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That's what the U.S. government is spending to develop Recovery.gov. I'm not going to say much about it -- I'm as disgusted by it as 90% of comments I've come across about the project so far... Ironic isn't it that a project that's supposed to make the government accountable and spending transparent would turn around and spend $18 Million on the de...
There are definitely more LLLL.coms which are being available for handreg lately and many backordered LLLL.coms which quite possibly could have otherwise been handregged. Those running LLLL.com domainers running automated scripts have been far less active lately and it hasn't been uncommon lately to see an LLLL.com remain available for several hour...
This update fixes a few security holes and glitches. For full details, see the Wordpress.org blog.
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I was just thinking about buying 500 or so iStockPhoto credits last week when I noticed their prices have gone up substantially over the last year. Getty Images?is monopolizing the business and?it's nice to see they may have just met their match.?They just lost most of my future business anyway,?now that Google has released an
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If you're interested in some tips and tools?for domaining, keyword research, purchasing keyword domains, and?purchasing expired domains, you should find this post useful. Before any veteran domainer spends 20 minutes reading it, I'll tell you already that you probably know everything already written in this post — this post was written to hel...
That's about double the broadband users we had in 2007 according to Park's Associates. The Obama Administration is pledging billions of dollars to see that more Americans have access to high speed internet, yet the Asia Pacific currently has and is predicted to continue to have the largest share of broadband internet users — expected
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Namepros is hosting it's 4th auction from a series of?domain name auctions which will continue through July, August, and September.? Today's auction is a general domain auction –?any?domain may be submitted to the auction with no restrictions on TLDs, prices, or domain quality. At the time of this post, the auction queue is still open,
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Guy Kawasaki and Andy Sernovitz will be hosting a free viral marketing success webinar tomorrow. To sign up, follow the instructions in this tweet.
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The full report explaining how Forrestor Research arrived at these numbers costs $1999, so you'll have to forgive me for not providing anything to substantiate these figures. Social media marketing is currently worth just over $700MM today, so if this holds true, Web 2.0 companies may finally be in a position to earn positive returns
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"Soon you'll be able to buy any top-level domain you want: .yourname, .america, .whatever. Don't do it."
I disagree with some of their statements, such that domain names don't matter much anymore, that domain name length doesn't matter, that people will find you on search engines no matter what your domain, or that cybersquatting is no longer a pr...
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Google just announced late last night that they plan on entering the computer operating system market. The Google Chrome Operating System will be open source and initially focus on the netbook market — the fastest growing computer market segment. The operating system will apparently be available on netbooks?in the second half of 2010, with th...
I'm not all that good at designing logos, so I usually hire someone to design logos for me.?I still have one problem however?– I usually have no clue what kind of logo I'd like when asked. Fortunately, there's a rather simple solution — look at a whole bunch of logos other businesses are using, single
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Whether it's a domain name, advertising,?job listing, or a price quote on getting a job done, I usually skip over anything along the lines of "Make Offer", "Salary commensurate with experience", "Please send an email to?email @ domain.com for a rate quote". What could be more important than knowing the price?
When someone lists their domain
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Since July 1st, 2009:
ILED.com $10,000
TFPT.com $5000
YLA.com $5000
ADGE.com $1130
KKEI.com $1053
WBBC.com $1000
YLA.org $1000
Some other big recent short domain sales since June 22nd include:
TALK.com $500,000
SIKH.com $40,101
TVOL $14,100
IVOW.com $10,225
4AD.com $10,200
BUNK.com $9300
UXUA.com $8460
NSL.co.uk $8250
DENO.com $7700
ANNI.com $7500
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It's somewhat amusing to hear people get all worked up when they hear reports about the government spying on them — don't they realize corporations have been spying on them for a long time? From Google's personalized search, to Twitter's advanced search feature. When I type Google.com, Google already?knows that I'm from Canada and automatical...
