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DSL and the ISPs That Love It: There's Better Broadband in the Back-End of Crete

Ann Sheridan and Michael Sheridan are probably not related, but they share one thing in common: lousy DSL broadband. Michael Sheridan, who lives in Lewisburg, W.V., is the lead plaintiff in a dragged-out class action lawsuit against Frontier Communications in the state, alleging the phone company has engaged in marketing flim-flam promising lightning fast DSL Internet speeds many customers complain they just do not receive. Ann Sheridan is a university lecturer in Ireland who doesn’t enjoy her DSL service as much as she endures it, when it works. They live thousands of miles apart, but the problems are largely the same: for-profit phone companies trying to get as much revenue out of copper-based networks suitable for 20th century landlines while spending as little possible on broadband-friendly upgrades. http://stopthecap.com/2016/05/19/theres-better-broadband-back-end-crete-oversold-dsl-cheap-succeed/

How I Ended Up Purchasing & Owning Google.com via Google Domains

Update on Thursday, October 8: Google Security has now contacted me, and has offered me a $x reward in a very Googley way. I have opted to donate the money to charity (Google has therefore doubled the reward amount). Please scroll to the bottom of the post to know more. A strange thing happened at 1:20 AM Eastern Time on Tuesday, September 29. I was learning more about the Google Domains interface, and typed google.com and clicked search domains. To my surprise, Google.com was showing as available! https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/i-purchased-domain-googlecom-via-google-domains-sanmay-ved

Great domains for artists, designers, writers & other creative types

You’re a creative. It takes a special kind of talent to capture a sunset, write a book, or design a website — but talent alone doesn’t pay the bills. And you’re too fond of wine and cheese to end up a starving artist. You know that if you offer any type of creative service these days, you need the Internet to attract the attention of potential customers. And your domain name is your home on the web. Your domain is the heart of your website address, the unique digital nameplate that marks your presence on the Internet. It’s your one-of-a-kind online business sign — a key brand element that can set you apart in a cyber sea of competition. That’s to say, it’s really, really important. So important, in fact, that it pays to take the time to think about all your domain name options. Yup, you’ve got choices. And a smart online naming strategy involves exploring numerous domain options and, in many cases, registering more than one domain to represent your business online.https://www.godaddy.com/garage/smallbusiness/launch/great-domains-for-creative-businesses/

Tesla finally owns Tesla.com

Elon Musk is one of the most powerful names in business, but it took his company Tesla over a decade to finally nab its namesake URL this week. Silicon Valley engineer and Nikola Tesla super fan (such people apparently exist) Stu Grossman bought up the Tesla domain back in 1992 with the hopes of making a fan site for the noted mechanical engineer, according to Bloomberg.http://mashable.com/2016/02/22/tesla-dot-com/#DTZ5GwRBZZq7

Startup Sues A Domain Name Owner To Grab A 16-Year-Old URL

Jason Kneen is a programmer and happens to own about a hundred domain names picked up over a sixteen year period. One of those, workbetter.com, he purchased in 1999 and it has been available on his site for years. In late April 2014 a company, OfficeLinks, approached him about buying the domain for use as a URL for their co-working space.https://techcrunch.com/2015/07/03/startup-sues-a-domain-name-owner-to-grab-a-16-year-old-url/

Ruling all Domains: The Benefits of Supporting Multiple Realms

The nature of business has changed dramatically over the past several decades. The traditional charter for most businesses used to be singular in focus, whether small, medium or large: to be the best at providing a service or producing a product. The dot-com revolution in many ways changed this singularity and sped the creation of multiple services, products and various combinations of both. Organizations like IBM became service-oriented and sold off traditional lines of business such as their notebook divisions. E-commerce giants like Amazon started by cornering the market on providing goods to consumers and quickly branched out to provide cloud services to other companies. Currently, they are competing with Google on the viability of same-day produce delivery in the U.S.https://www.hypersocket.com/en/journal/ruling-domains-benefits-supporting-multiple-realms/

Google Explains How It Handles The New Top Level Domains (TLDs)

Google’s John Mueller has just published on the Google Webmaster Central blog how Google handles the new top level domains (TLDs). John said Google is publishing this because of the questions and misconceptions the company has heard throughout the webmaster community. In summary, there are no TLDs that Google finds preferential to others; they are all treated equally in rankings. There are some geo-specific TLDs that Google will default to a specific country and use that as an indicator that the website is more important in a specific geographic region. But all TLDs are treated equally.http://searchengineland.com/google-explains-how-they-handle-the-new-top-level-domains-tlds-225671

How new domains are building better brands

New domain extensions have accumulated some pretty big numbers over the last couple of years. Collective registrations for the new GTLDs (generic top-level domains) have now surpassed 13 million, according to NTLD stats. This number is not small by any means. Comparably speaking, this represents just over 10 percent of total .com registrations, more than 50 percent of the total .net registrations and 30 percent more than total .org registrations.https://techcrunch.com/2016/03/12/how-new-domains-are-building-better-brands/

We Analyzed the HTTPS Settings of 10,000 Domains and How It Affects Their SEO - Here's What We Learned

We recently analyzed the top 10,000 domains to answer one question: “How well do they use HTTPS to improve their SERP rankings?” We looked at accessibility via HTTP and HTTPS. We looked at redirects. We looked at status codes. Today, I’m going to share our findings with you.https://ahrefs.com/blog/ssl/

Put your personal domain to work for your brand. It’s easy.

