Ray on April 15th, 2008

I was having a discussion about domain names with a friend who is a computer programmer, a few days ago and he asked me why I continue to look for unregistered domains when the best domains are taken already.
Its a very interesting question because I wonder the same thing myself, sometimes!
It is certainly the case that many, many quality [...]

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Ray on April 8th, 2008

Lets imagine, for a moment, that you are a bricks and mortar retailer selling classic car spare parts in London, England and you want to set up a website. The chances of you finding even a remotely generic domain name at a reasonable price is negligible. So you decide to go with something like DavesCarSpareParts.com. Its not a great [...]

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Ray on March 24th, 2008

You know when a market is heating up when lots of blogs emerge to discuss that market.
The number of blogs dealing with 3, 4 and 5 character domain names is increasing all the time.
If you are interested in this area then perhaps your first stop should be 3Character.com. There is an associate fact site called [...]

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Ray on March 8th, 2008

Is domain backwording the next big thing. I’m not so sure. But Rudy Hernandez from Logistik Labs thinks differently, and he might be right.
Rudy has identified an emerging trend of companies registering domain names spelt backwards and has called it ‘backwarding’. So Credit.com becomes ‘tiderC.com’, Baseball.com becomes ‘llabesaB.com’ and so on.
I struggled to find a [...]

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So folks, it looks like the next stage of the internet domain names gold rush will be the registration of currently unregistered four letter .net domain names.
It appears that around 50% have been registered so far and I must admit I am tempted to add to my modest holding. I have to say that even [...]

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