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A cybersquatting revolutionist
2008-04-27 00:19:00 A spanish blogger-turned cybersquatter is holding the Spanish government to ransom by refusing to give up the domain names of several newly created ministries. The anonymous blogger purchased the domain names after it was announced that the Socialist Primer Minister Jose Luis Zapatero was creating four new ministries - except everyone in the government forgot to ... More About: Cybersquatting
123 Expired domains
2008-04-26 22:53:00 I sent a list of 123 expired domains to my newsletter subscribers today. Because you are not subscribed you only get to see a sample of that list. All is not lost though as you can subscribe to my newsletter using the form in the top right corner. Subscription is free. By the way I recommend ... More About: Domains
BizzFlip - Facebook domain name network
2008-04-26 18:36:00 I just read an interesting post on Sahar Sarid’s blog about a Facebook domain name network. It’s worth checking out. One of the many resourceful Facebook groups I belong to is the Facebook Domain Name Network . Considered to be “your place to connect with domainers from around the world” the group is a great place to ... More About: Domain Name
China surpasses USA in internet users
2008-04-26 12:00:00 In an interesting revelation over at USA today China have surpassed USA as the country with the most internet users in the world. The number of Chinese on the Internet hit more than 220 million as of February, according to estimates from official Chinese statistics by the Beijing-based research group BDA China. The longtime Internet leader, the ... More About: Users
Social oriented fantasy sports websites in demand
2008-04-26 11:53:00 Mike Levy, the founder of CBS Sports Line ( formerly SportsLine but bought by CBS in 2004 ), is preparing to announce his newest venture, OPEN Sports Network. The company?s website is still being developed but based on their description, it aspires to be a sports-oriented social network featuring betting-enabled fantasy sports games and rich news content. ... More About: Social , Fantasy , Websites , Demand
Domain development alternatives
2008-04-26 05:02:00 Earlier I wrote about the create your own tube domain development opportunity, and I am following it up with other alternatives to developing your domain name quickly and easily. TechCrunch just did a post on the various browser based website creators including Wix, Weebly, Synthasize, GoogePages and Sprout. Some of these allow you to widgetize your site ... More About: Domain , Development , Alternatives
Training Goldfish - An interesting past time
2008-04-26 01:02:00 As more parents are finding it difficult to accommodate the demands a large pet like a dog or a cat presents, they are looking at alternatives to appease their inquisitive kids. If you are one of those parents and you want to show your child that fish are just as fun as a German Sheppard, there’s ... More About: Interesting , Time , Training , Past , Goldfish
PlayMyGame.com listed on Sedo
2008-04-26 00:54:00 PlayMyGame, amongst the first of a bunch of make your own flash based game websites is for sale. Founder Samuel Wulf described the circumstances in an email to TechCrunch: Due to a lack of time and staff shortage the past weeks we have not been able to proceed with our Web 2.0 project PlayMyGame.com the way we ... More About: Listed
New Plugin For Wordpress - Video Comments
2008-04-25 14:03:00 Wordpress is such an amazing platform - as I have been saying all along - that developers are always outdoing themselves with new ways to improve user experience. In that light, seesmic developed a new wordpress plugin that provides video comments. TechCrunch installed it yesterday and gave it a try… it looks pretty interesting. Video comments bring ... More About: Wordpress , Comments , Plugin
How to transfer a godaddy domain name?
2008-04-25 12:29:00 This is a question asked by many domainers in the past considering the complex domain transfer process at Godaddy. Well… that complex domain transfer process is a thing of the past. If you log into your Godaddy account and go to your “My domains” section, select a domain name and go to the Change Account section you ... More About: Domain , Domain Name , Transfer
JerrySeinfeld.com not making Jerry laugh
2008-04-25 01:53:00 Standup Comedy King Jerry Seinfeld wants the domain name JerrySeinfeld.com, currently owned by Anything.com LTD. Seinfeld or his management team have put their case to the National Arbitration Forum. As Domain Name Wire reports, if you take a look at JerrySeinfeld.com it looks like a fan site. It carriers the the slogan ?An Unofficial Fan site? ... More About: Laugh
Develop your domains with a branded video sharing platform
2008-04-24 23:16:00 If you are looking to move away from conventional domain parking and develop your domains in order to raise their value you might be interested to read on. ?YouTube sold for $1.6 billion. How much will you sell yours for?? That?s the optimistically biased hook used by StartYourTube ( featured on TechCrunch ) to entice visitors into ... More About: Video , Domains , Sharing , Platform , Develop
The Coolest Parked Dictionary Domain Names Ever
2008-04-24 22:10:00 There are some domain names that any domainer would just love to have. Even though we all know that all valuable dictionary domain names have been long gone, nothing stops us from admiring them from a far - that is of course unless we own a gem or two of our own :). Many domainers look ... More About: Domain , Domain Names , Dictionary , Names
Dictionary domains on the auction block
2008-04-24 18:08:00 TheDomains points out that two interesting dictionary domain names are on the auction block right now. Villas.com and Chicken.org are being auctioned off at TDNAM and Ebay respectively. Villas speaks for itself as for Chicken.org I think an organic chicken producer / distributor would give their right hand for this domain name. To be honest, I ... More About: Auction , Dictionary , Block
Top 10 Reasons Why Google Is Sexually Promiscuous
2008-04-24 17:14:00 * Google is the ultimate web voyeur - it created Google Street View and Google Earth. * There is such a thing as a Google orgy. * Google is the most successful pimp operating legally. It earns a lot of commission from exposing websites to their drooling visitors. * Google was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin. * ... More About: Reasons
Monetizing .mobi domains? Google offers mobile image ads.
