Tag Archives: services

Tue 2nd March 2010
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DOMAINfest Announces European Show - Second DOMAINfest conference to take place in Prague. We now have the details about the second DOMAINfest conference for 2010, something the company foreshadowed back in July. Oversee.net announced today that it will hold the second conference in Prague, Czech Republic. It will be a two day event, October 6 and 7, 2010 at Hotel Intercontinental. Conference details will be released in June. Registration is not yet open, but hotel reservations are available for 159 ... read more ...
Mon 1st March 2010
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Geodomain Expo Early Bird Special Ends Today - Prices for Geodomain Expo increase tomorrow. Early bird registration rates for next month’s GeoDomain Expo in New Orleans are available through the end of today. The $795 discounted rate was supposed to expire yesterday, but was extended until the end of the day March 1. This year’s event for the geo domain name industry will take place at the Roosevelt Waldorf Astoria in New Orleans, Louisiana. It is timed to run during JazzFest. David Litman, who co-founded ... read more ...
Thu 18th February 2010
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Survey: DOMAINfest is Best Domain Name Conference - A move at the top for ‘best conference’. For the first time ever, DOMAINfest has been selected as the top domain name industry conference by respondents in the annual Domain Name Wire Survey. DOMAINfest received 45% of the vote, knocking TRAFFIC off its perch. Here’s how they stacked up: 1. DOMAINfest 45% 2. TRAFFIC 36% 3. Domain Roundtable 7% 4. Domainer Mardi Gras 6% GEOdomain Expo 6% DOMAINfest carries an even bigger lead when it comes to the percentage ... read more ...
Wed 17th February 2010
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Sedo Upgrades User Interface and Bidding Management - Online domain broker releases updates today. Based on community feedback, Sedo has introduced several improvements to its user interface. First, users can log into their account from any page on Sedo. After a recent redesign, users had to click through to a secondary page to login. The new login form is an expanding box. Second, Sedo now shows “Action Notifications” upon logging into your account. This is a quick look at any actions you need to take, such as ... read more ...
Tue 16th February 2010
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VeriSign Gets Patent for Suggesting Alternative Domain Names - Patent describes system for providing alternatives to already registered domain names. When you search for a domain name at any major registrar, and the domain isn’t available, the registrar will likely serve up a list of similar domain names that are available for registration. VeriSign just got a patent for part of that process. U.S. Patent 7,664,831 (pdf) was applied for in 2001, based on a provisional patent application filed in 2000. Here’s the abstract: A ... read more ...
 
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Go Daddy, Neustar, IPC Say No to Nairobi Meeting - Groups back out of Nairobi meeting over security concerns; will test limits of remote participation systems. Domain name registrar Go Daddy, registry Neustar, and the Intellectual Property Constituency have all informed ICANN that they will not be attending the upcoming meeting in Nairobi due to security concerns. Security has been a major concern for the meeting, but was escalated last week after it became known that a suicide bomb attack was planned against the ... read more ...
Mon 15th February 2010
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DomainTools Selected as Top Domain Research and Management Tool - Whois service gets MVP. Perhaps it’s only fitting that the top domain tool is, well, DomainTools. The popular whois service was selected as the “most valuable” software or hosted application for domain research and management, according to respondents in the 5th Annual Domain Name Wire Survey. 39% of those surveyed picked DomainTools, nearly three times as many as the next highest vote-getter. Here are the top five results: 1. DomainTools (39%) 2. FreshDrop ... read more ...
 
