Domain Education: UDRP
A quick clarification on what UDRP really means. The term is thrown around domain chat boards and blogs often enough that most people have an good implied understanding, but it cannot hurt for every domainer to take a little lesson for their business every once in a while.
While I am not a lawyer, nor have
Green Taxi - 4/28/2008 4:02:47 PM
Country Code Map This is a useful map for country codes TLD’s. Every IDN domainer should have one. The domains are sized by population (except for India and China having to be sized down) and mapped by location.
You can order a poster here. Thank you Kevin Kelly for the heads up on this one.
Green Taxi - 4/21/2008 5:50:18 PM
Korean Case for IDNs and Generics
I would like to spell out a clear example of a case for both IDN domains and the international language of generic domains.
In Korea this week, I have taken notice to most URL’s listed on print ads (billboards and magazines primarily). IDN’s have yet to proliferate through Korea. I have not yet seen an ad with
Green Taxi - 4/16/2008 10:23:51 AM
Electron’s Headline Purchase of Storage.com “Electron Interactive, Inc. is announcing today that it has completed the acquisition of the Internet domain name Storage.com in the first of a series of major domains acquisitions the Internet firm is planning to make. The exact terms of the transaction are not being disclosed, however, it is reported to be one of the largest ...
Green Taxi - 4/12/2008 1:13:26 PM
The World’s Worst Wind Farm
Urban Dirt writes of a wind farm in Tsukuba in “Offical: the world’s worst wind farm“. This is a classic story of Japan entering the new age of green and embarrassingly fumbling with the new technology, only to let their Japanese pride embarrass themselves even more. I do not mean to belittle the Japanese in any ...
Green Taxi - 4/9/2008 5:36:53 PM
Flood of Domain Supply Changing Dynamics of Market
I want to comment on the recent flood of domain names to the market. I do not have any statistics to justify the increase in domains for sale or sold, but the sentiment is surely there.
Elliot has acknowledged an increase in pace for selling his domains as he finances larger ventures.
Rick Latona has been selling
Green Taxi - 4/8/2008 7:48:09 PM
Blog Education: Site Load Time
I have always been a fan of maps and love to test my internal compass. I suppose this goes along with my love of travel as well. Because of this, I’ve always tried to implement maps into my blog in some way. On my Maps page, I have a tool that shows where all GreenTaxi visitors
Green Taxi - 4/4/2008 2:57:12 PM
I am the April Fool I’ll be honest I am no genius when it comes to imagination for pranks. I spent all day yesterday researching pranks only to realize that, based on my personality, its probably best if I just stick to being on the receiving end of any April Fools jokes.
Thus, not only am I not going to try
The Argument For IDN’s
Sahar points out an interesting article regarding Japanese advertisements for web sites. The print ads actually show a search box with the web site as the search term.
Search is the most popular form of website navigation in Japan and other non-ASCII domain markets. However, it is not ideal, because at any time the search rules
Green Taxi - 3/27/2008 4:01:22 AM
Case Shiller Results The January results are out for the home price performance over the last year. Not only was the January Year-on-Year number of -10.7% a record for yearly decline, but it was also worse than expectations.
I sorted the performance by city:
Green Taxi - 3/26/2008 3:25:20 PM
How To Market Green Alliance for Climate Protection is about to launch the most ambitious US marketing campaign ever on climate change, costing more than $100 million a year for three years, according to “‘Green’ bandwagon is getting a big push” by the USA Today. Marketing to combat climate change is a difficult task mainly beca...
Green Taxi - 3/25/2008 4:39:46 PM
Bailout Bubble Is it possible that by bailing out the country and more specifically the US economy often enough, that the United States government is creating a bailout bubble that could eventually lead to an even uglier country-wide economic crash than is really necessary?
Some call it socialism. Others are quick to point out the differences betwe...
