I think the most important reason to buy keyword domain names is to get the attention of people searching for those keywords. Type in traffic is still the most targeted traffic you can find, but for the most part, domain names that get type in traffic are very expensive for most people. However, I b...

One of the reasons why I am a big supporter of the Chabad movement is because of their welcoming nature. Whenever I have visited a Chabad house, be it in Venice, Italy, Dubrovnik, Croatia, New York, New Hampshire… etc. every Rabbi I have met has been warm and welcoming. My good friend Rabbi Le...

Nominet’s Domain Name Industry Report for 2008 released recently at Nominet’s annual .uk registrar conference held at Wembley stadium in London UK shows a continuing increase in popularity of country code domain names driven by strong growth in countries such as China and Russia. The report ...

We have just installed the latest versions of Wordpress and VBulletin on the DNXpert blog and domain forum respectively as they badly needed an upgrade. If anyone sees anything weird in the next few days please let us know via the contact form. Thanks! ...

A new website - DomainFight.net - owned by USpeakWeType Technologies, LLC allows the search of both the WIPO and NAF panel decision databases concurrently. Touted as a tool useful for both Complainant and Respondents involved in domain name and cybersquatting disputes under the Uniform Dispute Reso...

It appears there is another one time use Godaddy code to get yourself a .com for just $0.99! I have just tested it and it still works. Get yourself a .com domain name at Godaddy for $0.99 using the coupon code 99DOMAIN. Good luck! ...

Doubters of Twitter’s potential as a breaking news source have once again been proven wrong in the aftermath of the horrible events unfolding in Mumbai, India over the last 24 hours. Just like during the recent earthquakes in China, news of the event has spread via Twitter by eyewitness report...

As I skim through the forums I see quite a lot of threads from people new to this business titled: I have $10,000 to spend on domains – what should I invest in now? Of course there is lots of advice thrown around (quite a lot of it is very good), “LLL.com’s are cheap now, only inve...

Although Thanksgiving is primarily an American holiday, I think in this day and age a lot of us have much to be thankful for. I for one am thankful for my health and the health of my beautiful family, for the opportunities handed to me and for the things I have experienced in my life so far. Whether...

Most of us feel that we are responsible for developing our own content but this doesn’t have to be the case. You too can have your own content writers without breaking the bank. Here is a trick to get good content on the cheap. Starving students can create website content College students are ...

I posted a list of 55 expired domains in the DNXpert domain name forum today. I practice showing only a sample of that list on my blog here to be fair to the folks took the time to register on the free forum. Forum registration is absolutely free - you can register here to have access to all past an...

I don’t like to write sappy posts, but I have much to be thankful for this year. On the personal side of things, I married a great girl a few months ago and things have been going very well. We are both happy and healthy, and have a lot of good friends and family who [...]...

As promised on November 1 when the Mega Domaining Essentials contest was launched here at DNXpert, we will come up with a set of easy tasks that will allow you to get extra points on the random entry points tracking page and increase your chances of winning a prize in the random draw to be held on N...

If you are like me and you subscribe to many sites’ RSS feeds to keep up to date with the latest information, you can at times get overwhelmed with the number of posts you find in your RSS readers since many big sites write 10+ posts a day. The appropriately named Notify.me websites tries to o...

The Anti-Phishing Alliance of China has suspended the domain names of more than 300 Chinese phishing websites with the help of the anti-phishing system built into the .CN domain name registry. Phishing websites have been threatening the Internet’s security, especially since the second half of ...

A Tokyo based software company has created Lunascape - a free brower that handles all three major web rendering engines - Firefox’s Gecko, Internet Explorer’s Trident and Chrome/Safari WebKit. The browser has been available in Japanese for a while now (since 2001) but Lunascape 5 is the first E...

Have you noticed that you have some strange icons if you search in Google when logged into your Google account? Now you can promote, demote or delete search results in Google and even add results to the search. This is called the Search Wiki. Perhaps a glimpse of the future at Google with personaliz...

It’s time to start making plans to attend DomainFest in Hollywood January 27-30th at the Renaissance Hotel. Last year’s conference was one of the top industry conferences I attended, and I had to miss the first day. This is a great opportunity to network, and the price is only $895 unti...

Talgarno, Victoria is the 100th community in Australia to apply for its own website under the world first Community Geographic Domain Name Initiative thanks to the auCD. auCD - Australian Community Domains - is a non profit venture established by auDA (.au Domain Administration Ltd) to facilitate th...

  I recently interviewed Craig Rowe from Whypark on their phase 2 development program and how they plan to help all Domainers transform their parked pages into unique and attractive sites. As most of you are probably aware the domain community has been crying out for a cost effective way to dev...

There are other sources for press releases that may interest you. Finding relevant press releases can be tedious so I will show you some aggregators you can use. Government agencies also issue press releases which again can be used to help with domain development. Press release aggregators I tend to...

I posted a list of 45 expired domains in the DNXpert domain name forum today. I practice showing only a sample of that list on my blog here to be fair to the folks took the time to register on the free forum. Forum registration is absolutely free - you can register here to have access to all past an...

I am putting together another domain investor get together in New York, which will be held on Tuesday, December 9, 2008. The location is still TBD, but it is going to be either a cash bar or a small cover charge to reserve a room at a bar/restaurant.  It will probably be somewhere on the [...]...

Cambridge Soundworks is a smart Internet-based company. Several years ago, Cambridge Soundworks had several bricks and mortar stores and a smaller online presence. Each shop always had two or three knowledgeable sales representatives on the floor at all times, with more available during their peak s...

According to various reports on the web, Microsoft have control over the 4 letter domain name Kumo.com and are aiming to use it rebrand their Windows Live Search in an effort to separate it from Live.com sometime next year. Kumo means cloud or spider in Japanese - which certainly is a cool name for ...