Most?domainers are both worried and angry about the Uniform Rapid Suspension System and the dangers it poses to all domain owners.?But it could still get a?whole lot worse in the future… UDRP, ACPA, URS — it's not hard to see who ICANN's in bed with and I'll give you a hint — it's not domain
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Mark Cuban wrote a great article yesterday about the perils of free content and though I don't agree with some of the points he makes, he certainly does make a lot of good ones (and his blog is well worth bookmarking). I read the article yesterday and meant to write a post about it but
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Some might call this a Million Dollar Homepage knock-off, however I think it's the first original pixel selling website I've seen in awhile.. True to it's name, people buy pixels to link to their Twitter profiles, each pixel costing 10 cents with a minimum purchase of 100 pixels ($10). I'm not sure when this project
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The Wall Street Journal came out with an article earlier today about ICANN -- it really is well worth reading. Some domainers have already left comments on the article -- there probably isn't a better place to have your voice heard.
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Microsoft just recently announced that they have started indexing tweets from popular Twitter users in their Bing search engine. Google and Yahoo have been indexing Twitter profiles, however I'm not aware of them yet indexing tweets. All 3 major search engines are looking for a way to integrate social media into their search engines, however
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How often do you Google your name, the name of your company, the names of your competitors? What better way is there to gain a competitive advantage than by finding out what your competitors are doing wrong and making sure you don't make the same mistakes? Similarly, if your competitors are doing something right, wouldn't
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I read about the Domaining.com acquisition of DN Gator both over on Theo's blog (creator of DN Gator) and on DN Forum and I really can't understand what some people are all worked up about… Did you own a stake in the business? Did you pay to use the service? Did you contribute any money
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If you don't shop around, you might not end up getting the best bang for your buck in a minisite developer. It's tempting to go with one of the big name minisite developers, however you'd be surprised how much you can save by visiting domain, webmaster, and freelancer?forums and websites. As an example, I was
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The .me extension marks it's one year anniversary since the initial landrush on July 17th and I have to say, I think most domainer's expectations on how long the love affair with .me would last have been exceeded. Beyond the attraction some find?of .me?domain hacks, there are a few other things I see different with
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I'm in no way affiliated with the seller — just thought I'd point out that there's a huge no reserve .mobi firesale in case anyone wanted to pick up some cheap domains for development. For those who think LLL.mobi are going to make a comeback, there's a 50x LLLmobi lot currently at $81 ($1.62 per).
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I've been noticing more frequently lately that LLLL.coms are available for handreg — that is, some LLLL.coms are not receiving bids at expired domain auctions and are not being registered by those running automated scripts which normally would catch any LLLL.coms which slipped through the cracks within seconds…
This is a scary thought f...
I've mentioned this a few times in the past, however the disparity between GoDaddy Auctions LLLL.com prices and LLLL.com prices elsewhere is rising. Looking at all the expiring LLLL.coms on GoDaddy, none of them with under 6 days to go haven't received a bid of at least $10. Keep in mind that all of these
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Yesterday's short domain auction on Namepros was a blast. Read on for the list of the sales...
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If you have a hard time making changes to your website, perhaps?not understanding or having taken the time to learn the programming code behind it, you need to get Firebug. Firebug is a Firefox addon that lets you see what code changes would do to your blog without actually happening to your blog. It really
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I was recently asked if I could write a post on IDN domains. I don't know a whole lot about IDNs, so I thought it'd be better to write about what resources exist out there for IDNs. I'm not sure how many IDN investors visit this blog, however please feel free to leave links in
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"To use the feature, just login to your GoDaddy account and click on any of your domain names to access the manager (where you also go to do things like update name servers). There?s now a Twitter option under ?Domain Enhancements? from which you can check your username availability."
Source: Mashable
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I received an email from Francois this morning letting me know that he's launched a first mockup of what will be a domainer yellow pages site at Domainers.org. As an example, you can see Francois' profile here: http://www.domainers.org/search/?q=Francois+Carrillo. Any information you'd like to add to Domainers.org can be done from your Domaining.co...
