Triple X Adult TLD to Realize?

The triple X adult domain top level domain may be coming to the Web, industry watchers report. The domainers watching this industry quake wonder if the adult online industry, mostly composed of fee-paid video and image services related to pornography, can be a reasonable addition to Internet commerce as such. The lines are being drawn on both sides of the TLD divide.

Those watching the ICANN approval for XXX tld domains are agog after the early days of non-proliferation of web suffixes denoting non-general acceptable matter. While adult sites are a reality and a great commerce builder garnering record traffic and income in every demo, the fact remains they are not welcomed by every hosting company or router online.

Sexually explicit site masters and name owners would be expected to flock to the dot-triple-x tld. Yet the domains in existence now for adult and porn names would putatively lose value and legacy traffic. Not all webmasters are ready to give this up and conjoin their fray to a limited dot tld. Security   software makers and parental control mechanisms for computer devices would be affected.

The opposite side of the coin, the dot-kids suffix, was never approved by ICANN because it was deemed to difficult to patrol and protect. Can ICANN recover some of its lost luster as the Internet regulator? Or will ICANN critics finally have something solid to bring to bear in challenging the agency’s management and ongoing oversight of domain name and web issues? Time will tell.

Entrepreneur Magazine Slips Up

Blog worthy blog applications don’t reach millions of downloads an hour by accident. WordPress has thousands of sites just for free template downloads, because so many people use WordPress it has created a WordPress accessory traffic market. Many online domainers can feel confident they can easily develop a name from a WordPress typo or other related site, just due to the constant global end user churn in WordPress blog site development.

Anyone using the blog engines and CMS managers knows that pretty sites are a result of design, templates, plugins, taste, content and more. To illustrate the case with one clueless website client is an eye opener. Scores of Joomla users (like myself) are very happy with the results we get. No mention in the article of the Joomla polls, sponsor tools, banner and ad plug and play, or news flash and other nifty publishing tools are made.

The article lists Posterous.com as a leading CMS which I had never heard of and never used. WordPress and TypePad were listed as thought they were competitors of equal rank, a fact every blogger knows is false. WordPress is global because it is plug and play and very SEO capable. Drupal is a horribly unwieldy and the best successor to Joomla, DotNetNuke, is not even mentioned. To say that Joomla is on a “power par” with Drupal is laughingly uninformed. Except this is Entrepreneur magazine.

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FaceBook Makes the Cover of Time

When is a website a socially defining cultural phenomenon? When it begins to define the way we live. The cover of Time magazine and the interior article by Dan Fletcher explores not only the popularity of this website that started as a domain name, and encompasses the vast scope of social interaction as the Internet has changed it forever.

FaceBook has 500 million users. There are entire countries whose hosting capability doesn’t have the capacity to host that kind of traffic. On page 37 of the current edition of TIME there is a global penetration diagram showing how Twitter, MySpace, LinkedIn, and Facebook share world domination. But the real news is how the evolving practices of online sharing and information architecture delimit security and privacy in an increasingly transparent internet social living space.

Domain Market Update

The recent six figure domain sales have given rise to the hopes of many a aftermarket domainer in these troubled economic times. Whereas some domainers may see a shrinking buyer’s market, other experts disagree. Noted domain bloggers have been consistently commenting on the healthy resale market and auction robustness catching the domainer headlines of late.

The legitimate monetary revenues derived from domaining have not shrunk so much as sharply diversified into more competitive markets. Domain development and domain resale via auction sales seem as healthy as they were in pre-recession late 2008. Furthermore, shifts in the domain marketplace, such as the closing of Bido and the auction privileges extended by certain registrars to some auction sites, symbolize not the expiration but the maturation of the domain market.

Domain sales across all TLD’s can still be savored, but the bonanza market of the initial land grab is past over with. Career domainers with specialized long game interests and savvy marketing skills can promote their chosen domain sale with an optimum chance of ultimate domain profit from resale. Choosing development options, hosting accounts, parking page and template versiosn as well as direct domain marketing to possible buyers brings the steady domain money home.

Digital Convergence Continues

Digital convergence is the pathway to domain success. Those who spoke many years after the Internet had been created discussed digital and media convergence as way of bringing together disparate elements. Online elements of digital convergence have risen in popularity and spawned countless offshoots and the public has taken to the web with a vengeance.

How does this affect domainers? It changes the way perception of web use occurs. A half dozen years ago, the safe bet would have been that only a small portion of public computer consumers would purchase laptops online. Yet Amazon and other vendors make a tidy fortune selling these devices. Interactive features on a website like a game or puzzle simply make browsers stick to the site all the more.

No longer is a nonsense buzzword name needed to start  service or launch an online portal. Online web browsers are looking for product and service portals when they are not scanning the Internet for information. Multiple brands for hardware computing alone have been generated in the last dozen years or so, with or without coordinated bricks and mortar outlets.

Video markets for online content continue to grow. The safe bet many years ago was that only the most adventurous of consumers would view a home video by a stranger for a home or installation. And who would have guessed that home Internet viewers hungry for technology would go searching through Google and other search portals for software tutorials, device coaching, and business advice?

Web searches through search engines and other means occur automatically and via type-in discovery. Searches for technical advice, operation information, quality or characteristics of anything or anybody occur in the billions around the world every hour. This is a big, big target. Taking profit  and developing websites for emerging technologies is big money in the online world.

So, any client or domainer who claims that the Internet is played out or shrunk in opportunity just isn’t interpreting and observing the digital convergence that solidified into a fact. The hybrid presentation of any set of instances, facts, images, content, text, or video and audio creates an entirely new attraction for any web browser searching for the keyword terms associated with those features.

Since content is king, any name with the necessary promotion and SEO optimization can function well.  If a domain name has one or more keywords relating to the technology at hand, the SEO possibilities become instantly more attractive. Buying the domain name though an aftermarket bidding process or through auction sites can leverage existing traffic and discoverability to make the website launch easier.

And with every existing technology, the domain name market expands outward.

Google Courted by Would-Be Speedy Cities

The final phase of Google Fiber Town is approaching. As the March 26 deadline for applications for the key enhancement of the high speed fiber installation has past, the process has advanced another block, and interested parties are watching closely.

Google has become the courted object of many town’s desire. All across America, the cities identified as potential guinea pig test cities for the primary launch of a high speed network through an entire geomap have been vying for favor. The advantage for residents and businesses, home businesses and internet service related vendors for products and consumer spending to maximize value and opportunity is a test case the world will b watching.

How does this affect domain names? The geological place names and related domains for the selected town or city that gets the high speed internet fiver trial will instantly become huge attractions enabled to reach global traffic by the nature of the physical location alone.  Startup enterprises in the selected region will have enhanced telephony capacity for any type of Internet venture or online presence.

Google, a $23 billion enterprise, has announced it plans to provide an undetermined number of communities of between 50,000 and 500,000 people with ultra-high-speed broadband network s  The implementation is considered an experiment in next generation applications. The focus cities will become test beds for high speed fiber enabled communities, measuring growth when potential is infinite due to the residents using fiber-optic cable.

FCC Cracks Down on Net Neutrality

Enjoy that download rate? Maybe not for long. The District of Columbia Court of Appeals said the FCC had overstepped its authority in mandating net neutrality and that ISPs should be free to manage traffic however they see fit. Note that under current law, the FCC does not have “untrammeled freedom” to regulate broadband services. The ruling was unanimous among the three judges on the panel.

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.

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