Archives for 2012

New post record without the need for newsletter clicks

The late night post at DomainGang about Morgan Linton and Daina getting married, generated a new overnight readership record, with more than 400 clicks on the Domaining.com feed. To view those clicks, one has to have a Premium membership. Of course, because Francois of Domaining.com censors … [Read more...]

Spam, lies and videotape: Part 2

Part 1 of "Spam, Lies and Videotape" was an introduction to how information can be deceptive, and how anyone can claim to be someone, even promoting their location and address profoundly. But does it really matter where one resides? I suppose it does, when you want to achieve something of … [Read more...]

Domaining.com newsletter: “Top Headlines” are not truly top

After seeing a blog post syndicated on the Domaining.com feed appear in today's Newsletter that Francois Carrillo emails to subscribers, I just had to ask Francois: how do headlines get rated? My question makes sense: to appear in a sponsored headline in the Domaining.com newsletter, one has to … [Read more...]

Spam, lies and videotape: Part 1

The other day I received an email inquiry from a person with a long, antiquated name, and an even longer, pompous signature. He wanted me to price my single word .com domain - if it were for sale, of course. At the bottom of it all, Mr. Samuel Washington had signed with his address, in the … [Read more...]

Sedo Accounts Receivable: a very active department

I noticed that several Google searches for "Sedo accounts receivable" end up at this very blog. At first I was perplexed, then realized that a recent post about how effective that Sedo department is, apparently sends visitors here. Sedo has been quite effective in collecting payments from … [Read more...]