Tag Archives: tools

Tue 26th February 2013
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Microsoft Releases ccTLD Registry Security Assessment Service To Find & Fix Security Vulnerabilities - Microsoft released the Microsoft Country-Code Top Level Domain (ccTLD) Registry Security Assessment Service at the RSA Conference today in San Francisco: The new service was designed to help ccTLD registry operators find and fix security vulnerabilities before they are exploited. The offical annoucment was made on technet.com. “The exploitation of vulnerabilities specific to country-code top-level domain (ccTLD) registries has become an increasingly common problem, especially in relatively small ... read more ...
Thu 31st January 2013
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DomainTools.com Releases Domain Report - According to a Press Release we received tonight DomainTools, launched it newest product Domain Report, which promised to change “how individuals and businesses access domain information”. “A Domain Report creates a thorough, customized report that utilizes the world’s most comprehensive database on domains to generate  an accurate, up-to-date and comprehensive snapshot of domain data”. “In a matter of minutes, a report can be created on any single domain name and compiled into one professional ... read more ...
Thu 24th January 2013
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Oversee Should Have Secured The Domain Webfest.com Before Changing The Name Of Its Conference - When Oversee.net announced a few months ago it was changing its name from Domainfest to Webfest you would have thought they would have at least secured the right to use the domain Webfest.com Afterall, Oversee.net is in the domain business and even though they have switched gears by broadening the old Domainfest into Webfest it doesn’t change the fact that Oversee is a major player in the domain business and that most of their revenue was and is still generated in the domain business Although the ... read more ...
Wed 23rd January 2013
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DomainMongrel.com Launches New Domain Appraisal Tool: Here’s Some Comparisons - If your a frequent reader of TheDomains.com you know we are not great fans on domain name appraisal tools so we might be surprised to see us announce yet another one,  DomainMongrel.com I will go through some results we got today but first this is how the developers described the appraisal tool in their press release today: “This new tool—Domain Name Estimator—offers domainers a rough indication of a domain’s worth by making use of advanced statistical analysis based on a number of factors. These ... read more ...
Tue 22nd January 2013
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IDNX/Sedo: Number Crunching Shows, Domains Sell Faster With “Charm Prices” - This is a Guest Post by Thies Lindenthal, Sedo.com’s product manager for domain pricing, and a visiting scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Center for Real Estate. Mr. Lindenthal holds a PhD in Real Estate Finance from Maastricht University, and frequently publishes on both housing markets and on Internet domain names as a form of ‘virtual land’. Dr. Lindenthal developed IDNX, the first scientific grade price index for Internet domain names. Here is the Dr. Lindenthal ... read more ...
Fri 2nd November 2012
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Marchex’s Sales Prove It: Estibot Appraisals Are Worthless - As a domain owner there is nothing more frustrating than having someone argue that the asking price of your domain is too high because its over “Estibot Appraisal” (unless your price is lower) then they hit you with the “its only worth what someone willing to pay for it” line. Estibot.com for those who don’t know is a tool that attempts to appraise domain name on a bunch of statistical information. For years I have argued that since the tool is not intuitive and only relies on statistical ... read more ...
Mon 16th July 2012
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DomainsBot Launches Domain Suggestion Developer API - DomainsBot, is just released its Domain Suggestion Developer API.”DomainsBot domain suggestion is now available as a REST API with client code available in C#, PHP or Java and via a simple-to-implement copy and paste widget (JQuery plugin). The copy-and-paste widget can be easily integrated into the html of any website; look feel can be customized using CSS. “We designed the widget to allow anyone with a basic understanding of html to implement our domain suggestion within minutes” said Francesco ... read more ...
Thu 28th June 2012
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Sedo Releases New Tool: “Domain Value Indicators”: Quantitative Analysis of Domains Listed for Sale - Sedo.com just send out a press release announcing “the launch of a new feature that provides quantitative analysis of domains listed for sale on Sedo’s marketplace.” “This new feature—Domain Value Indicators—offers buyers valuable insight into any domain’s worth by presenting a selection of core statistics on the individual domain name, and how these values compare to other domains listed at Sedo.” “These values include: ·         Global monthly searches: the number of ... read more ...
