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dot coma – Are Domain Names Even Relevant Now?

Convince & Convert

When I started, domain names were free , because why would anyone pay money for something of no consequence? My first online voyage was in 1994, working with my college pals at Internet Direct, Arizona’s first Internet company (and also the inventor of virtual Web hosting, ultimately sold to Mindspring). Fast forward.

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Google Calls New gTLDs Domain Endings, Offers Web Hosting

Bill Hartzer

Google is getting ready to launch Google Domains , where you can get a website, web hosting, and a website editor like Wix.com (which is very SEO-unfriendly, by the way). And, Google is pitching the purchase of a shiny, new gTLD (Top Level Domain). – No additional cost for private registration. Domain Names'

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Are Web-Based Free Hosts Good For Business?

Small Business Mavericks

I’m talking about the free web-based website hosts. If you remember a website by the name of Geocities where you could sign in and build a website, then you might remember that it was just a couple of years ago that Yahoo! And all those people who had websites hosted by Geocities had to move their sites, or lose them.

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Wordpress.com Vs Wordpress.org: Which Is The Best Blog Platform

Social Media Marketing

Wordpress is one of the most popular blogging and web hosting platforms. There is a vast difference between Wordpress.com and Wordpress.org, Wordpress.com provides a downloadable web hosting package that lets you customize the code and maintain the site tweaking its technical aspects.

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How to get a Free Domain for your Blog like a pro?

OnlineRockersHub Marketing Blog

In the world of online property and Internet marketing, domain names and the abilities that come with them have become quite the commodity. Your domain is your company’s face to the cyberspace community. The thing is, domain names are not always the cheapest or easiest-to-find when it comes to the business world.

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Why I Gave a Domain Name Back to Its Former Owner

Bill Hartzer

I gave a domain name back to its former owner. The former owner called me on the phone, told me that the domain name I bought several years ago at a Godaddy TDNAM domain name auction, was their former family-owned website. There are real people out there who forget to renew their domain names.

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Infoseek Trademark and Domain Name to Be Auctioned December 8th

Bill Hartzer

Do you want to own the trademark and domain name of a former search engine? The trademark and domain name of Infoseek , a search engine originally founded in 1994 by Steve Kirsch and the first search engine to sell advertising on a CPM (Cost Per Thousand Impressions) basis, will be put up for auction on December 8, 2010.