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Weather Doesn’t Spoil Domainer Mardi Gras - Bad weather not enough to ruin Mardi Gras. Despite mother nature’s best attempt, the weather couldn’t spoil the second successful Domainer Mardi Gras conference. The event kicked off last Thursday night in New Orleans, concluding in the wee hours of the morning Sunday. Widespread snow storms made it difficult to fly into New Orleans, but most of the 150-odd registrants made it. For those that didn’t, Domainer Mardi Gras’ technical team did its best to bridge ... read more ...
Sat 13th February 2010
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Escrow.com Rated Top Domain Name Escrow Service - Escrow.com selected as best domain name escrow service. Escrow.com is the best escrow service for domain names, according to a survey of over 500 domain name owners. In the 5th Annual Domain Name Wire Survey, 55% of respondent picked Escrow.com as the top service. Sedo’s escrow service came in at number two with 24%, followed by Moniker at 13%. Afternic’s escrow service came in a distant fourth. EscrowDNS.com also received votes. EscrowDNS.com was recently ... read more ...
Fri 12th February 2010
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Survey: DNForum is Best Domain Name Forum - Rating the top domain name forums. DNForum is the best domain name forum, according to a survey of 500 domain owners in the 5th Annual Domain Name Wire Survey. 37% of respondents who have visited a domain forum selected DNForum as the best. In the five years of the survey, DNForum has been selected top forum four times. DNForum is owned by Adam Dicker, who until recently was also a vice president with GoDaddy. Now that he is unchained from full-time duty, you ... read more ...
 
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Domainer Mardi Gras Kicks Off in New Orleans - Despite snowstorms, most make it to conference in New Orleans. This could have been a story with photos and videos from last night’s Domainer Crawfish Boil in New Orleans. But it’s not. It’s about how difficult it has been to get to New Orleans. Thanks to widespread snowstorms, air travel ground to a halt yesterday. Apparently the snowstorm will cause the most canceled flights since 9/11. My personal adventure started when American Airlines called me at 9 ... read more ...
Wed 10th February 2010
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DNW’s Guide to Surviving Domainer Mardi Gras - How to prepare for New Orleans. The second annual Domainer Mardi Gras kicks off tomorrow in New Orleans. I’ve attended 100% of these shows, which makes me an authority to write this survival guide. 1. Bring your patience. With inclement weather across the nation, getting to NOLA won’t be easy today and tomorrow. When you get to the city, be ready for some long lines for taxis and other services. It’s a busy weekend. 2. Check your expectations. Think Mardi ... read more ...
 
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Success Story: Octane360 Takes Domain Monetization Beyond PPC - Company brings multiple revenue streams to domain names. In December I wrote about Octane360, a startup that promises to bring new monetization options to domain names. I’m happy to report that the company is delivering on its promise. The company’s bread-and-butter is monetizing long tail geo domain names, such as CityDermatologist.com or CityPlumbers.com. The company creates a small directory web site on each domain name. But unlike many other domain development ... read more ...
 
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Domain Parking Coming to .Tel - Domains that aren’t used for web sites to get Google ads. It was only a matter of time, right? .Tel registry Telnic announced that .tel domain name owners will soon by able to integrate Google Adsense into their domain names. That means they’ll be able to add Google’s pay-per-click ads to their .tel domain names through the .tel management interface. The net effect? You’ll be able to turn a .tel into a parked domain name full of ads. Technically, .tel users ... read more ...
Tue 9th February 2010
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NameBee.com Amps Up Domain Name Content Aggregation - Domain content aggregator adds more features. NameBee.com has added twitter, news, and forum posts to its domain information content aggregation site. Launched a year ago this month, NameBee.com has primarily focused on aggregating domain name blogs. The new features, released today, allow domainers to review and interact with more content outside the blogosphere: – Twitter Aggregation – Aggregates the most popular Twitter users in the domain name industry. ... read more ...
Mon 8th February 2010
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Get Your Own URL Shortener with YOURLS - Brand yourself with customized URL shortener. It has always bothered me that URL shorteners are taking over the web. As many people have pointed out, your entire linking history is subject to the lifeline of a third party service. And with many URL shorteners operating on questionable country code domain names, the risks are prevalent. This weekend I set out to get my own URL shortener. After all, I plunked down five figures for my short domain name DNW.com, ... read more ...
Sun 7th February 2010
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Domainer Mardi Gras Just Got a Whole Lot More Exciting - Mardi Gras plus Saints celebration makes New Orleans the place to be this week. Last month I interviewed Domainer Mardi Gras Executive Directory Michael Ward about this year’s conference. After the interview, he sent an email to me about how important it was that people reserved their hotel rooms early. Here’s what he wrote: The hotel is already fully booked and they plan on selling out any rooms that I give back to them. We ran into this problem last year ... read more ...
Fri 5th February 2010
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Escrow.com Offers “Payment Plan” Escrow on Domain Transactions - Escrow.com offers service for domain name purchase payment plans. I caught up with Escrow.com president Brandon Abbey during DOMAINfest last week. When I asked him about current trends in sales, he said the company is seeing more people wishing to do payment plans when they acquire domains. Escrow.com has a service for these customers. It runs similar to its traditional domain escrow service, except that Escrow.com takes control of the domain name and facilitates ... read more ...
 
