UNIQUE DOMAIN NAMES

The Domainer Mardi Gras conference will be held in New Orleans Thursday through Saturday. With the Mardi Gras celebration as a backdrop, DMG already had a lot of appeal and now with the city also celebrating the Saints first Super Bowl win the show is shaping up to be one people will never forget.

As you all know Godaddy.com ran 2 ads during the SuperBowl. According to USA Today’s Ad Meter which tracks viewers opinions of all the ads on the big game,  Godaddy’s commercial’s fumbled the ball. Out of the 63 commercials  USA Today tracks, the Godaddy.com ad featuring Danica Patrick getting a message, ranked 63rd while its other commercial [...]

Just a quick note for the Canadian domainers out there – the TBR sessions scheduled for Wednesday December 23 and 30 will go ahead as normal.  There will be no changes due to the holiday season.

Brand yourself with customized URL shortener. It has always bothered me that URL shorteners are taking over the web. As many people have pointed out, your entire linking history is subject to the lifeline of a third party service. And with many URL shorteners operating on questionable country code domain names, the risks are [...]

<p>I don’t know whether you remember this but Sarah Palin – the Republicans’ vice-presidential candidate for the last US election – was in the news (amongst other things) prior to that election as a result of her email account getting hacked.</p> <p>Basically, some kid exploited Yahoo’s password reminder feature whereby he used publicly available information to answer Ms Palin’s security questions (she erred by putting in silly stuff as her 2 security questions).</p> <p>There are numerous other cases of people using social <a rel="bookmark" class="moreLink" href="http://www.dnxpert.com/2010/02/08/godaddy-security-hole-are-your-domains-safe/">Read more »</a>

Lets not let the facts get in the way of a good story about the Internet. While symbolics.com might be the oldest currently registered dot com, its not the oldest currently registered domain. As I pointed out years ago, nordu.net has a creation date of 01-jan-1985. For those that don’t know, nordu.net is used by Denmark, Finland, [...]