The collapse of 2009. Happy New Year's!! Morning folks!!I started this post as just a Happy Holidays post and then it just kind of evolved. I almost feel guilty for having such a great 2008. While I am watching so many sectors suffering and thousands of businesses on the verge of going broke, I feel a little guilty. At TRAFFIC in New York City we feasted on delicacies with ...
Rick Schwartz - Tuesday, December 23, 2008 - 6:50
The 100 Oldest .Com Domains on the Internet: PC World Takes Us Back to the Beginning Do you know what the first .Com domain ever registered was? PC World magazine took us back in time with a new article published this week that runs down the 100 oldest .com domain names on the Internet. It all started in 1985 when no one could have guessed how valuable domains would eventually become.
DNJournal - Tuesday, December 23, 2008 - 15:32
The disappearance of the Yellow Pages I came across an interesting article about the Yellow Pages on Walletpop.com.
Hmmm, what does this mean for domain names?
You can read about it HERE.
Unplain - Tuesday, December 23, 2008 - 14:9
European .Net Domain Older Than .Com - The Real Oldest Domain Names Given the recent PCWorld article on the Internets Oldest 100 Domain Dot Com Domain Names, I thought I’d bring up a little known fact that is often overlooked by many people. Symbolics.com might be the oldest currently registered dot com, but its not the oldest domain. In fact, there is a .NET that’s older.
According to
Domainer Income - Tuesday, December 23, 2008 - 19:23
As a domainer, do you go both ways? I just read a great post at dotweekly.com about feeling like an “end user” when buying a domain name. I was typing out a comment and it accidentally turned into a book, so I figured I’d post my “reply” here: (I wonder if longwindedcommenter.com is registered) I’m actually going through that End Use...
Domain Junkies - Tuesday, December 23, 2008 - 13:54
Sedo weekly sales up to December 22 It’s time for another weekly summary of Sedo’s domain sales. This week features Riva.com selling for 200,000 USD, Crab.com closing at 92,000 USD, and Casas.net reaching 87,000 EUR. But there’s much more after the jump!
Domain name
Price
Currency
Translation
.COMs
riva.com
200,000
USD
crab.com
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Domain Name News - Tuesday, December 23, 2008 - 23:35
Last Chance - Win A FREE Mini-Site Want a FREE mini-site?
This is your last chance to get your entries in. I have already received about 100 domain name submissions including some great names.
Contest ends tonight at 8pm est.
Make sure to visit my post from yesterday, click here and good luck.
ChefPatrick.com - Tuesday, December 23, 2008 - 12:24
Groundbreaking Global Domain Registration Industry Report Release By MAP MAP Research, a Melbourne-based research company, has released what they claim to be “the world’s first report on the size, state and future of the global domain registration industry”. They interviewed a number of the top 20 domain registrars globally to formulate their data.
Amongst the things shown by MAP Researc...
DnExpert - Tuesday, December 23, 2008 - 17:32
The Top 100 Global Brands Still Don't Get Online Media In writing a previous post equating user names on social media sites to domain names, it raised my curiousity what big brands were up to on Twitter. It’s understandable in the early 1990’s, as the internet was slowly emerging, brand managers and/or executives couldn’t see the potential for a brand like McDonalds to...
Domain Name News - Tuesday, December 23, 2008 - 17:20
Using newspaper travel sections The recent discussion of geodomains got me thinking of ways to identify tourist destinations and seeing if there were any available matching domains. Newspaper travel sections highlight well known destinations but also try to highlight locations that are not as well known. The articles themselves are advertising for those destination...
Predictive Domaining - Tuesday, December 23, 2008 - 16:17
How .Edu Domain Names Work .Edu has strict eligibility requirements for post secondary education institutions.
Utexas.edu. Phoenix.edu. London.edu. All of these domains belong to accredited post secondary education institutions and use the .edu top level domain name. This article will review the requirements for registering a .edu domain name.
Administrator: ...
Domain Name Wire - Tuesday, December 23, 2008 - 10:17
MENWHOLOOKLIKEKENNYROGERS.COM This one came my way from Jeff Campbell (who, btw, couldn't look anything less like Kenny Rogers). I wonder if the XXL version of this shirt (which would be for men who look like Kenny Rogers circa 1995) has enough room for the URL not to wrap? Bottom line, when it comes to URLs, you gotta know when to hold 'em (on one line) and kno...
Good URL Bad URL - Tuesday, December 23, 2008 - 20:47
Getting A Free Domain Name Ending Soon... For some reason I attract tons and tons of e-mails from people who believe I give out free domain names like the $7.50 x a zillion matters not to me. I always try to point people in the right direction and familiarize them with different programs where they can truly get a “free†domain name
fka200 - Tuesday, December 23, 2008 - 16:37
Happy Holidays and Good bye for now . . . As this year comes to an end, I would like to thank you all.
