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World Domain Count keeps on climbing

Posted on November 27th, 2007 by admin in Domain News | No Comments »

I read some interesting statistics today. Did you know there are presently 96,062,782 active domains on the net? What an awesome statistic! Of course, the majority of those 96 million active domains is made up of .com domains ( 70,961,508 or 74%). A very long way behind, in second place are .net domains ( 10,468,674 [...]

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ICANN releases 6 week IDNwiki report

Posted on November 27th, 2007 by admin in Domain News | 2 Comments »

ICANN launched the IDNwiki on 15th October 2007. Now, 6 weeks later they have compiled some user statistics and related information which show an interesting trend. There were over 250,000 page views, with over 40% Chinese, 13,5% Cyrillic, 12,55% Arabic, etc. 94441 page views were made by a Netscape compatible browser, 35423 by Yeti, 34304 [...]

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26/11/2007 Expired Domain List Archive

Posted on November 26th, 2007 by admin in Expired Domains | No Comments »

I posted a list of 105 expired domains in the DNXpert domain name forum today. I practice showing only a sample of that list on my blog here to be fair to the folks that bothered to register on the FREE forum. If you want to learn more about domaining and how I find these [...]

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Free expired domain list – 211 domains available to register

Posted on November 26th, 2007 by admin in Expired Domains | 8 Comments »

My expired domain lists are getting larger from day to day. This time around I found 211 great expired domains for my email subscribers. I send my email subscribers regular free expired domain lists. If you are not a subscriber, you are definitelly missing out. However, it is not too late to register. My mails [...]

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Barbados Government wins right to manage their tld .bb

Posted on November 26th, 2007 by admin in Domain News | 1 Comment »

ICANN board members today voted unanimously to re-delegate the management of the Barbados ccTld .BB to the government of Barbados. Up until today, the ccTLD was under the management of the local office of Cable & Wireless, however, the government of the West Indian nation recently submitted an application to ICANN asking for the right [...]

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Country code top level domains – ccTld

Posted on November 26th, 2007 by admin in Domain News, Domaining 101 | 2 Comments »

A country code top level domain ccTLD is used to identify a country or dependent territory. ccTlds are two letters long. The creation and delegation of country code top level domains is managed by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority – IANA. The ccTlds usually correspond to the ISO 3166 country codes maintained by the ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency.

Here is the complete list of ccTLDs:

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Generic Top Level Domains – gTLDs

Posted on November 25th, 2007 by admin in Domain News, Domaining 101 | 4 Comments »

Generic Top Level Domains (TLDs) are the suffixes ( extensions ) that identify generic domains. In theory they are used by a particular class of organization, however newer times have seen a drop in control of who uses these domain types.

The following gTLDs currently exist:

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Latest domain registration coupons

Posted on November 24th, 2007 by admin in Domain News | 5 Comments »

It’s that time again, I have a list of coupon codes you can use when registering domain names. I feel there is absolutely no need to pay the full fee for a domain name when you can use a domain coupon and save. For this post I have found godaddy coupons, namecheap coupons and dotster [...]

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Sedo announces second premium dot mobi auction

Posted on November 24th, 2007 by admin in Domain News | No Comments »

Continuing in the Sedo flavor today, Sedo have announced that following the success of it’s first premium dot mobi auction, they are to hold a second premium dot mobi auction. The second premium dot mobi auction will commence on November 28 and will feature another set of 100 domains dotMobi set aside for equal allocation [...]

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Sedo promotes total website optimization

Posted on November 24th, 2007 by admin in Domain News | No Comments »

Sedo have published a paper that looks at total website optimization. Getting your domain optimized for clicks is not as simple as parking your domain at Sedo. There are many factors to consider. “When optimizing a portfolio, many domainers center their attention exclusively on the advertising keyword. While advertising keyword selection is paramount to maximizing [...]

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