by Chris McElroy aka NameCritic | February 23, 2010 | In Uncategorized | No Comments
I found this fascinating quote today:
Just announcing our latest website, SEO Hosting Provider.com. We sell hosting for as low as $9.95 per month. Our dedicated servers are fast and reliable. We also provide you with 24/7 support.seo.pn, SEO Discussion Blog, Feb 2010
You should read the whole article.
by Chris McElroy aka NameCritic | February 13, 2010 | In Uncategorized | No Comments
I found this fascinating quote today:
This blog post is addressed to all of you out there who manage an affiliate program. There are a lot of people who try really hard to promote your products. You should really appreciate their hard work. Your income depends on them. Without your affiliate marketers, you fail and you’re out of a job.seo.pn, SEO Discussion Blog, Feb 2010
You should read the whole article.
by Chris McElroy aka NameCritic | February 12, 2010 | In Uncategorized | No Comments
I found this fascinating quote today:
1. Who gets to set the standards? There area lot of well-known SEO Gurus, some self-proclaimed and others who have been recognized as such by others. But, it’s like name brand products. Just because they are well-known does that automatically mean they are the authority in the SEO community?Ian R Smith, Is it possible to have a Set of Standards for SEO?, Feb 2010
You should read the whole article.
by Chris McElroy aka NameCritic | February 12, 2010 | In Uncategorized | No Comments
I found this fascinating quote today:
Social Bookmarking can bring in a lot of traffic. The quality of that traffic is improving as we go forward and more people begin using social networking. But many of the bigger social media websites use a NoFllow tag for links.seo.pn, SEO Discussion Blog, Feb 2010
You should read the whole article.
by Chris McElroy aka NameCritic | September 3, 2009 | In Domain Name Disputes, Domain Names | No Comments
Form Circle ID;
“The largest cybersquatting judgment ever has been upheld by a federal court in the Northern District of California. Verizon was awarded $33.15 million from OnlineNIC’s attempts to take advantage of Verizon and Verizon customers by using Internet names that are easily confused with legitimate Verizon names.
Got 33 million laying around? If so, go for it. Continue typosquatting to make those adsense dollars.
by chrismcelroyseo | August 19, 2009 | In Domain Name Disputes | No Comments
Domain names conflict with trademarks in many cases, however, trademark owners often try to use their trademarks to intimidate people into relinquishing domain names that really do not conflict.
LegoToys.com: This one is a no-brainer. Of course the owners of lego got this got this one.
onurair.com: Another lay-down. The domain was an exact match to the trademark.
If you register a domain name that exactly matches someone’s trademark, you will lose the case every single time, so my question is; “Why do you do it?”.
by chrismcelroyseo | August 13, 2009 | In ICANN | No Comments
Others and I have been fighting very hard to eliminate the grace period for domain name registrations. The AGP or Add Grace period allowed you to register a domain name and get your money back if you wanted it back within 5 days.
This led to domain name tasting used by specuolators to grab hundreds and even thousands of domain names at once, try them out with made for adsense pages to see if they would make a profit, then drop the ones that did not without any cost to them.
The problem really got bad when those dropped names were then picked up by another domain taster and so on and so on. This tied up hundreds of thousands of domain names that were not available to anyone but the domain tasters.
ICANN took their sweet time, but finally did something to at least slow domain tasting down.
ICANN is today posting an AGP (Add Grace Period) Deletes Status Report [PDF, 73K] to publicize how use of the AGP has dramatically changed following implementation of the AGP Budget Provision and the AGP Limits Policy. The Provision was approved by the ICANN Board and the Policy the outcome of the GNSO Policy Development Process on Domain Tasting. The report provides statistical information on AGP deletes activity by TLD for the period June 2008 through April 2009.
What do you think of this decision?
by chrismcelroyseo | August 11, 2009 | In TLDs | No Comments
As I said, new TLDs are coming regardless of whether ICANN wants them to or not. Here is another new TLD announcement;
Sero Will Ante Up For The .Artist Top Level Domain In 2010
Today Sero Registry, a leading edge company hailing from the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, announced a revolutionary technology to give creative people a unique identity through the .Artist domain extension. .Artist will provide some of the hottest new domain properties on the world wide web serving the Artist communities worldwide.
Artist is more than just a new domain extension, it’s a philosophy and a way of life. A vision of a better internet serving user interests. An Internet where commerce and communities support each other. The Sero Registry plans to use part of the proceeds generated from the sales of new domain names to fund the Artist community and global youth art initiatives.
“Because it’s about more that just dotCom-mercial exploitation” said registry founder Luke Weyrauch at a recent meeting on new TLDs (Top-Level Domains). Weyrauch, an artist and musician, has been passionate about art since he was a child. He ranked in a state piano competition when he was only 9 years old and went on to play a live performance at the famous Orpheum theater in downtown Minneapolis.
