a href="http://www.hearttruth.gov" target="_blank"img src="http://i192.photobucket.com/albums/z221/agoldman3/tonyb.jpg" border="0" alt="Bad URL"/abr /br /Tony "The URL Enforcer" Bombacino spotted this one at Laguardia and offered it up as an example of "Good cause, bad URL treatment." Ain't that the...

a href="http://tiaa-cref.org/ira8" target="_blank"img alt="Bad URL" src="http://i192.photobucket.com/albums/z221/agoldman3/IMG_0643-1.jpg" border="0" //abr /br /Here's a href="http://goodurlbadurl.blogspot.com/2009/02/kaplanedutalentoffer3.html"another/a example of a bad attempt at tracking response...

The NAHB/Wells Fargo Housing Opportunity Index recently released some interesting info.  The page has links to several excel documents that list the most, and least, affordable cities to live in.  I’ll just discuss the metro areas over 500k people. The most affordable cities Indianapolis, I...

eToys stories most popular in February. Toys, toys, toys. That’s a theme in the top stories on Domain Name Wire in February, as ranked by views. 1. Toys.com, Birthdays.com, Hobbies.com Sold at Auction - after getting a tip, Domain Name Wire uncovers the details behind a multi-million dollar...

Most websites are coded quite sloppily. Luckily the search engine bots and browsers are designed to deal with malformed code. However how do you know that all of your websites and all of your pages are being indexed properly? Is malformed code making the bot hiccup and causing you to lose valuable v...

Just got back from watching Delhi6 and for those who read just the first few lines of blog posts… Go and watch it, its worth more than what you pay for it. I was dreading going for this movie because I thought Rang De Basanti was a class act and any filmmaker would be tough put [...]...

Since I started this blog back in October of 2007 I have always found a lot of confusion around the term “domain flipping”. I think at least once a year I will re-visit this topic and give people a detailed look at what the Domain Flipping process involves. I have written several posts a...

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No matter how big or small your website is, and no matter what domain name you decide to develop, there is one certainty… Google will play a major role in the success of your website.  Google’s algorithms are constantly adjusted slightly (or not so slightly) in Google’s effort to ...

This week’s video is being showcased at Domaining.com. In fact, if your not already aware of it Domaining.com is my newest video sponsor. They will be running the video on their site Friday, Saturday and Sunday every week. On Monday I will then replace this post with the video in order to arch...

It has been awhile since I have done my "Off the wall domain name stats" so I figured I would do another one. These are some stats that are not always seen and are pretty interesting numbers. These stats show domain names that are moving from one parking company to another, which registrars ...

The latest VeriSign Domain Name Industry Brief also spotlights how VeriSign and others in the global Internet community are working to provide a way for people of all languages to navigate the Internet. The issue is important, because Internet usage is growing fastest in countries where English a...

Warren Buffett, in an open letter to shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway as part of the companies 2008 report, had plenty to say about the economy. Famed as one of the great investors of all time, his opinion is sought by governmental leaders, businessman and economists and why not.  Shares of his c...

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I started this blog to talk about anything and everything under the sun, but due to the fact that my interest at the time was mostly domaining, its become a one subject blog and not something I’m happy with. Specially since there are a lot of people who blog about domains and do it a lot [...]...

Very rarely does the average member get to ask the forum owner any and all questions they want to! RJ ( Ron James ) of NamePros.com offers members just such an opportunity: http://www.namepros.com/the-break-room/561399-ok-ask-rj-anything.html It takes a lot of guts and grit to do this, hats off to ...

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What a nice surprise to get online for a few minutes and see a 3 letter .com coming up for auction at BIDO with a $1 reserve. Sweet – that’s what I call trust in an auction house to provide value to the seller and quality to the marketplace. Kudos Sahar and everybody else at BIDO. Now, to give c...

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Snugglette™ is the new follow up blanket with sleeves of the first Snuggie™ blanket that is now world famous. The commercials for the Snuggie™ were a Huge Hit and the advertising was a perfect fit as they took the approach of saving money on heating bill, while also providing an af...

Reauction of Toys.com goes for $5.1M. It’s not over yet (subject to court approval), but it looks like Toys ‘R’ Us will be purchasing the Toys.com domain name for $5.1M. The company outbid National A-1 Advertising in an auction that was live blogged on DirectNavigation.com. (Dir...

if you have been domaining for some time you have noticed that its get popular and the industry is overwhelm with new domainers trying to make a few bucks. I also noticed that my sales have came to nothing, I must not be pushing far enough or my domains are crap or alittle of both. How do I make a p...

So as we all know by now Toys.com, which sold literally just days ago, for $1,250,000 as part of a bankruptcy court proceeding, sold today for $5,100,000 after a re-auction was ordered by the bankruptcy court. What does that say about the value of domains or domain auctions? How does a domain at auc...

The nominee for Assistant Attorney General for Anti-trust at the United States Department of Justice, has said that she considers Google to be a monopoly. She also said she was “deeply troubled” by Google’s purchase of DoubleClick and its proposed purchase of Yahoo’s search b...

DirectNavigation.com just mentioned that the domain Toys.com has sold for a final price of $5,100,000 (auction). As a huge toy store across the United States (and various parts of the world), I think this this domain will probably just get forwarded to Toys R Us‘ domain, ToysRUs.com. Maybe not...