Is Your Website .mobi ready? Take This Test And Find Out Researchers at IDC say that 1.3 billion people will connect to the Internet via mobile phones by 2008. Is your website .mobi ready?To see your site the same way that millions of mobile phone users do, there are a few tools available for domainers that will provide an analysis of how your web content is likely to function on a mobile...
Logistik Labs - 5/7/2008 11:50:00 AM
New Domaining Tool: Domize.com In my never ending search to bring readers the newest domaining tools to hit the scene, take a second and familiarize yourself with Domize.com.At first glance, Domize looks like your regular Ajax instant domain search tool but one thing that sets it apart is the "trail" of results that are instantly displayed as you type. Pretty coo...
Logistik Labs - 4/30/2008 2:25:00 AM
How To Search Google Using A Specific Domain Extension This post is for all the domain newbies out there.Here's a simple little trick you can use to utilize Google and only search for keyword results using a specific domain extension such as .tv, .asia, .mobi and such.First, get to the Google Homepage and click on "Advanced Search" to the right of the search bar.Next, find the area that ...
Logistik Labs - 4/29/2008 10:13:00 PM
Go Daddy Declares April 29th WebMasters' Day "If newspaper carriers, cartoonists, doctors and hairstylists all have their own day, it's time for Webmasters to receive the same recognition. That's why, to honor the professionals responsible for the content on Web sites across the world, GoDaddy.com is declaring April 29 Webmasters' Day."Good karma on Go Daddy's part by honoring ...
Logistik Labs - 4/16/2008 4:54:00 PM
School of the Unethical: Renting .edu Blog Space Oh how the domain industry needs a hero.It is now being reported that LinkAdage and the Pickering Institue have teamed up to open up a blackhole of unscrupulous actions by offering anyone blog space for rent...on an .edu domain. This in effect allows ANY average-joe-schmo to post their blogs under a .edu sub-domain without actually ...
Logistik Labs - 4/16/2008 1:23:00 PM
What Kind of Domainer Are You? Are you an Investor? What about a Flipper? You might be a Monetizer? Found a fun post over at Media Wizard's blog that divides domainers into 7 general categories according to how they proceed with a domain after purchase. The categories are:- The Investor- The Flipper- The Developer- The Builder- The Monetizer- The Broker- and The...
Logistik Labs - 4/10/2008 12:25:00 PM
Walt Disney Goes On Domain Buying Spree At a New York press conference today, Disney-Pixar Films unveiled their highly-anticipated upcoming lineup of 10 new animated feature films to be released through 2012.Over the past 30 days, Walt Disney-Pixar Films has began to register a ton of new (and interesting) domain names not only for these specific future planned films, but ...
Logistik Labs - 4/9/2008 1:21:00 PM
Domain Tool of the Week: Domain Idea Box Over at TiaWood.com, Tia has created a brand new domaining tool named the Domain Idea Box that helps domainers generate domain name ideas from a simple keyword or phrase search while also allowing unique data type parameters to be set . It's free and I'm already addicted. The look is clean, simple, fast, powerful and straight-forwar...
Logistik Labs - 4/7/2008 12:58:00 PM
Minnesota Twins Purchase New Domain Names For Brand New Stadium Some speculation has begun regarding the proposed new name for the Minnesota Twins baseball team's brand new $544.4 million, 40,000 seat stadium set to open in Spring 2010. Recent purchases of some domains by the Twins, such as LandOLakesPark.com and LandOLakesField.com have baseball fans everywhere suggesting that the Minnesota-base...
Logistik Labs - 4/4/2008 1:34:00 PM
Google's New Search Tool Causes Controversy Among Businesses Google has recently unveiled a new web search engine platform named, Suggest Labs, that has is causing a lot of negative chatter among business and company owners that rely on web exposure to drive traffic to their website. Let's take a second and review exactly how Google's new search tool works and is why domainers need to be aware...
Logistik Labs - 4/2/2008 12:37:00 PM
13 Ways To Improve Your Domain Trend Spotting Searching for the newest global trends is a relentless and time consuming task. All over the world, each minute of the day, new trends are emerging that unsuspecting consumers will be influenced by because of their of their "newness or freshness" and flock to find out more information about that certain product/service or fad. As a...
Logistik Labs - 4/1/2008 2:05:00 PM
The Evolution of Go Daddy (in pictures) Go Daddy, the Scottsdale, Arizona based company, is by far the world's most popular domain name registrar dominating all other ICANN-accredited registrars due to competitive pricing and shrewd and sometime controversial publicity methods. Go Daddy was originally named Jomax Technologies, and it wasn't until late 1999 that it became a...
