Top 10 Tips To Keep Your Domains Safe From Thieves and Hijackers For more than 14 years I’ve had a privilege of working in the Information Security industry, protecting various companies from fraud, damage to their reputation and their assets. A domain name is just another asset. So what steps can you take to protect it?
1. Turn on transfer / lock protection at your registrar. Companies such...
Domainer Income - 5/7/2008 5:19:23 PM
The Reality Of Expired Domain Names As domaining increases in popularity, many beginners get disillusioned, confused and often misled. Why? They don’t understand “expired domain names”.
There are countless sites on the Internet that provide lists of domain names that have already expired. For the beginners reading this, a domain name goes through a dr...
Domainer Income - 5/6/2008 4:46:35 AM
Premium names up for auction at Traffic East It’s always interesting to see some of the generic names that pop-up at auction from time to time.
I just received an email from Snapnames regarding their TRAFFIC East event on May 20-23 in Orlando.
Some of the names that will go to auction are: Israel.com, Pay.com, Jackpot.com, Athlete.com and Hoodia.com. I’d love to get...
Domainer Income - 4/29/2008 11:38:10 PM
Wanted: Consultant To Evaluate The ICANN Board of Directors? ICANN is seeking to appoint an independent consultant to undertake a review of the ICANN Board. The successful applicant would need to determine “whether the Board is fulfilling its purpose in the ICANN structure; and (ii) if so, whether any change in structure or operations is desirable to improve its effectiveness.”
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Domainer Income - 4/23/2008 6:09:17 PM
New TLD - Its All About .Me Ok - we got past .mobi, .asia and now its .me! That’s right - the country of Montenegro is cashing in. In case you didn’t know Serbia and Montenegro became new countries, so ICANN rubber stamped the individual country codes .rs and .me and IANA set them up with their nameservers.
The joint venture company SHARETHIS.addEnt...
Domainer Income - 4/23/2008 7:44:16 AM
Still Plenty Of Fish In The Sea A few weeks ago I was having a conversation with a group of domainers, when someone asked the group if anyone owned a “dictionary word” domain. Everyone looked at each other and paused. I kind of got the feeling that nobody wanted to say anything. So, I did - yes of course! But then someone SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "St...
Domainer Income - 4/23/2008 1:09:34 AM
When Is A Drop, Not A Drop? The answer: Whenever the registrar says its not! A couple of really interesting things happened over this past week.
1. The General Manager of the Tucows Domain Portfolio (Bill Sweetman) allegedly said “not all of the expired names end up in the Tucows auction. Some names are renewed by the original registrant before they reach...
Domainer Income - 4/21/2008 10:03:41 AM
.com.au - What Do The auDA Changes Mean? About auDA
For those that don’t know, auDA is a government endorsed entity that was formed in 2000, so administer the .au domain space.
To date, auDA has resisted attempts to open up the .com.au namespace so that anyone can register a domain name. In fact, their policies are just plain prehistoric. Around December 2007, auDA &#...
Domainer Income - 4/20/2008 1:47:00 AM
The All New Singing Dancing Alexa Alexa have announced “more sources”, “better rankings” and “improved methodology”. If your website ranked on Alexa before, then you may have noticed that its changed.
Many people thought that Alexa ratings were flawed because their data was based on information from a toolbar and only a small porti...
Domainer Income - 4/18/2008 9:14:36 PM
What Does Google Benchmarking Mean For Domainers? That depends on what Google does with the data. Think about this scenario:
“Bob” is a GMail user and uses the Google search engine. Google knows:
What Bob is searching on via a cookie on his computer. (if he types a url that doesn’t exist into the Google toolbar, that URL gets sent to Google).
What domain names SHA...
Domainer Income - 4/12/2008 11:30:25 AM
Google Targets Alexa Google has just rolled out a “Optional Benchmarking Feature” in Google Analytics. This allows website owners to share data with Google.
Why share your data with Google? Well if you don’t share, then Google says that you you will miss out on “greater insight and flexibility” in new services and features s...
Domainer Income - 4/11/2008 6:36:08 PM
Sedo Promotes CJ7 Early this morning I received an email from Sedo customer support, promoting .Asia domain names.
Sedo listed www.cj7.asia and www.cj7cares.asia as “successful” examples, with cj7cares.asia receiving more than 500,000 users “within a few days of the campaign”. I’d never heard of CJ7 before… so when ...
Domainer Income - 3/19/2008 2:16:24 PM
.Asia - The Rest Get To Go To Auction Depending on your viewpoint, I was either “entitled”, one of the lucky ones or wasted $130 on a .asia. Yes about a month ago I was allocated prosperity.asia. No, I didn’t have to go to auction because I already had the company name and registered the .asia as a part of the Sunrise 3 round.
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Domainer Income - 3/18/2008 5:56:52 AM
What The Future Holds For Domainers The domaining industry is still in its infancy. With that, comes a variety of issues that impact upon private domainers, domaining companies and those that feed from the industry. Some of the issues that come to mind include:
Lack of understanding of the industry amongst the media and the general public.
Introduction of legislation...
