Domain Bias in Web Search

Scientific research by a team from Microsoft and Stanford University indicates strong evidence that there is a domain bias in many people, whereby they will more likely trust some domains and domain tlds than others.  Higher trust correlates to more clicks.  More clicks is a good thing. Good material for those new registry-to-be organizations, and registrants […]

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April 30, 2012

Hosting a weekly podcast – Domain Masters reaches 250 episode milestone

Since December of 2004, the Domain Masters radio/podcast show has broadcast weekly episodes of domain industry news, pulse reports on new trends and domain success stories.  The show completed its 250th episode last week with an interview of Antony Van Couvering of Minds and Machines, about the new gTLD process.  On September 14th at 5pm […]

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September 14, 2011

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Online Ad Spend to surpass TV by 2016 says Forbes

According to a new report from market watcher Forrester Research and summarized in a recent Forbes report, 64 cents out of every dollar spent on online advertisement will either be in Mobile Marketing or Social Media.  The total expenditures online by 2016 will be approximately $76.7B, up from $34.5B in 2011. In fact by then, […]

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August 29, 2011

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You want PROOF that .COM is still KING?

It is said that there are not quite as many people use the expression “dotCOM” to describe the online industry or business as there were a few short years ago.  It is said that the best .com domains are taken.  A few believe that the new gTLDs rolling out to market in 2012 or 2013 […]

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August 23, 2011

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Threats to your Domains

Sun Tsu in the Art of War said: “Know the enemy and know yourself; in a hundred battles you will never be in peril. When you are ignorant of the enemy, but know yourself, your chances of winning or losing are equal. If ignorant both of your enemy and yourself, you are certain in every […]

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August 17, 2011

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