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A Look At The Changing Landscape in Chinese Domain Names

July 24, 2014 By Raymond Hackney

The FairWinds blog took a look at the changing landscape when it comes to Chinese domain names. For the most part Westerners focus on the numeric .com names that have been bought up from Chinese domain investors, companies and individuals. This article is focusing on the new Chinese gTlds. .Online and .Website. From the article: […]

Filed Under: New gTLD's

Anything Ending With Dot Com is Just That “Another Dot Com”

July 16, 2014 By Raymond Hackney

Neustar wrote a piece for Circle ID that was all about why a brand should want to go with a .Brand over a .Com. They gave four reasons as to why this is the desired route. 4. Stand out in a world of dot com’s No matter how catchy your domain name is, anything ending […]

Filed Under: Domain Business, New gTLD's

How The Right Domain Grew one Entrepreneur’s Business Overnight

July 15, 2014 By Raymond Hackney

StartupSmart.com.au featured an article by Shaun McGowan and his story about how a $2,000 purchase at a domain conference changed his business overnight. McGowan purchased the domain carloans.com.au for $2,000 in an effort to help his car loan business. From the article: One night at a domain name conference I bought a domain name for […]

Filed Under: Domain Business

Bitcoins.com to be auctioned off by Heritage Auctions

July 8, 2014 By Raymond Hackney

Bankrupt Bitcoin exchange Mt.Gox has decided to auction the domain Bitcoins.com in partnership with Heritage Auctions. Aron Meystedt sent out a press release detailing the partnership. Part of the proceeds will be used to pay back investors. Here is the press release: DALLAS – The URL Bitcoins.com will hit the auction block on July 24, […]

Filed Under: Bitcoin, Domain Business

Canada Is Not Kidding When It Comes to Spam

June 25, 2014 By Raymond Hackney

If you are sending emails to Canadians you best make sure they opted in. According to an article in BizJournals.com From the article: A Canadian law that targets spam email could have a big impact on Boston-area companies that use email marketing. Starting July 1, the law makes sending commercial messages to a Canadian resident […]

Filed Under: Marketing

Google Initiates Small Private Beta for Domain Registrations

June 23, 2014 By Raymond Hackney