Monthly Archives: May 2009

Tue 12th May 2009
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Develop Domains, Then Submit to Directories - Paid directory submission is critical to jump starting search rankings. So you’ve developed some of your better domain names. You’ve got good content and a nice design. But how do you move up in the search rankings? Most people know that you need (preferably one way) links pointing to your web site to get Google’s attention. There are many ways to get these, but most of my SEO friends agree you need to submit to two paid web directories: Yahoo and Best of ... read more ...
 
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Tucows Gets “Victory” in Domain Dispute - Panel refuses to hear case due to lawsuit. Tucows (AMEX: TCX) appears to be joining a chorus of domain name owners who are bypassing UDRP and filing lawsuits in response to domain disputes. In a recent case DNA (Housemarks) Limited, owner of the Dunlop brand famous for automotive tires, filed for arbitration at World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) to get the domain name Dunlop.com. Dunlop.com is part of OpenSRS Personal Names Service, which uses thousands ... read more ...
 
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Parava To Give Tucows’ Hover Brand a Boost - Registrar will take over management of domain names from de-accredited domain registrar. Domain Name Wire has learned that Tucows (AMEX: TCX) will be taking over the management of domain names previously registered at Parava Networks, also known as 10-domains.com. The official announcement is forthcoming from ICANN. Tucows CEO Elliot Noss declined to comment for this story. Parava was de-accredited in April 2009 for a number of infractions, including failure to ... read more ...
Mon 11th May 2009
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Will Google Come Under Attack By The US Government - The Justice Department’s top antitrust official announced Monday a return to a more aggressive approach to dealing with dominant companies that use their position to squelch competition. Christine Varney, head of the agency’s antitrust division, announced the withdrawal of a Bush administration policy report and said the department “will be aggressively pursuing” companies that abuse their monopoly positions. In a speech to the Center for American Progress, Varney said antitrust officials ... read more ...
 
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New Study: Digital Media Revenue To Double - Forrester Research, a media research firm,  predicts that interactive marketing spending will hit $25.6 billion this year,  up 11% from $23.1 billion in 2008, as advertisers shift money from traditional media to digital. That total, which includes search, email, social media and mobile marketing dollars, is expected to more than double to nearly $55 billion by 2014. A recent Forrester survey of more than 200 marketers found that 60% planned to increase interactive budgets by pulling back spending ... read more ...
 
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Google To Host Live Webcast Of “Searchology” Conference Tommorow - Google is holding a live webcast of what it is calling a “Searchology” press event to be held at its Mountain View, Calif. headquarter, tommorow,  tuesday, May 12th, at 10:00am – 11:30am PDT. Google will be offering “an insider’s perspective on Search including recent search innovations. Speakers will include VP of Search Engineering, Udi Manber, and VP of Search Products and User Experience, Marissa Mayer.” To listen in to the webcast click here: http://investor.shareholder.com/media/eventdetail.cfm?eventid=68846CompanyID=GOOGPRe=1mediaKey=E739CC1B5640E66235B0EEBBB424B1E1 As ... read more ...
 
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My Flight is Booked for Domain Roundtable - Conference should be on your calendar for June. There have been a lot of domain conferences during the first half of this year, and the schedule isn’t going to let up before the dog days of summer. That’s why you need to be picky about which shows you attend. Here are my criteria for a good show: 1. Fresh, unique content. I’m tired of the same panels at the same shows. 2. New, unique people. Hey, I love domainers. But I learn the most when I’m around ... read more ...
 
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WhyPark Earnings adult 10x for Some Domainers - Company sees earnings boost after acquisition. If you used WhyPark in the past and weren’t happy with your ad revenue, or haven’t given it a shot, it may be worth another look. I caught up with WhyPark founder Craig Rowe today to ask him how the transition to new ownership under Parked.com is going. Now that WhyPark gets to use the Parked feed, what has happened to existing customers’ earnings? We’ve seen earnings increase by 10x for many customers and ... read more ...
 
