Tag Archives: services

Wed 19th May 2010
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VeriSign Withdraws Request for “Domain Name Exchange” Service - Registry nixes domain trade-in plans — for now. Last month VeriSign submitted an evaluation request to ICANN for a so-called “Domain Name Exchange”. VeriSign has withdrawn the request according to the evaluation status on ICANN’s web site. The service would basically allow domain name registrars to return unused domain names in exchange for others. This would be ideal for companies that sell web packages for less than a year at a time. For example, a web ... read more ...
Wed 12th May 2010
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You Should Go to TRAFFIC and You Should Register Today - Get a conference pass before the price increases tomorrow. I don’t always go around endorsing conferences. But if you’ve never been to a conference or if you’re on the fence about attending the Vancouver TRAFFIC conference next month, here’s my message: do it. But you should register today to take advantage of the $395 conference pass (the price goes up $200 tomorrow). This may be the least expensive domain conference you’ll ever attend if you’re in ... read more ...
Tue 11th May 2010
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11% of .Net Domains Aren’t Registered in .Com - This and other useful stats from HosterStats.com A few months ago I was introduced to HosterStats.com, a web site with a wealth of domain name data. The statistic in the headline of this post is somewhat surprising, but you’ll find it right here in HosterStats’ cross domain comparison. Over 1.4 million domain names that are registered in .net aren’t registered in .com. Over 20% of domains registered in .org aren’t registered in .com. Think about all the ... read more ...
Mon 10th May 2010
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TRAFFIC Vancouver Schedule Posted with $395 Admission - Details for Vancouver conference are posted, but is the price a typo? [Update: looks like I scooped Latona by a few minutes.] The Targeted TRAFFIC web site has been updated with the preliminary agenda for next month’s conference in Vancouver. There’s a nice surprise on the registration page for the web site — $395 admission. A typo? $395 would be a huge discount to normal pricing for TRAFFIC shows. But if you click through, you can indeed sign up for a ... read more ...
 
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Let’s Bring Some Domain Apps to Android - Android rocks. Let’s bring some domain apps to it. At least one research firm is saying that the Android mobile operating system passed the iPhone in sales this past quarter. This really shouldn’t come as any surprise. We’re repeating history. Apple brings out a product but tightly controls distribution (ATT only) and what software can be used on the product (ask anyone who has had their app rejected). Android, on the other hand, is available on a number ... read more ...
Mon 3rd May 2010
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FreshDrop Shows How to Handle a Site Outtage - Company communicates well during database restoration. It’s never fun when a subscription-based web service goes down. But FreshDrop should be applauded for how it handled a data problem last week. Other companies should take note. Last Thursday Freshdrop President CEO Tan Tran sent an email to customers stating that there was a database problem and data wasn’t being updated. The email stated: 1. What happened 2. What is being done to fix the problem 3. When ... read more ...
Fri 30th April 2010
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Oversee Responds to Feedback, Expands Agenda for DOMAINfest Event - Next month’s event just got more interesting. I’ll say this about Oversee.net and its DOMAINfest conferences: it always responds to feedback. The company just announced that it’s beefing up its one day event to be held on May 13 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Some of the rumblings on blogs and message boards when the company first announced its “Power Networking” days was that it seemed more like an excuse to hold an auction. But the new agenda has more ... read more ...
Wed 28th April 2010
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Providing Whois Privacy Isn’t Free - Running a whois privacy or proxy service costs money. In the recent uproar about Name.com introducing a fee for whois privacy, a number of people have said that such a service costs the provider essentially nothing. Without discussing the merits of Name.com’s new fee and how it communicated it, it’s worth pointing out that whois privacy does cost the registrar money. First, there’s the legal set up fee and structure of an entity to act at the proxy. (There ... read more ...
Mon 26th April 2010
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Comwired Acquires DNS.com Domain Name - DNS management company acquires the perfect domain name. What happens when a DNS company with a domainer background wants to upgrade its brand? It acquires the category-killer, three letter domain name DNS.com. Comwired, which offers hosted DNS management services, acquired DNS.com and is changing its brand. It appears the acquisition was made about two months ago, but the company is just now undergoing the rebrand. In a press release, Comwired CEO Dan Kimball said ... read more ...
