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Domainer sells name on Facebook
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Domainer sells name on Facebook

By on Jul 27, 2010 in Domain Sales, Social Networking

When domain owners list names for sale, one of the last places they think to list names is Facebook. But domainer Mike Mann made a smart move when he decided to list his generic .co domains on his Facebook page. He sold Flying.co for $3,500. Some of the other domains Mann has listed include news.co [...]

Facebooks hits 500 million users
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Facebooks hits 500 million users

By on Jul 22, 2010 in Social Networking, Web Services

According to PC World, social networking site Facebook now has half a billion users. To put in perspective, only China and India have more people than Facebook has users. Statistics posted by the news site reveal that 35.4% of North Americans and 17% of Europeans log onto Facebook every month. In Oceania, this figure is [...]

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Pakistan Facebook ban lifted

By on Jun 04, 2010 in Security, Social Networking

After protests over images of Islam’s Prophet Mohammad were posted on a Facebook page, the Pakistani government had banned access to the social networking site. The ban has since been lifted on the material, deemed offensive to Muslims, having been removed. The incident sparks questions, though, over just how the Westernised internet intends to manage [...]

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Facebook social networking king according to Google

By on Jun 02, 2010 in Social Networking

Figures recently released indicate that Facebook is the number one social networking site in the world, outstripping competitors and flying in the face of privacy concerns surrounding the social networking phenomenon. According to Google figures, Facebook now enjoys visits from more than 35 percent of the internet population, amounting to about 540 million people each [...]

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Facebook initiates dispute over Facebook.me

By on May 11, 2010 in Domain Sales, Intellectual Property, Social Networking

Facebook has filed a dispute with the WIPO over the domain Facebook.me, which is currently owned by UAE citizen Amjad Abbas. This is just one of many ccTLDs the site has gone after lately. Interestingly, the name’s current owner has it redirecting to Facebook.com. Why he would do is unclear to me. It just emphasizes [...]

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Managing Reseller Payments

By on May 03, 2010 in Web Hosting

One common mistake that web hosting resellers make is jumping into the hosting business without any solid plan for customer management. In an ideal world, customers always pay on time and upgrades always go according to plan. The fact is, however, both you and your customers will make mistakes. The important thing to do is [...]

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Create your own social networking site

By on Apr 21, 2010 in Social Networking, Software

If you hope to compete with Facebook, LinkedIn, or even MySpace, stop reading now. I am not promising anything like that, but in some cases, you might want to make a small social network for a particular student group, organization, niche market, city or town, or people with particular cultural interests. There are two methods [...]

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Twitter the latest among big players to leave MySQL for Cassandra

By on Mar 01, 2010 in Software, Web servers

With a name that even sounds like the beautiful love interest of a secret affair, Cassandra appears to be positioning itself to steal the hearts of those once in love with MySQL. Twitter is now set to replace its MySQLdatabase system with the open source home wrecker. Cassandra was originally developed by Facebook and was [...]

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Facebook criticized for coal-powered data center

By on Feb 18, 2010 in VPS & Dedicated, Web Infrastructure

Facebook’s new data center under construction in Prineville, Oregon, is as green as they get. Featuring eco-friendly evaporative cooling and re-use of server heat for offices during the winter, the facility meets the coveted LEED Gold standard for energy efficiency. Despite this, the facility has been on the receiving end of criticism from environmentalists as [...]

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Facebook forgets to register FacebookZero.com

By on Feb 17, 2010 in Domain Sales, Intellectual Property

Someone at Facebook headquarters just said, “Uh oh.” The social media site announced a new feature this morning: Facebook Zero. Slated for launch in a few weeks, Zero is a text-only version of Facebook available for free on mobile phones. The problem? The company forgot to register FacebookZero.com. After Facebook Zero was announced, a domainer [...]

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