2008-04-24 14:11:00 Great news for folks running mobile content networks on their .mobi or other domain names as Google has just announced they are providing mobile image ads (banner ads) for their mobile ad offering. TechCrunch picked up the the Google mobile team post: These look like standard image ads for desktop web pages but they are smaller to ... More About: Mobile , Offers , Domains , Image
TrafficZ to buy DomainTools?
2008-04-24 10:51:00 An interested bit of news or rumour ( whatever you want to call it ) is being bandied around various domaining hangouts today - TrafficZ (or it?s parent company Thought Convergence) is buying NameIntelligence, the parent company of the DomainTools.com. The strange thing about it is that the price they mention is around 16 to 18 ...
Domainer Meeting in Paris
2008-04-24 10:15:00 EuroDNS? is organizing the largest annual domainer meeting at the heart of Paris , a first for the domain industry in Europe. The event is to be held on the 19th and 20th June 2008 in the same hotel as the ICANN conference that follows 2 days later. The conference will cover major hot topics such as ... More About: Meeting
Blog Directories - Submit Your Blog
2008-04-24 01:40:00 The phrase “build it and they will come” does not apply in the blog world. Once you put together the theme, plug in your plugins and start posting, you may get a trickle of traffic as a result of the WP pinging feature, but this is simply not enough. Gaining exposure for your blog is essential ... More About: Blog , Directories , Submit
StumbleUpon milestone - five million users, five billion stumbles
2008-04-23 22:55:00 I am a big fan of StumbleUpon. I believe it is very underrated in the blogger community on the amount of quality traffic it can get you. Sometime today, StumbleUpon will register its five millionth user. That’s right, 5,000,000th. (At the time TechCrunch reported this today it was at 4,994,826 registered users). Even though that number ... More About: Users , Million , Milestone , Stumbleupon , Billion
Campaigning for the .ENG tld
2008-04-23 19:55:00 John Sewell, Englishman born and bred, is launching a one-man campaign to ensure a corner of the internet remains forever English. He is lobbying web chiefs to allow the display of one’s Englishness online in a new top level domain name .eng. Sewell, of Maidenhead, Surrey, discovered there was no ?dot eng? movement, despite established campaigns by ... More About: Campaigning
goooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooogle.com the next billion dollar compan
2008-04-23 16:24:00 Uptime monitoring service Pingdom.com has put together a list of thousands of domain names owned by Google based on an analysis of the root zone file. Sahar Sarid noticed TechCrunch picked up on the story and displayed a list of some of the more interesting domain names: * 30dayfitness.com * bayareaburritos.com * donationcard.com * essentialmommy.com * greengardengifts.com * mariolovespasta.com * thesecretofburritos.com * goooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooogle. com * google4kids.com * ... More About: Dollar , Billion
Gmail Vulnerability caused Domain loss
2008-04-23 12:22:00 Even though this vulnerability has been fixed by now, I felt it was important to underline the dangers we face as we use global mail providers for all our personal/business communication needs. A couple of months ago David Airey’s blog was hacked. David Airey is a blogger and designer but you can read more about him ... More About: Gmail , Domain , Vulnerability , Loss
Are you a bad spellr?
2008-04-23 10:23:00 Automatic spellcheckers have been built into most browsers for years now, but typos continue to plague even the most reputable blogs and websites. Recognizing this fact, a number of services have emerged that vow to continuously monitor your site for spelling errors. Spellr.us, currently in a registration-required beta, plans to offer hourly, daily, and weekly sweeps ...
Fi.org and Encrypt.com to List on Fusu - the Domain Stock Exchange
2008-04-23 10:00:00 Did you ever want to own a premium domain but were hesitant to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on a single name? This week, you can buy a part of a premium domain name. Fusu, the Domain Stock Exchange , makes fractional ownership of domains possible and affordable to everyone, by providing a trading platform for ... More About: List , Stock Exchange
The value of a good domain name - from SimulScribe to PhoneTag
2008-04-23 01:21:00 Many times while rushing to launch a new venture, entrepreneurs have undervalue the importance of a good domain name for their product or company. They may be starting a part-time project and they just want to get it off the ground. They choose the first domain name that comes to mind?often something crap?and they are ... More About: Domain , Domain Name , Good
DotAsia Landrush Auction Goes Live
2008-04-23 01:07:00 The Landrush auction process has just gone live for .asia domains. Domains that have been ordered during the Landrush period and had multiple bids placed against them will now be entering the “open auction” process. Pending DotAsia domains whose auctions have not commenced yet will be scheduled by the registry in the following weeks. Applicants will be ... More About: Auction , Live
Be careful of what you bid on
2008-04-23 00:58:00 If you are a domainer then you most likely bid on domain names on Sedo, you have in the past or you plan to do so in the near future. When you sign up to Sedo you sign a digital agreement that you will follow through on any winning bids you make so you are legally ... More About: Careful
Name Intelligence Awards 2008
2008-04-22 23:10:00 The Name Intelligence Industry awards winners were named at the Domaine Roundtable conference that was held from 18th to 21st April 2008 . * Registrar with the Largest Net Gain - GoDaddy * Best Registrar for Resellers - Enom * Outstanding Drop Catcher - NameJet * Outstanding Secondary Market - Sedo * Best Registrar - Moniker * Best Parking Company (tie): Sedo ... More About: Awards
Champions League, Popular Culture and Domaining
More articles from this author:2008-04-22 16:28:00 I am an avid football fan. Real football or as the Americans call it, soccer. I watch it, play it, read about it on a daily basis - basically I am a football addict. Considering the amount of money that is poured into the football industry - yes it is an industry - I can tell ... More About: Champions League , Culture , Popular , Champions , League 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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