Archive for February, 2009

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The Most, And Least, Affordable Cities To Live In

The NAHB/Wells Fargo Housing Opportunity Index recently released some interesting info.  The page has links to several excel documents that list the most, and least, affordable cities to live in.  I’ll just discuss the metro areas over 500k people.
The most affordable cities

Indianapolis, IN
Warren-Troy-Farmington Hills, MI
Youngstown-Warren-Boardman, OH-PA
Detroit-Livonia-Dearborn, MI
Grand Rapids-Wyoming, MI
Syracuse, NY
Dayton, OH
Akron, OH
Cleveland-Elyria-Mentor, OH
Scranton-Wilkes-Barre, PA

I can [...]


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Validate your website

Most websites are coded quite sloppily. Luckily the search engine bots and browsers are designed to deal with malformed code. However how do you know that all of your websites and all of your pages are being indexed properly? Is malformed code making the bot hiccup and causing you to lose valuable visitors?
Website validation
Run this [...]


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Yeh Dilli Hain Mere Yaar!

Just got back from watching Delhi6 and for those who read just the first few lines of blog posts… Go and watch it, its worth more than what you pay for it.
I was dreading going for this movie because I thought Rang De Basanti was a class act and any filmmaker would be tough put [...]


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Understanding Domain Flipping

Since I started this blog back in October of 2007 I have always found a lot of confusion around the term “domain flipping”. I think at least once a year I will re-visit this topic and give people a detailed look at what the Domain Flipping process involves.
I have written several posts about this in [...]


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Cape Cod Domain Name Mini-Portfolio

Cape Cod & Islands, Massachusetts - Boston, MA/Manchester, UK-based URLBrokers.co.uk is pleased to offer the following Internet real estate opportunities for premier informational Web sites, premium real estate sites & geo-domain sites. The Cap…


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Off the wall domain name stats

It has been awhile since I have done my "Off the wall domain name stats" so I figured I would do another one. These are some stats that are not always seen and are pretty interesting numbers. These stats show domain names that are moving from one parking company to another, which registrars are the [...]


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VeriSign IDN Industry Brief

The latest VeriSign Domain Name Industry Brief also spotlights how VeriSign and others in the global Internet community are working to provide a way for people of all languages to navigate the Internet. The issue is important, because Internet usage is growing fastest in countries where English and other Latin-based languages [...]


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Domain News #3

This week’s video is being showcased at Domaining.com. In fact, if your not already aware of it Domaining.com is my newest video sponsor. They will be running the video on their site Friday, Saturday and Sunday every week. On Monday I will then replace this post with the video in order to archive it for [...]


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Other Domain Name News for Feb 16-28, 2009

Tips on buying Domain Names from the Founder of PhoneTag (formerly known as Simulscribe) [4hWW]

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NameDrive is introducing 6 new innovative templates.


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So what next?

I started this blog to talk about anything and everything under the sun, but due to the fact that my interest at the time was mostly domaining, its become a one subject blog and not something I’m happy with.
Specially since there are a lot of people who blog about domains and do it a lot [...]


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Ask -RJ- Anything!!!

Very rarely does the average member get to ask the forum owner any and all questions they want to!
RJ ( Ron James ) of NamePros.com offers members just such an opportunity:
http://www.namepros.com/the-break-room/561399-ok-ask-rj-anything.html
It takes a lot of guts and grit to do this, hats off to RJ.


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3 Letter .com at BIDO - $1 Reserve

What a nice surprise to get online for a few minutes and see a 3 letter .com coming up for auction at BIDO with a $1 reserve. Sweet – that’s what I call trust in an auction house to provide value to the seller and quality to the marketplace.
Kudos Sahar and everybody else at BIDO.
Now, [...]


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Introducing Featured Links for March

PropertyIcons.com // Big names in Real Estate
PropertyIcons.com will include resources and information on Property Icons, Real Estate, Property, Property Valuation and much more.
I’ll also be sharing general real estate related news from across Australia and Internationally.
 

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California Real Estate Listings plus Real Estate Articles
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Snugglette(.com) blanket. Snuggie for kids!

Snugglette™ is the new follow up blanket with sleeves of the first Snuggie™ blanket that is now world famous. The commercials for the Snuggie™ were a Huge Hit and the advertising was a perfect fit as they took the approach of saving money on heating bill, while also providing an affordable product that was functional.

Now [...]


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Google may face monopoly probe

The nominee for Assistant Attorney General for Anti-trust at the United States Department of Justice, has said that she considers Google to be a monopoly. She also said she was “deeply troubled” by Google’s purchase of DoubleClick and its proposed purchase of Yahoo’s search business.
The key is online advertising. Google’s aggressive moves to dominate this [...]


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Toys.com Sells For $5,100,000 To Toys R Us!

DirectNavigation.com just mentioned that the domain Toys.com has sold for a final price of $5,100,000 (auction). As a huge toy store across the United States (and various parts of the world), I think this this domain will probably just get forwarded to Toys R Us‘ domain, ToysRUs.com. Maybe not? We’ll just have to wait and [...]


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Toys”R”us Buys Toys.com Domain Name for $5.1 Million

The Toys.com domain name bankruptcy auction is now over. I caught the tail end of the auction and listened and Twittered as the 2 final bidders ToysRus and National A1 Advertising fought it out with $5,000 bid increments.  The final blow by Toys”R”us was a $5,100,000 bid that trumped National A1’s $5,000,000 bid.  Up until [...]


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Toys.com goes to Toys R Us for 5.1 million USD!

Larry from DirectNavigation.com is currently covering the live auction of  Toys.com. Famous domainer, Frank Schilling, dropped out after the bids rose to 2.9 Million. This seems to be a battle between 2 giants, Toys R Us and National A-1 . Current bid (at time of writing) has reached 4.9 Million . (I think we’re reaching the peak [...]


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Celebrities Using Twitter

Politicians are already using, and the domaining community is now making it a number one destination for domaining news and fun.
Here is an article listing some of the world’s moist famous celebrities who are on Twitter:
http://tech.uk.msn.com/features/gallery.aspx?cp-documentid=14064863
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