Archive for February 2007
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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 into some detail, there [...]
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), Marchex, [...]
Marchex's Secret Weapon: Coming To A Domain Near You
Last month the Daily Domainer reported on Richard Rosenblatt's Demand Media gearing up to dramatically enhance its portfolio of domains with a powerful Web 2.0 community software.
Publicly listed competitor Marchex, Inc. (MCHX) is getting ready to launch its own secret weapon, the Open List search and content aggregation engine, across more than 100,000 Marchex-owned domains.
Open [...]
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 plaguing [...]
CostaRicaHotel.com Tops Weekly Domain Sales
DNJournal's latest weekly top 20 list of reported domain sales is shown below (for the complete list go here).
As usual we have hyperlinked the domain names so we can come back in a few weeks to check out the developed websites that will have come to life on many of these domains.
Top Domain Sales Feb [...]
.info Breaks 4 Million Barrier
As of today there are more than 4 million .info domains! .info remains the sixth most popular domain extension after .com, .de, .net, .org and .uk:
Domain Statistics
02/20/2007
.com
64,837,168
.de
10,691,043
.net
9,085,739
.org
5,763,241
.uk
5,614,591
.info
4,015,662
.eu
2,542,043
.biz
1,618,520
.us
1,197,480
.info was one of the seven new generic top-level domains announced by ICANN in late 2000 (.biz, .info, .name, .pro, .aero, .coop, and .museum.) .info was originally intended [...]
Protect Yourself From Domain Theft
Domain theft is problem that's bigger than many of us realize.
There are several aspects to this important issue. The Domainer Tips column in our daily email newsletter analyzes each of these points over the course of this week:
How to protect your own domains from being stolen. There are many surprising and also some obvious strategies [...]