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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 – [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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.
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 [...]