Sun 25th April 2010
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ICANN Green Lights 1 and 2 Letter .Info Domain Names - Here comes 1.info. The ICANN Board approved a resolution granting Afilias the right to register one and two character .info domain names during its Board meeting last Thursday. .Info registry Afilias made the request in February. It plans to model the distribution of the short domain names similar to how Neustar handled the release of one and two character .biz domain names: 1. Requests for Proposal, where anyone can submit a proposal for developing a particular ... read more ...
Fri 23rd April 2010
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Agenda and Air Travel Falling Into Place for TRAFFIC Milan - Everything coming together for next week’s conference in Milan. There are some things conference organizers can control, and there are some things they can’t. They can control the quality of their agenda. But volcanic eruptions? That’s a challenge. Fortunately for Rick Latona and crew, everything seems to be shaping up nicely for its April 27-29 show in Milan. First, on what they can control. TRAFFIC will look somewhat like Latona’s first foray into domain ... read more ...
Mon 19th April 2010
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For GeoDomain Expo, The Sponsors Tell a Story - GeoDomain Expo attracts a different type of crowd. For the past few years I’ve enjoyed my trip to GeoDomain Expo, an annual gathering of owners of city.com and similar geographic domain names. It’s a different sort of conference that attracts a different crowd than most domain conferences I attend. You can tell that by looking at the sponsor list. Few of the companies are directly involved in the domain business. From Local.com to ARES to Booking.com, the show ... read more ...
Fri 16th April 2010
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Using Google Webmaster Tools New Organic Search Data - Google opens up a wealth of organic search data for your web sites. Use it. Google recently expanded the organic search data it provides to web site owners who use Webmaster Tools. Now you can see rich data about where your web site has ranked for key terms, how many times it showed up in search results, and the click-through rate for each position. Here’s an example: For years, SEOs have discussed the relative number of click-throughs you get at different positions ... read more ...
Wed 7th April 2010
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VeriSign Offers Tools to Secure Domain Names - Two tools from VeriSign help keep your domain names secure. With a couple recent high profile domain thefts, and the recent hijacking of Baidu’s nameserver settings, I reached out to VeriSign Chief Technology Officer Ken Silva to learn what VeriSign offers to help domain owners protect themselves. “Over the next 12 months, we’re working so that from the time a person registers a domain name and creates an account to when it gets resolved, almost every single ... read more ...
Thu 1st April 2010
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Sedo by a Numbers: Platform Tops 1 Million Users - Sedo hits milestone, but revenue weak in 2009. Sedo’s parent company AdLink (soon to be Sedo Holding) has released final results for 2009. Here are the highlights for the Sedo division: Revenue: 46.6M EUR. This is down 14.8% from 54.7M EUR in 2008. You can blame the falling domain name parking and soft sales market for the dip. Number of Registered Users: Congratulations are in order for Sedo, which topped 1,000,000 registered users by the end of the year. Employees: ... read more ...
Wed 31st March 2010
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Yahoo Shutting Down Publisher Network, Recommends Chitika - Yahoo admits defeat in syndicated pay-per-click ads. Yahoo is shutting down its Yahoo Publisher Network effective April 30. The program launched in summer 2005 as a challenge to Google’s popular Google Adsense program that lets any size web site publisher syndicate pay-per-click ads on their web site. The program initially received rave reviews as beta participants received high payouts. Over time, the program languished in beta. One common criticism was poor ... read more ...
Thu 25th March 2010
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DOMAINfest Announces Two Single Day Events in U.S. - Oversee announces two “mini shows” for 2010. DOMAINfest, a conference organized by Oversee.net and DomainSponsor, has announced two one day events taking place in the U.S. this year. The first will be May 13, 2010 at the W Hotel in Fort Lauderdale and the second on August 18, 2010 at the Grand Hyatt in midtown Manhattan, immediately following the Affiliate Summit East conference. Each event will including networking and programming and a Moniker live domain name ... read more ...
