Surprise Traffic To A Domain Name From An Unlikely Source

Recently we acquired a medium sized town city .COM on drop, I think it slipped through since some people call the city one thing yet the official name is another. I chose to pick the name up because after doing some research (one of my employees used to live in an adjoining area) I determined the official city site plus other governmental sites all used the name of the city plus the word city in their domain names. As luck would have it though they developed the .ORG which makes sense for them. Now, as you know I make my living from developing alternative extensions and have not had any issues doing so but the occurrence I found today was actually quite interesting, forget all the discussions about traffic leaking to the .COM if you develop something other than a .COM. That is something that will be a discussion for the years to come and really cannot be argued, the only thing that can be argued is how much.

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Find Geo Domains With Geo.Godaddy.Com Is Addicting, Useful, Expensive

As everyone was putting out stories on the impending launch and functions of the GeoDomainMap search that Godaddy.com was putting together at Geo.Godaddy.com I held off saying much although I had several people email since they know I have an affinity for geo domains. After spending some time with the tool I must say, I personally...

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Geo Domain Names For Sale – BUY NOW

UPDATED: I have added some City/State.org names at the bottom, they are all at Fabulous. Take a look, the prices for these names will go up in the future so act fast on these. These are names being brokered for someone else. UPDATE #2: I have just deleted out several names that are in process. Thanks to the buyers. UPDATE #3: More...

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Talking Domain Names and Local Search with Rural Missouri

I spent today speaking at 2 seminars focused on showing small businesses in rural Missouri how to take advantage of the opportunities they have to grow their business online. As the rural broadband stimulus money is doled out to telecommunications companies rural America will change the way they use the Internet and small business,...

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