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• Domain Masters – Guest Tonight Is Jonathan Johnson, President of Overstock.com
  Tonight’s guest will be Jonathan Johnson III, President of Overstock.com. We will be discussing th…
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  Just a quick note to let you know tonight I will be co-hosting Domain Masters radio show with Victor…
• WhyPark.com Releases Domain Apps
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• Moniker/SnapNames Holding An All .US Auction – Started Today!
  Moniker/SnapNames Celebrate July 4th with valuable .US Domain Name Online Auction, including CreditR…
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  You are cordially invited to join Mike Ward, Stu Maloff, myself and about 30 other South Florida Dom…
• NameMedia Launches New Afternic Portfolio Manager
  WALTHAM, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–NameMedia today announced the launch of Afternic Portfolio Manage…
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• Slots.com Sells For $5,500,000
  Within the past couple of weeks Moniker reported the sale of Slots.com for an estimated $5,500,000.…
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• .BIZ For Business
  The .BIZ web address was released in 2002 and has steadily risen in registration numbers since then.…
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  DOMAINfest will be holding a 1-day networking event in New York City on Wednesday, August 18. The da…
• Outdoor Advertising Company Promoting .BIZ Web Address
  There was an interesting post today by Andrew Allemann of DomainNameWire. He wrote about having gone…
• .BIZ in North Carolina Where Business Matters
  I have written periodically about various applications of the .biz (Business) web address having se…
• Interesting Domain Name Sales
  A recent check of Sedo showed some interesting domain name sales which illustrate just how global t…
• Manhattan Real Estate Now Selling
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• Condo Sales Picking Up. Will Domain Name Sales Follow?
  Pockets of depressed real estate are beginning to pick up in some areas. Florida experienced an over…
• Sell Domain Names Online
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• Geo Domain Names – American Cities Experiencing Growth
  There are several new articles (CBS news, CNN) listing metro areas which appear to be “recessio…
• Estates.biz – Domain Name Development
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• Managing a Domain Portfolio – Lessons Learned
  Domainers approach management of their portfolios from different perspectives. The size of one’s p…
• Air France Gets Traffic on .US
  The airline, Air France, currently hold the number one spot on Google for ”France flights” wit…
• World Renowned Architect on .US
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• Covering Domain Name Bases
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• I’ll Bet You Didn’t Know About These .CO Sales! TravelRes.CO – $8,725, EnergyWatch.co – $20,000
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• Use WordPress? Update Now!
  As someone that has had their blog injected with nasty spam links I know how painful and annoying th…
• Learning The Ropes of ccTLD Brokerage
  I started my ccTLD Brokerage Newsletter this year and so far it’s been a great learning experience…
• Don’t Miss MorganLinton.tv Tomorrow at 6:00PM PST
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• Domain Development Update – Kayaking.Org Makes Google Page One!
  Yesterday was an exciting day as I logged-into my Google Webmaster account and saw that I was listed…
• Don’t Miss Domain Masters Tonight With Chef Patrick and Me!
  Tonight I’ll be on the Domain Masters show on WebMasterRadio.fm hosted by my good buddy Chef Patri…
• Who is buying these ccTLDs? 30.cc, Hall-Of-Fame.de, E-Bikes.at?!?!
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• Are You Going on DNCruise? Now You Can Go Risk-Free!
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• ccTLD Sales Go Mostly Under The Radar
  The Domaining world is .COM-centric – and with good reason, .COM is the undisputed king. However s…
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impulsecorp.com

• The Death of the Publishing Industry?
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• How To Get Rich Online – Book Epilogue
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• How To Get Rich Online – Book Introduction
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• Why I Hate Partnerships (an inside look at my Cyberworx partnership)
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• Giving Away My New Business Ideas
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• Viral Videos – Part 2
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• Viral Videos – OK Go
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• Bone of the Month Club
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• Expanding Your Internet Business
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• Taking Your Business to the Next Level
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• Big Domain Development – Part 2 (WatchMovies.com)
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• Domain Names I Recently Sold – Part 2
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• The Risks of Buying a Company
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• Viral Videos (The Story of “Pimp My Sleigh”)
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• Sometimes Little Things Can Make A Big Difference
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• Partnerships – Part 3
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• Amazon Kindle Review
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• Domain Names I Recently Sold
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• Mechanical Turk
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• Domain Flipping
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• Web Hosting Sucks
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• Fake Passwords
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• How I Bought A Flower Store
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• The Story of DigiCredit.com
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• Business Books
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• How A Domain Sale Works
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• Are Website Makeovers Worth It?
