 | I wish I had taken ccTLDs and IDNs more seriously
True global brands need a .com extension. Clearly there are obvious exceptions but for the most part, if you want to market to the world, you need a good .com. However, with all the patting on the back old-school domainers like to give themselves, you have to admit, we should have registered more country-code top-level
 | Rick Latona - Monday, August 18, 2008 - 23:40 |
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 | Mygazines.com Causing Uproar In the Publishing World
I have read many stories this week about Mygazines.com a website that allows people to copy and upload popular magazines that are currently on newsstands.
Visitors can read high quality digital copies of dozens of current titles, including People, Sports Illustrated, Men’s Health and The Economist, just to name a few, in their ...
| | The Domains - Monday, August 18, 2008 - 0:13 |
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 | Part 2 - The domain bubble
You can read the first part of this series on domain valuations and the journey through the bubble and out the other side by clicking on:
Part 1 - Domain Industry and Valuations (index.php/20080728452/MyBlog/Domain-Industry-and-Valuations-Part-1.html)
As domain prices continued to rise most domain owners held onto their portfolios...
| | Michael Gilmour - Monday, August 18, 2008 - 11:45 |
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 | 5 Sacrifices You Shouldn't Make in the Name of Money
Getting rich is one thing. Being successful is another.
A lot of rich people think they are successful. But there are a lot of successful people who aren’t rich and vice-versa.
A friend of mine used to be in investment banking. He worked with people who made crazy money, drove fast cars, and live in
| | Domain Name Wire - Monday, August 18, 2008 - 12:55 |
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 | Back to Reality
Karen and I had an amazing honeymoon, and I want to thank many of you for your emails and notes while I was away. Although I did spend a bit of time keeping up with the domain news while Karen was at the gym, I didn’t respond to emails. I now have a
| | Elliot Silver - Monday, August 18, 2008 - 10:9 |
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 | It just amazes me, wake up small business!
I had to bring in my truck today for a pully that was making some noise as well as an oil change and get my tires rotated. The service guy that helped me was very nice and things went well. He told me it would be about 1.5-2 hours before my truck would be ready
| | DotWeekly - Monday, August 18, 2008 - 16:36 |
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 | Sex.com Looks Like Its Back To A Parking Page
Since the Sex.com domain purchase about 2 years ago, the team of professionals running it have designed and redesigned The Sex.com site over and over. So after 2 years or so or fine tuning it, what is currently on the site? A Parking page. Now I don't know if it's currently a parking page because they realized that parking brings in...
| Direct Navigation - Monday, August 18, 2008 - 16:44 |
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 | What Careers Will Be Most Popular In 4 Years?
MSNBC has posted it’s top 10 hot jobs for 2012. One or two of these may be a bit of a reach, but I think they are certainly on to something on every single one of these. A couple may even ring a bell. That’s partially because I’ve already blogged about their
| | Trend Domaining - Monday, August 18, 2008 - 10:35 |
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 | Trouble Around The Corner: Oversee Lays Off Staff
From management perspective, letting go of staff due to economic changes is one of the worst experiences for a company. If we look around the domain industry, this unfortunately does not seem to be the exception.
Via Socal Tech:
Los Angeles-based Oversee.net, an operator of online marketing and Internet domain name monetization servi...
| | Conceptualist - Monday, August 18, 2008 - 14:48 |
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| Affspy Helps Monetize Domains with Affiliate Programs
Affiliate search tool opens to public beta.
Affspy, a search engine to find the highest paying affiliate offers, has moved to an open beta this week. It has been in private beta since February.
Affspy is a good tool for domainers looking for alternatives to domain parking. Sometimes it makes sense to forward your domains
| | Domain Name Wire - Monday, August 18, 2008 - 10:52 |
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| Analysis: Oversee.net Cutbacks a Sign of the Times
Oversee cuts 10%; domain companies need to tighten the ship.
It’s never fun when companies lay off staff. The first company I worked for out of college called a Saturday meeting to lay off 33% of the company. Worse, I was on the finance team that had to figure out how much fat to
| | Domain Name Wire - Monday, August 18, 2008 - 16:57 |
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| Mobile SEO; Death of the .Mobi
At the Search roundtable a show being held in San Jose, today's topic was Death of the .Mobi.
The first speaker was Dhana Pawar, Co-Founder & VP Products, Yojo Mobile who asked the question;
Why is .mobi less than ideal?
Her Answers:
Bad for SEO (Mobile and Traditional)
Splits traffic, you have to duplicate effort.
Splits lin...
| | The Domains - Monday, August 18, 2008 - 17:50 |
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 | 8 Domain Newsletters you cannot afford to miss
DomainNameNews set out to collect information on domain newsletters out there. The following eight newsletters offer you domains for sale, but also domains available for (re-)registration. Find out about the 8 Domain Newsletters you cannot afford to miss after the jump.
Domains For Sale Newsletters
Country Codes Only
Publisher: Drop...
| | Domain Name News - Monday, August 18, 2008 - 12:43 |
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 | Tap into today's real estate market with FixedLoans.com
While some of us count down the time until tropical storm Fay leaves Florida behind, there are only about 12 hours left until FixedLoans.com goes on sale on Bido. Not to let this intro go without citing my home state again, the Real Estate market in Florida has been hit particularly bad; homeowners that were
| | Acro - Monday, August 18, 2008 - 23:54 |
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| Oversee.net cuts 10% of its Work force
The DomainNameNews.com has confirmed that Oversee.net has cut 10% of its work force on Friday as a money savings measure in a downturned economy.
