When you register a domain name, the details you register with are stored in a database called WhoIs.
This basically allows anyone to view and have a look around at who owns which domain and provides them with some (if fairly limited) point of contact.
You can check Whois to view domain expiration dates (if you want [...]
So on the whole, HTTP is too old and is inefficient for transferring single files.. so is this a reason for everyone to make the switch immediately?
The Good:
-SPDY encrypts all data transfers. So no more worrying about those https urls or putting :443 at the end. literally all URLs will be encrypted.
-SPDY gZips all data [...]
Not quite content with pretty much owning half of the Internet, Google has decided that everyone now needs to make the next step for the Internet to progress.
HTTP is the protocol used thoughout the Internet to transfer pages and data. It was a great invention for its time, but its getting on a bit now [...]
Insure.com: Like everything else in the finance industry (have you seen the ppc prices?), Insure.com sold for a whopping 16 million dollars. I hope QuinStreet does well with it.
Sex.com: This one is a little predicteable. The domain sold for 14 million dollars and is expected to be use (you guessed it) for a pornographic site.
Fund.com: [...]
Rupert Murdoch has announced that they have plans to have their content indexed only by the search engines that are willing to pay for it.
Rupert Murdoch is one of the Web’s major publishers and have been in contact with Microsoft about getting their content exclusively available through Bing.
What annoys me most about this is that [...]
The easies answer to that question would be to ask yourself, how much am I willing to pay for it?
As a rule of thumb, the most valuable domains are ones with only 1 word in them. Thats because they are pretty much all taken. It’s likely that any noun you can think of will be [...]
You will also need a domain name that is short and easy to spell (for obvious reasons). If you ever have to tell anybody how to spell your domain name then you really should reconsider.
Recently there have been an influx of useful websites that have completely unrelated (often made up words) as domain names (hulu.com, [...]
So now Iv’e done a post about the really bad domains, how do you go about choosing a domain?
The choice of domain names really depends of your business.. The ideal domain name would be one that contains a keyword that people would be searching for.. so, for example, if I’m selling Whippets, a good domain [...]
When registering your own domain, you should check if by moving the spaces around you get any unwanted words.. Some examples of some of the worst URL blunders ever:
Who Represents
www.whorepresents.com
A simple site offering the names of who represents celebrities.
Experts Exchange
www.expertsexchange.com
It can be a little difficult to get this one, so lets just re-capitalize it just [...]
The ICAAN, the body that govourns URLs has approved a plan to open up URLs to include non latin charactors. While it sound great news in principle, it remains to be seen if is going to work in practice.
For One, Phishing scams are going to become an absolute nightmare have a look at the 2 [...]