Some amusing finding on the net: How to purchase a domain name explained by french maids. Very “insightful” 
This is domaining how I like it 
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French maids FrenchMaidTV.com GoDaddy Miscellaneous Sedo has been voted #1 eCommerce host by the Webhostdirectory community!
“Sedo.com: With more than 500,000 members around the world trading domains in more than 21 languages, Sedo stands alone as the world’s only global domain marketplace. It may be close to impossible to directly register good domains anymore but the Sedo domain marketplace offers the world’s largest selection of premium domains with more than 8 million available for sale! “
Wow! Even before Hostway (placed #2)
Sedo’s press release:
Sedo is happy to announce that we were recently voted as the #1 “E-commerce Host” by Webhostdirectory, an online leader for comparing and purchasing hosting products. Webhostdirectory has announced Sedo as the winner of this month’s Ecommerce Host award after tabulating the votes received from their online community and the Webhostdirectory Review Board. Awards are given to the best Web Hosts in each of Webhostdirectory’s seven hosting categories (Shared, Ecommerce, Dedicated Server, Reseller, Unix, Windows and Budget hosting) by rating each host in six areas of performance, including cost, features, support, reliability and speed.
Sedo is honored to be chosen as the top in our field in one of the fastest growing segments of the internet, E-Commerce. With more than 68,000 members around the world trading domains in more than 21 languages, Sedo has always taken pride in serving as the world’s only global domain marketplace. There are more than 9 million domains listed for sale on Sedo’d premier domain marketplace and more than 4 million domains monetize their traffic with Sedo’s award winning domain monetization program.
For more information and survey results please see:
http://www.webhostdir.com/webhostawards/ecommerce.asp
Domains eBusiness eCommerce Hosting Hostway sedo Webhostdirectory Webhosting Today I stumbled on this excellent article by Matt Bentley, CSO at Sedo in the eCommerce Times:
“Why should you consider using .mobi for your mobile domain extension? For starters, although growing fast, the mobile Internet is still relatively early in its development: Only one-quarter of mobile subscribers have a mobile Internet plan. That means that mobile browsing habits are not fixed on using a particular domain extension. […]“
The article has some good insights as well as analyst data. Good reading!
Domains eBusiness ecommerce times Matt Bentley mobi mtld sedo From Rudy Hernandez over at Logistiklabs. Just too funny not to share:
… you think .mobi is a whale.
… on your job application you list cybersquatting.
… you can recite GoDaddy promo codes from memory.
… you’ve named one of your kids Alexa.
… you think “tasting” has nothing to do with food.
… you’ve appraised your own name.
… your main source of income is Adsense revenue.
… your Sedo rep sends you holiday cards.
… you consider “traffic” a good thing.
… your company’s CEO is not as important as it’s SEO.
… you own a “Vint Cerf for Pres” shirt.
… you have a diverse portfolio, but don’t own any stocks.
… you consider new visitors to your home as unique.
… you’ve registered a LLLL.com that doesn’t even make sense.
… you’d rather register a domain than register for class.
… you consider Whois a social network.
… you still refer to Zuho as SwapNames.
… you’re not a lawyer but can recite trademark laws from memory.
… you own some sort of iphone related domain name.
… your backlink quality is more important than your quality of friends.
… two words: ICANN
… you’ve ordered chips & Dotsauce.
… you knew GoDaddy before he was even a father.
… you’ve been in a fistfight because someone has dissed your Pagerank.
… you’ve registered a celebrity’s name.
… you consider parking nothing to do with an automobile.
… you’re favorite quote is “may the Rick Schwartz be with you.”
… you’ve posted over 1,000 posts in any domain forum.
… you trust Estibot more than your girlfriend.
… you’ve registered a misspelled word…on purpose.
… you cried when all the LLLL’s were gone.
… you don’t know a country’s capital, but you sure as hell know thier .cc
And the last reason You Might Be A Domainer is….
…you have a bracelet that says “What would Frank Schilling Do?”
Domainer domaining Domains Miscellaneous DNTicker is a nice little toolbar for Domainers:
“If you have ever kicked yourself for missing a great deal on a domain name, then DNTicker is for you!The DNTicker helps domain name buyers stay on top of the latest domain names up for sale. They are scrolled on your browser, and when you click on a name it takes you right to the sale page!Watch for TDNAM, EBay, and a few other markets to be added soon!
Currently, domain names are listed from the following marketplaces:
- Sedo
- Afternic
- Namepros
- DNForum
- SitePoint
- Webmaster-talk.com
- Pool.com
- AcornDomains.co.uk
Why haven’t I thought of that before? Pretty easy to do with the OurToolbar.com services.
domain aftermarket Domain toolbar Domains Google Checkout While Google is hunting down SEOers, reducing page ranks etc. Google itself owns a SEO company! Through the acquisition of DoubleClick, Google also owns Performics. (well the deal still needs approval)
Isn’t that a nice conflict of interest?
In the Webmaster Help center Google states:
“While Google doesn’t have relationships with any SEOs and doesn’t offer recommendations…”
Tsk tsk tsk…
More information:
http://www.searchengineguide.com/scott-buresh/a-slippery-slope-google-owns-a-search-en.php
http://www.searchenginejournal.com/what-will-google-do-with-performics/4720/
DoubleClick Google Performics Search engines SEO There’s (at least) one market where Yahoo! beats Google hands down: the very promising local search!
Here’s what Jupiter Research recently released.
advertising“Yahoo! currently has more market share than the next five services combined, including both Google’s and MSN’s local services.” said David Schatsky, President of JupiterKagan.
eBusiness Google MSN Search engines Social Web Web 2.0 Yahoo Yahoo local Today starts the final round of the Domainers Choice Awards.
All nominations are in, 3 nominees per category.
Vote now! (You know who to vote for ;-))
Domainers choice award Domainfest Domains After successfully setting up offices in the US in march 2005, Sedo now opened offices in the UK to be closer to the market.
Official press release here. Sedo will announce more in january they say.
Good luck Nora!
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