Tag Archives: services

Mon 30th November 2009
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DOMAINfest Goes to Getty Center for a Bit of Contrast - Conference to include night at The Getty. Oversee.net today announced that that it will hold a networking dinner at the Getty Center on Wednesday night, January 27, during its DOMAINfest Global conference. The Getty sits on a 110-acre hilltop site in the Santa Monica Mountain range. The entire campus will be reserved for DOMAINfest attendees, which will get access to its architecture, gardens and views of Los Angeles and the coast. Guests will have exclusive access ... read more ...
Sun 29th November 2009
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Heading to TRAFFIC or DOMAINfest? Better Get Your Hotel Now. - Hotel rooms are booking quickly for January domain name conferences. It’s hard to believe that the 2010 domain conference schedule kicks off in about seven weeks. As it creeps up on us, be sure to make your hotel reservations now. Rooms for the TRAFFIC show at the Hard Rock hotel in Las Vegas are cheap — only $159 a night — thanks to the global recession. That doesn’t include taxes and resort fees. You can book your room online using the link on TRAFFIC’s ... read more ...
Wed 25th November 2009
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DevHub Creator Snags $1.5 Million Investment - EVO Media Group picks up investment from private equity group and angel investors. EVO Media Group, Inc., the company behind web site building platform DevHub, has secured a $1.5 million investment. In addition to an undisclosed private equity group, investors include a number of angels: Geoff Entress of Voyager Capital, John Cunningham of Clearfir, Alex Algard CEO of WhitePages.com, Jeff Schrock of Intel Capital, Richard Wolpert (former President of Disney Online). ... read more ...
 
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Dan Warner Joins DomainAdvertising.com as CEO - Warner joins Directi’s new venture. A familiar face in the domain name world is joining Directi’s DomainAdvertising.com as CEO. Dan Warner, previously the Chief Strategy Officer and Chief Operation Officer of Dark Blue Sea, the company that runs Fabulous, has joined the company and already hit the ground running. Warner explained how the company plans to shake up the domain industry: We will be doing the exact opposite of most domain companies. Significant capital, ... read more ...
Tue 24th November 2009
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Google Awarded Patent for Local Search Integrated with Whois - Google gets patent for integrating local contact information with search results. Google has been awarded U.S. patent 7624101 for “Enhanced Search Results”. The enhancements are related to Google’s local search capabilities, including returning a result for a business that includes a phone number, address, and map. You’ve probably seen these search results at the top of a Google results page: The patent describes a system that captures phone and address ... read more ...
Mon 23rd November 2009
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DomainTools Launches MyWhois - New MyWhois feature is a big usability improvement. A month or two ago DomainTools changed the way it displays whois data. Whereas whois records and associated domain data used to be displayed on one page, it switched to a tabbed view to make it easier to read. But some people are stuck in their old ways and (understandably) didn’t like clicking between multiple tabs to get the data they needed. DomainTools has figured out a solution that provides the best of ... read more ...
Fri 20th November 2009
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PITCHfest and LAUNCHfest Come to DOMAINfest - Two business competitions coming to DOMAINfest conference. Oversee.net wants to know, “what would you do to develop Planners.com?” That’s just one of ten domain names contestants in DOMAINfest Global’s LAUNCHfest can submit a development plan for. Contestants submit a plan for developing one of the domain names, and pitch it to a panel of expert judges during the January contest. The winner will get to go through with their plans by leasing or buying the ... read more ...
Fri 13th November 2009
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Mardi Gras Special Ends Today, WhyPark Gives Auction Details - Here are a couple news notes from Domainer Mardi Gras and WhyPark. Domainer Mardi Gras special ends today: Domainer Mardi Gras is giving away a 500 GB external hard drive to anyone who signs up to attend by midnight tonight. Registration rates are as low as $595 if you also stay at the conference hotel. This is the lowest fee you’ll ever see for attending an industry-wide domain conference. It’s a lot of fun, too. I recommend taking advantage of this offer ... read more ...
Thu 5th November 2009
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VeriSign Swings to Profit in Q3, Domain Name Base adult 6% - VeriSign reports earnings and domain growth. VeriSign, which manages the registry for .com and .net domain names, reported a profitable third quarter. The company earned $53.6 million in the quarter, compared to a loss of $201.1 million in the same quarter in 2008. VeriSign has divested a number of businesses lately, and is focusing on its core businesses, which includes domain registry. At the end of the quarter VeriSign had 94.9 million domains registered in ... read more ...
Wed 4th November 2009
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Valuate.com Offers Nifty Domain Evaluation Tools - Valuate.com’s solid user interface gives quick access to domain data. It’s been a couple weeks since Cybertonic, the same company behind Domaining.com, launched Valuate.com in beta. Valuate uses Estibot 2.0 in the background to create domain appraisals. Now, I’m not usually a fan of automated appraisals. I think I’ll hit the next person who tells me a domain sold below market value “because Estibot says it’s worth x”. But there’s something to be ... read more ...
Tue 3rd November 2009
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8 Ways to Improve Domain Conference Programming - Here are ways to make next year’s conferences even more valuable. As the 2009 domain conference schedule draws to a close and a record number of conferences are on the schedule for 2010, I thought I’d give some general feedback on how to make conference programming better. This isn’t targeted at any particular show; it’s just some best practices I’ve picked up from attending many diverse conferences in the past ten years (from domains to intellectual property ... read more ...
Mon 2nd November 2009
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DNW Giving Away 100 Bido Credits Today - Visit Bido today to get your share of 100 Bido credits. I’m sponsoring Bido.com today and giving away 100 free Bido credits. Here are the details: About Bido credits: When you submit a domain name to Bido, it needs to receive enough votes from the Bido community before it goes to auction. A credit lets you skip the voting and send your domain name directly to auction. They can also be used to submit domains with reserves. How to win: Join me in the lobby of the ... read more ...
Fri 30th October 2009
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Google Encroaches on Lead Gen Companies - Google gets into the lead gen business through Adwords. Google has launched a new Google Adwords offering that directly competes with mortgage lead generation companies such as Lending Tree. The new offering, dubbed Comparison Ads, allows Google visitors to compare offers from various mortgage providers. They can then fill out a quote lead form or call the mortgage company directly using a specially encoded phone number. Google charges the mortgage companies each ... read more ...
Thu 29th October 2009
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Inside Demand Media’s Content Machine - A look inside Demand Media’s automated content machine. Ever since Demand Media launched, a lot of people have wondered how it actually makes money (other than through its eNom division). A reader just sent a fascinating article to me from Wired that explains its content machine and money making ability: using algorithms and a freelance army to churn out vast, but low quality content. It works a lot like how domainers decide which domains to develop and how to ... read more ...
Wed 28th October 2009
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Oversee.net Goes Back to a Playboy Mansion for DFG 2010 - Oversee.net announces party plans for DFG 2010. Earlier today Oversee.net announced that it will hold its finale party for DOMAINfest Global in January at the Playboy Mansion for the second year in a row. The event will benefit enny McCarthy’s Generation Rescue Foundation. This year’s mansion party has been talked about all year, so it’s sure to be a hit again. I enjoyed the party at Universal Studios, too, so hopefully they can match that experience. As ... read more ...
Tue 27th October 2009
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You Say See-Dough, we Say Say-Dough - One of the questions I often hear about Sedo is how it is pronounced. I’ve always said See-Dough. So when I was at the SedoPro conference in Key West earlier this month, I was delighted to hear Sedo CEO Tim Schumaker pronounce the company as see-dough as well. Case closed. But then in a session the next day Sedo Chief Operating Officer General Counsel Jeremiah Johnston kept referring to the company as “Say-Dough”. Someone in the audience asked: which is it, ... read more ...
Fri 23rd October 2009
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End of Yahoo Paid-Inclusion Hurts Marchex - Marchex takes a big hit from product change at Yahoo. Back in August I wrote about potential exposure Marchex has to the Yahoo-Microsoft search deal, particularly around Yahoo’s paid inclusion service. Marchex grossed about $2 million from the product in the second quarter of this year, but the product’s future was up in the air with the search deal. Now that Yahoo has announced the end of paid inclusion at the end of the year, look for Marchex’s revenue and ... read more ...
Tue 20th October 2009
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Are You Going to T.R.A.F.F.I.C.? - Leave a comment about whether you’re going to TRAFFIC next week. One of my readers asked me to post this in advance of next week’s TRAFFIC show in New York City, with a goal of having those people attending the conference get a head start on networking. So if you’re going to the show, leave a comment with your real name and company association (if any). If you’re not going to the show, feel free to leave a comment as well about the next show you’ll be ... read more ...
Mon 19th October 2009
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AEIOU.com Calls it Quits - AEIOU getting out of the minisite business. Mini site production company AEIOU, owned by Rick Latona, is throwing in the towel. In a blog post at RickLatona.com, Latona says there’s no money in web design. “It’s hard. The customers are hard to please. The margins are slim and frankly, there are bigger fish to fry”, wrote Latona. What Latona doesn’t directly say but hints at: it’s hard to scale this type of business. Customers with open orders will still ... read more ...
Thu 15th October 2009
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Beware a Google Adsense “Account Disabled” Phishing Scam - Phishing attempt hits Google Adsense account holders. With all of the talk about Adsense users finding their accounts disabled lately, users should be aware of a phishing scam playing on Adsense clients’ greatest fear: losing their account. Today I received an email purporting to be from Google telling me my account was disabled. And frankly, it’s the closest I’ve ever come to falling for a phishing attempt. That’s partly do to circumstance and partly because ... read more ...
Tue 13th October 2009
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DevHub Expands Office Space, Looking for More Developers - Seattle company growing its team. DevHub offices getting an expansion. Web site platform provider DevHub is expanding its Seattle office space as it adds more employees. The company is adding about 1,000 square feet to its current office space and putting out the call for two contract-to-hire web development positions. Here’s an abridged version of the job description: DevHub is looking for a skilled developer to join our talented technical team in the heart of ... read more ...
 
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Woopra Web Analytics Program Comes out of Beta - Woopra web analytics program now open to public. Back in February, Michael Sumner of DN Media hooked me up with a beta invite to live stats program Woopra. I’ve been hooked ever since. Now Woopra is out of beta, which means anyone can sign up and harness the power of real time stats for a small fee. Woopra offers extensive stats including all of the historical stats you get for free with Google Analytics. But it also offers real time stats that allow you to instantly ... read more ...
Mon 12th October 2009
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Every Domain Owner Should Subscribe to DomainTools’ Registrant Alert - Why every domain owner should subscribe to a registrant alert for their domains. If you don’t use DomainTools’ Registrant Alert service to monitor your own domain names, drop everything and sign up now (it’s free to monitor your domains). Here’s how this service has helped me in just the past few months: 1. It alerted me that one of my domains had changed to ‘pending delete’ because I neglected to renew it. That saved me from losing a valuable domain ... read more ...
Fri 9th October 2009
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SedoPro Partner Forum Wraps Up in Key West - Successful and enjoyable conference comes to an end. The SedoPro Partner Forum concluded this morning in Key West, Florida. Yesterday started with a couple panels in the morning, followed by an afternoon of wave runners, snorkeling, bike riding, and scooters. After an afternoon in the hot sun, attendees walked over to an oceanfront restaurant for a steak and seafood dinner (see picture below, courtesy of Bill Sweetman of Tucows). After dinner guests went to a 1920s ... read more ...
Thu 8th October 2009
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Scenes from SedoPro Event in Key West, Florida - SedoPro event kicks off. The SedoPro Partner Forum opened last night in Key West, Florida. Getting to the event turned into a bit of a challenge for some attendees. I got stuck on a plane in Dallas, resulting in missing my connection in Miami to the island. I caught the next flight, which had about a half dozen people going to the event. But American Airlines had a few problems — apparently letting people on to the plane who didn’t have tickets — which ... read more ...