Philadelphia, PA, USA – U.S. small businesses are rushing their choice of web address, with 42 percent investing under 1 hour of thought in the decision, according to a survey released today by 1&1 Internet Inc., the world’s largest web host by known servers. A survey of 1074 American businesses revealed that the average business spends less than 12 hours choosing their main domain name. Some 60 percent of business owners sought no second opinion before making a selection and over half (57 percent) did not consider options such as .biz or .net at all. (Read more…)
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Remember 1999, when it was all about “e”, mostly because of the term “eBusiness”? Say goodbye to those days. Today, partially thanks to Apple’s successful naming strategy (product names such as iPod, iTunes, iBook, iPhone, iLife, iWork, iMac), it is all about “i”.
Recent “i” sales:
1. iProperty.com
2. iReport.com
3. iPhone.com
Some “i” domains that are parked or not in full use which I like: (Read more…)
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The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com and it is loaded with big sales. Dozens of sales from the recent SnapNames Live auction at the DOMAINfest Global conference in Hollywood, California were completed over the past week helping stock the pond with an exceptionally high 74 reported transactions in the five-figure and up range. (Read more…)
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Via SEOKER.Com:
“This morning I installed the Google Toolbar beta version on one of my computers and my oh my – there is something that can have huge impact to many webmasters. (Read more…)
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Via Parked.com eMail:
“Dear Parked.com customers,
We were notified today by Yahoo that all Yahoo based parking companies, including Parked.com, must begin enforcing the no arbitrage/no paid traffic general provision. (Read more…)
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For the many newcomers entering the domain industry we also want to point out that the reasons why a domain name sells for a certain price can be varied and are not always clear to those who are unfamiliar with the domain market. (Read more…)
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In a recent article I provided a path for parking companies so that by TRAFFIC New York next year we could have standards and transparency in the industry. (Read more…)
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A story on DNS security from Dark Reading refers to comments by DNS inventor Paul Mockapetris who says, “The industry is just one multi-million-dollar corporate data breach away from waking up to the serious and often-silent threat of corrupted DNS resolution servers.” In this report, reports Dark Reading “Researchers David Dagon, Chris Lee, and Wenke Lee of Georgia Tech, and Google’s Niels Provos, dubbed the new threat ‘DNS resolution path corruption,’ where malicious DNS servers provide false information in order to send users to malicious sites. The researchers officially presented their findings today at the Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS) in San Diego.” (Read more…)
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