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Slaid Cleaves Knows His Name is Hard to Spell - Texas singer-songwriter registers typos to compensate for difficult name. One of my favorite singer-songwriters is Austin resident Slaid Cleaves. This weekend I went online to buy tickets to his CD release party this coming Saturday, and noticed something interesting. I didn’t know his web address, so I typed in his name but I misspelled it. I couldn’t remember if his name was spelled Slaid or Slade. It forwarded to the correctly spelled SlaidCleaves.com. ... read more ...
 
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Refinance.com Is Dark During Refinancing Boom - Valuable mortgage domain name goes unused as interest rates drop below 5%. With 30 year fixed mortgages going for 4.5% in the United States, mortgage refinancing activity has been brisk. But for most of this year a key generic refinancing domain name – refinance.com – has been dark thanks to woes at Homebridge Mortgage Bankers Corp. Legendary domainer Garry Chernoff sold Refinance.com to Homebridge, which later did business as Refinance.com, back in 2005 for ... read more ...
 
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Updating Your Business and Life Continuity Plan - How to make sure you don’t leave a mess for your family. If you were to get hit by a bus tomorrow, what would happen to your domain names? Would they expire, only for your arch nemesis to pick them up in the drop? Or would you leave your spouse to figure out where all of your bank accounts, credit cards, and web hosting accounts are? That’s why every domainer (or small business owner) should write instructions for their loved ones in the case of an untimely ... read more ...
Sat 9th May 2009
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Google To Run TV Ads For Chrome - Google plans to promote its Chrome Internet browser with a television commercial that will begin airing on at least one U.S. network this weekend, making it the search company’s first national TV ad campaign. Google, TV as say Chrome is  “new way to get online,”. The TV spot is part of a wider ad campaign that includes video ads on various Web sites, including the New York Times. A Google spokesman said the TV ad, made in-house by the company’s Japanese team, was an experiment to determine ... read more ...
 
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Google Search Share Zooms Past 72% - According to the research firm hitwise, Google’s share of U.S. Internet hit 72.7%, in April. Yahoo was at 16.3%, Microsoft’s  MSN was at 5.7% and Ask.com had  4%. A  year earlier, Google accounted for 67.9% of all U.S. searches. Yahoo, MSN and Ask were 20%, 9% and 5%, respectively, from last year. Hitwise said Thursday that search engines continue to be the primary way Internet users navigate to industry categories. Comparing April numbers with a year earlier, business and finance, sports, ... read more ...
Fri 8th May 2009
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VeriSign: Domain Growth “Better Than Expected” adult 9% - VeriSign in reporting its quarterly earnings issued today, had some interesting comments regarding registration and renewal rates for the 1st quarter of 2009 and some predictions for the next quarter. Here are some comments from their report: “”VeriSign saw better than expected growth with for registered names in dot-com and dot-net, totaling 92.4 million names at the end of the quarter. This was an increase of 2 million names, added quarter-over-quarter and 9% increase year-over-year. In total ... read more ...
 
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Man Claims Rights to .NYC, .Movies, and More - New Yorker says he already uses 118 top level domains. I thought I had heard it all about new TLDs until I read this article in The Villager. Now that a new process for top level domain names is underway, Paul Garrin and his company Name.Space claims that it already “owns” many top level domain names including .nyc, .food, .sex, .movies, and .hotel. Garrin and his company wanted to launch over nearly 500 top level domain names before ICANN even existed. He then ... read more ...
 
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New Top Level Domain Names Delayed - Applications won’t be accepted until early 2010. Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has pushed back its estimated time frame to start accepting applications for new top level domains. ICANN had hoped to accept applications by December 2009, but now admits the process won’t start until first quarter of 2010. ICANN hopes to address overarching concerns about new TLDs at its next meeting in Sydney and then publish the third draft of the ... read more ...
 
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Patent Filed for Domain Name Securitization - Patent would allow for securitization and trading of domain name portfolios. Gregory Manriquez and Stevan Lieberman of NameDrive have filed a patent for domain name securitization. The patent was filed in November 2008 and published yesterday. The invention, titled “Method for Domain Trading”, would allow an entity to divide a domain portfolio into a levels of risk, issue bonds or loans on the portfolio, and trade the portfolio on an open exchange. If implemented ... read more ...
 
