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April, 2013
April, 2010
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12 April
Server redundancy
In an ideal world, you get what you want all the time. The shopping lines are always short, the traffic is always light, and there are more jobs than there are people to fill them. Unfortunately, we do not live in an ideal world, and just like a street can …
October, 2009
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2 October
What is MRTG?
Question: What is MRTG? Answer: MRTG stands for Multi Rounter Traffic Grapher. It is free and open source software that monitors and measures traffic on a network. It provides a graph that shows traffic load over a set period of time. Although it was originally developed to monitor routers, many …
August, 2009
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7 August
Watch a live domain auction
We hear about domain auctions on a daily basis, but rarely does one get the chance to see such an event live. The video above shows the sale of Ad.com during T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Silicon Valley in April. The winning bidder was Divyank Turakhia, who paid £946,137 ($1.4 million USD) for the …
June, 2009
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17 June
TRAFFIC ccTLD Extended Auction Results
TRAFFIC Amsterdam ended more than a week ago, but the online extended auction that started during the event just came to a close. In all, £64,006 ($105,000 USD) worth of domains were sold. The biggest sale was the combined auction of Blackjack.co.za and Casinos.co.za, which fetched £29,526 ($48,436 USD). Other …
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8 June
Average Internet user visits 70 domains each month
I already know I am way over the average, but the new statistics released by Nielsen Online are worth investigating, especially if your business is online. According to the report, the average person visits 70 domains and 1576 web pages each month. That means that most of the pages they …
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5 June
ccTLDs Sell for Big Bucks at TRAFFIC Amsterdam
TRAFFIC Amsterdam is coming to a close and the auction results are now in. While many domains didn’t sell at the event intended mainly for ccTLDs, some brought in big bucks for their owners: DiamondRings.com- £141,589 Rugs.co.uk- £13,844 Vegas.cm- £13,547 Job.us-£ 22,025 Tel.fr- £4,370 Houses.co.uk- £44,574 Blog.eu- £12,585 Obviously the …
May, 2009
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8 May
IFPI uses The Pirate Bay verdict to go after web hosts
News of the conviction of four people responsible for The Pirate Bay file-sharing site spread quickly, and the IFPI, an international affiliate of the RIAA, is now targeting web hosting providers who host file sharing web sites. The web hosts, they argue, are accountable for content and should shut down …
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8 May
TRAFFIC ccTLDs Coming to Europe
TRAFFIC may have ended yesterday, but June 1- June 5, it will be starting back up again, this time in Amsterdam. The event’s official name is TRAFFIC ccTLDs 2009. As the name implies, the focus of the expo will be ccTLDs, or country code top-level domains. Silent domain auctions will …
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8 May
TRAFFIC Silent Auction Ends
A ten-day silent auction at Moniker ended yesterday afternoon at SnapNames.com. The online event, which started in late April at TRAFFIC 2009, saw the sale of 1718 domains, bringing in £1.7 million ($2.6 million USD) worth of revenue to the owners. This is the same silent auction where Ad.com sold …