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July, 2009

  • 6 July

    What Sarah Palin and Twitter can teach us about domain names

    I read an interesting piece today about Sarah Palin’s use of social media and her problems with cybersquatting. She not only failed to obtain her name on Twitter, but will need to find a new handle now that she is no longer Governor of Alaska. Thinking only in the short …

  • 2 July

    Have search engines rendered domains obsolete?

    Do domains matter anymore? Chris Matyszczyk at Cnet doesn’t seem to think so. In what is actually a pretty interesting read, he argues that while having a generic keyword domain used to be important, so few people directly type web addresses into their browsers that a good domain doesn’t a …

June, 2009

  • 10 June

    Wealth.com to Hit the Auction Block

    In recent years, it has been the trend for companies to register generic domains rather than product-specific names. Bank of America, for example, owns Loans.com. CNN has Money.com, while Monster.com bought Jobs.com some time ago. Generic domains are worth so much because they are easy to remember and easily marketed. …