Recent upgrades at Domain Name Wire.
After over three years online it’s time to make a couple positive changes at Domain Name Wire.
First, you may have noticed sluggish performance on the site in March and April. Despite the hundreds of thousands of page views each month, Domain Name Wire was still on a shared hosting service. It started to drag about 6 weeks ago. Posting comments took a long time for a server response and page load times were unacceptable. Last week the site was moved to a dedicated server and now the site zips along. Comment posting takes just a second or two. If you ever experience any site outages or problems, please e-mail editor [at] domainnamewire.com.
Also, Domain Name Wire’s categories have a new addition: Domain Parking. Looking back over the past 1,000 articles here’s a breakdown of topics covered:
Domain Sales 25%
Domain Services 22%
Policy and Law 21%
Domain Registrars 16%
Uncategorized 12%
Expired Domains 5%
Domain parking stories have historically been included in Domain Services, but it warrants its own section. Domain Services will continue to cover various services for the domain industry including domain financing and domain software.
There are also a couple advertising spots available, including the bottom of the left hand column, the bottom of the page, and the newsletter.
If you have any feedback please send an email to editor [at] domainnamewire.com (or just leave a comment).
Thanks again to Domain Name Wire’s loyal readers.
Francois says
Thanks for the good move, it’s a pleasure to can browse pages without are having to wait.
Sahar should also invest in a dedicated server because his Conceptualist.com takes MINUTES to open pages when the visitor click a link in his RSS feed. The worst blog according this point.
Emil @KING.NET says
It’s about time. I was surprise to learned that you’re in shared hosting.
Cheers to you.
Emil
Steve Morales says
Andrew,
Well done. Moves quickly. Concur with you Francois, very slow on his site and prevents me from checking so often.
David J Castello says
Congrats, Andrew.
Valid point, Francois.
Paul says
If a website don’t zip around fast, I will just not go there. There is really no reason other than being cheap. Like Afternic. I just quit going there now. Many other places to buy names. They have always ran to slow for me. Until they can spend the pennies to run as a normal site should, they won’t get my business! Thx for speeding up your site.
Emil @KING.NET says
Yes Francois I agree with you.
I thought it is my cable or my internet browser. I like to read Conceptualist blog but not going so often due to slow access. I ‘m using blogger for my.king.net, speed is a lot better.
Andrew says
Thanks guys.
@ Paul – Afternic is much faster for me than it was a couple years ago. They were running on an antiquated database structure, but I haven’t had problems with it in a while.