Mar 02
Matt Bentley of Sedo is interviewed by Leonard Holmes of ParkQuick.com on the state of domain parking in 2008 and what the future holds.
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So I was online via my beloved Ogo and decided to check out some Domain Parking services. I typed-in (yes mobile type-in exists!) #companyname#.mobi to navigate to the sites. If you are using a mobile device, you often do that because you expect content when typing in a .mobi domain of an existing business.
To my surprise almost none of the parking services had a mobile-ready page or mobile content. Sometimes the .mobi domain doesn’t even belong to the company!
Here’s my quick check:
- Namedrive.mobi
Not developed. Redirects to Namedrive.com - Parked.mobi
Mobile parking page - Domainsponsor.mobi
Parked at GoDaddy - Trafficz.mobi
Parked at TrafficZ (Mobile parking lander not .mobi compliant ) - Hitfarm.mobi
Parked at GoDaddy - Activeaudience.mobi
Available. NOT registered (!) - Fabulous.mobi
does not resolve - Nicit.mobi
Parked at DomainSponsor.com - Sedo.mobi
Bingo! Mobile website with useful content.
Just one company (Sedo) offers a mobile-ready website (Scored 5 at ready.mobi). I do not expect a full blown .mobi website. GoDaddy.mobi is also just enough to check domains, its perfectly suited for GoDaddy. But ignoring mobile surfers? And don’t bring up that “revolutionary” iPhone that will make mobile-ready sites useless. For a long time Opera Mini has been offering what the iphone offers only now. Still, not everyone is using Opera Mini or an iphone and cell phone rates are still quite expensive for mobile surfing. Oh and I forgot to mention slow connection speed. There’s a need for leightweight and adapted mobile websites.
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Sedo has been voted as one of the TOP 100 best places to work in Germany by financial magazine Capital.
Main criterias were credibility, respect and fairness of the managment towards employees as well as identification with the company and team spirit.
Sedo is ranked #59 of the TOP 100. The full alphabetical list can be seen here (german).
Congrats Sedo!
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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 
Domain hijacking Domain Spying Domain Tasting Domains network solutions Whois Jan 07
Nothing really spectacular for a Sedo user but it shows how easy it is:
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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
BlogoscopedDe 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.
Domains Google Knol Search engines Social Web Software Web 2.0 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:
Works pretty well!
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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
Brought to you by the delicious ladies over at Frenchmaidtv.com. Enjoy:
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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
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