Posted on May 8th, 2008 by Kellie Peterson
As the Internet swells with more information every second of the day we will find keyword search results less and less relevant. TechCrunch recently reported on the limits of keyword search and the inevitable breaking point. Direct Navigation offers any business a short cut to being found.
While the point behind that post is that the […]
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Posted on May 5th, 2008 by Kellie Peterson
Social networking has been hot for a while now. It’s often struck me as funny that an industry that is all about networking hadn’t embraced the trend. That’s all changed. Following on last month’s launch of Randy Charach’s Synergy Domain Club, Steve Morales has launched GeoDomainer.com.
Both networking sites are built on the back of Ning […]
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Posted on May 4th, 2008 by Kellie Peterson
Google recently announced the opening of the iGoogle Sandbox with associated support of the OpenSocial API.
iGoogle sandbox supports OpenSocial 0.7, including friends and activity streams as well as a home and canvas view of your gadgets. Later, iGoogle will support the requestSendMessage function to facilitate growth of your gadget.
Is Google readying iGoogle aka Google Start […]
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Posted on April 22nd, 2008 by Kellie Peterson
TechCrunch is reporting that Voice to Text messaging provider SimulScribe has acquired the domain name PhoneTag.com for $30k and is planning on rebranding under the new name starting April 25. It appears that Strong Inc. was the seller.
The name SimulScribe totally sucks for our business. People have a real challenge remembering the name and they […]
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Posted on April 22nd, 2008 by Kellie Peterson
In addition to our own cross browser domain availability checking tools, RegZap and WhoZap, we’re pleased to announce that Name.com has been included in the latest version of QualityNonsense’s Domain Lookup FireFox Extension.
Domain Lookup is a Firefox extension that helps you discover valuable generic domain names while surfing the web. Just select the text you […]
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Posted on April 21st, 2008 by Kellie Peterson
The auction has been slow starting, but there are spurts of activity. So far the most action has been on lot #82 - Retire(d).net, which sold to the room for $23,500.
Through 90 lots there’s been 20 sales for $82,970 total. More to come.
Through 160 lots 38 names have sold for a total of $177, […]
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Posted on April 11th, 2008 by Kellie Peterson
Do you worry about someone busting into your domain accounts? You should. As domain asset values continue to rise the threat to their security rises as well.
If you’re like most people you use the same password for lots of websites and services. Further, the password you use ise probably based on a special number or […]
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Posted on April 10th, 2008 by Kellie Peterson
UDRP threats can wreak havoc on aftermarket buyers sleep patterns. When it comes to high priced generic auctions and sales it’s commonly thought that there’s no way anyong would drop a UDRP. But it happens. It happened to Xedoc Holdings after they layed out $166k for Shoppers.com in a Pool auction.
In what I hope becomes […]
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Posted on April 10th, 2008 by Kellie Peterson
Jay over at Name Intelligence/DomainTools.com just released a sneak peek at some of the low reserve domain names which will be on the auction block during the Domain Roundtable Auction on April 21, 2008. Jay has gotten a lot of flak recently about the quality of names in his online only auctions. Between these names […]
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Posted on April 8th, 2008 by Kellie Peterson
Name.com is taking the show on the road again and we’ll be landing in San Francisco next week for the Domain Roundtable. Even better, we’ve hooked up with the folks at Domain Roundtable to offer our customers and readers a $200 discount on registration. So there’s just no excuse not to come see us at […]
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