Domainers Go Social With Two Networks

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 […]

Easy Name.com Availability Checking Tools

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 […]

OpenSocial v. ICA: Why one flies and the other falters

Since the announcement of Google’s OpenSocial project I’ve been following the developments with great interest to see the adoption flow. I think Social Media and the Social Web are here to stay. The development of a standard platform for Social Media projects at this relatively early stage of the game indicates that major companies are […]

Google Allows Parked Page Opt-out

2008 is shaping up to be a year of change in the the domaining biz.
First Yahoo! put a stop to arbitrage. Then the Snowe Bill was introduced. Now Google is allowing advertisers to opt-out of having their ads displayed on parked pages.
It’s not hard to imagine that this will soon have, at least in the […]