Pool.com Now Catching Dropped .MOBI Domain Names



Tomorrow, November 21 2008, is the day when Pool.com, the famous drop-catcher, officially opens a service that allows users to backorder .MOBI domain name drops.

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Netherlands to Increase its Online Presence with .CO.NL

Just a short time ago we congratulated Netherlands on achieving the 3 million mark in national domain registration. Following a success of the .NL top level domain, a new second level domain has been introduced. It is .CO.NL and today, November 18, 2008 starts the first phase of Sunrise period dubbed the Grandfather period. Up until Thursday 15 January, 2009 anyone currently holding a legitimate .NL domain name will have a right to register a matching .CO.NL name. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Google Tries to Make Sense of SEO again

Well, here it is - yet another attempt to put some sense into optimizators’ brainless heads! Google team has announced a release of a free SEO guide. You can download it from Google Blog. It is a short yet feature-rich 22 page document covering the 12 most common areas (or stumbling blocks) of new SEO experts. The central character of this SEO guide is a non-existent website brandonsbaseballcards.com. And Brandon Falls is a popular man now!

It covers all the best practices such as Titles, Descriptions, URL structure, content and other things. The two perhaps most interesting parts of this [Read the rest of this entry...]

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MOBI - Another Million Anniversary

Over two years since it’s launch and MOBI zone has grown to more than a million domain names - the activity in the area of the sites for mobile devices and cellular phones is high. The domain tld administrator dotMobi says the zone will continue to grow.

The volume of mobile content is rapidly increasing, just look how big is the ringtones and mobile apps market. Owners of existing sites are gradually overcoming the traditional anxiety about going mobile. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Get a Nudge, Get a Domain Reminder

Never forget a domain renewal again. Should it be your own domain name or one you are looking to grab or purchase, it is always annoying to miss the date and see the domain going to someone else. We are usually holding our domain names with different registrars and it would be good to have a single domain reminder service. DomainReminders.net is a new service and its title speaks for itself. The thing that makes it stand out from the competitors is that DomainReminders is free and you can add any domain to your watch-list. Even if you don’t own it. Let’s see if we can learn more from the author of DomainReminders.

3APP: How is it possible to tell a genuine reminder service from an idea skimmer? [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Registrars Say Yes to Telnic

The registry operator of the new TLD, Telnic Ltd, has revealed that exactly 100 domain name registrars have expressed their interest in offering .TEL domain names to clients.

The first to jump on the incomplete train of .TEL was the old fox EuroDNS. They are doing their best to [Read the rest of this entry...]

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INFO Will Improve after a Massive Sweep-out

Today is IWF (Internet Watch Foundation) Awareness day - the only day in the year when everyone is trying to be aware about filth and fraud ruling the internet.

Afilias, the registry of INFO domain names, has actually tried to switch from words to deeds. The company has found methods to cut the abusive sits on a domain name registry level. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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B.BR Second Level Domain - Alliance Between Bank Security and Domains

Since today it is possible to talk about safe internet banks in Brazil.

Back in September 24, 2008 Brazil created a new second level domain B.BR (the usual second level domains in use in Brazil is COM.BR) only for financial institutions to allow safe transactions for almost 30 milion people that use internet banking in Brazil.

This is not a minor subject for an economy where 6.9 billion Reals move in online transactions [Read the rest of this entry...]

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More Than 100,000 Domain Names to be Liberated in Brazil

This Saturday (October 18, 2008) Nic Brazil will free more than 100.000 domains being available for registration by anyone.

If you want to review the complete list of domains to be freed and register some of them please check: http://registro.br/info/proclib-l.html

According to the rules of NIC Brazil if the same domain name is [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Tel Domain Name Applications For Developers

Interested in taking part in developing the .TEL applications for mobile devices? Visit http://dev.telnic.org . Since yesterday 16, October 2008 a collection of source codes, API, toolkits and guides are made available for developers. Feel free to download and play with the code. It is expected that mobile applications will attract the biggest interest. The download page at [Read the rest of this entry...]

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