T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Domain Conference Highlights
For those of us who missed out on the March 2007 Las Vegas T.R.A.F.F.I.C Conference & Expo, DNJournal has published a comprehensive recap. The event was fun and informative for all of the 600+ domainers that did manage to make it to the event. Here's a quick summary. Event kicked off Monday March 5, 2007 [...]
Domain Statistics Released By VeriSign
VeriSign released the latest issue (PDF file) of its Domain Industry Brief. By the end of 2006, there were more than 120 million registered domains, which represents a growth of 32% over the previous year. In terms of registrations, .com remains the largest top level domain, followed by .de, .net, .uk and .org:
Interview with Lawrence Ng, Founder of Oversee.net
socalTECH.com has an interesting interview with Lawrence Ng, the co-founder and CEO of Oversee.net. Below are a few abbreviated excerpts from the interview. About Oversee.net: The business focus is on two areas–one in domain services, the other in what we call marketing services, which is much more the lead generation businesses. In domain services, getting [...]
Domain Stock Index Tracks Top 8 Domain Stocks
For those among us who invest in domain stocks, Domain Name Values Weekly has launched a Domain Stock Index which tracks the performance of eight stocks whose respective companies play a significant role in the domain industry. The companies are Communicate.com, Inc. (CMNN.OB), Dark Blue Sea, Inc. (DBS), InterSearch Group, Inc. (IGO), Local.com, Inc. (LOCM), [...]
To Follow Or NoFollow?
Virtually all blogs that were set up since early 2005 automatically apply the "nofollow" attribute to comments and pingbacks. This attribute basically instructs search engines to ignore the links provided by blog commentators when calculating the link destination's pagerank. Nofollow was introduced and promoted by Google to combat the phenomenon of comment spam which was [...]
Psychic Whois Auto-Completes Domain Inquiries
DomainTools.com released a new domain tool called Psychic Whois. The tool auto-completes your domain inquiries with suggestions and checks the availability of domain names while you type. A big drawback is that the tool apparently generates its ideas from existing domain names. This means that most (but not all) suggested domains are already taken in [...]
Domain Names, Farm Land and Cash in the Bank
The Indian website Indiadaily.com has posted an interesting article about the "best investments for the next ten years". These investments, according to the website, are Domain Names, Farm Land and Cash in the Bank. It looks like the word is getting out…