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HatTip to Michael Berkins

Today marks the 25th anniversary of the first '.com' domain--and what's a birthday celebration without a roast?

In celebration of '.com's' milestone, we've compiled our picks for the most inappropriate domain names on the web. Some are intentionally odd, others accidentally so, but each are surprising, shocking, curious, and even offensive in their own way.

Check them out in the slideshow below, then send us your pick(s) for the most inappropriate domain name(s) of all time! Want more domain name fun? See the 11 most expensive domain names ever (we think you'll be surprised).

• Payday
• Homeowner
• Bankruptcy
• Auto Financing
• Debt Settlement
• etc.

• Bankruptcy Firm
• Bankruptcy Consulting
• Bankruptcy Lawyer
• Business Bankruptcy
• etc.

One thing I’ve been doing successfully on DogWalker.com would be easy enough for others to do and I want to share this (not unique, but good) idea. When people sign up for listings, I thank them and offer them the opportunity to do an interview or submit an article on any dog-related topic. This has been a big hit and is greatly appreciated. The articles are posted on the DogWalker.com Blog.

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"They said, '$30,000 for a Web site?'" Cahill recalled. "'What are you nuts? How are you going to make that back?'"

Cahill - who also owned Fdny.com but had to relinquish it to the city - decided to become a real estate agent. He said he's made $100,000 through the site from real estate transactions.

Now he's hoping to entice local businesses to advertise and islanders to post events. He's only gotten a few takers: a book author and a local band.

Queens.com is even more basic, devoid of any graphics with just a slew of links for retail stores, lawyers, even a company that rents out drag queens.

Fischer, 47, an Internet consultant, bought it a few years ago at auction for a price in "the mid-five figures."

For now, he and partner Ari Goldberger, 49, make money every time someone clicks on one of the links, but he plans to develop it further.

"It's an extremely strong name," said Fischer, who owns scores of domain names. "It's worth much more built out."

With the singular auction done, I figured I didn’t have a chance at the plural, so I left for the airport without even looking at my Snapnames account. I logged onto the Wifi network on Delta, and I was even more surprised to see that I was the winning bidder on WristletPurses.com for under $100.

Late last week I purchased the Phpbay Pro eBay affiliate plugin for Wordpress and have been playing around with it the past several days. I built 3 sites and also installed the plugin on DotWeekly to play around with it here as well, so I wanted to share a little review about it. Phpbay offers more than just a Wordpress plugin btw, they offer API options and PhpZon which is an Amazon affiliate.

So what is PhpBay Pro? It is a plugin that allows you to display products listed on eBay on a web site you create to help you make money with your site. The plugin works through the EPN or eBay Partner Network affiliate program. You will need an EPN account if you use the plugin, and it is free to sign up.

Cost? I paid $79 for Phpbay Pro for Wordpress.

Install? Installing Phpbay Pro via Wordpress is likely "harder" than most plugins you may have installed if you used WP before but is manageable

I just purchased an advance copy of XHeaderPro (being released tomorrow) and thought I would take a few minutes to highlight some of its features.  The program is made by the same company which makes XSitePro, a turn key web site building program which sells for $297.

XheaderPro ($47) is a much simpler program which does one thing and does it well - it lets graphically challenged users (like me) create professional looking headers in just a few minutes.   It’s basically a turn key web site header designer which works as follows…

Just opened an account with SmartName last week and have been experimenting with their SmartShops offering.   It’s too soon to see revenue or search engine rankings, but so far I’m impressed with the quality of the storefronts it creates.

SmartShops looks to be particularly suited for exact match product domains (both .com and alternative extensions). The main benefit of SmartShops is that it automatically creates good looking ecommerce minisites that look more like ‘real’ sites than traditional parking or Adsense filled mini site pages.    Here is an  example of a site I created today in less than five minutes…