Flying to DomainFest Once again I find myself in the Melbourne, Australia Qantas club about to board QF93 to LA and DomainFest. It's getting to be a bit of a strange feeling as I greet some of my now good friends at the reception desk and they say comments like, "It's good to see you again Michael". Hmmmmm......maybe I've been flying a little too much!
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Michael Gilmour - Wednesday, January 25, 2012 - 18:32
Interview on Domain Sherpa Michael Cyger recently interviewed me for his fantastic videoblog site domainsherpa.com. During the interview I discuss what it means to optimise domains, my thoughts on the industry and how domain owners can improve their revenue line.
I would like to thank Michael at DomainSherpa for the interview and wish him all the best in helpi...
Michael Gilmour - Monday, January 23, 2012 - 22:34
Domain Optimisation - Part 1 Earlier today I was interviewed by Michael Cryger for Domainsherpa.com and he asked a number of questions that caused me to reflect on my domaining journey and in particular what it means to extract the maximum amount of revenue from your own domains.
The first thing that I would like to say about Domain revenue optimisation is that ...
Michael Gilmour - Friday, January 13, 2012 - 3:6
Saturday Musings - Being a Servant I was sitting at my desk today and for some reason turned on Facebook and read a tremendously inspiring message and a marriage that went wrong then tragically right. It caused me to reflect on what my own marriage is all about and why is it that my wife is my best friend as well as my lover.
I remember a number of years ago I went do...
Michael Gilmour - Saturday, November 5, 2011 - 4:38
Domain Portfolio Management While at TRAFFIC I talked to a lot of domain owners and was amazed at the number that either: 1. Have given up on traffic revenues for their domains. 2. Manage their domains via spreadsheet.
Over the last couple of years the pay per click market has declined rapidly and all during this time I’ve be...
Michael Gilmour - Sunday, October 30, 2011 - 20:39
Yahoo’s not dead….just confused Many people that I’ve spoken with at the recent TRAFFIC conference have suggested that Yahoo is dead and on its way to being buried. I’m a numbers guy and the numbers tell me that this is a long way from the truth. In my opinion the problems at Yahoo are twofold:
1. Yahoo is not able to make decisions. 2. ...
Michael Gilmour - Thursday, October 27, 2011 - 0:38
TRAFFIC - Oct 2011 After a 33 hour plus journey I managed to arrive home from TRAFFIC! Hooray! If you’ve never suffered from jetlag then I’m jealous. I love my home in Australia but I just wished it was a little closer to the rest of the world. Jetlag was compounded by our flights being delayed in Miami and LAX then we were routed via Sydney due to bad...
Michael Gilmour - Monday, October 24, 2011 - 18:1
On the road again Once again I find myself in the Qantas club at Melbourne airport waiting for good old QF93 to Los Angeles. Although the 15 hours of flying is a pain in the neck (quite literally) I must admit that I'm really excited about this trip.
After a few meetings in LA both the ParkLogic operations manager (Laci Nagy) and I are heading to Denv...
Michael Gilmour - Saturday, October 8, 2011 - 18:59
To Arb or not to Arb? This has been the question that has plagued many domain owners for years and years. Should they enter the world of arbitrage or not? Put simply arbitrage or Arb is buying cheap traffic and selling it for a premium. Sounds simple and deliciously lucrative but there are HUGE risks.
So why is this practice hurting the domain industry an...
Michael Gilmour - Tuesday, September 27, 2011 - 12:5
Death Threats via a DDOS Attack Hi all,
Some of you may or may not be aware that for the last 10 days my blog, Whizzbangsblog.com, has been down due to a consistent DDOS attack. The reason for the attack was directly due to my articles on people that are committing fraud in the domain industry by pumping bad traffic through domains, purchasing parking accounts and ...
Michael Gilmour - Wednesday, September 7, 2011 - 11:10
Message from a Scumbag During the last ten days whizzbangsblog.com has been up and down more times than a yoyo in a kids school ground. This was due to being severely hampered by continuous DDOS assaults on my poor little personal server. Sure, the server did its best to respond to the 10,000+ requests per second but even computers have to say enough is en...
Michael Gilmour - Sunday, September 4, 2011 - 19:39
Taking a DDOS for the Industry Over the years I’ve always endeavoured to be up front about a multitude of issues in our industry. I love domains, Domaining and I have the privilege of calling a great number of domainers friends, colleagues and some are business partners. I recently wrote a number of articles on the behaviour of a number of “scumbags” in the industry that continu...
Michael Gilmour - Thursday, August 25, 2011 - 21:4
Sunday Musings – Chasing the Revenue Since I’ve been in the domain industry I’ve been amazed by the number of people that either send all of their traffic to a single monetisation source (eg. parking company), try to manually optimise their traffic via a spreadsheet or even build their own domains database. Over the last 4 years I’ve been optimising hundreds of thousand...
Michael Gilmour - Sunday, August 21, 2011 - 19:17
Dell is the most frustrating company in the world I've always liked Dell products but their customer service is terrible!
Here's my story.......
1. I order 2 laptops. The fact that I didn't order within a predetermined period of time because I had to find out some information meant that I had to re-enter all the information a second time. Why not tell people there is a time limit? G...
Michael Gilmour - Tuesday, August 16, 2011 - 23:32
Saturday Musings – So what scam’s next? A friend of mine received the following email the other day and it clearly offers BIG dollars for accounts in a number of parking companies. You'll notice that even my own company, ParkLogic made this hit parade! For those of you that are congratulating yourselves because you are not on the list…..don’t worry your name’s on other ema...
Michael Gilmour - Friday, August 12, 2011 - 3:22
DNForum & ParkLogic Form Strategic Partnership
We are pleased to announce the Strategic Partnership between DNForum and ParkLogic.
Through the partnership, DNForum will now be offering members its own branded domain management and monetization platform which takes advantage of the highly advanced ParkLogic systems. The ParkLogic platform is the result of many years of developmen...
Michael Gilmour - Wednesday, August 10, 2011 - 9:2
TRAFFIC Award Nominations It's coming up to that time of year where the TRAFFIC domain conference will be on and nominations for the various awards categories is requested by Rick and Howard. Here are the award categories:
Best New Monetizing Solution Best Overall Domain Solution The "We Get It" Award Developer of the Year Best Domain Blog Sponsor of the Year...
Michael Gilmour - Tuesday, August 2, 2011 - 11:58
Google and Yahoo - stopping fraud! I’ve never been one to mince my words but when I speak to other parking companies we are all seeing a flood of fraudulent activity over the last couple of months. The problem is that ultimately it largely ends up at Google or Yahoo’s doorstep to deal with……after all they are the ones that have to deal with the advertisers.
What adver...
Michael Gilmour - Friday, July 29, 2011 - 0:9
Google and Yahoo - stopping fraud! I’ve never been one to mince my words but when I speak to other parking companies we are all seeing a flood of fraudulent activity over the last couple of months. The problem is that ultimately it largely ends up at Google or Yahoo’s doorstep to deal with……after all they are the ones that have to deal with the advertisers.
What adver...
Michael Gilmour - Friday, July 29, 2011 - 0:9
Victor Pitts Starts Blogging I just received an email from Victor Pitts who is a good friend of mine that like me is a addicted to the domain industry. Victor is back in the hotseat at webmaster radio and now has a blog as well. Welcome to the wonderful world of blogging Victor!
Victor has just posted a great article that delves deep into his experience in the d...
