On its blog today, Practicalecommerce.com, a site for well, ecommerce developers and sites, discusses how valuable a domain name is to site development. The blog correctly states that """"Your domain name is the most powerful piece of branding your store has on the Web"""" """"A strong, recognizable domain name for your business can bring even more organic traffic to your site. A poor … [Read more...]
Archives for October 2008
BoycottKentucky.com: Go Sign the Petition
As we reported about 10 days ago a online gambling group called for a boycott of all things Kentucky. A fellow domainer, Jeffrey Reynolds, Ph.D, started a website BoycottKentucky.com, where is now asking for people to sign the online petition. We just finished signing and suggest you take a minute out of your day and express your outrage with the Governor of Kentucky, Steve Beshear action, … [Read more...]
Directi Takes Down 175,000 Domains; Turns Privacy Off For More Than 500,000 Domains
Directi.com an ICANN accredited registrar announced on its blog last week that is had suspended 175,000 domain names for "Registrar Abuse". """""Directi, has have recently taken to track down and stop abusive domain names and registrants from abusing Directi’s services.""" According to the post 9,000 were taken down for having false whois info, over 2,000 for spam 34,000 that were part of a … [Read more...]
WSJ: Don’t Use Three Letter Domains For Your Site
It's always interesting to get a non-domainer perspective on domains. Certainly values of domains ultimately depend in large part to end users. The Wall Street Journal Blog had a discussion on selecting domain names for an end users site. They had several do's and don'ts: """""""- Include keywords in your business name, when possible. (Jon’s Bicycles, for instance, is better than Jon’s … [Read more...]
Will VeriSign Be Able to Charge Preimum Prices for .Com?
In a post by George Kirikos on his blog CircleID, looking at the draft of the rules for the new Generic Top-level domains (gTLD) a provision in the rules, Mr. Kirikos thinks may invite VeriSign to amend their contract to provide for eliminating price caps. Mr. Kirikos writes: """""""""According to the draft of new Generic Top-level Domains (gTLD) contracts for Section 7.3: Price controls … [Read more...]
4 Domains Top $5K Each Today at NameJet.com
Four domains sold at Namejet.com off our watch list for over $5K each. Nice to see in another terrible day in the stock market and in the face of continuing bad economic news. broiler.com $8,989 broilers.com $6,986 biggerboobs.com $6,200 yesterdays.com $6,101 … [Read more...]
Gaming Group Asks Appeals Court To Throw Out Kentucky Domain Seziure Order
The Interactive Media and Entertainment and Gaming Association (iMEGA), filed a Petition in the Kentucky Court of Appeals asking the appellate court to throw out the original seizure notice dated September 18th and its order of October 16th upholding the seizure. In its 55 page petition, iMEGA names as defendants, the Judge who issued the seziure notice Thomas Wingate, and the Commonwealth of … [Read more...]