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• FindInfo.com – My Human Powered Search Engine
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• The Psychology of a Multi-Million Dollar Sale (Bored.com)
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• How to Get Rich Online
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• Big Domain Name Development
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• Domain Name Development
  I own over 9500 domains (see my list at NameShopping.com), and only around 500 of them are developed…
• Free Web Hosting Sites
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• Free Image Hosting Sites
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• Making Money With Domain Name Parking
  I own around 9,500 domain names, and 9,000 of them are parked (unused) and the other 500 I use for r…
• Partnerships – Part 2
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• Partnerships
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• Lockboxes
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• How I Invented A Product and Got It Sold In Stores
  In 2001 I created a virtual pet site at AdoptMe.com, where kids can adopt free virtual pets (dogs, c…
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• From the Sunday Funnies......I Took this PATHETIC Picture Today.
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• "Now is the best time ever, so stop whinning and do something!"
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• Purchase of Punchbowl.com between Punchbowl Software Inc. and “Domain King” Rick Schwartz
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• Another Domain Deal to be Announced Next Week
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• The GoofOff.com Back Story 1999 and 2010
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• BREAKING!! Domain King Defends GOOFOFF.COM for a SECOND TIME!
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• Rick Talk About "Long Tail Domains" and other Category Domains
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• My 14th Annual July 4th Post. "The 5 Year Nap"
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• Rick's Definition of "Magic" and "Opportunity" and Absolute Proof Behind it
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• The ULTIMATE LIST for MONETIZATION
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• $350 Million Acquisition – CreditCards.com and NetQuote
  Bankrate, Inc. announced on June 24 they will acquire CreditCards.com and NetQuote for a combined $3…
• Francois of Domaining.com Retires … Site Shutting Down
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• Top 25 SEO Blogs – SEO Bookmarks You Need
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• How to get Backlinks – SEO / Monetization Advice
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• Affiliate Programs and More – SEO
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• $2 Million Dollar Sale ..
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• $16,000 and 33 Bids … 24 Hours left to Go
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• Google Taking Over Lead Generation – Bad News for PPC and SEO
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• Target High Conversion SEO Rankings
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• Foursquare.com and Why Local Business Should Pay Attention
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• Small Business vs. Corporate Sales Approach
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• Want Free Small Business Promotion?
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• Despicable Me – Great Movie with a Great Domain
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• 5 Free Social Media Tips For Local Businesses
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• Me.Me Acquired By Yahoo
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• .co.uk names are still good investments. At least they don’t eat you up in renewal fees
  After a post like last weeks’, where I spoke on .ie and their restrictions, you may be thinking th…
• Omega Speedmaster Moon Watch Ref 3590.50.00 Fly-Back Chronograph
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• $20-$25 per day domain: UDE.com closing Tuesday on Latonas.com
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• SEO.in to be auctioned off at T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Dublin – Excellent Indian domain name
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• Breitling Windrider Chronomat Evolution – Ref. A13356
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• CreditCardMachines.com to be auctioned off at T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Dublin – Low Reserve
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• The Rolex Cosmograph Daytona
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• SaaS.com to be auctioned in Dublin at T.R.A.F.F.I.C.’s second European show 2010
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• The Irish take pride in their ccTLD
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• Buy your lady a Van Cleef & Arpels Diamond studded watch
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• Franck Muller’s Cortez 10000CC King Conquistador Complicated Wristwatch
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• The Perfect Watch – Patek Philippe Men’s Calatrava 5120 1J-001
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• Test Track Dublin Open For Submissions – Entrepreneurs Wanted
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• Listen to your elders. Submit your domains early.