Luke is an active member of the community participating in local bands, sponsoring local artists, and promoting art and music events in the Twin Cities. He has also designed and marketed websites for many artists nationally. He has donated his services to local artists and the Sero sponsorship initiative continues Luke’s dedication to investing in the art community globally.
The .Artist Top Level Domain is also one of the most versatile TLDs on the Internet representing groups that consider themselves artists. From musicians to actors, to writers, rappers, rockers, to old ladies knitting doilies, the .Artist TLD has already generated thousands of pre-registrations since it’s inception in late 2007. “It’s been our most popular TLD since day one” Weyrauch added, “It’s also the TLD I’m most excited about operating.”
The Sero Registry plans to list the TLD with the U.S. contracted ICANN root in 2010. ICANN will start taking new gTLD applications with the hefty application fee of $180,000. The Sero Registry will put up the wager and they are confident that ICANN will be more than satisfied with their plans to operate one of the hottest new TLDs of the coming decade.
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Sero Registry is a Top Level Domain registry operator located in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul that plans to apply for the .Artist Top Level Domain in 2010. For more information about Sero Registry, visit their website at http://serointl.com, or follow Sero Registry on twitter at http://twitter.com/SeroRegistry
by chrismcelroyseo | August 11, 2009 | In TLDs | No Comments
New TLDs are coming. Some of them are TLDs that ICANN does not want you to see. Soon there will be an easily downloaded program that will enable your DNS to allow you to see ALL of the Internet, not just the portions ICANN and the US Gov want you to see.
Large corporations lobby to keep ICANN from introducing more TLDs into the main root where you can see them. This is why you have to register a long 4-word or more dot com domain name rather than one that makes sense for your online marketing efforts.
Hundreds, if not thousands of TLDs exist right now. They work just fine. The default settings for your Internet connection from your ISP do not allow you to see them. This is by design to create a false shortage of domain names.
Want proof? Click here for a text file containing all the known TLDs that exist.
Ok, now you know that other TLDs exist and work just fine. Why can’t you go to a website located on one of these TLDs?
Because, the US dept. of Comerce put ICANN, a nonprofit org, in charge of the “main root”. ICANN makes sure your Internet Service Providers only provide access to that “main root”. They are basically filtering what you can or cannot see without your knowledge.
Subscribe to this blog if you want to enable your computer to see all of the Internet rather than than the filtered version you are getting now. If you thought the Internet had huge potential before, you’re gonna love this. I will soon have a program you can download that will enable your computer’s DNS so you can see websites that exist on other roots your ISP is blocking.
I own Dot SEO. Other TLDs include Dot Lawyer, Dot CPA, Dot Artist, Dot Church, Dot Graphics, and 100’s more. The Internet reads like a phone book when your DNS is enabled.
ICANN and the big corporations do not want you to access these TLDs. It will mean that Dot com is not king anymore and that people will have more choices. This reduces the monopoly that certain companies currentlt enjoy.
Imagine going to cpa.search to find a CPA. Imagine going to Lawyer.search or Attorney.search to find a lawyer? Would Google and other search engines like TV commercials promoting this alternative means of searching the web? Nah.
Imagine being able to own your company name in the right TLD rather than com, net, org, biz, info, etc. Such as JamesSmith.cpa, SuemBreakemandScrewem.attorney, ChrisMcElroy.SEO, etc. Now would you really prefer a dot com over being able to choose the right TLD for your company? Nah. Would Network Solutions like Dot Com not being the preferred choice for domain names? Nah.
So now you see a few reasons why you are being filtered so that you do not see the real possibilities the Internet has to offer.
Stick around. I’ll be brininging you a lot more about this topic, including new TLD announcements, programs you can download, and even how you can own your own TLD that you create!
by chrismcelroyseo | August 11, 2009 | In Domain Name Disputes, Domain Names | No Comments
To understand domain names and domain name speculation, you also need to understand the UDRP (Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy), and how the WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organization) makes decisions involving domain name disputes. Studying the decisions they make may save you a lot of money and aggravation in the future.
Most recently notified WIPO Domain Name Decision(s):
In the domain name dispute above, the domain holder (respondent) did not even answer the dispute so the domain names were transferred to the company making the complaint. If you do not respond to a domain name dispute, you lose. You do not need to hire a lawyer. You do need to respond.
Domain Name Dispute 2
In the Domain Dispute above, the person registered a domain name that exactly matched trademarks held in 50 countries by the complainant. Uhh . . . Check the USPTO to see if there is a trademark on the domain name you want to register. I suspect in this case the person that registered the domain names knew there was a trademark and was trying to make money from that fact.
Domain Name Dispute 3
chips4zynga.com
yourzyngachips.com
zyngachips4sell.com
> Transfer
In the domain dispute above, the owner of the domain names in dispute actually made a statement that conceded the case, offering to give up the domain names, leading to a simple decision.
Search WIPO UDRP decisions by indexed terms, domain name, or case number:
