Tag Archives: services

Wed 7th October 2009
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Domainer Mardi Gras Early Bird Rate Ends Next Week - Best Domainer Mardi Gras discount ends soon. Early bird rates for Domainer Mardi Gras end October 15, so now is the time to register if you plan to make the trip. Early bird registration is $795, but if you also book your hotel room at the conference hotel, you’ll get admission for only $495. The hotel is a good deal, too, so this will probably be your most affordable conference opportunity for 2010. Domainer Mardi Gras (DMG) organizers sent a multi-page brochure ... read more ...
Thu 1st October 2009
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Two Domain Conferences on Tap for October - Two domain conferences hit the United States in October. Casa Marina Resort in Key West Two major domain name events are taking place in October. Sedo will hold its annual SedoPro Partner Forum October 7th – 9th at Casa Marina Resort, located on the island of Key West, Florida. This invitation-only event is limited to Sedo’s big customers in the SedoPro program. If it’s anything like the last stateside event in New York, it will be an event to remember. Then ... read more ...
Wed 30th September 2009
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Sedo Founders Sell Remaining 24% of Company, Schumacher Promoted - AdLINK has purchased the remaining 24% of Sedo and promoted its managing director. Sedo parent company AdLINK Group has purchased the outstanding 24.06% of Sedo shares owned by its founders. AdLINK will purchase the shares for 5.5M EUR in cash plus 4.25 million shares of AdLINK. At today’s exchange rates and stock price, and assuming no restrictions on the stock, that values Sedo at about $130 million. Sedo Managing Director Tim Schumacher has also been named ... read more ...
Wed 23rd September 2009
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Zappos CEO to Keynote DOMAINfest Global - Keynote speaker announced for DOMAINfest Global. Tony Hsieh, CEO and Co-Founder of Zappos.com, will be the keynote speaker for DOMAINfest Global 2010. The event will take place January 26-28, 2010 in Santa Monica, California. This is a good choice for the show, given Hsieh’s background in internet marketing and domain names. Hsieh founded the popular banner exchange network LinkExchange, which he sold to Microsoft for $265 million. He also understands the value ... read more ...
 
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DotGreen to Battle DotEco - DotGreen to take on DotEco. When I wrote my tongue-in-cheek guide on how to my .Eco a success, I joked: Make sure the other side doesn’t decide to just get .green instead. You need to get their heads stuck on .eco. If they opt for .green, you could have long term competition. And that’s not what this is about; you need to get a monopoly TLD. I should have done some fact checking, because, buried beneath all of the hoopla around .eco, a group has announced .green. And, ... read more ...
Mon 21st September 2009
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Google: We Don’t Use Keywords Meta Tag - Don’t bother with keywords meta tag, and focus description tag on what makes users click. Spending time stuffing the keyword meta tags for your web page? Don’t bother. That’s the official word from Google, which says it doesn’t consider what you put in your keywords meta tag at all. You may as well leave it empty. The company hasn’t used the keywords meta tag for many years because it was often abused. For a while people have suggested that the keywords ... read more ...
Thu 10th September 2009
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Business Plan Competitions Come to Domain Conferences - Both DOMAINfest an T.R.A.F.F.I.C. announce twists on business plan competitions. A popular feature of many tech conferences is coming to the domain name industry. Two industry conferences — DOMAINfest and TRAFFIC — have announced variations of business plan competitions for their upcoming conferences. DOMAINfest’s agenda includes two sessions titled PITCHfest, in which conference goers will be able to pitch their business plan and the audience will vote on ... read more ...
 
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GroupValuation.com Offers Domain Appraisals from Peers - New web site makes it easy to get peer appraisals of your domain names. Domain monetization service WhyPark has released a nifty new tool for getting domain name appraisals from your peers. Dubbed GroupValuation, the tool lets you submit domains to be appraised and easily appraise others’ domain names. For each ten domains you appraise, you can submit one of your domain names. It’s simple, and that’s what I like about it. When you post for an appraisal at ... read more ...