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• The World Cup is a great time to reflect on ccTLDs
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• Thinking of Sponsoring T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Dublin? Let me give you a few reasons to move forward
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• What off the beaten path websites do you visit regularly?
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• Lessons Learned Part 2a – The only 3 ways to increase your revenue
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• IHG Fought to Control Domain Names But Parks Two of Their Own Generics
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• Steps to Building Out Bahamas.co
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• Rick Schwartz Floating TRAFFIC Without Sponsors Idea
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• DomainMarketplace.com Launched by Internet REIT
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• Why Don’t Some Startups Use Their Domain Name to Brand Their Company?
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• 28% of one- & two-letter .DE domains grabbed by one company
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• DENIC to make million-dollar domains available for the first time
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• Economy may be recovering, says Google
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• Changes ahead for Yahoo domain parking partners
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• SnapNames September Showcase Auction Results
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• Length of domain registration important for SEO?
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• Shopping.de sold for €1.96 million
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• Swedish regulator wants the word “bank” to be banned from .SE domains
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• Lufthansa, Burberry win Domain Names
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• ICANN seeking input on Post-Expiration Domain Recovery
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• Preview The New Blog
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• Geocities Closing
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• Freedom!
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• Domainers Cause Swine Flu [.com] Pandemic
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• FindJobs.com at Moniker Auctions
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• Dropping Domains
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• Double PPC Traffic By Using Generic Domains
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• How Not To Enquire About A Domain Name
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• Attending Domain Shows
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• Wordpress - The Easy Way
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• Prospecting
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• Domain Renewal Invitations
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• Who Turned The Traffic On?
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• Turning Development Dreams Into Reality
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• Outsourcing Domain Development Revisited
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• Personality Profile - what's that got to do with domains?
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• Creating Service For £5.99
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• Tele Selling A Web Concept Part 1
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• Names Still Available
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• Software Revisited
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• Where To Concentrate
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• Adsense Revisited
  It's been a while since I took any great notice of non-business domains, those I simply use for Adse…
• That's The Wonder of Wellies
  Almost buried in yesterday's UK newspapers, the story of a lady who had worked at Woolworths for 18…
• Oh No, It's The Pool Marketplace!
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• Call a "time-out"
  I find that in the midst of all the trees that I sometimes forget that I'm in a forest. What do I me…
• Saturday Musings - Xrays and Domains
  I took my son down to get his hand X-rayed today. You may ask whether he has a broken bone or there…
• How to build a domain out - part 5
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• How to build a domain out - part 4
  This is the fourth article in the series on building out domains. The other three can be read at....…
• Saturday Musings - High value domain sales
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• How to build a domain out - part 3
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• Saturday Musings - What's your business model?
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• How to build a domain out - part 2
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• How to build a domain out - part 1
  I've had a number of people ask me how I built out downwind.com.au and what software I used to do it…
• Thank God it's Good Friday
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• Nozo.com for sale – it’s going cheap
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• Two Salespeople Wanted – Excellent Ongoing Commission & Support
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• Calling ALL Social Media Experts
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• 10 Geopolitical & Economic Predictions for 2010
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• 16 Geopolitical Megatrends that will Affect Every Aspect of your Life: Finance, Energy & Health
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• Where are you getting your News from? This is Dramatically Effecting your Business!
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• WANTED: Advertising related domains!
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• Get Good Backlinks and Free Advertising for your New Websites
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• .Biz comes to life – Here’s something that may interest you!
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• Four Generic Domains Going Cheap!
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domainimal.com

• Who Will Really Win Big On New TLDs?
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• Top 7 Domain Names From Arnold Schwarzenegger Movie Quotes
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• Following The Frager Factor's Advice On LinkedIn For Lead Gen
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• You Can Lead An End User To Water But ...
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• Should I Move This Blog To WordPress?
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• How I Spent Three Days Away From the Machine
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• Domains Sold By Word Count In February Showcase Auction
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• The Domain Industry According To ...
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• Im Headed To Domainer Mardi Gras!
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• Picks for DomainFest 2010 Extended Online Auction
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• One Year Anniversary!
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• Could This Be The End?