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Bringing Market Efficiency to Content: What’s a Written Word Worth? - Marketplaces find the correct price for paying for content production. Earlier this week I wrote two stories about Demand Media, a company that has found a way to make money with online content. I noted that the company will have a hard time getting fair press coverage since many journalists probably feel threatened by its model. Here’s one example, aptly named “Demand Media Can Go To Hell“. In the post, author Tony Silber complains about what he calls Demand ... read more ...
Wed 3rd February 2010
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In Demand: How Demand Media is Profiting from Web Content - Inside Demand Media’s scalable and profitable online content business. [This is part one of a two part story on Demand Media.] I have a confession to make. Last decade I made a lot of money producing crappy content. It started with systems that auto-generated thousand page web sites by scraping search engines. This worked great for a while; at one point I was making over a thousand dollars a day from placing Google Adsense on my web sites. I knew it wouldn’t ... read more ...
 
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Domainer Mardi Gras on Tap for Next Week - Domainers head to New Orleans for third domain conference of the year. I’ve barely unpacked my bags from DOMAINfest, but now it’s time to turn my attention to next week’s Domainer Mardi Gras in New Orleans. For a preview of the event, including how you can get a discounted pass, listen to this episode of Domain Name Wire Radio. I will be involved with two panels at the event on Friday, February 12. At 1:30, Ron Jackson and I will take part in a reporter ... read more ...
Mon 1st February 2010
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Estibot 2.0 is a Domainer’s Dream - Estibot 2.0 public beta offers better valuation algorithms and new tools. Frequent readers of Domain Name Wire know that I’m not always a fan of automated appraisals. It’s not the appraisals themselves that I dislike; it’s how domainers misuse the numbers. The best part of automated appraisals is less the final number, and more the data used to get to that final number. Consider the time I wrote about a big domain sale, and a reader promptly emailed me to ... read more ...
 
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Estibot 2.0 Makes Finding and Contacting End Users Easy - End user lead generator is a game changer. End-users, end-users, blah, blah, blah. I get so tired of people talking about selling to end users, but expecting the domain exchanges to do all of the hard work for them. Until Estibot 2.0, contacting end users about buying your domain names was a lot of work. But the service has taken the grunt work out of the process, making it effortless to find potential buyers for your domains. Here’s how it works. For any given ... read more ...
Sun 31st January 2010
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Did DOMAINfest Just Set a Bar for Domain Conferences? - Reviewing last week’s DOMAINfest conference. For many years, DOMAINfest has attracted the largest crowd of all domain conferences. It only takes place once a year, and Oversee.net and DomainSponsor spend over a million dollars organizing it. The event last week set an attendance record with some 650 attendees. I was literally running back and forth between meetings, all the while bumping into people in the halls that I hadn’t seen in a year. As hectic as ... read more ...
Thu 28th January 2010
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Video from DOMAINfest Event during The Getty - Domainers dress up for The Getty. When you think of domainers at a party, the last thing you think of is viewing Rembrandts. But that’s exactly what they did at Wednesday night’s DOMAINfest party at The Getty in Los Angeles. Hundreds of domainers made the trip to The Getty, arriving by bus and then boarding trams for the trip to the top of the hill to enter The Getty. Inside, guests were treated to dinner and drinks, and access to many of the museum’s galleries. ... read more ...