Tue 1st September 2009
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eBay Starts Paying Affiliates by a Click. Here’s Why. - eBay is no longer paying per sale. But the real reason isn’t so obvious. For years, online retailer and auction service eBay offered a traditional affiliate program. It paid affiliates for sending new registrations and sales to eBay, similar to how most online retailers pay a commission for sales. But as many companies try to move from PPC to a pay-for-performance model, eBay is going the opposite direction. Well, in name only. It’s still pay-for-performance, ... read more ...
Thu 27th August 2009
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Which Domain Conferences You Should Go To in 2010 - A handy guide to choosing a domain conference. Well, I guess the domain name conference wars are on again. We already knew about two conferences in the first two months of the year — DOMAINfest and Domainer MardiGras. But then, despite having only two conferences in the U.S. this year, T.R.A.F.F.I.C. found it necessary to hold a conference in Las Vegas just before DOMAINfest. And so it begins. Since most people don’t want to attend every conference, I’ve ... read more ...
 
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Epik Primes Pump for Web Development - Epik off to quick start. It’s been a couple months since Rob Monster launched Epik, a semantic web domain monetization service. How’s it going? Quite well, reports Monster. He says the company will turn the corner on profitability next month, so the company will be able to choose whether or not to raise outside money. Epik 2.1 was just released and includes many improvements. A key improvement is a new parser that makes it easier to map domains to available ... read more ...
Wed 26th August 2009
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Adsense as a Platform and What it Means for Publishers - Google Adsense shows off its platform. Google Adsense is not an ad network. It’s an advertising platform, and Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) is taking steps to open it up. Adsense is taking its next step to opening up the platform by allowing other display advertising companies to place ads on Adsense Publishers’ sites. For example, Google may be able to offer you a $1 CPM on display ads on your site, while another ad network can offer $2. The other ad network’s ... read more ...
Mon 24th August 2009
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Domainer Mardi Gras Set for Feb Return - Popular conference making its return. Building on the success (and fun) of its first year, Domainer Mardi Gras is making a return in 2010. The event will be held at the New Orleans Marriott February 11th – 13th, 2010. Fat Tuesday is February 16. The event is now an independent event. Parked will be a headline sponsor. Compared to last year, you’ll spot two key differences off the top: the hotel is closer to the action and the entire event is cheaper. Although ... read more ...
Wed 12th August 2009
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DevHub Creator Turns Profitable - Web site building and monetization platform goes into the black. EVO Media Group, creator of the DevHub web site development platform, has reached profitability just five months after releasing its flagship project. The company boasts an active user base of 25,000 people developing web sites on its platform. Total visits to the network of sites built on DevHub is nearing 1 million per month with over 2 million page views, according to data from Quantcast. Operating ... read more ...
Mon 10th August 2009
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eNom Launches RichContent Product - Domain registrar offers RichContent system to customers and resellers. Domain name registrar eNom has released RichContent, a new content widget system for individuals to add content to their web sites. The system is built by Pluck, which eNom parent company Demand Media acquired in 2008. RichContent offers various widgets users can copy and paste into their web sites to pull related content and links from various blogs and news sources. Major web sites already ... read more ...
Fri 7th August 2009
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Revisiting a CPA Business Model - Another look at cost-per-action and how it can be used with domain names. With Rick Latona Auction’s CPA (cost-per-action) domain name auction on the horizon, I thought it would be worthwhile to revisit CPA and how it can make money for domainers. Most domainers use pay-per-click to monetize their domain names. This is a great monetization strategy, but for certain verticals CPA may produce more money. Domains that have to do with anything that requires leads, ... read more ...
Fri 31st July 2009
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Merging a Worlds of Domain Names and SEO - Adam Stetzer of HubShout discusses domaining and SEO, and how they fit together. By Adam Stetzer, Ph.D. [Editor’s note: It always amazes me how far apart the SEO and domainer worlds are. The two combined could have tremendous power. All traffic – whether type-in or organic – is valuable. Adam Stetzer, president and co-founder of SEO firm HubShout, explains the basics of SEO and how it can be applied to the domain industry.] Guest-writing for DomainNameWire ... read more ...
