Archive for August, 2009
ArteryTour.com Get’s Launched By Crestor®
Crestor®, the makers of a cholesterol lowering medication has rolled out a new ad on TV using the domain name ArteryTour.com to help explain the benefits of it’s cholesterol meds while using a make sense domain to match it’s main message in the ad.
When visiting ArteryTour.com, it may seem like a simple forward (301 redirection) [...]
Browser For The Better: Download Internet Explorer 8 To Feed America (Even Better, Get Rid of IE6…
At BrowserForTheBetter.com, for every download of Internet Explorer 8 from the site, they will donate 8 meals to Feeding America. On top of that, during Hunger Action month, they will DOUBLE the donation for people upgrading from Internet Explorer 6! AWESOME! BUT–does anyone use Internet Explorer anymore?!
On this specific blog, I have (33% IE/29,4% FF) [...]
GoRenew.com Florida Highway Safety DMV “Get It”
It can be considered something so simple, but what it really is, effective marketing. One of the simple but extremely POWERFUL uses of a make sense domain name. Simply using a "make sense" domain name and forwarding it (301 redirection) to a more confusing domain for your site.
Florida Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles is a [...]
Dissecting My Recent Twiter.com Typo Post Traffic
I wanted to do a little something different and dissect a post that I did this weekend. As I write this, I have no clear reason to writing it other then discovery, but I have seen several things that interest me. With writing, sometimes it answers my question, sometimes I get the help of my [...]
Snapnames.com Domain Name Hot List on DotWeekly.com
If you are looking to save a little time, while also reading DotWeekly.com, browse your eyes to the right from time to time and see if a domain name in the blue bar catches your eye!
All domain names are set to go to public auction starting from today and out sometimes to 30 days from [...]
Live Domain Auctioneers Auction Today
Live Domain Auctioneers are holding their second live domain auction over at proxibid.com today.
The auction features 100 domain names all with bids starting from $0. All domains are being auctioned off without reserve. You can view the catalogue and place your bids here.
Notable domains on auction include CookingReviews.com, MegaFight.com, CashSurge.com, BigDelivery.com, MultiBids.com, PlanEstates.com, IdealVitamins.com, InstallServices.com [...]
Twiter.com Typo Holding Ticking Time Bomb
Most of the time when a domain owner owns a typo of a trademarked term, they try their best to cover all bases not to display any ads on a page related to the trademark, parking page, place text on the site that they are not affiliated with X etc.
Twiter.com which is a clear typo [...]
30 August 2009 Free List Of 48 Expired Domains
Confirmation – Live Current Media Sells Cricket.com for $1.75 Million
I reported the supposed sale of Cricket.com yesterday based on a press release published on BusinessWire.com.
Following correspondence with Geoff Hampson of Live Current Media and Communicate.com I can now confirm that Cricket.com has indeed been sold for $1.75 million to GCV Mauritius making it the 7th domain name to crack the million dollar mark this [...]
Swedish Regulator Bans Use of Word “Bank” in Domain Names
Swedish regulator PTS has today notified IIS.SE (the .SE ccTld registry) that use of the word “bank” in domain names is illegal in Sweden from here on in.
The press release announcing the change in rules can be found on the PTS website here (text in Swedish, thanks to Patrik Fältström of CircleID for the translation).
Obviously, [...]
GlennBeck.com Still Has Advertisers
Although some 30 companies Now up to 46 have decided to join the band wagon and pull ads running on Glenn Becks daily program on FOX TV, GlennBeck.com has all of it’s spots filled with paying customers!
Glenn Beck has been a ratings master over at FOX but he says and does things that many do [...]
Snuggie For Kids Rebrands It’s Blanket With Sleeves
Snuggie for kids has been a big hit for Snuggie™ lovers around the world but when the snuggie for kids blanket with sleeves was first launched, it was called Snugglette™. Going away from the Snuggie brand name has proven not to be the best idea and brand managers have noticed this.
Now the brand name [...]
Bump Down The Competition and Rule The Top
Search engine competition is Strong and even getting 1 page / post ranking number 1 for a term you want on search engines is not easy. Now if you do happen to have a page / post ranking #1 or on P1 Great!
So how can you improve that #1 rank? Get the second one as [...]
Godaddy New And Renewal Coupon
I was renewing some domain names at Godaddy today and found it tough to find valid coupon codes that will give me a discount on the renewals.
After a bit of searching finally found one that still works so I thought I’d make a note of it in case anyone else needs it – it’s ZINE7.
Live Current Media Sells Cricket.com for $1.75 Million?
A press release on BusinessWire is claiming Live Current Media has sold Cricket.com to GCV Mauritius for $1.75 million.
Here is an extract from the press release itself:
“Live Current Media Inc. (OTCBB:LIVC), a media company built around content and commerce destinations, announces today that it has completed the sale and assignment of the cricket.com domain [...]
Weekend Musings Of A Domainer August 29 2009
It is Saturday, again!!
Happy birthday Michael Jackson! Yes, Michael Jackson was born 51 years ago, today. Last night I went to watch the premiere of The Final Destination in 3D at the London O2, the venue where Michael Jackson should have been having his This Is It shows.
As we were walking pass the entrance to the [...]
The Story Behind the Godaddy Name and Logo
It was 1997 and Bob Parsons started a little company called Jomax Technologies. The Jomax name itself came from an old dirt road that Bob would pass on his drive into work.
Moving forward two years and Jomax was ready to launch a product (Web Site Tonight) and feared nobody would remember the company name Jomax [...]
Why Does Your Website Lack Visitors?
This is a constructive Criticism article. Take it for what you wish as people have different means of skills on web development and budgets, but some people pay for development and the sites built lack some of the very basic SEO things that can Greatly help increase your website traffic and ability for people to [...]
.Info – we have a $1 Million Dollar Sale
A .info sells for 1 million dollars.
Amazing story where the buyer wanted the name for 3 years from the seller and only now both finally agreed on a price. With a seller having the cohonas to hold out and the buyer having persistence to get what he wanted.
Is this a true story?
No. but it’s a [...]
New Anti-Circumvention and Fraud Control in place for newsletter sales
Recently we have been catching people who have be contacting our sellers outside of the normal channels. Please don’t do this to us.
We work very hard on our newsletter and deserve to get paid when a domain sells.
Using a combination of technology and human labor, we have put in place certain things that will tell [...]
