Apple Tablet on the Slate

Today’s announcement by Cupertino techmaker Steve Jobs will start a run on domain names with “slate” or “tablet” in the keywords. Smart domainers have already done their Apple shopping, focusing on tablet names and keywords like “store’, shop” and “tech”. With a color screen, wi-fi and3G surfing and email capability, this all-purpose tech device should sell at about $1K, priced just right for credit enabled tech first adopters.

Apple’s Iphone penetrated every market it went into, and the tablet or slate product has futuristic edge with everyday practical uses. Domainers, to your registrars!

Country Code Apps Niche Opportunity

Ask not what your country code TLD domain name can do for you, but ask rather what you can do to enhance the value of country code domain property. Setting up global real estate under a foreign country domain name TLD takes pizzazz and killer apps. But who will provide the next universal domaining tools for the huge market of domainers who have lots of ccTLD  real estate in their portfolio but no way to launch it?

Domaining Hits the Beeb

Not often domainers see a BBC news story centered around domaining. Yet the BBC news network ran a recent story concerning the .me development market. Montenegro’s little TLD that could has garnered massive me-dia attention and helps domainers sell to end users. Over 50,000 live registrations marked a decided lively market of “me”. Now if only the Sudanese United Villagers would form a country….and get the .SUV TLD off the ground.

The Public Domain Donut Hole

What is the Domain Freeze? The 1998 “Mickey Mouse” domain extension and U. S. public domain laws extending 35 years of additional public domain coverages of copyrighted works means 2010 is a bum year for exploitable private works coming into the public domain. Life plus seventy years copyright protection is the current copyright coverage by U. S. law.

How does this affect domaining? Sites use names and copyrighted material a lot. Because copyright turf wars could have been made moot without the reforms, 1976’s regulation affects the domaining world today.  But European authors dying in 1939 (plus seventy years) have material arising into the public domain now. Content editors and webmasters, look alive! There is keyword gold in them thar….Alps.

U-Tube Clone Namers Get Ready!

Video sharing online has never been hotter. Got a Youtube name but never had the resources hostingwise to do a Youtube clone?  Now website developers and domain name owners with “Tube” keyword components can rustle up their own clone. The tech is all good, a ton of supported formats with Bounceweb in streaming and conversion, and a hosting blog as well for the Q & A pain. Look at the FFmpegweb hosting product asap!

BounceWeb’s TV hosting is tailor-made for a YouTube Clone Hosting website. It’s FFmpeg hosting servers are set up for streaming video & support popular scripts like YouTube Clone script etc. The servers are high grade Xeon servers, with plenty of RAM, making your YouTube Clone Hosting site to process videos quickly and stream them with amazing speed. As a premium FFmpeg hosting provider BounceWeb offers a wide range of collection of video software and plugins pre-installed, on high speed web servers which have been optimized for streaming video.

Only Time Can Tell

The way that we currently search the Internet will dramatically be changing in the near future. Non-Latin characters are scheduled to be introduced to the web in the next year, which will turn online use for millions of people into World War II.

The system that is used to translate network addresses from user-friendly names for locating resources on the Internet, the Domain Name System, is restricted to only using ASCII characters. This limitation is what first set standard for domain names that are acceptable. Countries that do not use the ASCII characters include Hangul, Arabic, Kanji, and Hiragana. The first implementations that are most likely expected to be made are the Russian, Chinese, and Arabic domains according to ICANN.

The Internet is like a brain, made up of many different parts that allow each section of to communicate with each other. Just like the many people from all over the world that communicate with each other via the web. The introduction of the non-Latin characters could possibly cause each culture to create their own unique system which will in-turn cause the Internet to become non-interacting or non-functioning. What will would we do if one of the most used communication device between different cultures was lost? This is a question that can only be answered by time.

Sports Name Fiesta in 2010

Look for sports TLD domination this year, says an insider. Sports domains in 2010 will become more valuable as with all quality, generic domains.  With more and more people/companies  understanding the need for a converging quality domain, the solidifying effort to increase their brand and online presence becomes more efficient. Sports fulfills the need for fresh dynamic content and a solid audience searching daily for new results.

If there are sports domains that include year numerals in the domain name, those domains have a shorter ’shelf life’ of value.  But promotion can make the years matter.  Witness the success of all the Nostradamus 2010 domain search result traffic. Hybrids of key niches, like gaming and sports, take place with a site like www.Gamingwizz.com.

This insider goes on to say “Obviously, the shorter, commerce related, and easiest to remember/type are the top names to go after.  The best thing with sports is the amount of fans around the world with so many different sports and teams.  All in all, there is pretty good potential in 2010 for sports niche domains.”

New Dot .hub market soon to open

 

Disputes about marshland property taxes, oyster bed revenues, and coconut harvesting environmental concerns gave rise to this constitutional anarchy. While the United Nations is still considering their petition offer, the European domain markets have been awash in requests for dot-HUB. The country code for .HUB will be brokered by Marcaria.com of France. Expatriates of the New Hebrides region have been approved for .hub domain purchase with responsibility for proof left with the domain name registrars.

 

Can-Do Dominican Republic Market Open

The first stage land rush of Dominican Republic names is now in play. The  domain TLD sales for the country code .DO are now occuring through March 2010.  When competition for a single .do name happens, priority will be given to the person who has the registration under .com.do, .net.do, or .org. do for the longest period.

After March 10 the regular registration period for .do names begins. Interested domainers can preregister for US $240.

Expats Can Buy .Fr’s says Marcaria

French Domain Hub Marcaria.com says that AFNIC announced in late 2009 that it was extending the qualification of purchase for .FR cc TLD names to French expatriates. This can mean big opportunity for domainers with formerly French colleagues or employees, or domain name portfolio managers with French expatriate contacts.

There will be no new technical tests on entry of the data, in order to minimize the burden of checking domain name holders’ geographical location;

AFNIC will check eligibility with the registrars managing the domain name:
The administrative contact person must have a presence on French territory;
These eligibility checks will be triggered by complaints from outside, as well as in the course of random checking.

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