Monthly Archives: March 2011

Tue 1st March 2011
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Our Picks From The Live Aftermarket.com Auction - Aftermarket.com will be holding a live domain name auction as part of the Domain RoundTable confernece from the Atlantis resort in the Bahamas on Thursday March 3rd at 2pm EST. Remote bidding will be available on Aftermarket.com but you have to have an account with them, so if you even think you might have interest in one of the domains you better go and sign up now. One nice thing about this auction is unlike DomainFest, which was heavily weighted to six and seven figure domains, this auction by ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Site Finds “Orphaned” Domains on Sedo and Afternic - Site lists domains listed for sale that are free to register. Have you ever seen a domain name for sale on or Sedo or Afternic only to find out that it’s freely available for registration? Someone lists a domain, lets it expire, but the sales listing never gets deleted. The problem used to be rampant. It’s gotten better thanks to new controls and monitoring by both sites (particularly Afternic). But a new service from domain name search engine DomainWhiz shows ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN
According to Analytics Sites, eHow Unphased by Google Changes - Site traffic steady at eHow according to analytics sites. If Demand Media’s eHow was a target of Google’s algorithm changes last week, it’s not showing up in third party web traffic stats. Quantcast shows a nice, steady increase in traffic to eHow over the past few days. Alexa shows a seven day page view increase of 3.9%. Of course, eHow could be compensating by increasing the speed at which it adds articles. eZineArticles.com, another supposed target, shows ... read more ...
 
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Survey Picks Top Domain Name Registrars - Some familiar faces and a new one in registrar poll. This is the sixth year of the Domain Name Wire survey. I’ve never pretended that it’s a scientific survey. It’s more of a vote. So I’ve taken small anomalies in stride. But this year there were some problems with the voting for “best domain registrar”. Without getting into details, there was significant voting that looked like it might be gaming the system. Thankfully I found a simple solution. ... read more ...
 
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Security and Price Top Requirements for Domain Registrars - Domain registrants look for security and price when selecting a domain registrar. Domain registrars need to focus on security and price if they want to win your business, according to a survey of over 1,500 people in the domain name industry. As usual, participants in Domain Name Wire’s annual survey said security was the most important factor when considering a domain name registrar. 31% picked it as the top factor and 20% selected it as second most important. Price ... read more ...