Domain Renewals This Month After letting so many domain names expire or having sold so many off cheaply, today I was faced with deciding which to prune and which to keep. Given the fact that most are no longer suitable for my core business, I let 75% of the renewal list go and kept those listed below – yes, This content was taken from David Carter's blo...
David Carter - Sunday, May 5, 2013 - 7:29
Delete. Almost Do you ever have one of those days where you just want to delete everything you’ve ever done online? This morning, I logged in to this blog with one intention, to delete it. The reason was simply that there’s little to comment on these days and those who might have needed some guidance in certain This content was taken f...
David Carter - Tuesday, April 30, 2013 - 3:2
Not Another Survey? The ease of email and the Internet means that just about every retailer you visit now asks for a brief customer satisfaction survey from you, sometimes even after just a visit to their premises. It’s driving me mad and has done for a while now. After getting my car serviced, I was called by the This content was taken from Davi...
David Carter - Saturday, April 27, 2013 - 13:26
Decluttering The Internet It’s been a couple of years since I made a conscious decision to move away from domain names and more importantly, to stop making the impulse purchases. Since then, I must have let a few hundred go – either selling them or in many cases, simply letting them expire. Now to some in the domain This content was taken from Da...
David Carter - Sunday, April 21, 2013 - 7:1
NamesBeyond.com The Saga Continues A name I caught in a drop last year was transferred to NamesBeyond as I described in an earlier post. It was frustrating that because of this (which I had no control over), I was unable to move the name in question to my preferred registrar for a period of 6 weeks. I duly waited and This content was taken from David Carter's blog at...
David Carter - Tuesday, April 16, 2013 - 9:34
Pool.com Last year I caught a domain via Pool.com and as usual, ICANN rules wouldn’t allow a transfer out of the existing registrar for 60 days. Thinking I’d remember to try a transfer after this time, I forgot of course and last week received an email from another registrar, Namesbeyond.com, saying that ICANN had moved all This ...
David Carter - Wednesday, January 23, 2013 - 14:4
Michael Needs A New Job! This is my son Michael’s video CV This content was taken from David Carter's blog at on March 18, 2013 at 12:54 pm. David Carter is a UK based Internet Marketing expert and can be contacted directly through his blog. Read More http://www.david-carter.com
David Carter - Wednesday, January 9, 2013 - 6:7
Looking Forward to Video Video will feature highly in all of my sites during 2013. In my last post, I mentioned PresenterMedia.com as being perhaps the best service I have ever come across online. What this does for Powerpoint presentations is amazing for the money and it’s great value if you happen to do a lot of presentations, which This content was...
David Carter - Friday, December 28, 2012 - 12:42
An Almost Irresistible Offer It’s been a while since I received a domain offer on a name that I don’t publicise, but this week I was contacted out of the blue by somebody sharing my initials. Why contact me? Well, one of my names is a three-letter .co.uk which also happen to be my initials – and hence the This content was taken from David Car...
David Carter - Wednesday, December 12, 2012 - 18:9
The Best Site I’ve Ever Found In recent years (and not so distant) I have downloaded tons of software and have subscribed to tons of sites offering the latest, greatest thing – most of which have disappointed. Today though, I found something that is so useful that I have to share it – and no, it’s not an affiliate link. It’s This content ...
David Carter - Tuesday, December 11, 2012 - 12:32
Thanks For Listening Nominet No, that’s not a sarcastic headline. Today they returned my telephone call and listened to the comments I made – for more than 20 minutes. That’s better than most commercial organisations I could mention. Yes, I brought up each and every point I’ve made on this blog during the past few days and each point Thi...
David Carter - Wednesday, November 7, 2012 - 10:28
Never Mind The Consultation – Let’s Party! For the record, I think Nominet’s proposals to introduce a new .uk TLD is ill conceived and pubishes the very people who have been paying into Nominet’s already swelling coffers for many years. I also belive that Nominet to date, has done a pretty good job in managing the UK domain space and in general This content was t...
David Carter - Wednesday, November 7, 2012 - 3:17
Nominet Open Day – Thursday 8 November Are you attending the Nominet “Open House” on Thursday? Visit: to register and attend. This from the Nominet page: If you have questions about a specific proposal in the consultation you are welcome to drop in to our Open House in London on Thursday 8 November 2012. Nominet staff who can discuss the different This conte...
David Carter - Tuesday, November 6, 2012 - 5:58
.uk And The Small Business Dilemma My small business has survived a double-dip recession. My landlord still requires his rent for the premises quarterly in advance. My Heating and lighting costs have just increased by 11% My business rates are crippling and now I have to pay extra for private waste collection. But that’s just part of the cost of running This content ...
David Carter - Tuesday, November 6, 2012 - 3:57
Nominet To Introduce Reverse Hijacker’s Charter Many of the UK based domainers I know are pretty outraged by Nominet’s proposals to introduce the .uk extension. It’s not surprising. Imagine holding even a modest of portfolio of premium, one-word generic names – let’s say 20 for arguments sake. Every two years at present, those names have to be renewed at a ...
David Carter - Monday, November 5, 2012 - 3:43
Nominet Monopoly Threatens UK Business Have you voiced your opinion at Nominet regarding their planned introduction of the .uk TLD, which will effectively make .co.uk redundant? I completed the online form a few weeks ago. If you haven’t NOW is the time to do it. Visit the Nominet consultation page at: and complete the online consultation document at This content w...
David Carter - Saturday, November 3, 2012 - 9:15
Domain Development Or A Postcard In The Window? I was asked this week to take part in Robbie Ferguson’s blog, which I was pleased to do. It was interesting to see the questions, which were the same set asked of others in the domain space, which got me thinking about domains and development and in fact, whether I’d actually got things right or This content was taken fr...
David Carter - Friday, October 12, 2012 - 4:15
A Trick To Foil Content Scrapers Automated content scrapers are now commonly used by people desperate to increase their own search engine rankings. The users of this type of black-hat software simply type in their chosen key phrase and the software crawls the top ten or so sites for the phrase and copies the content which is then spun and presented This content was...
David Carter - Tuesday, October 2, 2012 - 4:1
A Lesson In Security It happens to us all sooner or later, a malicious attack on our web server that creates a bit of havoc, if not for the webmaster, then potentially for users. Now I have written in the past about security, especially with WordPress, since there are a number of excellent plugins that will prevent unauthorised attacks. This content was...
David Carter - Wednesday, August 15, 2012 - 5:31
More Trust, More Credibility After posting about trust and credibility yesterday, I received a call The UK’s Environment Agency asking my advice about contaminated, mixed asbestos waste disposal. This was interesting for two reasons. 1) The Environment Agency sets the rules on these kinds of thing 2) They saw my site as the authority on the subject So I T...