Wed 24th March 2010
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Rick Latona Discusses TRAFFIC Milan - Rick Latona discusses next month’s T.R.A.F.F.I.C. conference in Milan. The next Targeted TRAFFIC conference will be held in Milan April 27-29. I reached out to show organizer Rick Latona to find out what attendees can expect. DNW: Your second conference of the year will focus on ccTLDs. You held a ccTLD conference last year. What will people who attended last year’s ccTLD show learn/experience new this year? Latona: The ccTLD industry is constantly changing, ... read more ...
Tue 16th March 2010
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LogicBoxes Manages .Co Transition - LogicBoxes powers .co registrar for transition of domain names. LogicBoxes, a sort of “registrar/registry in a box” solution, announced today that it is the registrar backbone behind .Co Internet’s transition of .co domain names from Universidad de los Andes to its own platform. .Co is being commercialized into a global brand this year. As part of the process, the .co registry needed to transition 27,000 already registered third level domain names (e.g. name.com.co) ... read more ...
Mon 15th March 2010
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Bankaholic Founder to Contribute to MO.com - Entrepreneur who cashed in on sale to BankRate.com will contribute to MO.com. MO.com has announced that Johns Wu, the entrepreneur who founded Bankaholic.com and sold it to BankRate for $15 million, will be contributing to MO.com. MO.com is a new site that profiles entrepreneurs as a way to learn from each other. It was founded by Brian Null, an entrepreneur and domainer who built and sold OfficeSupply.com and GolfCourses.com. Null interviewed Wu, himself now a ... read more ...
Thu 11th March 2010
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Domain Name Whois Privacy Has Its Limits - Complete anonymity isn’t guaranteed with whois privacy services. Using a whois privacy or proxy service to register and set up a gripe site? Or perhaps some other web site or domain you don’t want attached to your name? Be prepared for the potential that your information will be disclosed. There are two types of whois security services: privacy and proxy. A privacy service generally shows your name but includes a service’s address, phone, and email. With ... read more ...
Wed 10th March 2010
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Domain Madness 2 Set for Las Vegas - Second domain name auction in Las Vegas scheduled for later this month. DomainConsultant premiered “Domain Madness” last year, a (mostly) online auction that was broadcast live from The Palms in Las Vegas. They’re back at it again this year, organizing an auction that will conclude on March 23. This year’s auction will be limited to only a dozen or so premium domain names, and the auction will take place online at OneofaKind.comsite to be named soon. The ... read more ...
Mon 8th March 2010
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Domain Companies Head to Austin for SXSW - Domain companies en route to Austin later this week. Several domain name companies are heading to Austin later this week for the start of the annual South by Southwest Music, Film and Interactive Festival. The Interactive portion of the event attracted over 10,000 attendees last year. Many stay in town for the music festival, which kicks off in the middle of next week. Although the interactive festival is big, music is a big draw: over 2,000 musical acts will play ... read more ...
Wed 3rd March 2010
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New Tool Lets You Scan Web Pages for Available Domain Names - URL2Domain scans text and looks for corresponding domain names available for registration. Whenever I hear or read a new term I haven’t heard of, I add it to a list of possible domain names to register. A new tool call URL2Domain now makes that process easy: it will scan entire web pages to find words that aren’t registered in .com. All you do is copy the URL you want scanned, paste it into the box at URL2Domain.com, and it starts scanning. It shows you the ... read more ...
Tue 2nd March 2010
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Registration for TRAFFIC Milan Conference Opens - First European TRAFFIC show of the year coming next month. Registration for the next TRAFFIC domain name conference, taking place April 27-29 in Milan, is now available. Early bird pricing for TRAFFIC Milan is 499 EUR, and there’s an added special for people planning to attend the Dublin conference in August: 749 EUR to attend both events. The preliminary schedule for the Milan conference shows that the event will focus on country code domain names. The show will ... read more ...