Finding the dream domain name for your website or small business
can be like finding a needle in a haystack on the internet.New websites and businesses are popping up in niche categories all
over the web, Trying to register the perfect domain name for yourself
without any tools is very frustrating, because you can’t possibly figure
out all the keyword combinations in your head.
DomainPunch
Find and search though expired domains ranked with Alexa, Dictionary, Page Rank, Yahoo Backlinks and MSN Backlinks
Dictionary Domains
Some of the most valuable and sought after expired domains are
dictionary domains. These deleted domains are all words that
can be found in the dictionary. This makes them very broad in
scope and much more appealing to a wider audience of potential
buyers and developers. These domains tend to be some of the
easiest to sell simply due to their memorability.
Domains with Backlinks
Registering expired domain names that have existing links from
other sites already indexed in the major search engines are great
additions to any domain name portfolio. These dropped domains will
already be receiving hits from these existing backlinks from the
day you register them. Picking up domains with existing traffic
is a perfect way to kick start a new site.
Domains with Page Rank
Targeting deleted domain names that already have an existing
Google Page Rank is a huge business. These are some of the
hardets domains to grab from expired lists as there are teams
of professional drop catchers focussed on nabbing the domains
the minute they become available. If you want a chance at one
of these, you should probably backorder it.
Oddity Software
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Thursday, December 13th, 2007
Did you know that the blogging phenomena is producing fantastic results and great financial gains for bloggers on-line? Some savvy affiliate program bloggers are earning incomes in excess of $3,000 per month. And you can certainly cash in on some of the profit if you have the motivation to do so. So exactly what is a Blog? Blog is short for web-log. It could be considered an on-line journal where you could write about a number of subjects. You could write about your life, a hobby, or anything that you want to write about freely. You can post anything you want on your blog like videos, articles, games, banners, or anything imaginable and have an audience read what you have written. If you like writing you may want to investigate blogging. There are free blogging services that offer an introduction to blogging for the beginning blogger, but if you are really serious about blogging it is best to have your blog hosted on your own domain along with your own domain name. Why? Because you will be in complete control of your blog and will not face having your blog removed for various reasons — one being spam. Yes, your blog could be removed by being considered a “spam blog.”
Other reasons that you may want to consider hosting your own blog is that you will have access to a lot more tools usually referred to as plug-ins and templates that will help you with SEO (search engine optimization) thus helping you get get more traffic to your blog. And hosting your own blog and domain name improves your search engine ranking and you will appear more professional and build more credibility. It also helps to build confidence and trust of your reader.
Another great reason to blog is that blogs create instantaneous links on Google, Yahoo and MSN. If you set your blog up properly you can have your posts listed on theses search engines within days. It will be easier for you to dominate a niche market as well with the proper research and preparation. And if you utilize the proper web 2.0 sites and social book-marking sites you will be able to generate massive amounts of traffic to your blog. Also a lot of small business are setting up blogs for their customers and potential customers to follow.
When considering whether or not to set up your blog you must ask yourself if you are going to be committed to posting to your blog regularly. The key element that your blog must have is relevant content. You can write the articles yourself or you can have someone write the articles for you and pay for them.
If you already have a website you may want to consider combining a website and blog which offers a number of great advantages in terms of traffic generation, marketing and efficiency that a lone website cannot offer. Because blogs do not require any technical knowledge or programming, html or FTP (unless you are hosting it yourself), it is the easiest and cheapest way to set up an on-line web presence. All you have to do is write your content and publish it with a push of the button.
Blogs also offer interaction between you and your readers. They employ a function where your readers can comment on your articles or thoughts by replying to a particular piece you have written. This allows you to recommend products or services to your readers more easily and they will be more willing to accept your offer because you have not given them a sales-pitch but rather relevant information on their subject of interest. And the more frequently you update your site, the more frequently the search-engines will visit your site. Additionally, you can place links to other websites on your blog and they will get indexed quickly by the search engines.
