Domain Name Blog

Another day in the Stock markets and Yahoo share price continues to fall. At $18.75 it is the lowest share price Yahoo has had since September, 2003 ($17.54). However, it is not the all time lowest, we have to remember that Yahoo has been on ups and downs. For example, back in July 1996 its share price was $0.69. How much did you manage to buy then? Looks like Yahoo will have a hard time to repeat the big UP of December 1999, when the share price was $100.65.Looking back to this year, Yahoo had Continue Reading…

How many methods of link building are there? And how many of them are effective? Would it be easier to get a link from someone who hates you or from someone who loves you? If you are nodding with the latter, then read on for a good advice on link building.

Asking your competitor for a backlink is not always a good idea. Instead find somebody who has good emotions about you. I hope you understand - it is your client or customer.

If you have ever run an online shop you know Continue Reading…

Today is the day when the history will be made (possibly, allegedly…) Google Chrome Beta version of the much anticipated web browser will be available for download in this link. It is not active yet, but keep trying. It is believed by many that Google Chrome will be much lighter. That’s the ticket! That’s the idea - the mainstream browsers are coded too heavily. Bloated with lines and lines of unnecessary code. Continue Reading…

According to the post on the official Public Interest Registry blog, PIR has sent a joint letter with Non-Commercial Users Constituency to ICANN with a plea to consider the end-users’ interests to implement Internationalized Domain Names (IDN). It means that if the proposal is eventually filed and it gets accepted we will have a possibility to register such international names like Continue Reading…

Just a couple of days after the .ORG 7 million milestone, Nominet has announced that UK domain name has reached the 7 million registrations mark, too. Congratulations!

Michelle Taylor, the owner of Toots Driving School in London, who registered the 7 millionth domain name tootsdrivingschool.co.uk, explained that she Continue Reading…

I still got a feeling that some webmasters spend too much time submitting their sites to endless free web directories. In order to perform any task, you need to set a goal. If your goal is to gain PR, you will not submit links to PR n/a or PR0 directories. If you want to get an odd click or two, you will not go with a directory that is Alexa 3,000,000 will you?

I have created a report containing links to a few directories that have increased their PageRank or Alexa traffic rank within the recent months. As a “thank you” for reading this blog, I offer you to download this PDF report here: Free Directories Review

For the past few months the webmaster community (at least a part of it) is buzzing with the new Microsoft BrowseRank concept. It is a new (well not than new) page importance ranking principle set to outsmart Google PageRank. Despite all the uneducated criticism people address to Microsoft, I will say that BrowseRank can prove to be a good solution because you can theoretically manipulate PageRank by acquiring (sometimes buying) lots of backlinks but you cannot manipulate the behaviour of visitors (unless you buy them all or zomb them all). Continue Reading…

Another anniversary! .ORG Domain just reached 7,000,000 registrations maintaining its status as the third most popular international top level domain. Continue Reading…

I just had a pleasant opportunity to interview Justin Hayward, Communications Director of Telnic Limited - the Registry Operator and Sponsoring Organization for the new .TEL domains. For starters I would suggest you read this post to learn what is .TEL domain. If you already have, let’s crack on!

3APP: I have already heard concerns that social networks like MySpace, Digg may see a decline once .TEL is introduced. What is your opinion? Will it be possible to integrate Myspace into the new concept or these social networks are just a part of history?

Justin: I’m interested to hear who has been saying Continue Reading…

The volume of the domain zone of China continues to increase. It was revealed by CNNIC that during the 2nd quarter of 2008 the Chinese domain .CN has added to the number of registered domain names by 18%. CN is the fastest growing internet zone in the world to date. With 12,264,615 registrations it has already beaten .DE of Germany (currently 12,224,797 names) and Continue Reading…