Keyword Search Headed For A Breakdown?

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 […]

Name.com Heads to Domain Roundtable, Offers Special Regsitration Discount

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 […]

Promo Codes For Everyone!

Name.com has been offering promo codes since January 2008. We’ve been very careful with their distribution so far but oh, that’s about to change, my friends!
It’s tax crunch time here in the states so a little tease of a treat for you bargain hunters until April 15, 2008: a 15% discount on .LA registrations.
Enter “dotla1″ […]

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 […]

Direct Navigation: Ticket to Success

It’s no secret that I think we have the best domain name in the domain space: Name.com. How can you go wrong as a domain name registrar with that name?
Coming off the SES show in NYC I’m more convinced of the importance of direct navigation than ever. The SEO and SEM professionals who spoke at […]

Google Calendar Readying for Offline Capabilities

You know what’s better than free? Free the way you need it! Google looks to be heading toward offering an offline version of it’s popular calendar program. Download squad alerted me to the news this morning and sure enough, I have the offline tab as well in my Google Apps for my Name.com account.
Name.com offers […]

Eat Your Domains!

My colleagues have created what very well may be the first Domain Industry Comic Strip. Don’t play with your food, Johnny.

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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 […]

Welcome to the Official Name.com Blog

In due time you’ll come to view this space as the best way to keep up on what’s happening at Name.com as well as within the domain industry. We’ll also throw in a fair amount of non-domain related stuff just because we think it’s cool. That’s just how we roll here in Denver.
There’s big news […]