Paypal Suspends Personal Accts India

PayPal, an eBay company, has suspended personal payments to and from India and transfers to local banks in the country. Domainers using Indian talent to produce SEO or content products may be stalled making payments or getting paid for services. PayPal is used in India by many to receive payment for services such as software development and freelance writing.

Customers can still make commercial payments to India, but merchants cannot withdraw funds in rupees at local Indian banks, it added. This will convolute many existing partnerships and vendor arrangements with domainers and their clients. But Paypal cites the difficulty resolving payment issues and identity problems with an Indian originating vendor or client.

The India Paypal personal banking services online and between Indian merchant branches function online in a critical capacity for international commerce. Paypal operations for personal accounts using Paypal have been suspended while the company works with its “business partners and other stakeholders to address questions they have about the service.” 

PayPal said it is trying to resolve the situation as quickly as possible and that it was sorry for the inconvenience that it may cause its customers in India and around the world. A number of bloggers and Web sites have reported that the company has reversed and returned payments to senders.

PayPal executives in the region were not available for comment on specific reasons why the service was discontinued. Allegations of international identity theft and questionable transactions will cause Paypal to review banking traffic between Indian members and clients, as well as other global banking transaction originators.

The move by PayPal may be linked to new Indian government rules aimed at preventing money laundering, according to an analyst who spoke on condition of anonymity. Last November, the Indian government introduced rules requiring financial institutions and other intermediaries to verify the identity of clients carrying out international money transfers.

PayPal’s user agreement says it does not guarantee any user’s identity because verifying identity of an indian individual is virtually impossible with current Paypal resources.  PayPal does reserve the right to validate customers’ identities, including asking for documents.

PayPal is used in India by many to receive payment for services such as software development and freelance writing. But the exchange of international services in Russia and China may depend on these issues.

Estibot 2.0 Greets Domainers Online

The much used Estibot has grown into a 2.0 utility, with free registration and valuatin of up to 5 domains eligible t new users. The enhanced interface and sophisticated presentation of tools at Estibot now offers domainers more capsule estimations of domain value. A new algorhythm governs the domain name appraisals. Premium at-charge upgrades allow better utility for bigger portfolio lists. Exportable reports and Alexa and SERP and PPC estimation make a new reference to Estibot 2.0 valuation a necessary sales tool for all current domains.

Domainfest a Party Hit

If the conventions and trade shows popped for domainers had political parties, Domainfest had one Los Angeles motto: party hearty! The connections and contacts wove through a dizzying amount of clubs and gigs while talking domains all the way, naturally.  The Playboy Mansion trip remains a standout for all concerned.
 Says one domainer whose site is GamingWizz.com, (code named :Soroosch), “Most of the observations I noticed were that the state of the domain world is still where it’s at!  I feel domainers are happy with what they started with…but are now looking to enhance what good they’ve accomplished thus far – whether that means development or figuring out other monetizing techniques.”

Namepros Dead

Domain industry forum NamePros.com is down again, and whispers throughout the domain community wonder if the portal is closed forever. It’s not the first time this popular but troubled NamePros.com site has crashed. Will it come back from the dead?

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?

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.

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.

 

Rick Latona: Big Man Big Domain

Have you ever had that one specific domain name that you just wished could be yours or at least one that you could help sell? One that you would be willing to give just about anything for? Well every once in a while the perfect opportunity comes along to make just that happen. Rick Latona was lucky enough to take advantage of a perfect opportunity such as this.

Mr. Latona has recently secured the brokerage agreement for domains.com. Even though the business does not come with it and the name will definitely not come cheap he plans to put together marketing materials and attempt to personally sell the name for everyone to see.

Although it is definitely not an easy keyword to obtain, domains.com holds the second highest ranking position on the Google search engine for “domains”. Mr. Latona is not in a hurry to sell the site but he hopes that in the first half of 2010, if the right buyer is found, that he can cut a deal with them to get this gem sold. Currently there is not a set price for domains.com, but with it’s high ranking number in search engines it’s safe to say that  it won’t go for cheap.

Translation Pages Hot

The big news in domain development these days is converting active native language pages to another language for a given country code or demographic. Witness a certain expert domainer branching out into translation services for exiting websites to coordinate dual language site releases.  This new service offered by WhiteBark Innovations for website translations can serve up those country code websites domainers are now looking to build.

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