Thank you for these priceless minutes of attention you have given me . Thank you for your comments, and thank you for making me your friend. This year has been busy and I am very grateful for being busy. thebestBLOGintheworld came to life
TheBestBlogInTheWorld - Tuesday, December 23, 2008 - 10:13
www.jonesBIGASStruckrentalandstorage.com This one was brought to my attention by Bryson Meunier, a good friend of the Good URL Bad URL family. Took me a while to decipher the URL. Took me even longer to figure out it was all a gag. BIG ASS waste of my time.
Good URL Bad URL - Tuesday, December 23, 2008 - 20:1
Inside Domaining - Tuesday, December 23, 2008 - 16:37
Merry Christmas from OzDomainer in Japan Hi to all who read my blog in 2008 and since it started in mid 2007.
I am in Japan for the last night heading to Malaysia tomorrow for Christmas and home to Perth Australia for New Years...
OzDomainer - Tuesday, December 23, 2008 - 9:44
www.paonebook.org This one comes from URL-spotter Jamie Forrest, who played cat and mouse with this van to get an unobstructed view only to find out the URL was not PhoneBook.org, rather PAOneBook.org -- as in Pennsylvania One Book. Zoiks. More like PA Two Looks.
Good URL Bad URL - Tuesday, December 23, 2008 - 19:59
Commerce Dept Criticizes ICANN On New TLDs In a letter sent to ICANN last week, Meredith Baker, the head of the Commerce Department’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration stated that is not clear “whether the potential consumer benefits outweigh the potential costs“.
It also goes on to say that “ICANN needs to ensure that the plan...
Domainer Income - Tuesday, December 23, 2008 - 3:2
Aftermarket (.com) Domain Name Auction~ Domainer Mardi Gras The Aftermarket.com Live Domain Name Auction will take place Feburary 21, 2009 at 2:15 CT . As always with Aftermarket.com the auction will be Live in person and Live online all at the same time.
I have always been happy with the results as a seller using Aftermarket.com which use to be the DomainTools.com auction format
DotWeekly - Tuesday, December 23, 2008 - 10:31
Lycos Europe To Sell Domain Registration Business A few weeks ago at a hotel in Amsterdam, an Extraordinary Meeting of Shareholders was called for Lycos Europe. The shareholders voted to liquidate the business. Note that Lycos Europe is a separate company to America’s Lycos Inc. As a part of that liquidation, they decided to sell their domain registration business, united-doma...
Domainer Income - Tuesday, December 23, 2008 - 17:2
More Than 1 Million .kr Registrations 15 years after Korea was allocated the .kr ccTld, the National Internet Development Agency of Korea has announced the number of registrations of domains in the .kr ccTld have passed the 1 million domains mark.
According to the National Internet Development Agency, the number of domains registered with the .kr ccTld grew 7.7% from 934...
DnExpert - Tuesday, December 23, 2008 - 20:57
12 Days of Domain Names - Day 10 Is All About .ME for just $15.99 Even I’ve been looking forward to this promotion - .ME domains for just $15.99/yr.
Introduced earlier this year the .ME domain has quickly caught on as a catchy alternative to .com for unique personal informational sites and much more.
Just like all the other offers, this one expires in 24 hours.
Bookmark It
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Name.com - Tuesday, December 23, 2008 - 2:0
The disappearance of the Yellow Pages… I came across an interesting article about the Yellow Pages on Walletpop.com.
Hmmm, what does this mean for domain names?
You can read about it HERE.
BTW – Another article about Yellow Pages of which Andrew from DNW and I share the
same sentiments. HERE.
Unplain - Tuesday, December 23, 2008 - 14:9
As a domainer, do you go both ways? I just read a great post at dotweekly.com about feeling like an “end user” when buying a domain name. I was typing out a comment and it accidentally turned into a book, so I figured I’d post my “reply” here: (I wonder if longwindedcommenter.com is registered) I’m actually going through that End Use...
Domain Junkies - Tuesday, December 23, 2008 - 13:54
Happy Holidays and Good bye for now . . . as this year comes to an end, I would like to thank you all. Thank you for these priceless minutes of attention you have given me . Thank you for your comments, and thank you for making me your friend. This year has been busy and I am very grateful for being busy. thebestBLOGintheworld came to
TheBestBlogInTheWorld - Tuesday, December 23, 2008 - 11:13
Merry Christmas from OzDomainer in Japan Hi to all who read my blog in 2008 and since it started in mid 2007.
I am in Japan for the last night heading to Malaysia tomorrow for Christmas and home to Perth Australia for New Years...
OzDomainer - Tuesday, December 23, 2008 - 10:44
The 100 Oldest .Com Domains on the Internet: PC World Takes Us Back to the Beginning Do you know what the first .Com domain ever registered was? PC World magazine took us back in time with a new article published this week that runs down the 100 oldest .com domain names on the Internet. It all started in 1985 when no one could have guessed how valuable domains would eventually become.
DNJournal - Tuesday, December 23, 2008 - 15:32
12 Days of Domain Names - Day 10 Is All About .ME for just $15.99 Even I’ve been looking forward to this promotion - .ME domains for just $15.99/yr.
Introduced earlier this year the .ME domain has quickly caught on as a catchy alternative to .com for unique personal informational sites and much more.
Just like all the other offers, this one expires in 24 hours.
Bookmark It
...