Green Taxi - 3/24/2008 10:08:34 PM
Encyclopedia of Life
Kevin Kelly writes about a project of his that began many years ago and is slowly taking shape in his article, “A Web Page For Every Species“. This is extremely interesting as it is the basis for a lot of growth in terms of understanding life on Earth.
“If we discovered life on another planet, the
Green Taxi - 3/24/2008 12:13:00 AM
Careful Where You Click This is not for domainers. This is for anyone who uses the Internet. These days, that means everyone. Read this and consider it a warning to be careful where and how you surf.
You need to read this story from TheDomains.com called “Click on a Link, Go to Jail“, commenting on a recent CNET article. Basically, a
Green Taxi - 3/21/2008 10:57:22 PM
Green Taxi Tip of the Week CONSERVATION: Drive less quickly and less aggressively. Every five miles per hour above 60 mph costs you an additional 15 cents per gallon. Rapid acceleration and braking also wastes gas.
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Green Taxi - 3/21/2008 9:18:47 PM
Domaining is Small Business
There is a lot of discussion going on regarding the Snowe Bill. This legislation is proposed to try to fight Phishingon the Internet, primarily via email, but poses a lot of risk for domainers. In essence, it presents the right for businesses or governments to take domains (from domain owners) that are not trademarked to them, yet...
Green Taxi - 3/20/2008 9:07:35 PM
Big Bank Trouble In case you have been living on the moon, Bear Stearns as a company has basically collapsed. They will be sold to JP Morgan for $2 per share, which values the company at roughly $235 million, compared to the $20 billion dollar company it was roughly a year ago. The scary part is that this
Green Taxi - 3/17/2008 6:13:19 PM
Comments are a Reflection of a Blog
Shaun sends a very interesting WSJ article called “Why We’re Powerless To Resist Grazing On Endless Web Data“. It covers the topic of why blog comments can be so addicting and how the endless amount of information on the Internet actually excites our mind in different ways, not just educates it.
It is entirely tru...
Green Taxi - 3/16/2008 2:26:36 PM
Domain Education: Register Business Domains Yourself If you have a developer build a website for your business, make sure the domain of the website is registered to your company. Masterful Marketing points out the risk that businesses take when letting the developer register the domain in their name (yet for you). Your domain name is your business asset. Do not let
Green Taxi - 3/15/2008 5:46:12 PM
The Real Credit Crisis
While the credit problems in the market today are generally referring to the financial credit markets, there is a different sort of credit problem developing on a micro level. It has all started because of the housing market downfall, but the essence of the situation is this: A foreclosure is wiped clean from your credit
Green Taxi - 3/12/2008 6:09:57 PM
Fund.com Sells for $10 million
As pointed out by Elliot and CNN, the domain Fund.com was sold for $9,999,950 in an all-cash transaction that is believed to be the largest ever PUBLIC purchase of a domain. While domains with businesses behind them have sold for more, this tops the sale of Porn.com for $9.5 million in 2007. According to the Whois,
Green Taxi - 3/11/2008 10:41:15 PM
Domain Education: Track Your Renewal Dates
Almost every registrar has some sort of reminder service, where they will email you in advance of your domains expiring. Do not trust them. Track the expiry dates of your domains on your own, with an Excel sheet or other software tool, and make sure you renew roughly 2-4 weeks in advance to prevent any issues around
Green Taxi - 3/11/2008 3:53:49 PM
Startup Tips
Considering everyone in the domain or hedge fund world is essentially working with startups or running startups, I found this articleon Startup Tips very helpful. Here are my favorites:
2. Buy second monitors for everyone, they will save at least 30 minutes a day, which is 100 hours a year… which is at least $2,000 a
Green Taxi - 3/10/2008 5:33:03 PM
Online Ad Placement Slightly off-topic, I came across a random site, Oddee.com, which basically covers random oddities of our world.
One of the pages is called “15 Unfortunately Placed Ads“, and after laughing through it I realized that 7 of the 15 poorly placed ads were Internet ads. This is a strange side-effect of keyword targeted ads, s...
