Tag Archives: services

Thu 23rd June 2011
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New Service Hopes to Make Seller-Financed Domain Transactions Easier - Service manages seller financed domain sales. A new service called Zenscrow hopes to bring more liquidity to the domain name market by making seller financed domain sales easier. Companies such as Escrow.com and Moniker already offer payment plan escrow services, but Zenscrow takes it a step further. There are two benefits I see to Zenscrow compared to typical payment plan services. First, Zenscrow provides a domain sale or lease agreement. Second, the company monitors ... read more ...
Mon 13th June 2011
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Epik Releases Upgrade to Its Product Portals - Site creation tool releases improvements geared to more content. Epik has released an upgrade to its product sites dubbed Product Portals 3.0. The latest version is designed to offer more content on product sites, which is of course critical to search engine placement. Users can now create full articles using an article editor as well as import content from other sites. (So far content can only be imported from ArticlesBase.com.) The content module includes a scheduler ... read more ...
 
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DOMAINfest Changes NYC Show Format to Meetup, Nixes Las Vegas - New York show changed to a meetup and Las Vegas show canceled. Oversee.net has made some changes to its remaining DOMAINfest shows for 2011. First, the New York show planned for August will now be an evening meetup instead of a one day “Power Networking” day. The event will take place August 23 from 7-10 pm at the Mad46 Rooftop Lounge. Registration isn’t open yet but the web site notes it will be $150. I’m a bit disappointed in this change because the ... read more ...
Thu 2nd June 2011
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Trademarkia Gets Into Domain Names - Trademarkia adds domain name searching to its lineup. Trademark search engine and online service Trademarkia has entered the domain name business with a unique service. The service allows you to search for domain names and then use the site’s trademark searching tools to find out if there are existing trademarks on the same terms. (Oddly, these don’t seem to be connected. If I search for VerizonWireless and start to register one of the available VerizonWireless.tld ... read more ...
Wed 1st June 2011
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DOMAINfest Gets Ready to Return to Its Roots - Five years later, DOMAINfest returns to Barcelona. DOMAINfest returns to Barcelona next week, the home of its first ever conference in 2006. But the conference running June 7-9 will look very different from five years ago. After a series of successful conferences and a return to Europe last summer, DOMAINfest has grown into the most attended conference on the domain circuit. Its main event in L.A. each year draws 600-700 attendees. The European shows are a smaller, ... read more ...
Fri 27th May 2011
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DOMAINfest Brings Back “Dine with an Expert” - Opportunity to get domain name advice during DOMAINfest Barcelona. DOMAINfest is offering “Dine with an Expert” at next month’s conference in Barcelona. This program allows attendees to reserve a spot at the lunch table with a domain name expert during the conference. The conference offered this program during its February show in Santa Monica and it was a big hit. Numerous tables — including Frank Schilling’s — filled up quickly. As of right now all ... read more ...
Thu 19th May 2011
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CitizenHawk Gets Into Corporate Domain Management - Company expands beyond recovering typosquatted domain names. CitizenHawk is expanding from its roots as a typosquatting domain name recovery service. Today the company announced two new services: corporate domain management and online brand monitoring. The corporate domain management product puts it in competition with companies such as MarkMonitor and CSC. It includes an online domain management system, registration, and private registrations. The online monitoring ... read more ...
Thu 5th May 2011
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DomainConvergence Canceled for Second Year in a Row - Domain conference canceled after failing to get sufficient registrations. DomainConvergence, a domain name conference held in Canada, has canceled its show for the second year in a row. In a blog post today, event organizer Frank Michlick wrote: I am sorry to inform you that the DomainConvergence conference, originally scheduled to be held next week here in Montreal (May 12/13) is canceled due to lack of registrations. All paid registration fees will be refunded and ... read more ...
Tue 26th April 2011
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Panabee Helps Brainstorm Domain Names – But User Beware - Panabee is a good domain name generator but users should beware that some suggestions are bad ideas. There are a lot of domain name and brand name generators on the web but most of them stink. So it was refreshing to come across Panabee.com today. Enter a couple words and it goes to work finding many alternatives, synonyms, and substitutions. I like how it pulls in searches from Twitter, Facebook, and Google as well. With close to 100 million .com domain names ... read more ...
Mon 25th April 2011
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DOMAINfest Barcelona: Wine Tasting, FC Barcelona, and More - Morning wine tasting, tapas classes, and backstage tour where FC Barcelona plays are on the agenda for DOMAINfest Barcelona. I made the mistake of bringing my wife to DOMAINfest Prague last year. Why was it a mistake? Because the second day of the conference was just fun networking events such as target shooting and go-carting. Now she thinks all domain conferences are like this and she cuts me less slack when I have to “go network at a domain conference”. That ... read more ...
Mon 18th April 2011
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TailWords.com Helps You Find Unregistered Keyword Domain Names - Tool searches for domain names with keywords that match your parameters. Here’s an interesting tool to help you find unregistered domain names with competitive advertisers. TailWords.com lets you search keywords based on a number of factors, from AdWords bid prices to keyword search volume. But it also has a handy tool for domainers: the ability to show only keywords that have the corresponding .com domain name available (or .net/.org). Just plugin a keyword and ... read more ...
 
