AOL announced today the launch of JSYK.com (Just So You Know), described by AOL as a new tween and teen pop culture blog featuring celebrity news, photos, videos, polls, quizzes and more. The target audience of JSYK.com is 9-15 year-olds. This marks another major media company that has rolled out a major site around a 4 letter domain (LLLL.com) Back In April we posted about Universal and … [Read more...]
2009 .INFO Award Nominations Are Now Opened: 1st Place Prize Is $7,500
Afilias the .Info registry announced today the opening of the 2009 .INFO Awards. The awards, first created in 2006, rewards the best professionally created .INFO Web sites from around the world. .INFO Site owners are able to submit their .INFO site for consideration until 11:59 p.m. on October 23, 2009. Sites will be judged in two parts. First a panel of … [Read more...]
Note To Corporate America: Secure The Domain BEFORE Putting Out The Press Release
I just saw a press release from a Minnesota Hosting company announcing its new program, an incentive for companies to replace their old servers with new dedicated servers. """Playing off the government’s Cash for Clunkers program, VISI’s “Cash For Servers” promotion offers a rebate up to $500 to anyone who purchases a new dedicated or virtual dedicated server and … [Read more...]
Chicago I Love You, But I Have To Root Against You
As most of you know, the Olympic Committee will announce Friday, its decision on where the 2016 summer Olympics will be held. The 4 finalists are Chicago, Rio, Madrid and Tokyo. I have to admit, I'm not impartial. Why? Domain names. The most popular tourist Geo domains, other than the actual city .com, is the Visit......com. May cities and countries use Visit.......com as their … [Read more...]
GoDaddy Spots A New Domain Trend: Registering Your Home’s Street Address: Is This The Secret To Selling Your Home?
GoDaddy.com, said in a press release today, that it recently discovered a huge surge in the registration of domains named after street addresses. Comparing 2005, around the time the housing bubble “burst,” to last year, Go Daddy recorded a more than 320% increase in “home address” domain name registrations. States and cities with the most registrations include … [Read more...]
Our First Annual “Worst Use Of A Great Domain” Award
As we all surf around the net, in search of the next great domain to acquire, you come across those domains that you just shake your head at in disbelieve that someone would use a great domain in such a fashion. So we are starting an award for the "Worst Use Of A Great Domain" So here is our pick for this years award: Justin.com You will have to click on it to see what I mean. Why … [Read more...]
Why Do Lawyers Spend Thousands a Month Renting Billboards & Don’t Spend A Dime For A Good Domain
In a recent 4 week period, I was up and down the I-4 corridor between Tampa and Orlando, several times a week. I noticed as a "industry" no one group advertises on billboards more than lawyers. More than 1/2 of the billboards I saw didn't even have a domain name on the billboard. The billboards almost all had phone numbers, 99% of which I still can't remember even having seen the boards … [Read more...]