Domain Name Wire: Why did you decide to buy Austin.com in particular?
1. one of my favorite cities
2. ‘cool factor’, music/tech scene, and overall national exposure are trending up nicely, making this a growth play on a flourishing city
3. the only top 15 city .com that didn’t have an optimized site
4. It was the only top 20 city for sale, to my knowledge
via Austin.com domain name sold – Domain Name Wire.
It’s relatively straightforward to build a geodomain into a directory or blog. But where most people fall short in making their venture a successful business is the sales process.
That’s because many would-be entrepreneurs loathe the idea of selling advertising, directory listings and leads. Shane Wells, on the other hand, loves to sell. His enthusiasm for sales (and his success) speaks for itself – he went from $50,000 in sales to more than $250,000 per year in sales. To help others be successful, Wells shares the strategies, tactics and tips he uses for selling advertising and services at his geodomain-based Internet marketing company.
via Shane Wells: How I Went from $50,000 to More Than $250,000 in Sales Per Year.
As you can see, the listings follow slightly different formats.
The Premium listing allows a user to add the domain directly to their cart for purchase, whereas the Auction listing must first be viewed on a separate page
The Premium listing displays the price in big block letters, whereas the Auction listing displays the price in the smaller subtext underneath the main heading
The Auction listing displays an end date, which might appeal to a sense of urgency if the potential buyer perceives there is a diminishing window of opportunity to purchase the domain
via Are Go Daddy Premium Listings Still Necessary? | DomainAnimal.com.
There’s a lot to talk about this week. Better.com is for sale on flippa, lots of domain news, and Ed shares his “no brainer tip!”
via Domain Names Podcast Episode 29 – No Brainer Tip | Domain Names – Domain Name News – Domain Names Podcast | OzDomainer.com.
The entire story is on my blog. I am on a mission of awareness and to make this particular person the POSTER BOY for all Reverse Domain Hijackers in the world. The next predator will think twice. Howard and I are determined to make CASE LAW with my POSTER BOY! I am in the process of making this guy FAMOUS as you are about to clearly see as this gets circulated and folks understand what is at stake and the ramifications for not just every domainer, but every domain holder as well.
via Rick Schwartz Sends Email Regarding SaveMe.com UDRP | Elliot’s Blog.
Great checklist and link collection.
With so few information I did a checklist compiling the different activities I needed perform during the different phases of the migration process -decision making, planning, implementation and monitoring- that was a great help to keep me on track and I would like to share through the following “infographic / checklist” where I have also added some of the tools that I used.
via Achieving an SEO-Friendly Domain Migration – The Infographic | SEOmoz.
Is the lesson here that one should not park a short domain?
Ceat.com is an example of twisting the language of the Policy.
Many prior decisions have dealt with PPC usage. In general the best defense to a UDRP claim is that the domain has been used consistently in its descriptive sense. While prior decisions including those cited by the majority found that descriptive domains used for descriptive PPC pages was a legitimate use, those decisions were issued in response to defenses based upon descriptive use.
In Ceat.com, the panel expanded the rule by holding that PPC use is not legitimate unless the PPC pages reflect descriptive use of the domain name; meaning that unless the PPC results are descriptively related to the words comprising the domain your use is illegitimate. This turns the precedent on its head and is a significant change of the Policy.
via Paul Keating: What Does ceat.com UDRP Teach Us? | Elliot’s Blog.
I read a post by someone offering new top-level domain (TLDs). They made this claim: “Will a new TLD web address automatically be favoured by Google over a .com equivalent? Quite simply, yes it will.”
Sorry, but that’s just not true, and as an engineer in the search quality team at Google, I feel the need to debunk this misconception. Google has a lot of experience in returning relevant web pages, regardless of the top-level domain (TLD). Google will attempt to rank new TLDs appropriately, but I don’t expect a new TLD to get any kind of initial preference over .com, and I wouldn’t bet on that happening in the long-term either. If you want to register an entirely new TLD for other reasons, that’s your choice, but you shouldn’t register a TLD in the mistaken belief that you’ll get some sort of boost in search engine rankings.
via Matt Cutts – Google+ – I read a post by someone offering new top-level domain….
Not to say there aren’t rules for naming. For tech companies, Don has three.
Memorable
Easy to spell
Short
Using a common word as a company name has a problem in addition to the expense. It’s very hard to rise up in search rankings if you’re just starting up and have a name that appears on your first-grader’s spelling quiz. Better to make it what the kid writes down that’s wrong.
via Startup Secret 44: A rose by any other name | Rafe’s Radar – CNET News.
The domain name was registered in Canada with Vancouver-based DomainClip. In past years, registering a domain name with a non-U.S. registrar and avoiding U.S. servers was viewed as sufficient to fall outside U.S. jurisdiction.
In the Bodog.com case, State of Maryland prosecutors were able to obtain a warrant ordering Verisign, the company that ultimately manages all the dot-com domain names in the world, to redirect the website to a warning page advising that it has been seized by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
The message from the case is clear: all dot-com, dot-net, and dot-org domain names are subject to U.S. jurisdiction regardless of where they operate or where they were registered. This grants the U.S. a form of “super-jurisdiction” over Internet activities since most other countries are limited to jurisdiction with a real and substantial connection.
via Bodog.com case sends warning to all Canadian websites: Geist – thestar.com.