Tue 26th June 2012
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An Inside Look during a Technology Driving DomainPower’s Performance - DomainHoldings.com is releasing a press release this morning entitled “An Inside Look at the Technology Driving DomainPower’s Revenues” whcih contains some example of increased performance on monetization. Here you go: “” We released DomainPower’s Monetization Decision Engine (MDE) in January of 2012, and since then have continued to implement a series of improvements that has positioned it as one of the industry’ fastest growing parking solutions. Recently, we published a PDF that ... read more ...
Fri 20th April 2012
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New Free iPhone App Provides Domain Name Sales Data On 72,000 Domain Names - An Australian company Kikabink just launched a new iPhone® App called Domain Sales. “The app provides access to more than 72,000 historical domain and website sales, enabling people to review sales prices and value domain names.” “The Domain Sales app is a world first, providing sales data on top level domain names (TLDs) such as .com, .org and .net as well as country code top level domains (ccTLDs) such as .com, .au and .ca.” “Business owners often have difficulty finding domain names, ... read more ...
Thu 2nd February 2012
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JustDropped.com Releases App For iPhone - According to an email we just received the popular daily newsletter, JustDropped.com just released an App for the iPhone The newsletter has “well over 65,000 subscribers” and I have been using it for years as well. Here is the screenshot of the App available for free in iTunes Congrats to another South Florida domainer, Dan Rubin Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
Sun 31st July 2011
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Google Rolls Out “Page Speed Performance” See How Fast Your Site Is Loading - Google has previously stated that how fast your page load may effect your SEO rank. Now Google has put out a tool that tests your Page Performance and gives you hints and tips on how to increase it. In a post on Google’s blog by Ram Ramani, Engineering Manager, Google announced it had rolled out a new product “Page Speed performance” on Friday which test the speed of your site from various locations around the world of your choosing from a drop down menu. You can access the Google Speed Test ... read more ...
Tue 19th July 2011
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How Valuable Is The Info VeriSign Is Providing On “Domain Score”? Our Test Says Not: 80%+ of All Drop Domains Scored - There seemed to be a lot of excitement in the domain industry a couple of weeks ago when VeriSign Announced it’s Domain Score product and made it available to the public. One blogger even wrote about it calling it:  “VeriSign Releases Domain Traffic Treasure Trove to the Public”. We had a chance to play with some of this data on a registrar only provided basis in the past and were never though the Score’s were an accurate and consistent reflection of traffic. But when VeriSign put it out ... read more ...
Sun 17th July 2011
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DomainTools.com Is The Buyer Of ScreenShots.com & Looks To Be A WayBack Machine Killer - DomainTools.com is the buyer of the domain name Screenshots.com which according to DN Journal sold back in February of this year for $32,500. Screenshots.com is a perfect match for Domaintools.com which is a service which pulls histories of domain names. Screenshots.com is now directing to DomainTools.com and with the database of information DomainTools.com already has, this promises to be a WayBack Machine killer. Alexa.com’s WayBack Machine indexes how websites looked in past years and/or months. For ... read more ...
Tue 14th June 2011
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PickyDomains.com Finds An Available Name For $50 & You Can Make 40%-60% of That By Suggesting It - I was just made aware of a service for those needing a unique domain or a slogan on a low budget;  PickyDomains.com Here is how it works. You  simply deposit $50 through paypal.com This starts a creative chain reaction as  hundreds of contributors start submitting their ideas. Once a  winning suggestion is found, the contributor who came up with it  gets 40% to 60% of the fee via PayPal (anyone can become a  contributor, registration is free). The exact  payout depends on contributors rank, ... read more ...
Fri 1st October 2010
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VeriSign Launches Its “Who Was” Historical Whois Service: Is It A DomainTools.com Killer? - Verisign Launched its WhoWas Product today. When I first heard about the product it sounded like a DomainTools.com killer. But now that the product has launched, I think DomainTools.com doesn’t have much to worry about. Here’s how  Verisign’s described the service when it made its request to ICANN for product approval: (pdf) “VeriSign periodically receives requests for historical domain name registration data, including information on domain name which have been deleted. These requests are ... read more ...
Tue 24th August 2010
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BargainDomains.com Is 1st Marketplace That Is Allows Sellers To Include DNWStats.com In Their Domain Sale Listings - BargainDomains.com just added a feature that allows Sellers to add a link to a DNWStats.com report to the BargainDomains.com sale pages. For example checkout this domain for sale on BargainDomains.com, HandymanServices.com. As you can see sellers can show the monthly traffic and revenue certified by DNWStats.com when submitting their domains for sale. Already up in BargainDomains.com and should also be implemented  this week in in all the vertical marketplaces of Domaining.com including Catchy.com, ... read more ...
