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  • Guest Post: Chad Fisher Elliots Blog (Tuesday, 15 May) - Chad Fisher helps build and promote web sites in a number of different verticals, everything from finding affordable housing to saving money on insurance. He works at Pyramid SEO and Words For Less, providing client service assistance to business owners. In addition, he works on projects involving electric vehicle charging...
  • My First Domain Name Had a Hyphen Elliots Blog (Monday, 14 May) - For the life of me, I couldn’t recall the first domain name I ever registered. A few people have asked me over the years, and I had a vague idea, but I couldn’t recall it and didn’t have a record of it. I knew it was registered at Network Solutions...
  • Keep This in Mind When Judging a Registry’s Success Elliots Blog (Saturday, 12 May) - I often hear critical and/or snide comments about various non-.com domain registries and how many are presumed to be failures. Some people seem to think that if a registry doesn’t have millions of domain names registered and/or if the aftermarket for a particular registry’s domain names is weak, that the...
  • Thank You EuroDNS, and Welcome Stevan Lieberman and Nokta Domains Elliots Blog (Saturday, 12 May) - I want to take a moment to thank EuroDNS for advertising on my blog for almost a year. The company continued to renew its banner advertisement monthly for quite some time, and I appreciate their supporting my blog. I also want to thank two new advertisers on my website. Stevan...
  • Google Wins Huge UDRP Elliots Blog (Friday, 11 May) - This morning, The National Arbitration Forum posted a UDRP decision that was decided in favor of the complainant, Google. The UDRP covered hundreds of domain names with the Google trademark in them. Some of the domain names that were registered by the respondent include: googlebarack.com googlemiamiheat.com googleroyalbankofscotland.com googleroyalbankofscotland.com googlewesternunion.com googlelarealestate.com...
  • Juan Diego Calle Responds to Comments Elliots Blog (Thursday, 10 May) - There were a number of comments critical of Juan Diego Calle in an article I posted this morning as well as an article posted by Rick Schwartz. Although the video Rick and I shared was primarily about LeWeb’s move from LeWeb.net to LeWeb.CO, the founder of LeWeb referred to the owner of...
  • Video: Why LeWeb Moved to .CO Elliots Blog (Thursday, 10 May) - I want to share a video I was sent with entrepreneur Loic Le Meur of LeWeb and Juan Diego Calle of the .CO Registry. In the video, Le Meur announces LeWeb’s switch to .CO and discusses why the change was made from the .net extension where it previously resided. If...
  • IDNX Records Monthly Decline in April Elliots Blog (Thursday, 10 May) - It appears that the domain market hot streak is in more of a holding pattern, at least according to Sedo’s IDNX. A report from Sedo this morning announced that the IDNX domain price index recorded a 2.1% decline in April, following growth of more than 22% during the last six months....
  • Vanity TLDs in Google Elliots Blog (Wednesday, 9 May) - I thought it would be interesting to see how many websites Google has indexed for a variety of “vanity” tlds. Although some of the tlds I searched include ccTLDs, I figure much of the usage is by people who are not using them for geotargeted local websites. To get the...
  • Close a Deal By Suggesting Financing Options Elliots Blog (Wednesday, 9 May) - I was negotiating a domain sale with an end user buyer a couple of weeks ago, and when it came time to discuss payment, he mentioned a potential hardship in paying the full amount at one time. I didn’t want to lose this sale, so I mentioned that there are...