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The .Car is Getting Ready for the Road
ATX Group, the world’s largest independent telematics service provider to the automotive industry, is proposing a .car top-level domain extension in order to support websites designed specifically for web browsing inside vehicles. Several large car companies, such as BMW and Chrysler, are already bringing the internet into their latest automobiles. However, full access to the web inside your car could have potentially dangerous consequences. Alongside the Connected Vehicle Trade Association, ATX is also working to convince these...
read moreBasics of Overture Scores for Domain Names
Domain names may be associated with something called an Overture score, which may be a factor considered when determining the worth of a domain. But what is an Overture score? How do you find out the Overture score for a domain and what does it mean? In this article we will cover the basics of Overture scores and how it can be used to help decide a domain’s value. Let’s get started by defining what the Overture score actually is. Overture is a part of Yahoo’s online advertising network. Each month, millions of searches are...
read moreMarketing Your Website: Domain Names 101
Any new website venture online will include a domain name. Sometimes the domain is purchased from a domain broker – someone who specializes in reselling domain names. The majority of the time, however, it will be registered through a domain registrar. No matter how it is purchased, in all cases, the domain name (or names) for a website should be carefully considered. The basis of the marketing for the website will be the domain name chosen. Having been a domain name appraiser for a few years now, I can tell you that the choice of names...
read moreWhat’s in 74,000 names? Big money
By Thomas Crampton International Herald Tribune PARIS The new dot-eu Internet address was supposed to offer a convenient pan-European alternative to suffixes like dot-com. But the organization in charge of handing out dot-eu addresses ended up in court last month in a bitter dispute over control of 74,000 domain names ranging from Beethoven.eu to hotelparking.eu. EURid, the not-for-profit organization in charge of administering dot-eu, blocked full use of 74,000 addresses by three companies attempting to register them, saying the companies...
read moreHow to Start Your .mobi Online Presence Immediately
It seems that the new .mobi has been a very controversial domain extension so far. The main concern that people may have is that it takes time to understand the Switch On!™ Guides (required by mTLD, the .mobi Registry) and to create a .mobi compliant Web site. The time invested to fully understand a newly registered .mobi domain name will be well worth it to take advantage of everything the Mobile Internet has to offer. DotMobi is the first domain extension that comes with such strict Web site design requirements and the general public is...
read moreSedo Acquires Industry Pioneer, GreatDomains
Cambridge, Mass., June 20, 2007 – Sedo’s top executives have just completed a three- Sedo announced that it has purchased GreatDomains from VeriSign, Inc. Sedo.com is the leading online marketplace for the buying and selling of domain names, and GreatDomains is an established marketplace focused exclusively on the trading of high-quality, generic domain names. The acquisition provides a tremendous opportunity to capitalize on the growth of the secondary domain name market. GreatDomains.com will continue to be the leading marketplace for...
read moreRegistrar on .eu domain hoarding: Nothing we can do
A reseller of .eu domain names has denied accusations that his business has operated unfairly by stockpiling more than 1,000 three-letter domain names and charging customers more than $1,909 to buy each one. Stephen Wilde, of Hampshire, England-based company Really Useful Domains, told ZDNet UK that it was an “idealistic approach” to suggest that stockpiling was unethical. The accusation came from Andrew Hooper, a new father who recently wanted to take advantage of the new .eu top-level domain to give his 2-week-old son,...
read moreSedo Offers Financing for High-Value Domains
World’s Largest Domain Name Marketplace Partners with Domain Capital to Deliver Domain Financing for Purchases of more than $10,000 Cambridge, Mass. June 15, 2006 – Sedo, the leading online marketplace for the buying and selling of domain names, has today announced a new partnership with Domain Capital to offer domain investors finance plans on high-value domain purchases. The program will support a large number of investors seeking to purchase high-return domain names without making a large upfront capital expenditure. “With a growing...
read moreHow to Find Money-Making Domains
by Mara Miller, Sedo.com Marketing Associate Thanks to Sedo’s wildly popular Domain Parking program, many of our users earn hundreds or even thousands of dollars each month without selling a single domain name. Instead, they park their high traffic domain names, and then sit back and watch as the checks roll in. Domain traffic, they realize, is like a license to print money. Inevitably this leads to the next question: How can I get more of it?! In this article we’ll explain the tools and techniques domain pros use to determine...
read moreSEO for Dummies- A crash course in Search Engine Optimization
In the past 3 years that we’ve been operating this site, we’ve been in contact with thousands of webmasters. Much to our surprise, most webmasters really don’t know how to properly optimize a website for high visibility in the search engines. People are still caught up on “meta-tags” and “submission software”. If any company tries to solicit your business by offering to submit your site to thousands of search engines every month for a year, or any variation of this banter… run!! In this day and...
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