Tag Archives: services

Fri 2nd December 2011
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Afilias: Could be 10 years before another new TLD focus turn opens - Registry urges brands to get their act together. With just forty days to go before ICANN opens the application process for new top level domains, Afilias has a warning for brands: this opportunity could be once in a decade. Here’s how it figures this: If you take one of ICANN CEO Rod Beckstrom’s numbers for possible applications (4,000) and consider a delegation rate of 500 domains per year, along with other possible delays, it could be a decade. Indeed, it could ... read more ...
Mon 28th November 2011
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Google genuine time analytics won’t kill ChartBeat and Woopra (Yet) - Google Analytics real time is nice feature but no replacement for dedicated services. Remember when people used to pay six figures to get web site analytics like what Google now offers for free? That shook up the industry. Now Google’s real time analytics threatens to destroy a couple startups including ChartBeat and Woopra. Google just rolled out real-time analytics to the masses and I played around with it a bit last week. My conclusion: tt’s a nice addition ... read more ...
Mon 14th November 2011
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DOMAINfest Enters a Post-Playboy Era - Next DOMAINfest Global conference just a few months away. For three years DOMAINfest has been defined by a single event: its party at the Playboy Mansion. Don’t get me wrong. The conferences were great and packed with excellent sessions. But when people talked about the conference it inevitably came back to that one party. The 2012 conference will be different. The final party will be at a different (and less controversial) venue, The House of Blues. I suspect ... read more ...
Wed 2nd November 2011
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Domain Name Company Scores $3 Million Investment - Carnegie Fund invests $3 million in domain industry company. Winged Media, the company behind the Protrada domain name service, has received a $3 million investment from Carnegie Innovation Fund. The Carnegie Fund is supported by the Australian Government through the Innovation Investment Fund (IIF) program. Protrada is Winged Media’s latest product. I reviewed the product last week. It makes analyzing and buying domain names offered at major auction houses easy ... read more ...
Tue 1st November 2011
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Rick Latona Launches “Last Piece of a Domain Development Puzzle” - Latona launches a new site to find web designers to build out premium domain names. Rick Latona has launched ResearchLabs.com, which is billed as “The Last Piece of the Domain Development Puzzle”. The site pairs web designers and SEO experts with premium domain names. The Designers are paid a nominal base salary while the domain is developed and grows and then share in the profits in the long run. Latona explains the need for the site on his blog: Over the years ... read more ...
Fri 28th October 2011
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Bret Fausett Starts New TLD Consultancy, Sets Up Shop Down Street from ICANN - Admiralty Way has a new domain name resident. An attorney with a long history in the domain name world has started a consulting firm to help new top level domain name applicants. Bret Fausett, who was most recently Of Counsel at Alvarado Smith, has started Internet Pro APC (www.Internet.pro). The firm’s address is on Admiralty Way in Marina del Ray, California. If that address looks familiar it’s because it’s the same street as ICANN’s headquarters. Although ... read more ...
Thu 20th October 2011
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VeriSign Releases DomainFinder - Tool searches for available domain names. VeriSign has released a new beta tool called DomainFinder to help people find available domain names. On the surface the tool is just a basic domain name generator: enter a keyword and it shows you available domains you might want to register. But it’s integrated into VeriSign’s DomainScore system, so domains that receive NXD traffic are denoted with a special icon. Hovering over it shows you the 7, 30, and 60 day DomainScore. I ... read more ...
Wed 19th October 2011
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5 Questions Answered during TRAFFIC - TRAFFIC is over. Here’s how it stacked up. Last Friday I asked five questions that would be answered at this week’s TRAFFIC conference. We now have answers: 1. How will the auction perform? I’m going to give some credit to Rick on this one. The overall sales numbers were low, but there were a couple things I liked. First, Rick allowed people to pay to get their domains into the auction. I’m not sure if this is the right model but I do think there’s room ... read more ...
