Wednesday, February 15, 2012
That a handful of ‘Frank Schilling types’ own giant swaths of the domain space can actually work to your advantage: The chances of competition from the .com are extremely low, and these guys have too many names to develop and are not motivated to sell. You’ll notice one of my plant sites is coreopsis.info. Dot [...]
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
When you buy a domain name and transfer it to a new registrar, I strongly recommend you do a Whois search to be sure that you actually are listed as the registrant. It can take up to 24 hours for the new information to be reflected, but it’s important to note. If the information is [...]
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
How do you take a domain name with a single parked page and turn it into a 10,000-page profitable, local online community guide in three months?Jennifer Manz of Mannix Marketing shares the content and marketing strategies that made GlensFallsRegion.com – an $8 hand-registered domain name run by three full-time equivalent employees – profitable after only [...]
Monday, February 13, 2012
Bonus Question: Is there a BackOrder on the Domain Name? If you think you have a good domain name, but you’re just not sure whether or not you should renew the domain name or now, check to see if anyone else has placed a backorder on the domain name. If there is a backorder or [...]
Sunday, February 12, 2012
Zearn.com is moving out of beta and is soft launching! What is Zearn.com? Zearn is a free service that allows you to watch, find and bid on expired domain names that are on auction at GoDaddy Auctions®! Did I mention that Zearn is FREE!!! The bread and butter of Zearn is the live domain auction [...]
Sunday, February 12, 2012
Don’t Double Pay For Your Social Campaigns When you are driving people into your Facebook page, you are accomplishing a digital campaign. What you aren’t doing is owning that traffic … and the insights that go with it. However, Facebook will happily sell you the data you helped drive to your Facebook promotional page. There [...]
Sunday, February 12, 2012
One slimy tactic I’ve witnessed and heard about are people who agree to buy a domain name (whether it’s at an auction, aftermarket venue, or private acquisition), and before paying, they try to sell the domain name to other companies. If they can’t find a buyer for the domain name at a profitable level, they [...]
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Sunday, February 12, 2012
Ed and Danny talk about domain conferences and how the best stuff happens at the bar. If handled the right way, you can approach anyone in the domain industry and get them to help you, but there is a right way to do it. Danny has some tips on how to successfully approach buying domains [...]
Sunday, February 12, 2012
“However, even assuming the assertion is correct, and Respondent never had an intent to secure commercial gain from the domain name, the “parked” website remains a commercial website with click-through opportunities to existing businesses and is not a noncommercial or fair use of the domain name despite the lack of monetary enrichment to Respondent.” “As [...]
Sunday, February 12, 2012
CitizenHawk was established with a single-minded focus: to protect companies’ brands on the Internet while helping ensure they receive the online traffic – and collect the revenues — they’ve rightfully earned. We do it by efficiently and securely managing their various domains, by continually monitoring the web to expose typosquatters and other cyberscammers preying on [...]