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Domain ebook Domaining Manifesto at $27

Posted on April 30th, 2008 by admin in Domain News, Domaining 101 | No Comments »

I launched my domain ebook Domaining Manifesto some four months ago and have had quite a successful sales campaign. I received numerous letters of support from customers happy with the book and the information they gained from it. After careful consideration and due to a wish to make the book more affordable and publicly accessible [...]

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Jerry Seinfeld gets JerrySeinfeld.com

Posted on April 30th, 2008 by admin in Domain News | 2 Comments »

I recently blogged about one of my favourite comedians Jerry Seinfeld who wanted his domain name back. Well, I am pleased to announce Jerry Seinfeld has won control of the domain name JerrySeinfeld.com. His lawyers had launched an appeal to get control of the domain held by Anything.com, which had what amounted to a customized [...]

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29/04/2008 Free List Of 117 Expired Domains

Posted on April 30th, 2008 by admin in Expired Domains | No Comments »

I posted a list of 117 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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Insoshi Open Source Social Networking

Posted on April 30th, 2008 by admin in Domain News | No Comments »

If you are looking for alternative ways to develop your domain names you should definitely take a look at insoshi – an open source social networking platform done in Ruby on Rails. The author of the software is Michael Hartl who wrote RailsSpace, which is considered THE BOOK when it comes to writing social networks [...]

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MelbourneIT acquires Verisign DBMS

Posted on April 30th, 2008 by admin in Domain News | No Comments »

Melbrourne IT have just announced they have purchased the Digital Brand Management Services (DBMS) division from Verisign. This makes it clear that VeriSign is going back to focusing on the more profitable registry business. I talked with William Roper (CEO of Verisign) less then a year ago and he indicated that a leaner more focused [...]

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.me sunrise period is nearing

Posted on April 29th, 2008 by admin in Domain News | 3 Comments »

I have reported about the .me ( Monte Negro ) ccTld on numerous occasions in the passed ever since ICANN assigned it to the country, as you can read here, here, here and here. Well, I can finally announced that the .ME Sunrise Period is coming up! Here is the rollout schedule: May 6 17:00 [...]

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The power of brandable domain names

Posted on April 29th, 2008 by admin in Domain News, Domaining 101 | 4 Comments »

If you follow the various domaining discussions at places like DNForum or NamePros you can still find a number of doubters who smirk at the mention of a meaningless 5 letter .com domain name. 5 letter domain names due to their vast number cannot possibly be compared to their 4 or 3 letter equivalent. 5 [...]

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What is a UDRP

Posted on April 29th, 2008 by admin in Domain News, Domaining 101 | No Comments »

I just saw a cool post over at GreenTaxi defining a UDRP – a domaining term that has been mentioned more frequently in recent times. “The Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution Policy (UDRP) is a process established by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) for the resolution of disputes regarding the registration of Internet [...]

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Dictionary domains on pre-order at namejet

Posted on April 29th, 2008 by admin in Domain News | No Comments »

I noticed a great collection of dictionary domain names available for pre-order at NameJet today. Paris.biz, Wheat.biz, Events.biz, Wax.org, Bars.biz just to name a few. I think Paris.biz is a wonderful domain name with a lot of development potential. The other ones are quite nice and would warrant a solid investment too. Interesting to see [...]

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WordPress 2.5.1 upgrade is out

Posted on April 29th, 2008 by admin in Domain News | No Comments »

WordPress 2.5 was a major upgrade with a lot of changes so I expected to see a complementary update to come out that will fix any small bugs that would appear after the big rollout. You can download WordPress 2.5.1 here. There is a security fix that is especially important if you allow open registrations [...]

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