Create Your Account  |  Log in News headlines WHOIS Valuate Domainers Why I came up with a 20 Year plan......Progress Report Morning Folks!! It is amazing to witness a phenomenon. Our entire industry could be labeled that. The growth of the Internet itself. I think the hardest and also the most magnificent thing is how far we have come and how fast we got here and even then it is all in super slow motion when you are part of it. In 1996 it is hard to belie... Rick Schwartz - Sunday, March 15, 2009 - 6:4 How do you explain domaining? I often get asked by friends or people that I meet, “what do you do?” This is a very simply question, but can be hard to answer depending on who you are speaking with. As I do a lot of things, including real estate investing, stock market, foreign currency, affiliate marketing, domaining and being an accountant, eBusinessDomains - Sunday, March 15, 2009 - 8:0 PHPLinkDirectory 3.4 Update - Excellent New Admin Features Domainers have always been big fans of phpLD (PHP Link Directory), one of the most popular link directory and article directory scripts available today.  It provides an easy way to develop domain names or add a great new feature to your site (See: DotSauce’s Domaining Directory). phpLD can help you build traffic and search rank... DotSauce Magazine - Sunday, March 15, 2009 - 12:49 Domainer Comic Strip #27 I’ve seen breaking news and people ordering food on Twitter, is this really that far fetched of an idea Click image to enlarge. If you have an idea for a comic strip please post in comments or submit via contact form. The comic strip can be anything related to the online world. If your idea ChefPatrick.com - Sunday, March 15, 2009 - 11:14 T-Minus One Month I am sure you know it already, but as a reminder, taxes are due in one month from today, April 15th. If you have been procrastinating, now is the time to buy the Domainer Tax Guide, the resource I gave to my accountant in order to figure out my tax obligation. The guide is written Elliot Silver - Sunday, March 15, 2009 - 10:53 Cool Tool: Screen Capture Software Fast Stone FastStone.org offers a pretty cool little tool called FastStone Capture which currently has version 6.3 available for the screen capture software. The cost is $19.95 and is a one-time fee. The tool is a screen capture software that is light weight but still very powerful! The reason I am writing about this tool, is because I DotWeekly - Sunday, March 15, 2009 - 12:1 SXSW Rolls Into Austin Interactive festival kicks off in Austin. South by Southwest rolled into Austin over the weekend as the interactive and film festivals kicked off. The music festival starts later this week. I proposed a session for the conference called “Getting the Right Domain Name(s) for Your Business”. But SXSW opened up panel select... Domain Name Wire - Sunday, March 15, 2009 - 14:43 Ugly websites can make more money Often when people are developing websites, they want the best design and layout and it is a natural impulse to develop the nicest looking website possible. Interestingly though, the prettiest websites do not always make the most money. Pretty websites Visually appealing websites are often the goal of website developers. Well designed... Predictive Domaining - Sunday, March 15, 2009 - 18:8 Win $1000 and Improve Your SEO Skills Update: the keyword was announced and it’s sulumits retsambew Net Builders will be announcing the new contest keyword today, some 9 hours from now. 10 pm GMT on March 15. The contest would be simply about ranking in Google for that keyword 3 months from now. The person to rank the first there will get $1,000, second Domain Magnate - Sunday, March 15, 2009 - 6:27 AIG - This is what's wrong with the Economy DomainReport.ca - This is what's wrong with the economy, AIG company receives $170 Billion dollars in bailout money from the US government and pays out $165 million in bonuses to executives. I don't know how American tax payers can stand it. This is a company that lost 62 Billion dollars in the last quarter of last year. What kind ... Dot CA Domains - Sunday, March 15, 2009 - 15:21 How to avoid being a Twitter Twerp! [Part  2 of my Domaining on Twitter series.  Part 1 is located here.] If you are new to Twitter, you may be tempted to follow everyone in sight trying to build your list of followers quickly.  In this post, I’ll give 5 tips to increase your chances of being followed and some advice to avoid being DomainTweeter.com - Sunday, March 15, 2009 - 22:56 Photos & Highlights From a Vacation Visit to Charleston SC (With a Domain Twist Of Course!) I just returned from spring vacation visit to one of America's most history rich and picturesque cities, Charleston, South Carolina. The first thing I noticed when we reached the Palmetto State was a new domain name on South Carolina license plates - one that makes you immediately wonder "what were they thinking!" DNJournal - Sunday, March 15, 2009 - 17:21 Domaining in 2009 and Beyond - Rick Schwartz Shares his thoughts on the future of Domaining Rick Schwartz wrote an incredible post this morning titled - Why I came up with a 20 Year plan……Progress Report. In his post Rick says: “See I believe and have always believed that domains would be an overnight sensation that would be 20 years in the making. The next 20 years I believe are MorganLinton.com - Sunday, March 15, 2009 - 16:28 TV-Domaines Certains d’entre vous connaissent peut-être cette video mettant en scène un colporteur de domaines au sommet de son art… on ne s’en lasse pas ! Je n’en dis pas plus. Enjoy ! Domain Name Dollar Storeenvoyé par QuietLibrary Blogodomaines.com - Sunday, March 15, 2009 - 14:51 GeoDomain Expo Update: Three Board Members Resign and Attorney's Advice Sought An official statement on the status of next month's GeoDomain Expo may be delayed until the attorney for show organizer Associated Cities weighs in on who has final authority. Board members disagree over whether the show will be held or not and three members, including the chairperson, have now resigned. DNJournal - Sunday, March 15, 2009 - 14:49 OZEXPERIENCE.COM Domainers, start your engines! Behold the car, er... bus-wreck that is an over-designed logo masquerading as an URL. They got cute with the implied X buried in with the E but to the layman this just looks like OzEperience.com (which looks to be available). This URL is just too extreme. Good URL Bad URL - Sunday, March 15, 2009 - 11:18 Latest on the GeoDomain Expo: Indications Are the Board Will Vote Monday to Proceed With the Show In an update to a story we posted earlier today, we now expect the remaining board members at Associated Cities to vote Monday to proceed with next month's show in San Diego. After six board members resigned there were still issues between those who remained, but it appears those have been resolved. DNJournal - Sunday, March 15, 2009 - 20:49 Linton Investments Launches JuryLaw.com JuryLaw.com - a domain I purchased from Bido eleven days ago is now live! This domain has now been transformed into a web destination for people searching for information about jury duty and the jury trial process. There is a lot of information on this site and it is specifically targeted for what people are MorganLinton.com - Sunday, March 15, 2009 - 17:3 www.thebitchisback.com.au Miss Emma is back! Today she weighs in with URL spotting's #4, 5 and 6. Pretty soon, she'll get her own label to rival Peter Askew's SkewURLs. As far as this URL goes... unfortunately, it's sassiness is swept away in a sea of alllowercase and shrouded by Dubs. Put another way... this URL's hitch makes the viewer twitch, not scratch ... Good URL Bad URL - Sunday, March 15, 2009 - 11:20 www.connections.travel Here's Miss Emma's 3rd and final URL installment of the day. (She seems to be doing a lot of bus travel these days.) I don't mind the alternate domain here and can accept the dubs because people might not immediately recognize dot-travel as an URL, but the alllowercase is a huge disconnect for me. Good URL Bad URL - Sunday, March 15, 2009 - 11:11 Latest on the GeoDomain Expo: Indications Are the Board Will Vote Monday to Proceed With the Show In an update to a story we posted earlier today, we now expect the remaining board members at Associated Cities to vote Monday to proceed with next month's show in San Diego. 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