Domaining

Yahoo Domain Name Renewal Sky High! Yahoo increased the renewal cost of domains to $34.95 effective July 1, 2008. This is a huge increase from the $8.95 to initially register a domain. Considering the cheap price of domains elsewhere, you have to wonder why Yahoo would make such a move. This is one way fill the coffers quickly at the risk of losing a certain percentage of customers. There are many Mom and Pop businesses who are set up for automatic renewal, may not realize that is a sky high... Read Full Story

One Purpose: Online Pizza Marketing 7 Domain names working together to market pizza. 7 domain names offered for sale as a group. Ongoing Ebay Ad Contact Info at GotDigit.com 2% finders fee for qualified ‘finders’ registered at GotDigit.com The 7 Pizza Domains are: 1-Pizza.com The main portal for our family of pizza domain names. 1-Pizza.mobi The main ‘mobile’ portal for our family of pizza domain names. 1-74992.com The main ‘Pizza by the Numbers’ portal. (74992 - Spells Pizza on a... Read Full Story

Montenegro (.me) domains went on sale at 8am Pacific this morning.  A frenzied domain land rush is likely being tempered by domain pricing - $19.95/year with a two-year minimum. At 10 am I was still able to find a few I wanted to register for future use: pleasehelp.me remote.me open.me Anyone out there pick up any interesting .me domains? It’s been a busy week, and I probably would have missed out on the opportunity had it not been for Jason Baer’s digital marketing blog.  Thanks Jason... Read Full Story

The board of ICANN unanimously approved sweeping changes to the rules governing domain extensions today. The broad based changes allow top-level domains (.com, .org, .edu, etc.) to be created without restrictions previously in place. The new posture opens the door for almost any domain suffix imaginable, likely with .sex and .xxx leading the way. With most memorable names consumed under “.com,” that this ruling will pave the way for more descriptive suffixes, such as “.resort” or “.books... Read Full Story

Park Your Domain Name at WhyPark.com and Make Real Money! Back in 2004 when I started Internet marketing I bought few dozen keyword stuffed Domain names and never used it. I just kept renewing them and never built a site. I parked all these domains at Sedo.com (like most do) because it’s free. My parked domains were making few cents per month and it wasn’t even enough to pay the annual renewal fee; few domains were making absolutely zero…so I let them die! But today my parked domains... Read Full Story

photo credit: Kai Hendry Gone are the days of unbelievably expensive charges to surf the web on your unbelievably slow mobile phone. These days Americans are ready to do business on the mobile web, but very few sites are mobile-ready. When you are considering your brand and presence online, be sure you add “buy dot mobi domain” to your to-do list. There are more mobile phones in circulation right now than PCs and television sets put together. More than half of these phones are less than... Read Full Story

Monday, January 21, 2008 Why PPC Advertisers Should Prefer Parked Domains Here's an excerpt of a comment I left on John Battelle's What Percentage of Yahoo's (and Google's) Revenue Comes from Domainers post: If you look at this from the advertisers' point of view, domain ads should actually perform better than even search ads. Why? There are no organic search results to compete with. That's the theory, anyway. In practice, too many of the parked domains participating in the... Read Full Story