Fri 14th October 2011
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5 Questions To Be Answered during Next Week’s TRAFFIC Conference - The only TRAFFIC of the year is upon us. This year TRAFFIC will host just one conference, which kicks off Sunday in Fort Lauderdale. Last year there was a TRAFFIC conference just about every other month. Combined with other domain conferences it was simply too much. Having just one TRAFFIC this year means a greater concentration of domainers and a bigger focus on business. Here are five questions to be answered next week in Fort Lauderdale. 1. How will the auction ... read more ...
Mon 10th October 2011
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Domains On Fire Finds Available Domains with Google Rankings - Service finds domains ranked in Google that you can register today. I received a pitch for a new domain search service today. Domains On Fire says it helps you find domain names ranked in Google that are either freely available or are dropping soon. It also helps you find high page rank domains, too (if anyone still pays attention to that). I took the system for a test drive. Indeed, I did find a few domains you could register today that are still ranked in Google. ... read more ...
Wed 5th October 2011
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AusRegistry Rebrands, Sets Up Registry Infrastructure in a U.S. - Company drops the Australia reference in name and offers two locations for registry services. Are U.S. companies more comfortable with a registry services provider in their home country? It appears so. AusRegistry International has changed its name to ARI Registry Services and is setting up registry infrastructure for its new TLD offerings in the U.S. in addition to Australia. The AusRegistry name clearly screamed “Australia”. A press release about the change ... read more ...
Fri 30th September 2011
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Google to Take on Woopra and ChartBeat - Google Analytics goes real-time. Web analytics companies already know they need to quickly adapt to survive. Remember when Google acquired Urchin and then offered its suite for free as Google Analytics? Yeah, that shook things up. Today Google announced real-time functionality in Google Analytics. This is a blow to two popular real time services: Woopra and ChartBeat. I’ve tried both paid services and personally like Woopra better. Real time analytics is important ... read more ...
Wed 28th September 2011
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DOMAINfest Announces Party Venues for Next Year’s L.A. Conference - A trip to an automotive museum and House of Blues. Social events for next year’s DOMAINfest Global event in Los Angeles will be held at differenct locations than years’ past. The Wednesday dinner networking event will be at the Petersen Automotive Museum. The museum has a large collections of race cars, classic cars, hot rods, motorcycles, and celebrity cars. After three years at the Playboy Mansion, the farewell party will move to the House of Blues. This is ... read more ...
Tue 27th September 2011
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You Must Read This Before Developing Your Domains - Why developing your domain names might be a bad idea. From time to time I read excellent blog posts that explain aspects of domaining much better than I can. Nat Cohen delivered yesterday with a post titled “The Dangers of Optimism -or- Don’t Develop“. His point in a nutshell: just because you’re a good domainer or have good domains doesn’t mean you can build a web business. It’s very true. They require very different skills. I’ve seen countless web ... read more ...
Thu 1st September 2011
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Instra Joins New TLD Services Field, Adds Competition to .Brand Services - New TLD consultant won’t charge application consulting fees to .brand owners that use its other services. Instra is the latest company to court potential new top level domain name applicants with a services and registry suite. The company, which owns a domain name registrar that caters to brand holders, is putting continued price pressure on services offered to .brand applicants. Instra will offer free application consulting to .brand applicants that manage their ... read more ...
Wed 24th August 2011
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Left of a Dot Media Partners with Importers.com - Clients can now get subdomains on Importers.com. Left of the Dot Media Inc., which works with generic domain owners to offer subdomains, has launched its services on Importers.com. Live Current Media sold Importers.com for $165,000 last year. The new owner planned to merely park the page, according to Left of the Dot. Instead, the buyer and company partnered to keep the site and 400,000 members running. Among the options available thanks to the deal is for companies ... read more ...
Wed 17th August 2011
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VeriSign Gets Mobile with MobileView - New service makes mobile-friendly web sites obtainable by small businesses. Last week at HostingCon I caught up with Patti Kelly, director of product management at Verisign, to discuss the launch of a new product that makes it easy for small businesses to create a mobile friendly version of their web site. VeriSign MobileView uses mobile detection and redirection to render mobile friendly web sites while keeping the same domain name that customers already use. The ... read more ...