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Sprint.com Has a Big Security Hole - Hacking into Sprint.com user accounts is amazingly easy. I’ve had my problems with SprintPCS’ customer service in the past, but I never thought they’d compromise my account security so easily. But if someone can figure out my username and the answer to a simple challenge question, they’re home free to access my account and change the password. They don’t even need to use an e-mail confirmation to change it. Here’s what I discovered when I needed to ... read more ...
 
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Moniker Auction Bargains: You Couldn’t Have Them - Just because someone got a bargain yesterday doesn’t mean you could have gotten the same deal. By all accounts, there were some “good deals” in yesterday’s Moniker domain name auction. You may look at some of these final prices and think the buyer got a good deal: Entrepreneurs.info $650 OrderManagementSystem.com $600 CompanyDatabase.com $665 GiftCertificates.info $777 TechnologyCareers.com $1050 But here’s the rub: if you wanted to buy these domains at ... read more ...
 
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2 Easy Changes for Better Earnings during Sedo Parking - Peter Askew gives two simple tips for increasing domain parking earnings at Sedo. by Peter Askew At first, I was a domain parking newbie. I understood the business model, but always held a firm belief that development was the only way. But, as the crack-like addiction of domaining consumed me, I began to realize the importance of parking, and the extra monetary lift it can contribute to a domain business – both from parked revenue, as well as re-sale. Sedo became ... read more ...
Thu 7th May 2009
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Moniker Silent Auction Nets $460K - The Moniker.com silent auction from the TRAFFIC show just closed on SnapNames.com and auction netting $460K in sales with 201 domains sold. Here is a complete list of the domain that sold at the silent auction, combined with the Live Moniker.com auction the Moniker team did a very respectable $2.6M in sales for the TRAFFIC show. diego.com $58,830.00 dvdshrink.com $43,180.00 casco.com $23,530.00 oxygentanks.com $21,000.00 greatfalls.com ... read more ...
 
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Join Me On Live Chat On Bido.com NOW!!!!!!! - On right now doing live chat over at BIDO.com until 2pm EST so come on over. Also a great domain videogames.info for sale with bidding starting at just $1 Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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UPDATED Thursday Morning: List Of All The Moniker Silent Auction TRAFFIC Domains With Bids: $156K - Here are the bids on every domain for the Silent Moniker.com TRAFFIC auction, as of 9am EST on Thursday. As of 9am there is $156,000 in bids The Auction closes TODAY at 3:15pm EST, 12:15pm PST To join the auction just click on the link: dvdshrink.com ($41,180)oxygentanks.com ($10,000)drillpress.com ($9,420)technologytoday.com ($8,830)graders.com ($8,830)millionaire.org ($5,890)billionaire.org ($5,890)airshipping.com ($4,950)bloodanalyzers.com ($4,120)humour.org ($3,530)manilla.com ($3,420)squatter.com ... read more ...
 
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DNW Interview: Jason Davis, a Jobs Domain Master - Jason Davis has success with domain names by focusing on a niche he knows. When I interviewed Harry Joiner about his purchase of CEOjobs.com, he told me “the real story isn’t me. It’s Jason Davis, who sold the domain to me.” Jason Davis certainly has a story to tell. Over the past decade he has amassed and sometimes developed one of the finest portfolios of niche job domains in the world. He bought Recruiting.com for $75,000 in 2002. His wife called him ... read more ...
 
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Tamiflu Maker Goes After Swine Flu Domain Names - Tamiflu maker files for arbitration to get swine flu domain names. Roche, maker of flu medicine Tamiflu, has filed two separate arbitration cases with World Intellectual Property Organization to get domain names related to its brand that are taking advantage of the swine flu outbreak. The first case is for swineflutamiflu.com and tamifluswineflu.com. Both domain names were registered last month by eComplex Corporation in Chicago. The domain names are parked. The ... read more ...