Domain dot what?
It’s one of those frustrating things that can happen when we’re setting up an online business. The business idea, the name, and the details for all the other steps fall into place. Except…the perfect dot com domain for our site is already taken.
Generally speaking, .com domains are the most sought after. They’re what people think of first when they type in a domain name. If we use a different domain extension, we risk losing traffic to the site with the .com extension.
Of course when we want a country-specific domain extension, the extension for the country we have in mind has precedence over a .com one. Or we may have to settle for a domain other than the .com variation if nothing available in .com is what we want. And if our business serves or represents a specific community and we can have a domain extension that specifies that …

Domain Name Watch
We build and market our websites around our domain names. We protect our domains, often buying the .com, .net, and other variations so that other people can’t profit from our hard work. And then…someone else acquires one of those domains.
It could happen to us. Once a domain has gone through the redemption and pending delete periods, anyone can register it. Expired domains are often registered within seconds of becoming available via the use of automated programs. After another person has registered a domain name that was once ours, it could be gone to us forever.
Why watch your domains
Domains expire. We do our best to watch them, but with busy lives and responsibilities to juggle, domain expiration dates can get overlooked. Or we may be away when then renewal notification notices are sent, or they might not make it past spam filters. Unlike most overdue notices, we aren’t given …

How Good is Your Domain Name?
If domain names didn’t matter, we’d all have some random number/letter combination for our domains. But sought-after domain names are often worth hundreds or even thousands of dollars. Names in domains do matter — because a good domain helps bring more traffic to a site. When a site has a domain name that doesn’t work well with it, the site is handicapped in comparison to its competitors with more useful domain names.
What determines the value of a domain name?
The value of a domain name for your website is in how it helps bring traffic to your site. If you’re selling the domain, its value is whatever the highest bidder will pay for it. Most of the time, the same factors determine a domain’s value.
Dot com domains are worth more than domains with other extensions. People commonly type .com at the end of domains without thinking …

Is Your Website Ready to Go Mobile? What You Must Know About .mobi
The days of only accessing the web from a desktop or laptop are long gone. Today, the world wide web has gone mobile with just about any handheld device capable of receiving web content. Cell phones, Blackberries, and even walkie-talkies are all new access points for users to find you. Question is, are you .mobi-ready?
What is a .mobi domain?
.mobi is the domain extension designed specifically for mobile products like completely updated hand sets (ker-ching), content providers, broadcasters, and other companies currently operating solely in the .com region. With a .mobi domain extension, your current site can go mobile and be recognized by users as a member of the mobile world, i.e., you get it!
Do we need .mobi?
This is the subject of some debate within the digital community. There aren’t many cell phone users surfing the web, …

Domain Investing: The Next “Real Estate” Boom?
A website domain is very much like a piece of property. It is owned by someone. It can be bought and sold, traded or transferred. And just as we’ve all witnessed a nice run up in housing prices over the past few years, good domain names appreciate and can (maybe) fetch enough to put your kid through college – if you know what you’re doing and how to maximize your ROI.
Get Reach Quick? Hardly.
If you Google “domain investing” you’ll see that every Tom, Dick and Louise has written the definitive text on how to make billions trading domain names. Oh, yea? Well, if these guys know how to make money trading domain names, why in the world would they tell you – at any price!
Skip the “get rich quick” approach for a couple of reasons. First, every really great domain name has …