Second guessing and postulating isn’t just for football. Yesterday I read a guest post at Domain Name News titled “Armchair SEOs Play with Toys.com“. It was a good article about Toys.com losing its Google ranking, and how it’s easy to sit back and say “Toys ‘R...

Google announced Thursday it is cutting about 200 jobs in sales and marketing, citing an overlap in responsibilities across the organization that could complicate the “decision-making” process and make teams less effective and efficient. The cuts will take place globally and employees wi...

The auction for Badgirl.com ends today at snapnames.com at 3:15 EST. The high bid is currently over $8,000 and you can still join the auction by clicking here. UsNotary.com closes today at well, a pretty good domain still under $100, to join the auction for UsNotary.com click here. ...

Since the general availability phase of the new .TEL domain started on March 24th, the registry has now already passed 100,000 registrations according to insider sources. A 6-12 hour delay in new domain propagation, seems to confirm the high registry load. It seems that many investors, speculators a...

I just spent a couple of days at SES New York. Seems to be a great show, and next year, I plan to attend more than just the exhibition floor as I heard there were some great sessions. Anyhow, being on the floor meeting with a variety of companies got me thinking about SEO and [...] Related posts:2...

Will .tel be good for search? I have my doubts. Checking in at forums and on comments at Domain Name Wire, it’s clear that a lot of people think .tel domain names could be a search engine gold mine. The premise is that the data on .tel domains is very structured, and Google can easily index...

I know of someone with a large portfolio of premium English keyword .asia domain names who is looking to sell.  Send me a note or comment and I will put you in touch.  I’m not a domain broker, but happy to connect interest parties. Related posts:Who is Buying Your Domains? Often times doma...

A company that sells instructional videos and CDs sued Amazon for trademark infringement stemming from PPC ads on Google. The complaint, filed this week by Video Professor, alleges that Amazon uses the phrase “video professor” to trigger pay-per-click ads that direct people to a site tha...

*Pull as hard as you can on the rope to win. The third thing I’d like to talk about in this series is about not spending money you don’t need to spend. If you think you’ve already won the negotiation, why give up anything at all? Imagine a scenario where you have been given a price...

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While I cannot claim credit for the heading of this post. It always amazes me when mainstream media makes any sort of reference to the domain industry. If you haven’t read this story yet then it is new to you. I subscribe to BestLife, a mainstream magazine I consider somewhat acceptable t...

Here at Domain Superstar we’ve been really busy coming up with exciting new tools for our members. Just in the last week we’ve added the geo-domain finder Google Maps mashup and the bulk keyword domain finder to our beta dashboard, where you can preview the full versions of these tool b...

It is no secret that I do not dig most new extensions. I am now a dot COM loyalist, save for a few other ccTLDs such as .co.uk, .TV and maybe of course .net and .org. Well with that said, I have today registered 2 .tel domain names, KevinJackson.tel and eBusinessDomains.tel. I will refer to them [.....

A quick guide to getting your .tel domain name online. If you read Domain Name Wire frequently then you already know my opinion about .tel. But I know some people are getting into this, so I thought it would be worthwhile to register a .tel and share my experience. I registered my last name, alle...

A sizeable community of domainers has taken over a corner at Twitter.com, the increasingly popular social network based on microblogging. For those who have heard about it but still don't know what all of the fuss is about, we'll tell you where you can find everything you always wanted to know about...

Just got the logo back for Newburyport.com from Mike and I dig it.  I should have a new site launched by the end of next week, as the articles are being written right now. I wanted to share the new design with you guys.  It maintains the look and feel of my other city .com [...] Related posts:Th...

Forgive me, Father, for I have sinned. It’s been one day since my last .tel registration. Today I received the news from my CPA about how much I’ll have to pay in taxes this year. It will be much less than what I expected; just a partial “scalping” and not a full one. My CPA ...

TalkAdmin.com JustAPing.com I bought 2 site with one purpose in mind to help domainers and webmasters admins and all kinds of internet entrepreneurs. The first site is a great place that you and your buds can hang out at and take time to share ideas and get to meet other admins and webmasters in the...

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ElizabethTaylor.com in dispute (again). Actress Elizabeth Taylor wants the domain name ElizabethTaylor.com and she (or her company) has filed a domain dispute with National Arbitration Forum to get the domain name. But this isn’t the first time Taylor has tried to get the domain. In June of ...

You didn’t know you could find love with a domain name? I watched this video and thought it was hilarious. Thank you to Name.com for providing the above video. I’ll be honest, I really didn’t get the idea behind .tel domain extension until watching this. Being a guy I needed it t...

CNN.com reported on a site which raised $50,000 in less than 2 months, whose sole promotion was giving a homeless man a sign to hold with a Web site’s address. Sean Dolan and his father came up with a plan to drive traffic to his website PimpThisBum.com by simply giving Timothy Edwards, a home...

In light of the news that Toys.com lost it’s Google placement, DNN reached out to SEO consultant John Andrews to get his take on the Toys.com deal and his view on an effective strategy to take using this multi-million dollar domain name asset. When Toys ‘R’ Us sought toys.com in a...

DropDay.com, is a cool FREE tool which attempts to  analyze all domain drops at SnapNames.com, NameJet.com, Godaddy.com, Pool.com and Afternic.com,  in a search-able database. So this tool should catch all “real true” expired dropping domains, as well as those registrars that drop thei...

American Public Radio (PublicRadio.org) shows a Great Way to use a generic domain name for marketing a specific section on it’s website. Marketplace.org They use the domain name Marketplace.org and simply use domain forwarding to the subdomain http://marketplace.publicradio.org/ . This is a gr...