  It’s been a while. I’ll be moving into my new house in 2 weeks. This, among other things, has be…
• Mistrust In Banks Will Lead To People Borrowing From… Each Other
  P2P Lending, otherwise known as person-to-person lending, people-to-people lending, peer-to-peer len…
• Make Way For Green Collar Jobs
  As the Going Green Train picks up more and more steam, new domaining opportunities are presenting th…
• Is Wikipedia Among Your Domaining Tools?
  So, my wife and I are about halfway done with building a house.  We’re having one built just outs…
• The Most, And Least, Affordable Cities To Live In
  The NAHB/Wells Fargo Housing Opportunity Index recently released some interesting info.  The page h…
• 20 Small Business Trends For 2009
  Small Business Trends recently published loads of trends for 2009.  This is not my most favorite of…
• Materials Of The Future: Magnetic Ink, Stone Paper And More
  I have another list for ya.  I’m a fan of lists, even biased lists (not that unbiased lists exist…
• Copenhagen Is The Next Kyoto
  Americans don’t really know about the Kyoto Protocol, as the U.S. isn’t a part of it.  Well, te…
• The Top Internet Cities And The $6 Billion Broadband Stimulus
  According to Forbes, Seattle is the new Internet King, replacing two-time winner Atlanta.  Recently…

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• Is Web Design Ruining Your SEO Efforts – 5 Things NOT To Do!
  Here is another great article by Kabir Bedi, our guest author. Kabir Bedi is Web Consultant at LeXol…
• 5 Design Delusions That Can Take Toll On Your Website!
  Here is another great article by Kabir Bedi, our guest author. Kabir Bedi is the senior web consulta…
• 3 SEO Mistakes That Can Spell Doom For Your E-Commerce Websites
  Here is another great article by Kabir Bedi, our guest author. Kabir Bedi works as the senior web co…
• 5 Hot Design Tips To Tweak Your E-Commerce Website!
  Here is another great article by Kabir Bedi, our guest author. Kabir Bedi is the managing senior web…
• 3 Web Design Debates That Refuse To Die!
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• More Competition in New TLDs
  GMO Registry, which is part of the GMO Internet group, has been pushing dotShop, but it now appears…
• Are ICANN Senior Staff Getting A Payrise?
  At the ICANN meeting in Brussels one of the topics that came up for discussion both during the publi…
• DNS.be Announces New Operations Manager
  DNS.be, the registry operator for .be, has announced that Chris Peetermans has been appointed as its…
• New Logo - Good ? Bad?
  Since switching domains over I've been planning on a complete revamp of this site's look and feel. T…
• CENTR Is Hiring
  CENTR has announced an open position in its Brussels office. The role is being advertised as a part-…
• Happy Birthday .uk!
  2010 is the year that .com celebrates 25 years, but it's also the year the .uk marks a quarter of a…
• DotCo Launch - Over 90 Thousand Names in 15 Minutes!
  DotCo, which is the ccTLD for Colombia, is opening up to general public registration today.According…
• ICANN's Ombudsman In The News Again
  DomainNameWire has a story about Frank Fowlie, ICANN's ombudsman, being in the news again. Fowlie at…
• IE Registry Operator Postpones Deletions
  IEDR, the operator of the .ie ccTLD, has postponed its normal fortnightly purge until next Monday. T…
• .jobs Comment Period Attracts Negative Attention
  Over the last couple of years several of the gTLD registry operators have requested contractual chan…

• Site Rebranding!
  As you may have noticed if you are viewing this in a browser and not via a feed (RSS) reader, we hav…
• ICANN Lose More Staff - Head of Compliance Leaves
  Several people have made comments about how ICANN has been losing staff over the last few months. Th…
• Swiss Registry Targetted By Scammers?
  Switch, the registry operator for the Swiss ccTLD (.ch), has been the target of a scammer judging by…
• AFNIC Launch Public Consultation on Opening .FR to EU
  AFNIC, which runs the .fr cctld, has opened a public consultation on the future of .fr from now unti…
• Nominet Awards Winners Announced
  Nominet Internet Awards were held last night. The winners were as follows: Getting people online - i…

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• Why end users will never buy your domain names.