A most powerful feature of a blog is that most of them have RSS feeds as a built-in function. Once it is turned on as an RSS feed you can syndicate your content and have others receive your posts via their RSS newsreader; thereby gaining potential clients and additional traffic. You can also allow other website owners to publish your feed on their website gaining free traffic you would not otherwise have. Additionally, you can submit your feed to the major RSS directories and search engines again gaining even more free traffic and exposure.
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Monday, December 10th, 2007
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Friday, December 7th, 2007
As a valued web hosting client you will enjoy all the benefits of our state-of-the-art data center located in Fremont, California, and owned by the well-known US company Peer1 (formerly HostCentric), which also provides the physical environment necessary to keep the servers up and running 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.Our network architecture utilizes the Enterprise routing and switching engines from Juniper and Cisco. We utilize Juniper M20 routers as border routers, Cisco 6500 series switches in our distribution layer and Cisco 6500 switches in our aggregation layers, and Cisco 3500 and 2900 series switches at the customer layer.
Our network is fully meshed and redundant with 9 backbone providers.As a Tier 1 ISP, the owner of the data center where our servers are co-located, has established extensive public and private peering relationships. Peer points currently include the Pacific Bell NAP and the Palo Alto Internet Exchange. BGP4 is used for optimal route selection and automatic fail over. The data center “Cisco Powered Network” relies on redundant Cisco 1200 series routers and 6500 series switches at its core, and can be made fully redundant all the way down to the servers.The operation center is staffed 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, by skilled technicians. Industry-leading service level agreements highlight company guarantees like 100% network uptime.
Our network of servers represents more than 80 servers. We have main production servers, backup servers, as well as administrative, spare and dedicated servers.
Our UK-based servers are deployed in the BlueSquare Data Center, a state-of-the-art facility situated in Maidenhead, Berkshire, about 20 miles from London. This makes it an excellent choice for all clients from Europe, Asia, and Africa. Opened in August 2006, at 10,000 sq.ft. in size, BlueSquare Data provides up to 16 Amps per cabinet location with N+1 redundancy at all times. BlueSquare House is connected with 2 London docklands datacenters via a 10Gig Extreme Networks ring. Those being Telehouse East and Telecity HEX89.
We have chosen the BlueSquare data center with only two things in mind: over-engineering and quality. They have made a solid investment in the best infrastructure and equipment out there for our customers’ sake. Currently, BlueSquare has 40% more cooling capacity and electrical input than originally designed, which allows us to provide sufficient electric power and cooling. They are one of the few facilities that are able to provide access to fiber traveling direct to
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Tuesday, December 4th, 2007
There are some excellent services that offer free blog hosting services, but it seems that more bloggers prefer to use paid blog web hosting. There are several reasons for this. When you set up stand alone blog on a paid web hosting it has more chances to be well indexed and crawled by search engines, since stand alone blogs have an individual URL and are indexed by sites such as Yahoo, Msn, Google and other blog search engines and bots that crawl the web searching for new content to index. When you sign up for paid blog web hosting services to create your blog on a separate domain name you get reliability and some guarantees, such as uptime guarantee. You get in most cases perfect professional and responsive technical support that will help you to answer questions and resolve technical issues when you need this help.
This is of great importance if you are new to blogging and this is your first time setting up blog on WordPress.There are four types of Blog Scripts built in to your control panel and can be automatically installed to the folder of your choice.
Movable Type
With more than 50 new features, MT4 will enable you to quickly start a blog, easily manage entire blogging websites, and better connect with your audience. Here’s some of what’s new in MT4:
A completely redesigned user interface It’s easy to install and easy to get started. Get an at-a-glance summary of your blogging activity from content to contributors on our new dashboard. Easily insert text, photos, files and more with a rich WYSIWYG editing. Built-in asset, photo and file management. Support for creating standalone pages that automatically inherit your blog’s design. Built-in member registration system for reader and comment authentication. Support for OpenID. Aggregate posts from multiple blogs into a single blog. Expanded options for archiving and displaying content.
