Last week Six Apart announced the shutdown of their free Vox.com blog service. One shortcoming of the system was the inability to use a custom domain name for a blog which means that users have no other choice than changing...

Online branding goes well beyond domain names. Nevertheless, they are an integral part of brand building and should be secured early on in the branding process. Entrepreneur Loic Le Meur shares some useful advice in his video series on how...

We've got a few country code top-level domains on sale this month. So if you want to get your personal .ME domain, a geeky .IO web address or a domain hack using the .AT or .HN internet suffix now...

Monthly news digest covering the latest information from the web services recommended in our apps for domains directory: bit.ly Pro Simple Custom Domain Tweet Button With bit.ly Pro Blogger New real-time web analytics for your blog - Introducing Blogger Stats...

The .NET domain extension might soon overtake Germany's .DE as second largest top-level domain after the market leading .COM web address according to the latest domain name statistics: 1. .COM88.7 million 2. .DE13.7 million 3. .NET13.3 million 4. .UK8.7 million...

Useful tip on the bit.ly blog about how to use your own custom short domain for link sharing via the Twitter Tweet Button in conjunction with bit.ly Pro: For smaller publishers who cannot cache links on their backend, we are...

Do you already own your name as a personal domain name? If not, is it because your FirstnameLastname.com was taken? That shouldn't be a reason to dismiss the idea just yet! Today, we show you five great domain alternatives to...

Afilias, the .INFO domain name registry is currently running their 2010 awards program for the best .INFO websites: If you own a .INFO web address, this is your chance to win one of the following cash prizes: 1st prize: US...

Kudos to the Virb team who have just relaunched their service as a simple website creation tool. Virb allows you to easily make websites for personal use, create an online portfolio, promote your band and more. Check out if the...

When you have a look at our domain price list, you will notice that some domain name extensions are more expensive than others. So why is that?There are three factors that determine our domain name pricing (apart from the fixed...

.GL Domains (Greenland) are the latest addition to the ever growing list of TLDs (Top-Level Domains) available for registration at iWantMyName. There are no restrictions or special requirements so anyone worldwide is allowed to register the .GL country domain. Internationally,...

It's all about .ME this month with the launch of a fun fun promotion that could give you a refund on the purchase of your own personal .ME domain. People are already making good use of .ME to customize their...

App Roundup is our monthly news digest covering the latest information from the web services recommended in our apps for domains directory.Gmail5 things you may not know you can do with attachments in GmailFinally! Rich text signatures.MobileMeNew MobileMe Mail with support...

As M?ori Language Week begins in New Zealand, it is now possible to register .NZ domain names with Macrons. The technology behind these new addresses are so-called Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) which translate the special characters into a computer readable...

Today we want to share with you a small branding advice that can be easily applied to your domain names and takes you only 2-3 minutes to set up. Subdomains such as blog.domainname.com or wiki.domainname.com are often used to map...

Thanks to our friends at Couch.io for publishing their case study about CouchDB at iWantMyName. We started using the NoSQL database mainly for serving content but meanwhile switched nearly all site functionality from PostgreSQL to CouchDB.For example, recently our shopping cart...

You can now register .CO domains (Colombia) at iWantMyName. The .CO extension is not only the official Colombian country code top-level domain (ccTLD) but also a shorter alternative to .COM or other ccTLDs such as .CO.UK (United Kingdom) or .CO.NZ...

Internationalized Domain Names under .TEL Starting on Jun 15, you will be able to register .TEL domains in the following languages: Chinese, Danish, Finnish, German, Hungarian, Icelandic, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Swedish .TEL is...

Latest news from the most popular web apps and services for your domains: BloggerBlogger's template designer with new templates and real-time preview is now available for everyone. Google AppsGoogle offers 10 tips for using Gmail at work and now supports Google...

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