Over the past few weeks there have been those on the other side of the Godaddy coin. That moving domains based on what someone who runs the company is bad for business and purely emotional. Their opinion and certainly entitled to it. But its their individual opinion, not universal advice. First off money is not […]
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Results of poll at Namepros, Who is the top domain blog ?
In a poll that ran for over one month at Namepros.com. 75 votes were cast and Dn Journal narrowly beat out Domain Name Wire 15 to 14 with The Domains coming in third place with 13. Elliots Blog garnered 8 and Ricks Blog got 5. The thread is located at : http://www.namepros.com/704990-who-is-the-top-domain-blog-2.html
Continue ReadingSydney Morning Herald asks “Do we need a XXX porn domain ?”
In an article published today the Australian newspaper wonders why there will be a .xxx extension. From the article: So who has been driving the push to introduce .XXX? ICM Registry – the company that will make a fortune by selling .XXX domains to existing porn sites such as RudeStuff.com. They will pay extra for […]
Continue ReadingElephant vs The King
Over the last week many have expressed they would be moving out of Go Daddy because of Bob Parsons hunting excursion in Zimbabwe where he took down an elephant. Now Rick Schwartz has posted that he is moving his 4500 domains out of Moniker. http://www.ricksblog.com/my_weblog/2011/04/bye-bye-birdie-i-mean-bye-bye-moniker.html From the comments on Rick's blog many seem to have been feeling […]
Continue ReadingIs now a chance for registrars to make in dent in the Go Daddy market share
Everyone by now knows of the video in which Bob Parsons hunts an elephant in Zimbabwe. The story has made mainstream news. Along with everything going on PETA has transferred their domains from Go Daddy to Register.com (That was first reported by Andrew at www.domainnamewire.com) Namecheap came out and sent this email to customers: It’s […]
Continue ReadingAdsense for domains has been a pleasant surprise
I had never used Adsense for domains, I thought the page had looked ugly and they did not allow you to just change the name servers you had to play around with A records. They changed their system and allow you to switch to their servers which are googleghs.com Their pages are certainly not as vibrant as […]
Continue ReadingTrack who follows you and unfollows you on Twitter.com
Have you ever wanted to keep track of who is following you and who is unfollowing you on twitter ? From the www.fllwrs.com website: – your personal Twitter follower tracker. Would you like to see a record of who follows and unfollows you every day? Would you like to get notified when someone unfollows you? […]
Continue ReadingGo Daddy sending email about a searched domain
When furniture.tv sold for $24,000, just out of curiousity I checked furnituretv.com and furniture-tv.com. I did not want to register furniture-tv.com but I got an email today. Thanks for visiting GoDaddy.com, the world's #1 domain name registrar. During your visit, you searched for FURNITURE-TV.COM, but didn't complete your purchase. As of 3/26/2011, FURNITURE-TV.COM was still […]
Continue ReadingThe blog post with the most replies in the history of domaining ?
Everyone knows Michael Berkens and his blog at www.thedomains.com. Michael did a post on 3d domains, that has become like a little mini forum. The post written on July 11,2010 currently has 2,352 comments. You can check it out here : www.thedomains.com/2010/07/11/the-next-big-thing-3d-who-owns-best-domains-hint-its-not-me-frank-rick-or-kevin/comment-page-47/
Continue ReadingMoniker/Snapnames .tv auction nets over $170,000
The Moniker/Snapnames .tv auction wrapped up today netting over $170,000. The highest sale was KO.tv selling for $7261. Nice to see as it was my favorite name being auctioned. Most of the names were reserved by registry, so the money went to them. There were a few that sold that belonged to domainers. A lot […]
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