Over the past week or two, I’ve noticed something about the domaining community that I hadn’t before. To put it simply, we’re a tight, connected community. With the earthquake in Haiti and the announcement about Bill Strong’s charity, I’ve seen numerous articles published about each. And it’s amazing the amount of support we are able [...]

With the hype in outsourcing anything and everything, we’re seeing an increase of people outsourcing content creation. Whenever there’s a hype, before getting involved in it, it’s important to take a step back and evaluate the costs versus benefits. We’re all aware that it’s much cheaper to have content written for you in India than [...]

Some of us have been in the domain industry since domain registrations opened to the public, while others of us are just beginning to invest in domain names. Over the years, or even months, often times, if you’re a good investor who owns a .com domain, the .net or .org will also be registered sometime [...]

Twitter is one of the fastest growing websites on the internet today. I would estimate that about for every 10 website development clients I work with, at least 8 ask me about Twitter, and how to use it to market their website(s). I was recently asked an interesting question from a family friend of ours [...]

The South Butt has received a lot of publicity lately since The North Face filed a case against them for trademark infringement. The South Butt company was formed in 2007 by a high school student named James Winkelmann. The reason Winkelmann actually started the company was to help pay his way through college. DomainGang.com is [...]

On the front page of the Chicago Tribune today, there was 1 article that caught my attention, Making Donations Matter. The article talked about how within days of Tuesday, when the Haiti earthquake happened, more than 400 Haiti relief websites went up. While many of them are legitimate, a good number of them are not. [...]

TheDomains.com wrote a great article that received a lot of attention between yesterday and today about the Chicago Tribune’s domain name, ChicagoSlate.com. With all of the talk about Apple’s iSlate, there has been some talk amongst the domaining industry that this could be a case of cybersquatting. And for those of you who believe that [...]

Have you ever wanted to keep search engine crawlers from crawling certain pages, or just a single page on your website? Well thanks to robot tags, it’s as easy as heating up leftovers. Robot tags allow you to specify to search engine crawlers that you do not want a page, or pages on your website [...]

It’s no secret that DomainState.com is for sale and has been a hot topic within the domaining community since it was put up for sale approximately 1 week ago. After 2 days of receiving interest and offers, they sent out an email to the people who have shown interest in the website stating the they [...]

An Introduction to Meta Tags: Part II Implementing meta tags is not as hard as one would think, and it’s definitely not anything that one needs to dive into their piggybank for. This article will not only provide you with not only the coding you’ll need to copy and paste into your current website’s coding, [...]