.TEL General Availability launch; 100,000 Names Registered
domainnews.com says: In what Telnic CEO Khashayar Mahdavi calls the biggest innovation since .com, the .tel generic Top Level Domain (gTLD) was launched to all comers last week. Within 36 hours of .tel being made available through General Availability, the 100,000th .tel domain name was registered.
Affiliate Secrets – 7 Tips to Choosing a Great Domain Name
ezinearticles.com says: Choosing a domain name is like choosing the name of one of your offspring. It is important because you and your customers will be using this name every single day.
Archive for March, 2009
Domain News – 94th Edition
Domain News – 93th Edition
Affiliate Secrets – 7 Tips to Choosing a Great Domain Name
ezinearticles.com says: Choosing a domain name is like choosing the name of one of your offspring. It is important because you and your customers will be using this name every single day.
Domain News – 92th Edition
Affiliate Secrets – 7 Tips to Choosing a Great Domain Name
ezinearticles.com says: Choosing a domain name is like choosing the name of one of your offspring. It is important because you and your customers will be using this name every single day.
Domain News – 91th Edition
ICANN – New gTLDs and Trademark Issues: Implementation Recommendation Team (IRT)
domainnews.com says: As directed by ICANN’s Board in a recent resolution (see http://www.icann.org/en/minutes/resolutions-06mar09.htm (http://www.icann.org/en/minutes/resolutions-06mar09.htm) ), the Intellectual Property Constituency (IPC) has formed an Implementation Recommendation Team (IRT). Members of the IRT are listed here (http://www.icann.org/en/topics/new-gtlds/irt-list-23mar09-en.pdf) [PDF, 20K]. The IRT has been formed to provide possible solutions to trademark issues raised in the new Generic Top-Level D
Affiliate Secrets – 7 Tips to Choosing a Great Domain Name
ezinearticles.com says: Choosing a domain name is like choosing the name of one of your offspring. It is important because you and your customers will be using this name every single day.
Domain News – 90th Edition
ICANN – Travel Support
domainnews.com says: A public comment period has opened today for 30 days on the topic of travel support.
Last year, ICANN created travel procedures to clarify which members of the ICANN community were to receive travel support for that fiscal year (2009). At the same time, it was announced that they would be reviewed after the first year of use.
Affiliate Secrets – 7 Tips to Choosing a Great Domain Name
ezinearticles.com says: Choosing a domain name is like choosing the name of one of your offspring. It is important because you and your customers will be using this name every single day.
Domain News – 89th Edition
Body.com Big Seller for Sedo
domainnews.com says: Body.com was easily the biggest seller for Sedo (http://www.sedo.com/)
in the week to March 16, selling for US$400,000. Second biggest sale
for the week was gonghui.com that sold for $63,000 while the third
biggest sale was lol.de, the biggest ccTLD sale of the week, sold for
€35,000 ($47,250).
Why Your Domain Name is Critical to Online Success
ezinearticles.com says: How do you choose a good domain name? Why should you fuss and bother so much over the agonizing process? Is it really that important to “get it right?”
Choosing Good Domain Internet Names
I disagree with the comment made by some website designers that all the good domain names are registered. Search engine optimization, does not depend heavily on the domain name you select. For my clients just starting out the decision choosing small business domain names has never been a big deal. It is a proven that all the 3 character and four character www names with the key extensions are gone. Furthermore, I agree that a vast number of choice domain names are no longer available; but, the selection of a suitable web name for your small business is possible if you remain flexible.
The real value in the name you choose from a search perspective is how easy it is to spell and remember. Of the two types of visitors to your site, the human visitors and search engines, the ability of a person to remember your domain name and spell it correctly to pass it on to others outweighs any SEO value. Search engines are robots and don’t care.
Using words like “greatest” or other exaggerated terms in your domain name is thought by some to be a disadvantage and penalized by search engines. Search algorithms change often and likewise that theory, and although you may not be penalized for using such words, consider the reaction of your human visitors. They may not stick around if they feel you boast without the content to back it up. For a serious small business, my advice is avoiding adjectives in the domain name entirely.
In some cases new clients approach me to redesign their website, and it surprises me that some of the basics are forgotton. For example, a commercial enterprise in business for profit should not select a dot ORG domain just because the dot COM was taken. This was the case from a conversation with a client interested in a site makeover. Their ORG version was online for 2 years with little or no backlinks or serious indexing from search engines. The mindset of getting one particular name should be reconsidered especially if it’s your first online venture.
Here’s a list of the most desirable domain extensions and the usual purpose of each:
COM – Commercial for profit enterprise
INFO – Information only related website
NET – Companies providing internet services
ORG – Non-profit organizations
Certainly there are many more like BIZ, US, WS, and others which are all reasonable choices, but for your commercial small business my recommendation is always acquire a dot COM domain name. The client mentioned earlier did not realize a dot ORG was intended for a non-commercial enterprise, and they decided the poor website SEO performance was something that justified getting a new dot COM. We easily found an available www domain using their company initials and one key word about their target market which is medical. Despite my advice that they keep the existing site and simply change the theme, they decided to just let it go when it expired.
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Domain News – 88th Edition
.TEL GO Live opening at EuroDNS – Get your .Tel for only 12?
domainnews.com says: Luxembourg, 24th February – Following the successful Sunrise
and Landrush periods, EuroDNS announces the opening of the .tel Go Live phase today at 15:00 UTC.
How to Register a Domain Name That is Currently Suspended
ezinearticles.com says: You have your eye on the perfect domain name that is already registered but has been suspended. So what can you do?
Domain News – 87th Edition
OECD Welcomes Formation of The Internet Technical Advisory Committee (ITAC)
domainnews.com says: Formation of ITAC Set To Safeguard Internet Development and Innovation Through Multi-stakeholder Internet Governance
OECD Recognition for Open Industry Dialogue as a Driver for Safe and Effective Internet Development.
[news release] The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and
Development (OECD) has welcomed representatives from the pre-eminent
Internet technical organisations as partners in its work on
communications policy issues – a step seen as highlighting the vital
need for multistak
How to Register a Domain Name That is Currently Suspended
ezinearticles.com says: You have your eye on the perfect domain name that is already registered but has been suspended. So what can you do?
Domain News – 86th Edition
5 Things That Make a Good Internet Domain Name
ezinearticles.com says: Here are some things to note that make a good internet domain name (including the company that you are going to employ for this service). One, it should have a comprehensive technical support package and it does not just mean someone you can call when something is down. It should be listed as one of the benefits and you should have multiple points of communication with them.