Archives for the Category: The Industry

Domain Registrations Up 9% From Last Year

According to California-based company Verisign, domain registrations have gone up 9% since last year. There are now over 184 million domain names registered. Not only are domain registrations up, but traffic on the internet is up 29% since the beginning of the year. When I saw these numbers, I was pretty surprised. Being a domainer, [...]

Bing: An Interesting Approach

When I had first heard about Bing, I figured it was Microsoft’s helpless attempt to revamp their MSN search in order to beat out Google. As I learnd more about Bing and began using it more often, I learned my original assumption was wrong. Bing has so much more to offer, from booking travel to [...]

Flippa: The New SitePoint Marketplace

Today I am going to take some time and evaluate SitePoint’s new marketplace, Flippa.com. One of my main businesses revolves around flipping websites. I’ll make a wordpress blog, add some keyword-rich content to it, spiff it up a bit, and sell it for a small profit. While listing a website on the forums (for free) [...]

Is Twitter Just Another Phase?

Are there people who you care about in this world. Actually, let me rephrase that. Are there people who you care about in this world enough to know what they’re doing every 5 seconds? Personally, I think most if not everyone would answer no to my rephrased question. That’s the basis for which Twitter revolves [...]

The Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act: The Great Debate

Recently I have been more involved with dealing with the ACPA (Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act), and I wanted to get a chance to state my opinion on the act. As of right now, I can’t discuss my involvment with the act as I may be under confidentiality, but I do want to discuss why I [...]

ICANN Going Overboard With TLD’s: The Gore -VS- Pope Showdown

There are many people who have been disputing ICANN’s consideration for many more TLD’s. A few TLD’s such as .eco, .catholic, .hindu, and many more have been proposed or are going to be proposed to ICANN within the next couple of months. The reason that ICANN is considering all of these ideas for new TLD’s [...]

Making Big Bucks: Trying Something New -VS- Sticking With the Basics

I would estimate that 99.9% of internet entrepreneurs are in the business for the sole purpose for making/raising money, or spreading the word about their product/idea/company. When a company wants to make money, they have two options for what to do: 1) Try to create a new website with a totally unique concept that hasn’t [...]

.ECO: The Potential TLD Coming Later This Year

Dot Eco LLC has proposed a new TLD, the extension .eco. They say that they are planning on applying for approval from ICANN later this year. In 2006, the movie, “An Inconvenient Truth,” was made and released by our former United States Vice President, Al Gore. The movie spread a worldwide awareness of the effects [...]

Hostgator Coupon Code for 20% Off

HostGator is one of the web’s largest hosting companies out there. I discovered that they are now offering a promotion, that I wanted to share with DNUnderground viewers. So just look below, and use either the first or second coupon codes, and get some major discounts. Make sure to comment below how these coupons worked [...]

GEO Domains: The Hottest Domains in the Industry

GEO domains are considered to be some of the hottest types of domain names in our domain industry. Of course, real estate and loan domains are a current trend, but eventually when our economy climbs back on up, real estate and loan domain will most likely drop in value. So that’s why many consider GEO [...]

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