Yahoo Steers New Road Forward

Three years into the future, Yahoo Inc of Sunnyvale, California plans to be helming a company with the largest digital media content, search engine,  and communications business in the world. The three year roadmap of Yahoo under Carol Bartz was delivered by Chief Product Officer Blake Irving. The division between the projected goals of media and the concrete focus on products perhaps tells the tale.

Yahoo wants to be innovative, but has yet to master Twitter and Facebook. Yahoo News is trite and often misspelled, but Yahoo aims to keep people at its sites longer. Yahoo.com is stuffed with ads and Java code on loading, but it is strangely losing email customers to other vendors.Yahoo has middle ground presence in the domains business and its hosting offerings are not competitive among first tier web hosts, yet is splashes web hosting offers to bargoon domain sale buyers.

A fitting prescription to Yahoo’s vaulting ambitions might be Physician: heal thyself. The chief strengths that made Yahoo.com a leader, (remember sites by Homestead!) were its early adopter user base, frist to market search engine vibe, and broad free-Web appeal. Yahoo now suffers from Google-itis, the wish to be Google without harnessing its resources of business model. Yahoo is not aging well.

Yahoo intends to recapture search engine utility. Reality check to end users: When was the last time you searched Yahoo first? The SEO space is dominated by market leaders. Some might argue Google is already there, but Google has not entered the content space, and with the purchase of Associated Content, Yahoo has. The usual noise regarding Twitter and Facebook integration was heard.

Yes Google is global, a T-Rex of Internet monoliths. Yahoo was sort of the friendly Triceratops with the bristly head who was a herbivore but left a big footprint, as well. But Yahoo has suffered declining ad revenue and inroads of spam and email problems, and Gmail remains successful. Leaning on an Apple user base may also be a waste if the Windows 7 Phone takes off, because foremost on the “product runway” at Yahoo is Android apps.

But Yahoo doesn’t make or produce the consumer electronics it hypes. There are several other channels for consumer to go for that. With 17% market share, Yahoo’s web search engine is hardly the main attraction, now although it once was. The journalism of its home page leaves much to be desired, (part CNN and part OMG). Yahoo features are blogospheric in strength, with sports the best in a readability drilldown.

The only faintly new thing Yahoo is doing is fashioning a geo-specific Starbucks login page, (Which will still be heaps better than what Starbucks brews up).  Heading up Yahoo news this last weekend was how to save money at a Starbucks, an interesting marketing approach to a partner’s goods. But if Associated Content can groom its new model for Yahoo News, then supply-side content writers can enter the Yahoo journalism fray.

One spark at the end of a long tedious tunnel is Yahoo’s refreshed domain offer at $1.99 per dot-com name. Touted as a Small Business offering, the web hosting attached does approach the Godaddy similar pricing available at present. For hobby site makers and bloggers and one domain owners who never plan to go the third party development application route, this is a steal. But Godaddy’s Hosting Connection still rules those waves.

For domainers looking at the recent dot-com and renewal price markup, with a Yahoo $1.99 name their Paypal will say Yahoo! Although the renewal is $35, many Yahoo email users may prefer a short lightbulb-to-login web hosting and domaining click path. Full DNS control at Yahoo.com domains makes exporting to the hosting of your choice more smooth than before.

From the Crystal Ball: If Yahoo ever got their hands around the 99 cents domain coupon like Godaddy’s recent campaign, they would be looking at 5,000 new domain owners an hour looking for fresh content.Those are new email account holders, new Android holders looking to manage their websites or blog while in line for a latte. Starbucks is a partner, correct?

Developing those sites tutorials could be the pages that Yahoo wants ts readers to hang around at. And a limited time domain-establishing SEO content  package, with link wheeling advice and promotion tips, as well as material piped from Associated Content partners (on a select basis, of course) could bring Yahoo into the white-hot Internet domain development scene.

Attracta SEO Disappears from Hostgator

In a startling, development, this Hostgator customer was surprised to see the much-touted Attracta SEO tool disappear from the Cpanel overnight. Two accounts are/were doing very well there.The space in the SEO tool area has a free consultation offer unrelated to Attracta. The space in the featured “Free SEO” tools section has something called Boostability. I don’t remember Boostability being there before.

No message from Hostgator, regarding this nor any announcement as to the destiny of the account profiles with said service,was in the Hostagtor Cpanel interface. No alert was nigh, pending, forthcoming or in existence. The Attracta site is still up. Any idea what happened to the profiles and the work completed for our domain and site SEO accounts? Bueller? Bueller?

Sun / Oracle to Enter Domain/Hosting Industry

Word on the wires is that the new compendium of Oracle after swallowing Sun is giving birth to a great new brainchild. This new bonanza is a crashing spear into the world of domaining; A new domain name registrar and hosting company that will blow the socks off current market leaders (rhymes with Schmoe-daddy).  Sparcstations off the forward bow!

No name has been chosen by Sun/Oracle yet, but super secret teams in Cupertino and Mountain View are already clashing over turf. The technical entity will not be in violation of any super secret hosting or redundancy agreements because the new spinoff corporate entity will be a separate company. Sweet! The domainer’s mouth waters at the possible debut deals offered….

Domainers in the know and technical cognoscienti scoff that nobody can toppled the Danica-fronted Big Daddy.  But hosting service watchers have heeded the firestorm of complaints that “Schmoe-daddy” customers have. Buying the registrar is the nice part, some domainer running an ICANN-powered fruit stand will make a tidy bundle.

(from Domainowl.com)

Low x,xxx to a million dollar sucessful web hosting business?

I was looking through domain sale history in the past and I found some interesting domain sales because the end users have developed the domains into multimillion dollar businesses.

I am a bit “hosting” keyword orientated and therefore was looking at the “hosting” keyword domain sales in the past. I found out that the domain which was sold at Afternic in 2007 became a successful web hosting business. It was the domain JustHost.com, which has now become recognised web hosting provider. JustHost.com domain was reportedly sold for $1,300 at Afternic in December, 2007. I think it would NOW be regarded as a multimillion dollar business because of its status as an established web hosting provider. When I checked its Alexa ranking , it was around 2,700 and they have grown quite a bit within just over 2 years if the domain sale report was right. The business head office is based in the UK and it also has headquarters in US and an office in Australia.

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!

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