  Because end users are developers and don’t care for your domains and don’t really want them (and…
• A little development goes a long way with WordPress
  Case in point 1: EnergySuperpower.com Take a generic term domain that’s been dropped repeatedly by…
• UnemploymentMeter.com domain development case study, monetizing the economic downturn
  If you’ve followed anything I’ve written here so far, you probably know that I am huge on develo…
• USniper expiring domain auction service
  Seth over at FreshDrop tipped us off to a new domain tool they’ve been working on called USniper.c…
• A new development underway
  UnemploymentMeter.com has just launched. Over the last couple months, I kept trying to come up with…
• Clerical Fundraising… and DOMAINING!
  Thought this would be an interesting story to share. A couple of New York Times articles about the r…
• Registering .co.uk domain names from abroad, possible trademark issues
  Being the curious little domainer that I am, I like to stay abreast of all of the world’s happenin…
• The Joy of Development…
  Long time no post again, eh? So I recently launched a couple of projects about things that interest…
• When you have nothing but lemons…
  Back to development directions… There is never a shortage of demand for information. Especially in…
• Example of non-commercial mini-site development
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• Gaming Google
  I was particularly intrigued that Business Week listed a company set up to game the search engines a…
• Encouraging good anchor text for inbound links
  How many times do you get an incoming link using your website name? To succeed with a website these…
• Entertainment websites SEO trick?
  An SEO (search engine optimization) manta that still seems to be doing the rounds, was to put a keyw…
• Cross-linking your own websites
  Cross-linking your own websites is an issue that comes up quite a lot. It seems logical to cross-lin…
• My favorite development tools are set to merge
  I missed the announcement earlier this year that WordPress and WordPress MU would be merging. The le…
• Fixing out of date software
  What have you done to secure your websites? One of the common suggestions is to hide the version num…
• Hostelworld.com sold to US firm
  A short sweet post. These are the kind of stories that keep everyone going. A lot of hard work final…
• A word from the wise
  I attended an advisory board meeting yesterday and it reminded me that we all need some independent…
• Outrunning the lion
  You may have heard the joke about two men faced by a hungry lion. One starts putting on running shoe…
• Don’t forget about multimedia
  With so many computers connected through fast Internet connections, multimedia is having a major imp…

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• Domaining is as about as much fun as watching some obscure cable channel at 4am
  Is it just me or does the whole “domaining” industry – if i can call it that – nowadays just…
• Yahoo Search Marketing Gets Tough
  Or so it seems. I’ve been tracking this for the past few weeks, a little cynical that what I was h…
• US.com and UK.com Domains Feel A Microsoft Wrath
  Havent blogged for a while but I thought this newsworthy enough to come out of my self imposed exile…
• Oasis.co.uk – Overturned On Appeal.
  In one of the most remarkable domain disputes ever seen (certainly for the UK name space), the domai…
• Vulgar and Offensive.. How one CEO took to treating his staff like dummies
  I’m not sure if any of you guys have been following the story of CEO Mark Hurd over at HP  .. ? T…
• Gotta love the hypocrisy
  Seemingly well regarded PCWorld.com writer David Coursey gets mixed up about cybersquatters, ahem do…
• Some Chemisty.. A minor interlude in proceedings
  Just got this sent to me by an ex fellow student. It’s from a question given to students in a Univ…
• How One Brand Is Raising Visitor Awareness Of Typo Traffic
  Albeit in a tongue in cheek way. UK Price comparison site comparethemarket.com has been running adve…
• Cybersquatting.. Sometimes I Just Don’t Get It…
  Last week, my boss spent the evening in London with some prominent domainers – and by all accounts…
• The Finest Names… Ermm, wasted?
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• Free Sample: Howard Neu Bares All
  As co-founder of T.R.A.F.F.I.C, son of a Cantor, singer, musician, actor, former mayor and pioneerin…
• Free Taste Test: Saviour A Power Lunch With Danny Pryor and Morgan Linton
  Great Power Lunch last week with Morgan Linton and special guest Danny Pryor. This was one of our be…
• Power Lunch With Colin Pape
  Recently appearing on DomainSuccess.com’s March Power Lunch program, Colin Pape is the Founder and…
• George Pickering: Who Said It Was Too Late To Buy Great dotCOMs?