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TelChina and China Mobile to Build Mobile Payments System on .Tel - Mobile payments system coming to .tel. .Tel registry’s regional partner TelChina has inked a strategic partnership with China Mobile to build a mobile payment solution with .tel. It’s not entirely clear what this entails, but the first phase will enable China Mobile customers to purchase and renew their .tel names via a Mobile-Pay portal using their mobile devices. This phase will be complete in May. Soon customers will be able to purchase .tel domains using ... read more ...
Fri 8th April 2011
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DOMAINfest Barcelona Registration Opens and TRAFFIC Price Increase Imminent - Registration is now open for DOMAINfest’s return to Europe, and prices are about to increase on TRAFFIC. Registration for DOMAINfest Barcelona is now available for $695 through the end of April. The event takes place June 7-9 at the Pullman Barcelona Skipper hotel. Barcelona was the location of the first ever DOMAINfest. Group rate hotel reservations are also available for EUR 195, but you must download and email/fax a reservation form. Elsewhere on the domain ... read more ...
Fri 25th March 2011
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DOMAINfest Goes to Barcelona - Show returns to home of first ever DOMAINfest. DomainSponsor’s DOMAINfest conference has announced dates for its June conference in Barcelona, the site of the first ever DOMAINfest conference back in 2006. The event will take place June 7-9, 2011 at the Pullman Barcelona Skipper hotel in Barcelona, Spain. The agenda looks similar to last year’s event in Prague. The first day will include several presentations and a Moniker auction while the second day will be ... read more ...
Thu 24th March 2011
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Former Oversee.net Employee Plans Daily Deals Conference - The “Daily Deals” business is now big enough to have its own conference. You know “daily deals” such as Group are big. But big enough to support an dedicated conference? You bet. Jay Weintraub, who worked at Advertising.com before spending five years at domain industry powerhouse Oversee.net, is holding his first Daily Deal Summit April 6 in New York City. (You can tell he has a background in domain names; in addition to dailydealSummit.com he also owns ... read more ...
Mon 21st March 2011
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DomainPeers.com Helps You CrowdSource Web Development - New site brings together basic building blocks of domain development. A new web site seeks to help domain name owners develop their domain names with the power of crowdsourcing. DomainPeers.com brings together logo and template design as well as web hosting for one site a week day. Domain owners can submit their domain for voting by the community. Once the community picks the weekly site, designers and hosting companies go to work. The community then selects the ... read more ...
 
