interested in finding out which domain I'm referring to? Click HERE.
Here's the thread where it all happened (this week's contes...
This will be the first of a two-part article detailing insight into the past and the future of the internet. Before delving into what is to come…This article is from DotSauce Magazine.A Brief History of the Internet and A Look At .COM Success Barriers
It's another lazy(ish) Sunday, and here are some things I am thinking about today. Hope you have a great afternoon!
Does anyone know of a tool/script that I can use to analyze names at Snapnames and Namejet? Specifically, I would like to load a list of names (10,000 or more) into the tool, and it will
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Heading to Tokyo for the week. There is only so much reading and sleeping that can be done on a 10 hour flight. And, I hate relying on United for decent movies. Thus, I resort to my pre-flight selections downloaded to my iPhone.
I am adding a season's worth of "It's Always Sunny in Read more articles on this topic at Green TaxiFavorite iTunes Mov...
Bulgaria's official Cyrillic domain name suffix is to be ".??" (BG). An application for registration has been submitted to the world body that regulates domain names.
Parvan Rusinov, Deputy Minister of Transport, Communications and Information Technology (MTITC) has announced on Thursday that the application had been sent on February 19 to the Inte...
One area of the IDN ccTLD Fast Track Process about which questions have arisen is community support for the IDN ccTLD and how such support can be demonstrated. I have provided some clarification here that I hope is helpful to present and future IDN ccTLD Fast Track participants.
None of this information replaces or changes the
Registrants of existing .com domain names are well positioned for coming release of IDN TLDs.
For years, domainers have been investing in Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) that use non-Latin characters. But these have all been IDN at the second level only, as there currently aren?t any top level domain names in non-Latin characters. So an inter...
The Ottawa Citizen tells the story of Frank Fowlie, who is the first ombudsman for (ICANN), who lost a personal grievance of his own against Air Canada after an argument over an in-flight meal.
Mr. Fowlie who job s to hear and investigate complaints about ICANN, was flying from Paris to Montreal last March when he
One of the great things about Facebook is finding great people and content, by referral, that you wouldn't find on your own. So thanks to Brian Null's update, I had a lot of fun this morning and learned something new (my favorite pastime) on his site, then from there discovered Domain Success VIP Member, Terrell Miller had dipped his toes into the ...
When I saw these dumpsters with this domain plastered all over them at a construction site, I thought what GREAT advertising. Just goes to show you need to look at the total picture... who's going to use and and how the name will pay off. Much better then BMI Watse Management Services.
If
you are in the market for an Adsense alternative; ClickBank has a new tool called "HopAd Builder" that automatically
generates ads based on a given keyword. The results are delivered in typical PPC
text fashion but also gives you the choice of using a tabbed style.
I like this tool because you don't have to hunt for products you wa...
Anyone that pays any attention to the search engine optimization world knows that real time search is a hot topic and Google is getting VERY good at picking up on trends and enabling their scrolling news section in the middle of their normal search results.
The part that many people miss is that social media streams
Today the people behind Live Domain Auctioneers Live Domain auctions are throwing another auction. It has been a few months since they held the last auction. I like the auction platform they use in which every name or lot of names starts at $1 with no reserve so if you bid on a name you
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As a ccTLD investor I am always trying to determine what people in another country are searching for or typing-into their browsers. One of the first ccTLDs I ever registered was CricketGames.co.in – this was also my first ccTLD to get a steady flow of type-in traffic.
My portfolio currently spans over twenty TLD's with .com's...
A very special edition of Sunday Drops and not just because my wife turns 40 today.? Why did Sunday get separated out from the normal weekend combo?? Because Saturday had a lot of good names. Now on to the drops
FCNA.com Very good letters for an acronym.? I don't usually like acronyms but this could represent
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How many hours do you work?? I find that everyone wants what I have but when they realize how many hours it takes to actually accomplish they seem to give up hope or try and find an easier way.? I'll save everyone the time, there isn't an easier way.
I have had the luxury of never
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Rick Latona has done an excellent job of developing out Vino.com. But "Vino" means "Wine" in Spanish. Does that mean that Rick should be obliged to relinquish his Vino.com domain to the owner of Wine.com? That's silly isn't it. "Vino" is a different word and brand than "Wine".
It is similarly unprecedented...
The ICM registry has won an appeal for an independent review of the .xxx extension.The proposed TLD .xxx is suggested as an option for sexually explicit Internet websites. .xxx would be suitable for adult material, similar to .edu for education...
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