The benefit of a company names is that you can put spaces between words to make who you are very clear – but in a domain name, all the letters run together, and there’s no way of guaranteeing that visitors ill see www.chosespain.com as “chose spain”, rather than “choses pain” When you’re sending out the [...]
Read the story »You will probably be aware of the saga that is “IHateRyanAir” by now, but wow – the power of the internet in challenging multi-national companies and kicking a** is getting more and more common. Gone are the days when the customers’ voice would be lost amongst a call centre of uncaring, bored, under-paid and under-skilled [...]
Read the story »The address of your website is a pretty key aspect of your business – it should be on adverts, correspondence, business cards, etc; it should be everywhere to maximise the amount of people who know where to find you online. So forgetting to renew the domain, and risk someone else buying it before you can [...]
Read the story »Well, my first question is “why are you asking this question”? And depending on the response, my answer would be very different. Has your website been penalised for poor linking, etc? Well, don’t give up without trying to fix it – get rid of the bad stuff, update on the on-page and re-submit. Still not [...]
Read the story »(and to finish the quote….) “That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet” You’ll recognise this quote from Shakespeare’s “Romeo & Juliet”, which has had many outings since it was first written down in 1597 (413 years!), but is recently most applicable to the often costly purchase of a [...]
Read the story »The head of the global Internet addressing authority at ICANN is expected to visit officials in China after ICANN received a request for a new domain name ending in ‘.china’ written in Chinese characters. The outcome of these meetings will be interesting following China’s recent tightening of internet security which has been seen by many [...]
Read the story »Domain auction house Sedo has announced that it helped supervise the sale of the domain name Poker.org for a cool $1 million, the most ever spent on a .org domain name. It was sold by a company called National A1 to PokerCompany.com. The total paid well beats the previous record, held by Engineering.org which sold [...]
Read the story »It may be obvious to many in the search engine optimisation industry, but it’s worth saying again! Having a good generic keyword domain name to host your website on can greatly help increase your chances of high rankings on search engines such as Google. Let’s say you have a business selling chairs. If you were [...]
Read the story »The internet ended the fourth quarter of 2009 with at least a total 192 million domain names registered, according to latest findings by Verisign in their Domain Name Industry brief. The total includes all of the top level domain names and is an increase of about 15 million on the end of 2008. About 11 [...]
Read the story »Domain oversight body ICANN claims that most online domain registrations are incorrect. Up to 77% of domain registrations have information that is either false or incomplete, the report states. It covers international domain registrations for top level domain extensions .com, .org, .net. .info and .biz. Checks were made on a random sample of domain registrations [...]
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