For Dallas-area real estate agent Alexis Claire, a personal domain name isn’t about vanity — it’s about branding. “I was switching brokerages, and I got my custom domain so I could have a personalized website and email address,” says Alexis, a law school graduate who discovered a love for sales and marketing and hasn’t looked back since. alexislogoShe relies on a memorable web address that clearly and quickly says what she does and where she does it. And alexissellstexas.com — which Alexis now uses for email and points to her Facebook page — does that job well.https://www.godaddy.com/garage/smallbusiness/launch/put-your-personal-domain-to-work-for-your-brand-its-easy/

China Is Making Domain Name History

Short domains have always been valuable, but if you’re a company today and want to own a short domain name, your price just became a lot higher. And I mean a lot. There is a market unfolding that very few know about, and tens of millions of dollars are trading hands monthly. Over the last two years, China has become the largest buyer of domain names, resulting in what is likely the biggest story in domain-name investing since the Internet began.https://techcrunch.com/2015/12/12/china-making-domain-name-history/

Apple registers 'Apple.car' and other auto-related domains

Apple Inc has registered domain names related to automobiles, adding to speculation about the company's plans to develop an automobile. The iPhone maker registered the domain names, which include apple.car, apple.cars and apple.auto in December, according to domain information provider.http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tech/tech-news/Apple-registers-Apple-car-and-other-auto-related-domains/articleshow/50507678.cms

NYPL Public Domain Release 2016 - Visualization

On January 6th, 2016, The New York Public Library made over 187K digital items in the public domain available for high resolution download. This is one of many experiments by the NYPL Labs to help patrons understand and explore what was contained in that release.http://publicdomain.nypl.org/pd-visualization/

Public Domain Collections: Free to Share & Reuse

Did you know that more than 180,000 of the items in our Digital Collections are in the public domain? That means everyone has the freedom to enjoy and reuse these materials in almost limitless ways. The Library now makes it possible to download such items in the highest resolution available directly from the Digital Collections website.http://www.nypl.org/research/collections/digital-collections/public-domain

Mark Zuckerberg buys domain name from engineering student in Kochi

KOCHI: Mark Zuckerberg may have started the online social networking revolution and made billions of dollars from his game-changing Facebook (FB). But this maverick internet entrepreneur surely didn't reckon with city boy Amal Augustine. Amal has 'beaten' the master at his own game and closed a deal with FB, trading the registration rights of maxchanzuckerberg.org on Monday.http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kochi/Mark-Zuckerberg-buys-domain-name-from-engineering-student-in-Kochi/articleshow/51847179.cms

The Pirate Bay Now Starts Operating From New .MS Domain

After facing a couple of rough weeks, The Pirate Bay is back in action with a new domain name. From this week, The Pirate Bay has officially started operating from the Montserrat-based domain name ThePirateBay.ms. This news is relieving for The Pirate Bay and its fans as in the recent past the world’s most popular torrent site lost most of its active domain names. Last year, authorities busted the servers of the website in Sweden and this inspired the website operators to add six alternative domains to the website.http://fossbytes.com/the-pirate-bay-starts-operating-from-new-ms-domain/

Google Buy Their Domain Back Off Guy Who Bought It, He Donates Money To Charity

Remember recently when we reported that one guy managed to buy the Google.com domain name in a freak moment of luck? Well, Google bought it back from him. Sanmay Ved suddenly became the owner of the most visited domain name in the history of the internet when a website flaw made it available for a very short amount of time – and it only cost him $12. But while Google quickly managed to acquire the domain name back and told Sanmay that he wouldn’t be compensated for it, they eventually gave him some money anyway.http://www.unilad.co.uk/news/google-buy-their-domain-back-off-guy-who-bought-it-he-donates-money-to-charity/

The how and why to forward domains to your primary website address

We’ve talked about the many great reasons to grab some additional domains for your business, no matter what kind of industry you’re in — including creative, property, personal care, professional, web, and food and hospitality services. Those extra domains can give you flexibility and brand protection online. And they can drive more customers to your website, which is sort of a big deal. But if you snag some relevant domain names and just let them languish in your account, they can’t do the work you need them to do for your business. It’s time to forward those secondary domains to your primary website address.https://www.godaddy.com/garage/smallbusiness/launch/how-to-forward-domains/

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