Archives for 2010

Protected: Fragging: Should the dictionary be rewritten?

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Google Live Search: Great results for short domains

The newly introduced Google Live Search has been met with both excitement and dismay by domainers. Questions about what would happen with lengthy domains of the "long tail" kind are still left to be answered. In the preliminary stats that I have at my disposal from my own domain portfolio, I can … [Read more...]

Developers, developers, developers, developers!

To claim the "developer" title in the domaining industry, one needs to be able to successfully perform a certain range of tasks. A developer creates their own content, programs their relational database and codes scripts. A developer designs their own templates, layouts, web sites or modifies … [Read more...]

Time to change your Domainer Homepage

The speediest method to display a useful web site upon browsing, is the launch of a homepage every time your browser starts. I'm a news junkie so my choice is usually CNN or MSNBC - other times I switch over to TechCrunch. As a domainer though, there is one page that you need to bring up most … [Read more...]

Enom no more

Using eNom as a registrar these days is a leftover from around 2002; that's when I acquired a reseller account and managed to keep my domain renewal costs low. An incident that occurred on Sunday made me change my strategy with regards to eNom; instead of keeping my remaining domains there - … [Read more...]