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Elliot's Blog
Guest Post: Chad Fisher
Chad Fisher helps build and promote web sites in a number of different verticals, everything from finding affordable housing to saving money on insurance. He works at Pyramid SEO and Words For Less, providing client service assistance to business own...
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Guest Post: Chad Fisher
Chad Fisher helps build and promote web sites in a number of different verticals, everything from finding affordable housing to saving money on insurance. He works at Pyramid SEO and Words For Less, providing client service assistance to business own...
Discussion
May 15, 2012, 10:47 am
Elliot's Blog
My First Domain Name Had a Hyphen
For the life of me, I couldn’t recall the first domain name I ever registered. A few people have asked me over the years, and I had a vague idea, but I couldn’t recall it and didn’t have a record of it. I knew it was registered at N...
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My First Domain Name Had a Hyphen
For the life of me, I couldn’t recall the first domain name I ever registered. A few people have asked me over the years, and I had a vague idea, but I couldn’t recall it and didn’t have a record of it. I knew it was registered at N...
Discussion
May 14, 2012, 12:58 pm
Elliot's Blog
Keep This in Mind When Judging a Registry’s Success
I often hear critical and/or snide comments about various non-.com domain registries and how many are presumed to be failures. Some people seem to think that if a registry doesn’t have millions of domain names registered and/or if the aftermark...
Discussion
Keep This in Mind When Judging a Registry’s Success
I often hear critical and/or snide comments about various non-.com domain registries and how many are presumed to be failures. Some people seem to think that if a registry doesn’t have millions of domain names registered and/or if the aftermark...
Discussion
May 12, 2012, 1:04 pm
Elliot's Blog
Thank You EuroDNS, and Welcome Stevan Lieberman and Nokta Domains
I want to take a moment to thank EuroDNS for advertising on my blog for almost a year. The company continued to renew its banner advertisement monthly for quite some time, and I appreciate their supporting my blog. I also want to thank two new advert...
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Thank You EuroDNS, and Welcome Stevan Lieberman and Nokta Domains
I want to take a moment to thank EuroDNS for advertising on my blog for almost a year. The company continued to renew its banner advertisement monthly for quite some time, and I appreciate their supporting my blog. I also want to thank two new advert...
Discussion
May 12, 2012, 10:01 am
Elliot's Blog
Google Wins Huge UDRP
This morning, The National Arbitration Forum posted a UDRP decision that was decided in favor of the complainant, Google. The UDRP covered hundreds of domain names with the Google trademark in them. Some of the domain names that were registered by th...
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Google Wins Huge UDRP
This morning, The National Arbitration Forum posted a UDRP decision that was decided in favor of the complainant, Google. The UDRP covered hundreds of domain names with the Google trademark in them. Some of the domain names that were registered by th...
Discussion
May 11, 2012, 8:52 am
Elliot's Blog
Juan Diego Calle Responds to Comments
There were a number of comments critical of Juan Diego Calle in an article I posted this morning as well as an article posted by Rick Schwartz. Although the video Rick and I shared was primarily about LeWeb’s move from LeWeb.net to Le...
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Juan Diego Calle Responds to Comments
There were a number of comments critical of Juan Diego Calle in an article I posted this morning as well as an article posted by Rick Schwartz. Although the video Rick and I shared was primarily about LeWeb’s move from LeWeb.net to Le...
Discussion
May 10, 2012, 5:31 pm
Elliot's Blog
Video: Why LeWeb Moved to .CO
I want to share a video I was sent with entrepreneur Loic Le Meur of LeWeb and Juan Diego Calle of the .CO Registry. In the video, Le Meur announces LeWeb’s switch to .CO and discusses why the change was made from the .net extension where it pr...
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Video: Why LeWeb Moved to .CO
I want to share a video I was sent with entrepreneur Loic Le Meur of LeWeb and Juan Diego Calle of the .CO Registry. In the video, Le Meur announces LeWeb’s switch to .CO and discusses why the change was made from the .net extension where it pr...
Discussion
May 10, 2012, 12:17 pm
Elliot's Blog
IDNX Records Monthly Decline in April
It appears that the domain market hot streak is in more of a holding pattern, at least according to Sedo’s IDNX. A report from Sedo this morning announced that the IDNX domain price index recorded a 2.1% decline in April, following growth ...
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IDNX Records Monthly Decline in April
It appears that the domain market hot streak is in more of a holding pattern, at least according to Sedo’s IDNX. A report from Sedo this morning announced that the IDNX domain price index recorded a 2.1% decline in April, following growth ...
Discussion
May 10, 2012, 10:04 am
Elliot's Blog
Vanity TLDs in Google
I thought it would be interesting to see how many websites Google has indexed for a variety of “vanity” tlds. Although some of the tlds I searched include ccTLDs, I figure much of the usage is by people who are not using them for geotarge...
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Vanity TLDs in Google
I thought it would be interesting to see how many websites Google has indexed for a variety of “vanity” tlds. Although some of the tlds I searched include ccTLDs, I figure much of the usage is by people who are not using them for geotarge...
Discussion
May 9, 2012, 3:01 pm
Elliot's Blog
Close a Deal By Suggesting Financing Options
I was negotiating a domain sale with an end user buyer a couple of weeks ago, and when it came time to discuss payment, he mentioned a potential hardship in paying the full amount at one time. I didn’t want to lose this sale, so I mentioned tha...
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Close a Deal By Suggesting Financing Options
I was negotiating a domain sale with an end user buyer a couple of weeks ago, and when it came time to discuss payment, he mentioned a potential hardship in paying the full amount at one time. I didn’t want to lose this sale, so I mentioned tha...
Discussion
May 9, 2012, 11:01 am