Logistik Labs - 3/28/2008 2:17:00 PM
GoDaddy Promo Code Not Required Want to know how to save $2 to $3 off Go Daddy instantly without any coupons or promotion codes... every time?Check out this quick short video courtesy of JackBorn.com explaining a couple of tips that anyone registering a domain name at Go Daddy should be aware of . Watch the video. Save a few bucks.
Logistik Labs - 3/28/2008 1:24:00 PM
New Go Daddy Girl: Elliot Spitzer's Escort? Everyone knows that Go Daddy's CEO Bob Parsons sure loves controversy.Is it any surprise that Elliot Spitzer's hooker/escort is a potential new Go Daddy girl?Check out the video blog here and find out.
Logistik Labs - 3/27/2008 5:30:00 PM
Japanese Ads Downplay URLs, Encourage Searches There seems to be a new advertising trend emerging in Japan that domainers need to be aware of. Marketing companies of some major corporations are beginning to encourage potential customers to "search" for their company name and products instead of directing them to type in a specific URL website name. Is SEO ultimately going to tru...
Logistik Labs - 3/26/2008 2:31:00 PM
Selling Domain Names on Ebay = Risk Yesterday, I had some time to spare so I decided to check out the domain name auctions going on over at Ebay. I must admit, it has been some time since I last checked out that marketplace since I vowed awhile back not to sell/buy any domains there due to escalating scams and such. While searching, I noticed a few things that haven't...
Logistik Labs - 3/19/2008 12:17:00 PM
Domain Tool of the Week: Nameish Stop wasting time thinking of domain names for your project!Ever racked your brains trying to come up with a killer name for a forum, project, business, blog or idea? Sure, we all have. What if I told you there's a tool out there that aims to simplify that process by offering you a quick and easy way to find a suitable name that rep...
Logistik Labs - 3/18/2008 11:58:00 PM
GoDaddy won't register domain names with 'godaddy' in them Something may be up over at Go Daddy. There's a forum post floating around the anti-Go Daddy site, No Dadddy, that explains any domainer trying to register a domain name with "godaddy" in it will get a message that says "unavailable" -- even if it has offensive or gibberish words in it. I tried it out and confirmed the same thing. A...
Logistik Labs - 3/12/2008 6:29:00 PM
Domain Tool of the Week: Impulse Domain Lookup Tool This Domain Tool of the Week has simply blown me away.Courtesy of The Mad Hat, the domain industry will flip over this Firefox extension that makes it super easy to lookup domain names. The extension lets you perform one click domain searches at your registrar of choice using the selected text in your browser window. Let me repeat th...
Logistik Labs - 3/12/2008 11:52:00 AM
Rupert Murdoch Outfoxed Over Domain Name Dispute Found this on Wired about an hour ago.The World Intellectual Property Organization is concluding that a Florida businessman is the rightful owner to foxbusinessnetwork.com. Still, WIPO said it was "suspicious" that the name was registered the same day the Rupert Murdoch-owned network announced February 2007 it was launching a busines...
Logistik Labs - 3/10/2008 5:02:00 PM
No Better Time To Be A Domainer With all the doom and gloom being talked about the domain industry over the past few months I thought it would be nice to throw some positive light on today's overall domain marketplace situation.The negativity about the upcoming Snowe Bill, the drama over the resurfacing of an infamous domain appraisal scam, and the talk about the I...
Logistik Labs - 3/7/2008 2:31:00 PM
Mix.com - The Worst Usage of a Good Domain Name Ever Found this humorous article over at Mashable about how the owner of the domain name: Mix.com is not using this short, premium, generic and brandable domain name even remotely close to it's fullest potential.(sample excerpt)"The site has a photo of a girl in a bunny costume, holding a tray, with two fire extinguishers in the backgroun...
Logistik Labs - 3/7/2008 1:01:00 PM
Domain Backwording: The Journey Continues Since my first post on a new emerging domain trend called Backwording, I have, with help from other intrigued domainers, uncovered a little more interesting information, facts and tidbits about this topic. The last 5 days have been very exciting. Here's what we've found:Things we've found out since the last post:-- In early 2001, an ...
Logistik Labs - 3/4/2008 1:19:00 PM
Is 2008 The Year Of The .mobi? - dotMOBI CEO Trey HarvinThe video, filmed by Lord Brar of DNForum and DomainingTips.com, is an encouraging interview for all domainers who have invested in the .mobi extension. Trey Harvin, CEO of dotMobi, explains that 2008 will be a breakout year for .mobi due to a focused effort to invest in building the global awareness and mas...
Logistik Labs - 3/3/2008 1:54:00 AM
Next Hot Domaining Trend: Backwording About 3 months ago, I had the privilege of sitting around with a few fellow domainers to discuss the possible upcoming domain trends in store for 2008 and beyond. The conversation covered all aspects of domaining which include: the future of domain parking, the evolving of security for reverse domain hijacking and the explosion of fr...