Wed 29th July 2009
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Fleos.com Is Open for Fleecing - Domain name appraisal scam moves to a new domain name. I’m getting tired of writing these articles. But every time I do, a number of people searching for this stumble upon it, so I figure it saves some people from falling for the scam. The latest incarnation of the domain name appraisal has moved to a new domain name – Fleos.com. A scammer sends and email to you offering to buy your domain name for a percentage of the appraisal price. He explains that they ... read more ...
Mon 27th July 2009
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How to Promote Your Web Site with Facebook - Another way to promote your developed web sites. Big companies use fan pages on Facebook, and so should you. If you have a web site you actively promote, it makes sense to set up a fan page on the social network. The benefit should be fairly clear, but at the simplest level a fan page allows you to “push” your message out to fans whenever you’d like. Think of it as if all of your fans subscribe to your RSS feed and an email newsletter. Whenever you want to ... read more ...
Thu 23rd July 2009
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Site Search Data is Gold Mine for Developed Web Sites - Use site search data to find out what your visitors are looking for. Navigation of web sites is mostly defined by the web designer. You arrive at the home page and click on one of the links that the web designer decided should be on the home page. You go to the next page and do the same thing, and so-on. But what are your visitors really looking for when they arrive on your web site? The richest data comes from your search box. Your visitor’s searches are ... read more ...
Fri 17th July 2009
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Domain Industry’s Largest Conference Moves to New Venue - DOMAINfest moves to a new venue for 2010. DOMAINfest Global, the largest domain name industry conference, is moving to the Fairmont Miramar Hotel in Santa Monica, California this January. Previous conferences were held in Hollywood, California. The entire hotel has been reserved for guests of the show, which will take place January 26-28, 2010. Registration will open August 15 at a discounted rate of $895. Rates increase to $1,095 on October 1. Last year more ... read more ...
Tue 14th July 2009
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DevHub Growing Quickly, Nearing 1M Monthly Visits - Web site development system quickly hitting milestones. The DevHub ecosystem of web sites is growing quickly and traffic is increasing in stride, reports the company. According to the company, there were 900,000 visitors to web sites on the DevHub platform in June. There are now over 10,000 publishers on the network and over 100,000 domain names. A little less than 5,000 of these sites are “DevHubbed” sites, as the company calls them. That means they are fully ... read more ...
Mon 13th July 2009
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Domain Convergence Conference Registration Opens - Registration has opened for the second annual Domain Convergence conference. The conference will be held in Toronto, Canada August 13-14. Early registration is available through July 20 for $649, $100 off the regular price. The event is a general interest domainer conference, but will also include a special session about .ca (Canada) domain names. According to a company press release: Domain Convergence is the only event in Canada of its kind, giving domainers ... read more ...
Mon 6th July 2009
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Sedo’s Parent Company Sells Display Marketing Business - AdLINK to focus on domain name marketing and affiliate marketing. AdLINK, parent company of domain brokerage and parking company Sedo, has sold its online display marketing business to French company Hi-media S.A. AdLINK will get 10.7% of shares in Hi-media S.A. and about EUR 12.2 million in cash. The cash component will be in the form of a vendor loan by AdLINK, which must be paid off by June 30, 2011. With the sale, AdLINK now has two primary businesses: domain ... read more ...
Thu 2nd July 2009
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Domize Lets You Peek Into Current Domain Name Registrations - Find out what keywords people are using in domain registrations. What terms did people register domain names for yesterday? Domize let’s you take a peak. Domize’s domain registration statistics provide daily and monthly stats for domain registrations by TLD and term. For example, its June 30 report shows that .com picked up 27,145 net registrations while .mobi picked up 482. But perhaps the coolest feature is seeing what keywords people use in their registrations. On ... read more ...