I've visited many domain name websites over the years, however I've never seen something as aesthetically pleasing as BrandBucket.com. Every domain of theirs has a logo created for it, along with the reasoning behind the domain. The thing I find most interesting about BrandBucket is that the large majority of the domains they sell are brandables. I...
Okay, so you're an IDN believer -- good for you. But can someone explain to me why someone who register (nevermind bid!) on a domain like cred?tcard.com? I speak French myself, so I can understand why some people see value in domains which use different character sets if they have meaning. If I had to assign a value to a domain such as the one I me...
You always hear 98% this, 99% that, but what do the numbers really mean? Let's start with a mathematical look at these server uptime numbers:
98% uptime = 28.8 minutes / day –> 3.4 hours / week –> 14.4 hours / month –> 7.3 days / year
99% uptime = 14.4 minutes /day –> 1.7 hours /
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I'm not sure which hat you want to call this -- honestly, I wouldn't consider it blackhat seeing as you mass following people really does nothing negative to those people and they are under no obligation to follow you back. Many Twitter experiments have found that you can get around 10% of people you mass follow to follow you back -- even if they d...
Jason Lavigne from Rebel.com let me know about a special their sister company Domainsatcost.ca is offering: $8.75 per .ca domain in celebration of Canada Day.
use the promo code : HAPPYBIRTHDAY
It's a 48 hour special, so don't wait around too long if you've been wanting to reg a few .ca domains :)
Website: http://www.domainsatcost.ca/
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I thought long and hard about making this into a post, however I thought it'd be even more useful to just give you links to some of the best link building resources on the Internet. The good news is that it's a whole lot better than I could possibly make a blog post. The bad news is that it's a whole lot longer as well.. The simple truth is that th...
Namepros is having an auction exclusively for short domains on Thursday, July 2nd at 6PM EST.
I'll be there -- I hope you will as well :)
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If you've been running your blog or website for some time now, you probably have a lot of posts that are irrelevant, redundant, or possibly even downright wrong. As an example, I don't think anyone today will gain any value from a post I wrote about domains being auctioned on GreatDomains in April! Looking through the 180 posts I had, it wasn't ver...
I'm going to write a long post about link building tomorrow but thought I'd share one method today. Take a look at:
AddThis.com
OpenCube.com
These websites both have PR9 homepages. Take a look at the Alexa rank on OpenCube.com -- it doesn't even get twice as much traffic as my blog, so how the heck did they get a PR9? As for AddThis.com, the...
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Small post today but it gets across a big message… You have to know when to sell and sometimes waiting isn't the right thing to do. Take a look at this article on BBC News right back at the peak of the Dotcom Boom.
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Domain development has never been a more popular topic in domaining circles than it is today. But what exactly is domain development? For some people, domain development means nothing short of a full-featured website while others would see a developed domain as being any domain with content on it. It doesn't really matter what domain
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Domain development has been a very hot topic in the domain name world recently. One thing I've seen many domainers confused about is what exactly qualifies as a website and what qualifies as a minisite. When it comes to domainer-developers — those domainers developing domains, I would categorize most of the domains and all of
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I have 700 four letter .coms to sell over the next 4 days (which is when they expire), so I might not be able to find time to write any other posts until I get that done. What I'd like to ask is whether there are any topics you'd like to see covered -- maybe some questions you have that you'd like answered or even a more in depth article on somethi...
Your website's bounce rate represents the number of visitors (in percent) to your website who leave your website prior to visiting a second page. Some web analytics software will also log visits under a certain length of time as a bounce. If you land on this blog's homepage for example and the post titles don't
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I've always used Escrow.com for domain transactions involving escrow service and they always do a good job for me, so I never had much of a reason to try anyone else. One thing that's always bothered me about Escrow.com is that they don't accept Paypal for domain escrow transactions unless both the buyer and seller are in the USA. Why? I don't know...
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