Over the last couple of months Irsquo;ve been reporting on my journey into the world of development for Downwind.com.au. Irsquo;ve continued developing the site and adding features that I hoped would add value to a pilotrsquo;s experience so ultimately they would tell their friends about it and also...

For the past few months Irsquo;ve been getting increasingly aware that Whizzbangsblog really needed a complete overhaul. The current format and structure has been great for the past few years but I felt that it was about time that I got stuck into it and upgraded to new versions of......

About 12 months ago I remember hearing from a number of domainers that the domain industry is essentially protected from the Global Financial Crisis. I really couldnrsquo;t understand that thinking as ultimately any PPC income is dependent upon Google and Yahoo and they in turn depend upon advertise...

For the past few weeks Irsquo;ve been reading about all the machinations between Thought Convergence and Name Intelligence. Whorsquo;s right and who is wrong and the number of varied opinions varies from insightful to the completely bazaar. Itrsquo;s almost like a days of our lives is unfolding in...

The brightness of the day is followed by the darkness of the night but itrsquo;s the rays of the morning sun that gives us hope. So Irsquo;m not a poet but I think that the above really describes the state of the domain industry. At the moment many of us are experiencing times of......

As many of you know I love numbers and what you can or cannot interpret from them. After a bit of a hiatus I recently did a ldquo;dumpster diverdquo; into masses of data to see how the domain world is progressing now that we are in the middle of a......

Over the last few weeks Irsquo;ve continued the research project of developing Downwind.com.au into a service and community for the aviation industry. Recently I felt that it was time that I took stock of the results and worked out whether I had the makings of a great business or just......

So what was TRAFFIC Silicon Valley like? Was it worth it? Did the time, effort and jetlag really justify the trip? The short answer for me was an emphatic ldquo;yesrdquo;. There was a huge amount of business conducted at TRAFFIC and I believe that this was largely due to the......

So what was TRAFFIC Silicon Valley like? Was it worth it? Did the time, effort and jetlag really justify the trip? The short answer for me was an emphatic ldquo;yesrdquo;. There was a huge amount of business conducted at TRAFFIC and I believe that this was largely due to the......

So here I am, once again sitting in the Qantas club waiting for my plane on the way to TRAFFIC in Santa Clara. The only difference this time is that Irsquo;m in Sydney rather than Melbourne as I wanted to board the A380 (really big plane) as it has power......

I canrsquo;t believe that itrsquo;s only a few days before TRAFFIC in Santa Clara! Once again Irsquo;ll be heading across the Pacific to meet up with everyone. As normal I have mixed feelings about attending a conference on the other side of the world. Irsquo;m excited to be going but......

Itrsquo;s been very interesting to chart the course of downwind.com.au as a developmental project and to see the results of the efforts to date. I have found that so far as a research project in managing risk itrsquo;s been quite a journey. This is the third in the series on......

It’s been very interesting to chart the course of downwind.com.au as a developmental project and to see the results of the efforts to date. I have found that so far as a research project in managing risk it’s been quite a journey. This is the third in the series on......

This is the third article in the series on my journey in developing downwind.com.au. You can read the previous articles by clicking on the following links: Part 1 - Development - the business model (index.php/20090409524/Developing-Domains/Part-1-Development-business-model.html) Part 2 - Development...

This is the third article in the series on my journey in developing downwind.com.au. You can read the previous articles by clicking on the following links: Part 1 - Development - the business model (index.php/20090409524/Developing-Domains/Part-1-Development-business-model.html) Part 2 - Development...

This is the third article in the series on my journey in developing downwind.com.au. You can read the previous articles by clicking on the following links: Part 1 - Development - the business model (index.php/20090409524/Developing-Domains/Part-1-Development-business-model.html) Part 2 - Development...

This is the second article in the series on my experimentation and research into developing a domain into a prosperous business. The first in the series can be viewed by clicking here (index.php/20090409524/Developing-Domains/Part-1-Development-business-model.html). I#39;ve chosen downwind.com.au as...

Over the last few weeks I made, what for me, was a monumental decision. Despite my love of domain parking and in particular its scalability I decided that it was about time that I really conducted some hard core research into the development aspects of domaining. I believe that I......

A press release went out yesterday announcing that Mr Gregory Platz (current CFO) has been offered the position as CEO of Dark Blue Sea (DBS). Richard Moore has elected to not renew his contract and will be stepping down on June 30th,2009. According to the release Richard will continue to......

Once you’re confident in whom the seller is and the statistics are bona fide then you can move to formulating a deal. Most deals in the domaining industry are pretty straight forward. The domains do “Y” amount of revenue per year and the seller pays “Y” times years for ...

Laying out hard cold cash for a very ethereal concept like a domain name can be a daunting proposition. Once you’ve decided that you’ll invest in a domain based upon traffic statistics you will soon discover that there are a number of risks and ways of hedging those risks. For......

In recent articles I’ve touched briefly on Click Through Rate (CTR) but in reflection I haven’t done CTR justice. Considering that it’s a major component of the formula that contributes to our revenue line it is definitely worth looking at further. So what is Click Through Rate ...

In recent articles I’ve touched briefly on Click Through Rate (CTR) but in reflection I haven’t done CTR justice. Considering that it’s a major component of the formula that contributes to our revenue line it is definitely worth looking at further. So what is Click Through Rate a...

This is the third article that I’ve written that relates to Earnings Per Click (EPC) in this series. As we’ve already explored EPC is one of the most misunderstood metrics and many of us still have a simplistic view of how EPC is actually determined. We’ve seen the problems that......

This is the third article that I’ve written that relates to Earnings Per Click (EPC) in this series. As we’ve already explored EPC is one of the most misunderstood metrics and many of us still have a simplistic view of how EPC is actually determined. We’ve seen the problems that......