Thu 11th August 2011
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DOMAINfest Sets Dates for 2012 Show - The big show returns, but I bet the final party will have a new location. Mark your calendars, folks. Next year’s DOMAINfest Global conference will take place January 31 to February 2. The event will again take place at the Fairmont Miramar Hotel in Santa Monica, California. Registration begins in September for a discounted rate of $995. Rates jump October 1. If you think you might go, I recommend reserving a hotel room soon as they always sell out early. DOMAINfest ... read more ...
Fri 29th July 2011
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Jeff Kupietzky To Leave Oversee.net Next Month - CEO and president to leave one of domain name industry’s biggest companies. Oversee.net CEO Jeff Kupietzky will depart the company at the end of the August, the company has announced. He will be moving his family to Israel. Kupietzky has been with the company for five years, with the last 2 1/2 years as CEO and President. Going forward, day-to-day operations will be handled by Co-Presidents Debra Domeyer and Scott Morrow. Kupietzky has had to manage a number of ... read more ...
Wed 27th July 2011
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Google AdWords Now Supports Internationalized Domain Names - Advertisers no longer have to show ASCII URLs in their ads. A couple weeks ago I missed an announcement from Google AdWords that it now supports internationalized domain names (IDN) for display and destination URLs on Google ads. This means advertisers will no longer have to show a non-ASCII ad followed by an ASCII domain name. AdWords clients can enter unicode characters for the URLs and Google will verify that it works correctly in both unicode and punycode. The ... read more ...
Wed 13th July 2011
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DomainTools Releases API - New API makes it easier to access domain data databases. DomainTools has released a new API that will make it easier for power users to access its data and will enable web site owners to integrate new tools into their sites. The API encompasses almost all of the data currently available on DomainTools including whois history, reverse whois, nameserver reports, registrant alerts, and domain suggestions. Here are some examples of how DomainTools says you can use the ... read more ...
Thu 7th July 2011
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VeriSign Improves Domain Tag Cloud with DomainView - Tool lets you monitor real time domain registration trends. After writing about VeriSign’s new beta NXD data tool yesterday, I also learned that the company has upgraded its Domain Tag Cloud into a neat tool to monitor real time domain registration trends. DomainView incorporates the same data from the tag cloud — keyword frequency in recently registered domain names — and brings it to multiple formats. It also adds domain suggestions so you can see available ... read more ...
Wed 6th July 2011
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DNForum Now Easier to Access on a Road - Forum releases mobile apps for quicker and better access away from the desktop. Earlier this week DNForum released apps for iPhone and iPad devices. A couple weeks ago it released an app for Android users. The app makes it easier to read and respond to posts and check personal messages from your mobile device. Apps for all platforms are priced around $5. Screenshots of the app from the Android market show that it is based on a mobile version of forum software vBulletin. Although ... read more ...
 
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VeriSign Releases Domain Traffic Treasure Trove to a Public - VeriSign has released VERISIGN® DomainScoreâ„¢ to the public. The beta tool allows anyone to enter an unregistered domain name and get an idea of how much traffic the domain gets. DomainScore uses NXD data — basically visit requests to non existent domain names — to calculate a score ranging from 1-10. The higher the score the higher the traffic to the domain. The score is for the last full week, the last 30 days, and last 60 days. Based on my experience ... read more ...
Mon 27th June 2011
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Adam Dicker Dishes on Domain Industry and DNForum - DNForum founder discusses the state of domain investing and his popular forum. I last interviewed DNForum owner Adam Dicker over five years ago. A lot has changed in the domain industry since then, so I thought it would be a good time to connect again. DNW: Bring readers up to speed on how big the forum is now in terms of users, visitors, etc. Adam: Dnforum.com is now up to about 106,000 members and that number grows by over 250 each day. We have over 1.7 million ... read more ...