Tue 29th June 2010
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Afternic Launches a “Portfolio Manager” Inventory Management Tool; In Beta Sales Increased 20% - NameMedia today announced the launch of Afternic Portfolio Manager a new, easy-to-use domain distribution and inventory management tool for large portfolio owners to sell their names through the industry’s largest domain marketplace at AfternicDLS. Afternic Portfolio Manager is available immediately at no cost. “Afternic Portfolio Manager provides our customers the ability reconcile their inventory in a single request, while providing instantaneous add, edit, and remove domain functionality,” ... read more ...
Mon 24th May 2010
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A Few New Cool Apps For Domains - A few new cool apps are out for domainers on the Apple iTunes store so they will work with the iPhone and iPad. SmartNames.com has a new app that you can check your stats on your parked domains. The SmartNames App is free and can be downloaded here. Cirtex Corp released its new Webmaster Tools application, providing webmasters worldwide with core website management functionality on their mobile device. The new application, which is available free of charge from the Apple iTunes Store, allows users ... read more ...
Thu 13th May 2010
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Domaining.com Launches “Closing Auctions” Service - Domaining.com today launched a new “Closing Auctions” list which tracks all the public auctions on various platforms, on domains closing in the next 24 hours. Currently the service, which can be found on domaining.com main page under the  “Closing Auctions” Tab, tracks the auctions from: Afternic.com, BargainDomains.com, Sedo.com, GoDaddy.com and Latonas.com  and in the next day or two, Domaining.com will be adding AuctionPus.com and in the next week or two, SnapNames.com The list not only ... read more ...
Wed 16th December 2009
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WordStream Releases More New FREE Keyword Tools Today - Back in September we wrote about a FREE keyword tool by the company WordStream. Today the company announced the roll out of 2 more FREE keyword search tools: The Keyword Niche Finder and The Free Keyword Grouper: The Keyword Niche Finder – Instantly identify and target the most profitable keyword niches The Keyword Grouper- Group and organize vast lists of keywords into actionable keyword groups to turn into ad groups or website content According to the company the Free Keyword Grouper lets marketers ... read more ...
Tue 24th November 2009
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Wordoid.com, A New FREE Domain Tool Helps You Find Domains That Sound Like… - We are all familiar with those Web 2.0 names, Twitter, Flickr, Joost,  just to name a few and now we have found a new online tool, that lets you find these kind of domains. Wordoid.com, spits out words that kind of sound cool, or sounds like another word or contains a keyword you input. You can ask for results using 4 languages English, Spanish, French and Italian. The site describes itself as: “”Wordoids are made-up words. They look nice and feel great. They are good for naming things Naming ... read more ...
Tue 21st July 2009
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NSI Launches Whois App For iPhone, But It’s Fails To Impress, Compared To Existing Whois Apps - Network Solutions announced today that its launched a its free whois app for the iphone. First the official announcement then my comments and comparison other free whois apps currently available “””The app developed by Network Solutions allows iPhone users to use the company’s WHOIS database search tool from anywhere their iPhones receive service. The application will be particularly useful to Web designers, developers, and network engineers on the go. “””Available now at the iTunes® ... read more ...
Sun 18th January 2009
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DNFame.com Updated/Improved - We wrote a post back in October,  citing this free cool tool we found, DNFAME.com, which uses a lot of data to determine how “famous” a particular site or domain is. Since then, the site was purchase, and now totally reconfigured and relaunched. According to the designer DNFAME.com is “the most comprehensive aggregator of site and domain data”. “With 64 metrics, we feel we are quite close but will continue to work and improve.” “” I’m proud to offer it up for comment, requests, ... read more ...
Tue 9th December 2008
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First iPhone Domain Registration App Released - I Want My Name, a domain registration and management platform from ideegeo Group LTD, released the first iPhone application which allows domain registration on the go. The iWantMyName DomainApp is a free search and registration tool for domain names in over 80 extensions. Its core features are: - Search for domain availability for the most popular top-level domains - Instant domain registration in a few seconds - Bookmark search results - Whois information lookup After installing the tool from Apple’s ... read more ...