Jan 15

I won’t debate about Network Solution’s fiasco regarding their questionable front running techniques, you can read all about this here at NamePros, DomainState, Domain Name News (1), Domain Name News (2), Slashdot , Domain Tools.

There’s even recorded video proof of Network Solution’s Domain Name Front Running:



Really bad karma for Network solutions. There’s a storm of bad PR blasting the net and hitting Network Solutions!

Instead I’d like to show you a genius domain related to this:

www.youguysseriouslyregistereverythingisearch.com

I like that :-)

Jan 07

Nothing really spectacular for a Sedo user but it shows how easy it is:



Jan 02

Mid december 2007 Google announced its Wikipedia competitor “Knol” (what a name…). My guess is that it will be a huge “success” like Google Checkout (lesson: bad idea to come up with an alternative to a monopoly — especially years later — even when you’re Google) and that only people who also buy iphones will cheer (sorry for the sarcasm ;-) ).

But what is funny is that the domain Knol.com doesn’t even belong to Google. It’s owned by a dutch cleaning company that sells vacuum cleaners and steam cleaning equipment. They’re pretty happy about the additional free traffic they receive and even thank Google for that on their site:

Knol Stoomreinigingssystemen wil o.a. de volgende sites bedanken : Google
040 Hosting
nu.nl
Webwereld
TechCrunch
Blogoscoped

De aandacht is echt overweldigend !

Translation: “Knol steam cleaning systems wants to thank the following sites (among others ) […] the attention is really overwhelming!”

How can a company in the internet age decide on a product name without checking the associated domains first? All these people who type-in “www.knol.com” and only find vacuum cleaners? Tsk tsk tsk :-)

Oh and respect for their sys admin - the site is still up despite the traffic.

Jan 01

Another little yet useful tool for domainers is ParkingWhois.com. This tool tells you where a domain is parked. Simply enter the Domain Name:



It also gives some information about the parking company, for example this one for Sedo.

Works pretty well!

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