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Okay, so this is my first micro article, and I want everyone to think and respond to my question: What’s better, general or brandable domains? It’s a hard question because brandable domains/websites generally require more advertising to really make the domain a known brand, but general d...

Pizza Hut could slowly be rebranding as The Hut, according to several reports in marketing and media publications. The company has been adding pasta dishes to its menu lately, which also caused it to rebrand as Pasta Hut in the UK in 2008 (a decision I haven’t been fond of, either), so I ca...

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In a rather surprising move, Japanese automaker Lexus is blocking a GoDaddy commercial that was set to air twice during the upcoming US Open. In the TV commercial named “Speeding“, GoDaddy model Danica Patrick is driving a custom Ford Mustang, an American car. Lexus is NBC’s main...

Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) co-founder and CEO Steve Jobs, 54, had a liver transplant about two months ago, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal. There has been lots of speculation about Jobs’ health condition since he first addressed this issue at an Apple event in October. It was obvio...

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The more web development I do, the more I’m grateful for the plethora of amazing Javascript libraries out there. It’s never been simpler to add advanced front-end functionality like drag-and-drop, animations, or sortable, paginated, searchable tables (like those used in our Type-In Traff...

Country code fans have three more reasons to party down this week. ccTLDs, including the biggest country code sale of the year at $266,000, swept the first three positions on DN Journal's new all-extension Top 20 sales chart. All three ccTLDs smashed the six-figure barrier as did the 4th ranked .com...

What is an asset worth if no-one wants to buy? That’s the title of a post I read on Reuter’s DealZone blog today. I don’t want to comment on that specific article here, but the title triggered an interesting question about a phenomenon one can observe in the domain industry every d...

Don’t let anyone tells you differently, times are challenging, the strong will survive, and many shall perish. To give you an idea what one to do these days to create a better future, the scope of urgency, action, here are few things I’m working on these days: 1. New bido release, multip...

On Tuesday, the domain name Contests.com was sold for $380,000 in the Aftermarket.com live domain auction held at the Domain Roundtable conference in Washington, DC. It was sold by Yahoo, and went to National A-1, a well-known buyer of generic domain names. Some bloggers and domain investors have al...

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Here is Ron Jackson's view of the new T.R.A.F.F.I.C. alliance between Rick Latona, Rick Schwartz and Howard Neu. Despite the biggest economic downturn since the Great Depression and an already crowded conference calendar these guys are going to DOUBLE the number of shows they run next year. Are the...

The CEO of Microsoft, Steve Ballmer just announced that Microsoft is willing to invest 5% to 10% of its operating income back into its search business for up to five years. “Our shareholders, I told them we were willing to spend 5 to 10 percent of operating income for up to five years in this ...

MyID.ca will be auctioning JOB.ca as part of their June 24-25th .ca domain auction. For those who don’t remember, JOBS.ca sold for $600,000 last year in a private sale. The .ca extension has seen a few other good job-related domain sales over the past year — Emplois.ca (”jobs.ca...

Who doesn’t love to get something for nothing? Webfusion.com is running a special this month where you can register a .info domain for only $0.88 until the end of June. That in itself is a great deal. What could be better than paying $0.88? FREE!!! Webfusion.com will be having their own giveaway a...

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While some people are focused on selling just domain names, there are people that carefully select one domain name and develop it into a super brand. This is where the money is, period. If you build the brand, you will make money while the brand is still popular, and if you sell it, well, you could ...

Rick, Howard and I want to grow TRAFFIC into something very special for the industry. Just today we’ve cut a deal for a major CPA companyto give a really educational lecture/lesson in New York on buying traffic and monitizing outside the PPC industry. More on that later… The reason I am ...

JetBlue had its first flight from New York to Los Angeles yesterday, and the airline has packed its BetaBlue plane full of well-known YouTube personalities and bloggers to market its new air route. BetaBlue is the company’s only plane with wireless Internet access. I think it’s a creativ...

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According to comScore, Microsoft’s Bing.com search engine share rose for the second straight week. Bing.com’s search share in the United States rose to 12.1% between June 8 and 12 — up from 11.3% between June 1 and 5, and up from 9.1% during the week prior to the engine’s lau...

Whois for Importers.com changes to whois privacy. It appears that Live Current Media (OTCbb: LIVC.ob) may be in the process of closing a sale for Importers.com. The whois record for the domain name showed Communicate.com (Live Current’s former name) on June 16 but now shows Go Daddy’s ...

Domain name registrar adds new security features and advanced whois privacy. Domain name registrar Fabulous is adding two new features including a whois privacy service that sets the bar for customer service. The features will be available July 1. The first new feature is a physical security devic...