Domain Name Blog

It is enough to fuss about $60 domain backorder fees. Pool.com tries to aim higher. How about multiplying the fee thousandfold?

In the recent survey carried out by Greg Aaron (Afilias) and Rod Rasmussen (Internet Identity) it turned out that phishing is getting bigger and bigger.

As we suggested in our previous article about EU domain name price hike, the European domain would see a decrease in popularity because many EU names would drop at the end of May (40 days after April 12 – the date most EU domain names were registered). We were right.

The last Google Pagerank update saw many web directories falling out of favour. It seems that Google really wants to fight with senseless bunches of urls. The biggest fall affected 4ppl.com, blogernity, poly-web. Even DMOZ felt the drop.

Recently www.dns.pl – the official administrative body of PL – the domain name of Poland – announced that the PL registry has reached the millionth domain name. That would be another good news about domain boom this spring unless it was a hoax – at least part of it.

Experts predict .ME domain names will reach enormous popularity. You can start pre-registering your Montenegro domain names now. However, is it Montenegro? Because www.GoDaddy.com forgets to give credit to the small European country claiming that .ME is “a new domain extension that represents you”!

In the previous articles we have discussed the possibilities to obtain a free domain appraisal through bots, scripts and similar non-human establishments. However, there is a nice chance of having a free valuation from fellow domainers and this is usually quite an accurate one.

It was announced by World Radio Switzerland that later this month America will go on auction. I mean America.com not the USA. If you are interested in buying the States, contact George W Bush.

As you might notice, April 30, 2008 was the start of the 2nd Page rank update by Google. What trends do we have this time?

Initially the cyber people regarded the social bookmarking sites and other community oriented projects like Digg, Stumbleupon and others as places to interact with other surfers. Did you know that you can also gain Page Rank on your Digg profile and then use it as a source of backlinks to your own sites?