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DomainPeers.com Is Born

Posted on March 17th, 2011 by admin in Domain News | 7 Comments »

After a lot of hours spent on putting together and then fine-tuning this baby, I am proud to announce the soft launch of DomainPeers.com – the peer-powered domain development platform. What is DomainPeers, I hear someone asking? DomainPeers.com is a crowdsourced, “peer-powered”, domain development platform – an amalgam of crowd sourcing, contests, link building and [...]

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Broken Permalinks After WordPress 3.1 Upgrade

Posted on February 24th, 2011 by admin in Domain Development | 6 Comments »

Some people are reporting broken permalinks after the big upgrade to WordPress 3.1 – I can confirm I am one of “those people”. From what I can see it appears to be an incompatibility with plugins that are playing around with rewrite rules using the “generate_rewrite_rules” filter hook or there abouts – probably brought about [...]

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134 Expired Domains

Posted on February 6th, 2011 by admin in Domain News | 1 Comment »

The following 134 domain names are expired and available to register at the time of writing this. As usual, all names are linked to the Godaddy and Moniker buy screen for quick access as the names are usually gone quickly. beveragerepublic.com Godaddy Moniker cultivationtools.com Godaddy Moniker inventorybasics.com Godaddy Moniker offerguards.com Godaddy Moniker measuringconversions.com Godaddy Moniker [...]

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Webmaster-talk.com Acquired By Freelancer.com

Posted on December 31st, 2010 by admin in Buying & Selling, Domain News | 1 Comment »

Popular webmaster forum webmaster-talk.com (Alexa rank:2602, Compete rank:16,759) has been acquired by the Freelancer.com outsourcing community. In a move announced via the forum’s newsletter, the new owners explain the acquisition was partly fueled by their hope to make webmaster-talk.com the world’s leading entrepreneurship and online business building forum. We’re really excited about the acquisition. Webmaster-Talk, [...]

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Thinking Outside The Box – Ben The Bodyguard – Awesome!

Posted on December 29th, 2010 by admin in Domain News | No Comments »

Popups, pop-unders, sidebar sign up forms (yes, we have one), long sales-letter-type pages – there are a bunch of ways people get newsletter sign ups (opt-ins) that have been in use for ever, if you are looking for something like that. However, it’s great to see someone thinking outside the box – showing innovation – [...]

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Yahoo Pulls Plug On Del.icio.us

Posted on December 17th, 2010 by admin in Domain News | 1 Comment »

An interesting bit of news – especially if you use Del.icio.us bookmarks. A Yahoo meeting brief was leaked via Twitter and picked up by TechCrunch showing that Yahoo are pushing Del.icio.us and other services into a “Sunset” phase. An update to the post was made later by TechCrunch with confirmation that Yahoo is in fact [...]

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PedoPalace.com? Really?

Posted on December 15th, 2010 by admin in Domain News | Comments Off

We have done a number of top X lists in the past showcasing easily misinterpreted domain names like PenIsland.com (PenisLand), TherapistFinder.com (TheRapistFinder), PowergenItalia.com (PowerGenitalia) etc – one of those lists can be found here, written in 2007. It never ceases to amaze me that people pay so little attention to choosing the right domain name [...]

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Russia Leading Spammer In October 2010

Posted on December 3rd, 2010 by admin in Domain News | 3 Comments »

The October issue of the Kaspersky spam report, has shown Russia as the leading source of spam emails for the first time ever. Russian spammers are shown to have distributed twice as much spam as in the September report – accounting for a massive 11.3% of all spam distributed in October 2010. They are closely [...]

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$1 Godaddy Domains

Posted on December 1st, 2010 by admin in Domain News | 3 Comments »

The $1 Godaddy coupon code is back. As of right now you can get your domain name at Godaddy for just $1 using the coupon code ATTACK. Offer limited to 1 domain name per person I believe. Hurry before the offer goes away again.

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WordPress Wins CMS Award

Posted on November 21st, 2010 by admin in Domain Development | 2 Comments »

One of the worst kept secrets in website making is that WordPress is a heck of a CMS. It simply is not just blogging software! In recognition of that fact, and in head to head voting against Joomla and Drupal, it has been announced that WordPress has won the Open Source CMS Hall of Fame [...]

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