Textpattern
When it comes to publishing on the internet, beginners and experts alike are met with a bothersome paradox: word processors and graphics applications allow anyone to do a pretty good job of managing text and images on a personal computer, but to make these available to the worldwide web a seemingly similar environment of documents and destinations ease of use vanishes behind sudden requirements for multilingual programming skills, proficiency in computer-based graphic design, and, ultimately, the patience of a saint. Those who soldier on anyway may find themselves further held back by the web’s purported inflexibility with written language, with its reluctance to cope with all but the plainest of text, or by the unpredictable results brought about by using WYSIWYG web editors. Textpattern is a web application designed to help overcome these and other hurdles to publishing.
b2evolution
b2evolution is a powerful blog tool you can install on your own website. It includes all the features of traditional blog tools, and extends them with evolved features such as file & photo management, advanced skinning, multiple blogs support as well as detailed user permissions… Not to mention third party plug-ins!
WordPress
Creating a blog on WordPress does not demand any technical experience or knowledge from you. WordPress is a personal publishing script, which offers a cross-blog tool, password-protected posts, importing, typographical eye candy, Multiple Authors and Bookmarklets. WordPress allows you to post blog content online, thus there is no need use FTP connection from your web hosting provider. With WordPress preinstalled in your free scripts, it literally takes a few moments to have a professional looking site up and running and available for millions of visitors from all round the world.
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Monday, December 3rd, 2007
Would you like to be that lucky person who sells their domain for thousands or millions of dollars? It is possible to find quality domains and resell them for huge amounts of money. The time is ripe for buying top domains and selling them. Now that the Internet Boom is behind us, valuable names expire everyday. The best way to find these domains is to use services on the Internet such as DomainsBot to weed out the bad names. Or just check out Hot Lists on sites like SnapNames or Pool. What makes a “good” domain name? Usually short, single word domains and 2-3 letter .coms, .nets, and .orgs are the best. The more specific the better. These can be hard to come by but when you find them, you can almost guarantee that you can make good money from them. Once you have purchased a nice domain name, get a good appraisal of the name to get an idea of the possible worth. In order to sell your newly appraised name, you have to find a buyer. Here are your basic options for selling your domain name in a nutshell:1. Sell it on Ebay
This is the easiest and quickest way to sell your domain name. There are several tricks to landing a good sale at Ebay. One is, start your price low. People want a bargain. Once you have received an initial bid, it will draw peoples attention to your name and create more bids. You may want to set a reserve price if you want to make sure you get X amount of dollars. When selling your domain on Ebay, make sure your domain name is in the title of the description. Also, include an appraisal to show to possible buyers the value of the domain. Keep your description short, clean, and really emphasize how important and rare your domain is. For example, if your domain is 3 letters and ends in “I”, stress how most 3 letter domains that are highly valuable end in “I” because it usually stands for “Incorporated”. If it ends in “E” it could stand for “Enterprise”. A little bit of marketing savvy can go a long way. 2. Sell it on Domain SitesThe only sites you should even consider putting your name up for sale is on Ebay, Afternic, or Sedo. These are the most popular and where some huge sales have taken place. The only downside is that there are high numbers of domains already for sale and usually the site will get a commission of something around 10%. There also may be a small fee to join. You may also have luck selling it on forums such as DomainState. The prices of sales there seem to be lower.
Avoid stolen domains.
3. Contact Large BusinessesThis approach takes some time and patience. Let’s say you have acquired a great domain name that would work great for any business in the field of the stock market. You may want to locate some of the bigger sites or businesses and make an offer to sell your domain name. Make sure the name you own doesn’t have any elements that are already trademarked because you may be forced to give up the name. You may want to go on the Internet and look up current websites that deal with stocks and find ones that don’t have the greatest domain names. Make offers to these sites stating how your domain is much better and will HELP them. If you get a company to bite, the rewards are usually very generous!
Avoid buying domains that are copyright protected, You may end up losing the domain.
There are Millions of domains out there. Use your creativity and you will be able to come up with some gems. In summary, selling domains for high amounts of cash depends on two key elements.
First you must have a quality domain, one that doesn’t have numbers or isn’t too long. It must be clear and easily recognizable. “.com” is the best, but even domains such as the “.us” are gaining popularity. The second key is Marketing, Marketing, Marketing! I can’t stress that enough. You have to create a good reason for someone to buy your domain. How can THEY benefit from it. When these two steps are fulfilled, a sale is almost guaranteed!
