Everybody talks about Website security but rarely is Domain Name security discussed. Yes it’s true… your domains can be exposed to malicious hackers. They call it Domain Hijacking, a process that involves a hacker hacking into your domain registrar account and essentially stealing your domain name(s). This happens more often than you might think. Back in December a very popular blog css-tricks.com had it’s GoDaddy account hacked and the domain transferred to another owner. Makes you seriously question things when a registrar as big as GoDaddy has something like this happen to one of their customers. Yikes. Shortly after this happened… a good friend of mine Jason Davis who’s a former Linux Systems Admin at Hostgator, sent me some important tips about Domain Name Security that I thought I would share with you. Jason is a big-time expert in Domain and Web Server security so you’ll want to take a [...]

Fact: Domainers (those in the business of purchasing domains) are the laziest business people on the Internet today. Don’t believe me? Keep reading… The majority of domainers (people who buy and sell domains for a living) today use Parked Pages (a CPC model) as a source of income on the domains they own. You’re probably asking yourself, what’s the big deal with this? Let me explain. Advertisers Are Now Paying For Visits Rather Than Just Clicks There are now Advertisers in all types of industries that are purchasing traffic on a CPV (cost per view/visit) basis for highly targeted direct navigation traffic. In other words, if you have a domain name that gets “type-in traffic” that is highly targeted to what these advertisers are looking for… you could be making money on every single VISITOR you send their way rather than just on clicks! Parked pages utilize a CPC model. [...]

Believe it or not millions of Internet users are arriving at parked pages and unresolved pages each day because of a little thing called Direct Navigation. People still type in keyword domains and mispelled domains into the browser address bar by the millions. Can you believe it? I’m not going to attempt to explain to you why it is people still do this. I don’t have that answer. But I do know that the traffic that can be gained from owning the right domains is tremendous! Don’t believe me? Read what Jupiter Research says about it. That’s right! Direct Navigation was a $600 Million industry in 2006. And it has grown leaps and bounds since then. Here are some links to articles I have written recently on the subject of Domaining and how you can best find the high quality domains out there so you can start reaping the benefits [...]

For those of you who don’t know much about Freshdrop.net let me explain it to you. Freshdrop.net is a web application that allows you to search and find expiring domain names through a variety of different Domain services at once. It’s by far the most effective tool of it’s kind. It currently integrates with the following Domain services: SnapNames.com NameJet.com Sedo.com Afternic.com BuyDomains.com Dynadot.com Fabulous.com The main idea of Freshdrop.net is to provide you with a web-based tool that allows you to search through all 7 of these services for expiring domains at once. And it does a dang good job at doing this I must say from personal experience. How To Use Freshdrop.net Effectively I’m going to walk you through my process of how I go about using Freshdrop.net. It’s surprisingly simple yet extremely powerful. This is how I find amazing domain names every single month. Not sure why i’m sharing [...]

Brutal Fact: there are “domainers” out there who are profiting off of your brand by purchasing misspelled variations of your domain name. If you do not snag up misspells of your domain name you are allowing others to capitalize on your brand. Here are 7 specific techniques for protecting your brand when it comes to domain names. After these techniques are explained I have written some more about what happens if you do not take control of your branded domains and how $1,000 per year is all you need to control all this! 1. The Takeaway = 1 less letter Example = twitte.com, fcebook.com, aple.com This is simply the practice of taking away 1 letter from a domain. The more letters there are in a domain the more options you will have here. Take away 1 but never take away 2 as that happens way less often. 2. The Add-on [...]

I’ve used Go Daddy as my domain registrar for years. This was mostly due to the fact that I knew of nothing else. It wasn’t until I learned about other Domain Registrars and the benefits of each did I start to realize how much I was missing out by sticking with Go Daddy. After searching out many Domain Registrars, I have come to the conclusion that Name Cheap is the best choice for me and I have chosen to do all of my domain purchasing through them. My reason behind choosing Name Cheap really came down to 6 specific things that I want to bring to your attention here. 1. The Price – $9.69 per domain Other than a “now and again” small special discount from Go Daddy, you’ll usually spend about $10.81 per year for each of your .com, .net, and .org purchases. I chose to go with Name [...]