Blogging is a Job Skill

April 7, 2010 by  
Filed under Domain News, Domainers

Managing a blog is like managing a business. For many bloggers, blogging is a business. Authoring content, designing the site, administering ads and dealing with Google ad search engines, as well as other site enhancement products, all these are the dynamics of the modern online business. The attributes and skills that come from editing a blog and managing a blog domain website can be very welcome additions to any resume.

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DomainGang.com Hacked?

February 23, 2010 by  
Filed under Domain News

Well, unless you enjoy flat Times New Roman displays of the DomainGang site cgi-bin, the game is afoot over at the DomainGang.com website. First there was the cgi-bin file, then the blank white screen. The Twitter page for the blog site has comments allegedly by the admin regaridng the domain password getting stolen. Has our favorite snarky Domaining site been hacked? Is nothing sacred?

Niche gets Fresh

Domaining Critics agree, niche marketing is looking more and more like the way to go when looking to take profit from bare domain real estate. In the top TLD’s the ground can be thin, and some domainers looking to capitalize on niche marketing are using blog and CMS applications to do so.

Niche bloggers advising the domain crowd encourage the use of niche cross markets to take full advantage of name flexibility and new CCtld availablity. One domain industry blog, www.Bulklinker.com, claims niche marketing is a kind of cross domain and demographic algebra.

Check out “Cry Niche and Let Loose the Domaining Dogs of War

Blog Names Burn Up Web

December 2, 2009 by  
Filed under Domain Knowledgebase, Domain News

The news from all side on the domain front is that blog names and blog keyword domains are churning through the sales charts actively through the end of ’09. Ali Badwan, of Badwan Sales Group, claims blog names are stronger than ever. ‘I actively search for blog domains available and watch auctions for blog names avidly. Blog activity is a common destination for web readers with an appetite for blurbs, advice, tips, and information today.” Badwan develops his premium domain www.bulklinker.com with intuitive, intelligent blog readers in mind. “Blog readers have been around the block. They know how to find the good data now.”

Domainers, start your mini-site engines

The phenomenon of the minisite has retaken domaindom as domainers the world over are now looking at the whittled-down one sheet HTML web pages titled “minisites”. As more and more sophisticated domainers eye their portfolios and the corresponding parking and ad revenue, the minisite is looking better and better.
Leading domain name industry expert and advisor Elliott Silver (www.elliottsblog.com) recently featured a live blog during which he constructed a website minisite with the most sophisticated domain editing and marketing and promotion tools the industry has to offer. Domainers, start your engines here.