Tips and Tools

Generic Domain Names Under Attack - Attorney Brett Lewis Details An Alarming Trend in UDRP Proceedings - With the rise of domain name values in recent years people who would like to separate domain owners from their assets without paying fair market value for them are coming out of the woodwork. Reverse hijacking attempts through either the court system or  UDRP proceedings are no longer a rarity. While you would like to think that justice would always prevail, that has not always been the case. Sign up for the Free DNJournal.com Newsletter

The Domain Game Hits (Online) Store Shelves - My book on domain-name investors, The Domain Game, is now available for purchase in soft cover or hardcover through this site. This caps a long process, and needless to say I’m thrilled to have a book on the market.

David Kesmodel’s to be released book The Domain Game, irrespective of how it is received, will undoubtedly catapult the industry into a new era: that of the neodomainers, the super crunchers.

Much of the initial advice covered the basics of keyword research and calculating ROI, but there was also a wealth of detail in the presentation that you don't usually hear in a typical PPC presentation.

BetterWhois.com: Search for a domain name across all registrars, including
new registrars. Links to all active and pending registrars and allows users to receive detailed domain reports via e-mail.

Things I’ve Learned in 2 Years of Domaining By Peter Askew

Domain development alternatives - Earlier I wrote about the create your own tube domain development opportunity, and I am following it up with other alternatives to developing your domain name quickly and easily.

Smart Pricing Versus Over Pricing - When an end user contacts a domain owner to purchase a domain name, the challenge of negotiating a sales price begins. Oftentimes, the domain owner has a certain sales price in mind, while the buyer has a number in his head, either determined by his budgetary requirements or his own personal constraints.

The Truth is Out: New Research Shows Arbitration is Preferred over Litigation - All the facts are finally out. Research reinforces that arbitration is strongly preferred by consumers over litigation, and that outcomes in arbitration are virtually the same as in court, Roger Haydock said in a statement on the National Arbitration Forum website.

Budget for a long domaining career - At a few bucks a pop for a new domain registration it is easy for fresh faced domainers to enter a buying frenzy, spending a lot of their money and time buying not very valuable domains. If you're purchasing at after market prices then the higher costs make this frenzy less likely. However, regardless of the domain markets you are in, for a long lasting domaining career, you need to budget, first your money, and then your time.

Domain Age and Search Engine Positioning - For quite some time, search engines have ranked websites based on the relevancy of keywords, the number of incoming links, and the rank of the pages sending the links. Microsoft has recently applied for a new patent that will add another factor into the mix: the age of the domains that are offering the links.

How to Protect Your Business From Nefarious Subdomain Hijacking - A couple days ago while I was at a conference news came about that Network Solutions was hijacking unused customer subdomains to post links to their other websites. It is getting really hard to trust *many* online service providers. A big tip for new websites is to use the www subdomain and 301 the non www version to the www version, for 3 reasons.

This is a Sweet tool and works Great! Plus its free! - Surfing the web today and I found a very cool free tool provided by Google. The tool is called Suggest Lab and for a domainer or website owner, it provides a sweet free tool. This is how I see it as a great tool. The way Suggest Lab works, is by providing the most popular searches on Google as you type.

The Best Kind of Traffic for Web Sites - If you sell things on the Internet, should you tinker with your Web site so that it ranks high in search results? Or would you be wiser to spend money on the paid listings that appear beside those results? A recent study by Engine Ready, an Internet marketing company, analyzed 18.7 million visits over two years to Web sites run by 27 of the company’s roughly 500 clients.

DN Journal brings you news about recent domain sales, Year-To-Date sales charts, legal matters, domainer resources, domain auction coverage, domainer archives and more. Perhaps the most interesting features of DN Journal are the well-written and in-depth articles about the personalities, events and issues of domaining that are frequently featured.

"People use different words when they search for your products online. Use these 'keywords' in your website copy and people will find your site when they search. No matter what business you are in, Wordtracker will tell you the words people use when they search - and how popular each word is."

Estibot.com is a domain value estimator which works in single domain and bulk modes. Notice that the Estibot site states, "please do not make purchase or sale decisions based on these numbers!". Estibot automatically determines the keywords in a domain name, however, you can improve accuracy by separating custom keywords with a space or capitalizing them.  I found that the bulk domain value estimator works better if you read the instructions

Speaking of essential basics, I just reminded myself of DomainTools.com, a site I frequent most every day while in the process of researching domains and much more.

Back to essential basics with GoogleWebmaster Central, "your one-stop shop for comprehensive info about how Google crawls and indexes websites"

SEOBook.com recently gathered a useful SEO Tool Roundup. One of the most interesting I found was Check quickly your PageRank, backlinks and much more.