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Saturday, December 1st, 2007
Why Purchase Domain a Name when you can get a Free Domain name with your hosting plan.
There are a number of ways and locations to purchase domain names, and research and knowledge are keys to making the right decision. Therefore, it is important to know a number of things when purchasing a domain name.
1) Accredited Registrars All domain names must be sold by accredited Registrars certified to do so by ICANN. Registrars are required to follow the procedures set forth by ICANN, giving consumers a dispute organization in the event one is needed. Registars are required to pay a fee to ICANN for the purchase of each domain name. One of the areas that separate registars is the price charged to the consumer. Domain name registration varies from $4.99 at the low end to $65.00 depending on which registrar you choose. Services offered with domain name purchases also vary depending on the registrar selected, such as DNS, forwarding, email, hosting and parked pages.The services offered are just as important to purchasing a domain names as the name itself. If you own a .com domain name and purchase the .net name, then free forwarding would be a great deal. If you want to point the domain name by DNS then not only is free DNS pointing required, but if you have no experience with DNS the support to set up DNS records will also be required. All registrars are not created equal and some sell low cost domains but with limited support.When selecting a registrar look at your short term and long term needs, whether it is one domain or multiple domains. Although a low cost looks good up front, do your research and make sure all your needs will be filled. When looking for a domain contact the registrar and ask questions like: Do you have 24/7 tech support, does your support cover DNS record set up, advance record set up, what will you be expected to do and what will they do for you.
2) Domain Resellers
Resellers are partners of accredited registrars, reselling their products and services, but are not accredited to sell domain names. When purchasing a domain name from a reseller, be prepared to be patient. Most offer very little to no technical support or rely on the accredited registrar for support.
There are also times the reseller goes out of business without notifying the domain owner leaving them with little knowledge of who to contact if the domain requires DNS record changes or even simple renewals.
Domain resellers are the most unknown group of domain sellers on the internet. When searching for a registrar look at the site you are on, check to see if they list themselves as an ICANN accredited registrar. Domain sellers not displaying this are almost guaranteed to be resellers. Check icann.org and review the list of accredited registrars to see if the company you are looking to purchase your domain from is accredited or not.
3) Domain Deals
Searching the Internet for a registrar will lead a surfer to many results. Beware of some of the results and domain gimmicks. Yahoo offers domains for a low price with their hosting, but is not an accredited registrar or a reseller. Yahoo uses a third party company that is an accredited registrar. Most consumers do read the Terms of Service when making a domain purchase, and doing so will allow you to see that Yahoo states that they assist you in purchasing your low cost domain.
Unless you read the Terms of Service, knowing that your domain will be registered somewhere else could lead to long term issues. These issues include domain renewal notifications or confusions when wanting to transfer the domain to a new registrar.
Check out all domain offers, read the fine print and make sure you know who your are really dealing with.
4) Domain Protection?
When you purchase a domain it is yours to use for the period your selected to register. Once purchased many registrars automatically put on a service to prevent your domain from being transferred to someone or somewhere else without your permission. This service has different names depending on where your domain is registered, but may be called domain lock and domain protect.
Domain protection is a valuable service and should always be left on unless you intend to transfer your domain to a new registrar. Never allow anyone to tell you to turn off your domain protection for any reason but to transfer. Many times a hosting company or web designer will tell a client to turn off the lock so they can set up services, but this is not required to set up any service.
5) Additional Domain Services
When going through your purchase flow you will be offered a number of additional services, none of which are required. Web hosting will be needed if you do not have your own server, but if you just plan on parking the domain or not using it then why get hosting. Email can be used for your domain with many Internet Service Providers like Verizon. Check with your provider and ask them if you can set up your domain and receive email using your current service. If so there is no need to buy the email service.
Domain registration with a particular registrar does not mean you must use all or any of the services they offer. You can purchase a domain with a registrar and host with a different company.
Private Registration is the only service that must be purchased form your registrar, this product will remove your personal information from the WHOIS database and make ownership of your domain anonymous.
Written by John Kinney
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