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SEO 101: Domains – Picking them, getting them, keeping them

Ouch. Brian’s office had a cable cut or something, we’d occasionally lose Neo, and for once I was the one NOT having connection issues, but the sudden silence made me paranoid… it was a rough episode. Technical difficulties aside, there is some good information about choosing, registering and hanging onto domain names which verily I […]...
DomainsLegal

Changing the WHOIS Service isn’t necessary

The Generic Names Supporting Organization’s final Whois Task Force report (something like 2 years in the making) recommends that ICANN restrict the amount of contact information publicly available via the whois service, and completely do away with technical and administrative contacts in favor of an “Operational Point of Contact”, or OPoC, in an effort to […]...
DomainsMiscellany

We have a visitor

A visitor from wcsp.wipo.int (193.5.93.24) was logged once, starting at 12:30:02 AM on Monday, January 8, 2007. The initial browser was Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 4.0). This visitor first arrived without a referring URL, and visited www.www.cshel.com/domains/2006/12/wipo-is-chewbacca/ In keeping with the Star Wars theme, I was going to say something about the “empire […]...
Domains

WIPO is Chewbacca

WIPO makes no sense. The vast majority of their decisions come down on the side of the complainant (generally also the trademark holder) — by vast majority I mean like 6000 cases decided in favor of and only 1000ish against. Yet, every now and then, they deny a complaint that is (a) pretty clearly a […]...
Domains

Selling Domains Via AdWords

There is an interesting thread over at Dnforum.com right now where a bunch of guys have been having good luck selling domains through an AdWords campaign. The theory is that you’ll reach more potential buyers by targeting the keywords that comprise the domain name (with and without extension) and you won’t spend a fortune because […]...