Archive for March 2007
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The Google Loophole: Profiting Through Google Arbitrage
Google Arbitrage is not a program offered through Google but if you know how to work it right, Google can certainly become your “sponsor” and help you pay a bill or two each month. It’s based off an old world concept of arbitrage that’s being applied to benefit from today’s e-commerce traffic.
Ready for Google Arbitrage [...]
Getting Ready For .Asia
It’s all set. The .asia top level domain (TLD) was approved by ICANN in late 2006 and the DotAsia Organisation is quietly but surely moving forward with the gradual launch of the new domain. According to a rough timeline, there will be three sunrise periods to allow special entities to register their domains: The first [...]
New Members For DotMobi Advisory Group
Big business is getting serious on .mobi domain names. DotMobi recently announced that ten major corporations from various nations have joined the DotMobi Advisory Group (MAG). The ten newcomers include:
GoDaddy (USA)
Carlson Marketing (USA)
Millennial Media (USA)
Sony (Japan)
Firstserver (Japan)
ooober (Canada)
Instant Access Technologies (UK)
Bango (UK)
Telecom Italia (Italy)
Nubiq (Ireland)
The companies have joined the Advisory Group in order to be [...]
Domainers Targeted By Credit Card Scammers
Telemarketers have been cold calling homes for years, trying to promote the greatest product, service or cause in the world that needs your money. Some are legitimate, some aren't.
Credit card scammers and identity thieves are using the same technique but instead of targeting general audiences, domain owners like you and me have become the focus [...]
Google CPA: Cash Cow or Free-For-All?
Google has been testing out a new advertising program. The program, Google CPA (CPA stands for Cost Per Action), is similar to the current CPC (Cost Per Click) options available with Google AdWords.
The difference is that, instead of advertisers paying for each click their ad receives, they would only pay for a click through to [...]
Domain Owners' Bill of Rights
Text version:
Domain Owners' Bill of Rights
Having paid the full cost of registration, Domain Owners will not have their rights or interests trampled upon by others who covet their assets.
The wishes and intentions of Domain Owners must be considered in decisions affecting the property or contract rights or taxation of their domains.
Domain Owners, acting [...]
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 with [...]