Oversee.net acquired Snapnames.com and shortly thereafter lost Network Solutions as a drop partner.
Certainly the amount paid for snapnames.com included all the then previous revenue that S...
| | The Domains - Monday, August 18, 2008 - 15:20 |
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| Oversee.net Article Correction and Apology.
We have made a correction to the Oversee.net layoff article. The previous article mentioned in the last paragraph “The news of Oversee executives being canned comes in the wake of . . . ”
Domain Name News was made aware of the rumored news of Oversee layoffs on Friday and had received rumors of layoffs at
| | Domain Name News - Monday, August 18, 2008 - 20:9 |
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 | Downsizing at Oversee.net - Sign of times or something else?
You probably already read many headlines at various domain blog sites about lay-offs at Oversee.net which is the parent company of DomainSponsor.com, SnapNames.com, and Moniker.com
Apart from its famous domain parking monetization division DomainSponsor.com, Oversee.net is a diversified full service company in the domain industry.
He...
| | DN Blogger - Monday, August 18, 2008 - 21:11 |
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| 8 Domain Newsletters you cannot afford to miss
DomainNameNews set out to collect information on domain newsletters out there. The following eight newsletters offer you domains for sale, but also domains available for (re-)registration. Find out about the 8 Domain Newsletters you cannot afford to miss after the jump.
Domains For Sale Newsletters
Country Codes Only
Publisher: Drop...
| | Domain Name News - Monday, August 18, 2008 - 20:39 |
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| T-Mobile 1st to Sell Google Phone
According to a report by the New York Times, T-Mobile will launch a mobile phone powered by Google Inc’s Android software, making it the first operator to do so and posing a direct threat to Apple Inc’s (AAPL) popular iPhone.
The phone will hit the stores in the U.S. before Christmas, perhaps as early as October.
The
| | The Domains - Monday, August 18, 2008 - 12:45 |
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 | 505 Premium Expired Domains
These are exciting times at DNXpert.com. Yesterday saw the launch of a new feature - the DNXpert Premium Expired Domain Lists.
As you all know I send my newsletter subscribers regular lists of expired domains ( at least 3 times a week ). A lot of you have registered some gems courtesy of my free lists.
Recent times have seen more co...
| | DnExpert - Monday, August 18, 2008 - 7:14 |
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 | More Info on Google's Proposed Plan for
For those of you who are unfamiliar or new to the concept of "WiFi on Steroids" or more specifically, the utilization of America's white space spectrum to provide it's citizens with a Universal Wireless Internet, you may want to watch the video below. Actually there are a lot of great videos which are very informative and really do a ...
| | Domainer Developer - Monday, August 18, 2008 - 15:53 |
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| Oversee.net Cuts 10% of Employees
Oversee.net has confirmed that the company has let go of 10% of its staff as of Friday. The company blames the downturn in the economy. A spokesperson told SocalTech “the cuts were in response to the general economic weakness and pressures in the industry.” According to the report cuts were made across
| | Domain Name News - Monday, August 18, 2008 - 14:26 |
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| CNN: US at Risk of Cyberattack
According to a report in CNN today the next large scale military or terrorist attack on the United States maybe a cyber one.
Internet security experts believe such an attack could be just as devastating to the U.S.’s economy and infrastructure as a deadly bombing.
Experts point to last week’s cyber attack on the ...
| | The Domains - Monday, August 18, 2008 - 11:25 |
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 | Ringtones.mobi Site Launched
Ringtones.mobi launched today. The mobi-site makes it easier for music fans to buy ringtones
and mobile-friendly wallpaper images from independent and established music
acts.
Ringtones.mobi, which is owned by Zameen Group, was created and is run by
Toronto-based ooober, a provider of mobile content management and marketp...
| | Dot Mobiz - Monday, August 18, 2008 - 1:0 |
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| PollEverywhere.com - Live Audience Polling With A Twist
I ran across this rightly named PollEverywhere.com website while reading TechCrunch today and I have to say I was more then impressed.
PollEverywhere.com provides live audience polling with a twist - the audience participates in polls via SMS and live results are displayed via Powerpoint or your browser.
If you ever attended seminars...
| | DnExpert - Monday, August 18, 2008 - 19:3 |
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| Oversee.net Cuts 10% of Employees
Oversee.net has confirmed that the company has let go of 10% of its staff as of Friday. The company blames the downturn in the economy. A spokesperson told SocalTech “the cuts were in response to the general economic weakness and pressures in the industry.” According to the report cuts were made across
| | Domain Name News - Monday, August 18, 2008 - 22:59 |
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 | Expired Domains / Newsletter
I’m looking for a few more people to sign up for the Newsletter before I send out the first issue. The newsletter is a new feature of DomainBash.com, and I’m hoping that it will be a great new addition for my
visitors… especially those of you that used to enjoy the regular expired domain name
| | DomainBash.com - Monday, August 18, 2008 - 15:7 |
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