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Escrow.com Selected as Top Domain Escrow Company - Once again Escrow.com is top rate domain name escrow provider. Escrow.com is the best domain name escrow service according to a survey of over 1,500 domain industry professionals. 46% of respondents in Domain Name Wire’s sixth annual survey said Escrow.com was best. Sedo’s escrow services came in second place with 32%. 1. Escrow.com 46% 2. Sedo 32% 3. Afternic 8% 4. Moniker 7% 5. EscrowDNS 6% Domain name escrow service vary in price and services. Some (including ... read more ...
Mon 14th March 2011
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DNCruise Heads to Grand Cayman in 2011 - Second domainer cruise stops off in Grand Cayman for a visit with Frank Schilling. “Chef” Patrick Ruddell just announced details for the second ever DNCruise. The domain conference on a boat will set sail September 5 from Tampa Bay for five days. First stop is Grand Cayman, where attendees will hang out for a day with domain investor Frank Schilling. The group will have a 2-3 hour snorkeling adventure and then enjoy lunch with Schilling. Interior cabins start ... read more ...
Thu 10th March 2011
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DomainTools and Estibot are Domainer Favorites - Domain investors share their favorite tools. What are your go-to tools for domaining? I’m guessing DomainTools is one of your most frequented sites. 45% of people who took this year’s Domain Name Wire Survey said DomainTools was the “software or hosted application that is most valuable to their domain name business for research and management.” Nearly 14% said the same thing about domain pricing and sales system Estibot. After that usage drops off significantly. ... read more ...
 
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VeriSign Domain Tag Cloud Gives Insight Into Latest Domain Registrations - Tool gives quick insight into recent domain registrations. Here’s an interesting new beta tool from VeriSign: the Verisign Domain Tag Cloud. The tool gives some insight into current domain name registration trends. It’s like a tag cloud but the tags are words used in recent domain name registrations. The bigger the word, the more frequently it occurred in domains that were registered over a specific time period. You can choose to view the most recent registration ... read more ...
Wed 23rd February 2011
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Survey: DOMAINfest Best Domain Industry Conference - DOMAINfest takes top honors again. DOMAINfest is the best domain name conference, according to survey respondents in the Sixth Annual Domain Name Wire Survey. 42% of those that have attended a domain conference said DOMAINfest is best. 39% said TRAFFIC was best. Of the people who answered this question, more had attended a TRAFFIC conference than DOMAINfest. 67% of those that have attended a DOMAINfest show say it’s the best conference and 50% of those who have ... read more ...
Thu 17th February 2011
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Survey: DNForum Still Top Domain Name Forum - Survey takers rank domain name forums. Once again DNForum is the highest rated domain name forum. That’s according to over 1,500 people who took the 6th Annual Domain Name Wire Survey. 48% selected DNForum as the top forum for discussing domain names, up from 37% last year. NamePros came in a distant second place with 21%, followed by the private Domain Boardroom at 14%. A few regional and/or niche domain forums also picked up votes: Poland’s DI.pl received 6% ... read more ...
Wed 16th February 2011
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The Best Part About a New DomainTools - DomainTools gets a facelift and new membership levels. DomainTools launched a new interface today. It makes finding and using its vast array of tools much easier. But the best part is that account credits are gone. In the words of DomainTools: “We’ve taken the most confusing pricing model ever conceived, and we’ve given it the axe.” Amen. The old system was based on “units” for various products. And the number of units required to order the same product ... read more ...
Fri 11th February 2011
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L.A. County Department of Public Health Looking in to DOMAINfest Illnesses - County looking into cause of outbreak; Oversee.net issues statement. The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health is looking into the outbreak of illness after last week’s event, sending a survey to all those registered to attend DOMAINfest. The first people have begun receiving the survey link and you may not have received it yet. Oversee.net released a statement this evening about the matter, which is in its entirety below: Domain Sponsor, the organizer ... read more ...
Wed 9th February 2011
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Last Day for Discounted Hotel during Domain Roundtable - Hotel rates at Atlantis increase tomorrow. We got more ice in Austin today after a snow day last week. Whether you’re shoveling your driveway or trying to overcome that Domainfest-induced flu, I bet you wish you were in the Bahamas. Domain Roundtable is heading to the Bahamas the first week of March, but discounted hotel rates are only available through today. Reservations require a non-refundable two night deposit. The first day of Domain Roundtable on March ... read more ...