  Starting in 2005, buying his first domain (agents.net) from Michael Mann for $2500.00, recent Domain…
• When Gilmour & Sequin Speak– Others Listen
  When Michael Gilmour with Australia’s Park Logic and Rob Sequin of Cape Cod, Mass., discuss domain…
• Andrew Warner: Doing Better By Doing Good
  Andrew Warner, when in his 20s, used credit cards and ingenuity to create an internet business with…
• Mike “Zappy” Zapolin: Create Value and Wealth Will Follow
  “Create value and wealth will follow.” Michael “Zappy” Zapolin didn’t coin this phrase, bu…
• Enrico Schaefer: “Protecting Domain Assets”
  Countless would-be entrepreneurs are trying to hit it big in the domain space. Problem is, most are…
• Bruce Turkel: “Putting Heads In Beds”
  Bruce Turkel has spent 25 year in the advertising business. And this marketing communications pionee…
• Rick Schwartz: Go Where The Money Is
  One phrase most deftly describes Rick Schwartz: Go Where the Money Is. The 800 King-turned Domain Ki…

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• Pros and Cons: Buying New, Dropping, Expired and Domains For Sale
  When it comes to getting a domain name, should you register a new domain, get an expired domain, bac…
• Bankrate May Sell Notes To Pay For CreditCards.com & NetQuote Inc ?
  This Bloomberg announcement caught my attention this morning. Its about a company called Bankrate wh…
• Misleading or Deceptive Co ?
  In Australia, we have some consumer protection legislation called the Trade Practices Act (TPA). The…
• GM Holden Wins Domains
  What makes this interesting is that its not just some dodgy cybersquatter who is registering domains…
• .NZ Adds Macrons To Domains – Interview with the Domain Name Commissioner .NZ [Audio]
  10am this morning marks another milestone in the history of both ccTLD’s and International Domain…
• .au Dispute Resolution Goes Electronic
  It might come as a shock to everyone (particularly those people who are not in Australia) that .au r…
• Document Shows Government Plans To Snoop On Internet Access
  The Australian government has censored approximately 90% of a secret document outlining its controve…
• Supreme Court Rules On Australian Style vs auDA
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• Risk In .CO – Blind Faith or Informed Decision?
  How was it for you? For me, I’m coming from a standpoint of constructive feedback based on an asse…
• You’re Not Seriously Buying A .co Are You?
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• The Best Domain Auction In Years To Be In NY on August 18th
  I think this is the first public auction in years that has attracted the quality of domain names lis…
• 363.com Leading .com Sales at Sedo – 41,000 USD
  Slow week due to the july 4th holiday here in the US. For some reason, safetysupplies.com @ 29000 US…
• Domain Value To BE Discussed On CNBC at 2:40 EST Today
  “The Call” which is a popular CNBC show will have Jeff Kupietzky on today speaking about domain…
• Vertical Axis VS The University of Texas For TexasSports.org -Let’s See Who Won
  I just finished reading the decision for the UDRP involving Vertical Axis Inc (VA) vs. , The Univers…
• Sedo Weekly Sales Include Videodating.com and knowyouroptions.com at 50,000 each
  Sedo Weekly Sales Include Videodating.com and knowyouroptions.com at 50,000 each. Videodating.com at…
• Judge Rules Google’s YouTube Not Infringing on Intellectual Property
  A judge ruled yesterday that Google was not quickly of copyright infringement for earning revenue of…
• Major Adult Affiliate Program Closes Down
  One of my readers recently sent me information about WEGcash closing down their affiliate program. F…
• I’m Booked for DomainFest 2011 – Are You?
  When I spoke yesterday with my contact at Oversee, I told them again how great Domainfest 2010 in LA…
• SmartName Shuts Down Smartname Classic- The End of An Era
  A week or so before June 1st, I received a call from Namemedia telling me that Smartname Classic, th…
• How I turned a domain making less than a dollar a day into one making 18k per year.
  Recently, I took a long look at my domains. I ran various analysis patterns. Some names have dropped…