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High Profile Domain Names Suspended Due to Invalid WHOIS Data

Bill Hartzer

After further investigation into the issue, she learned that the domain names had been suspended by the registrar due to invalid WHOIS data on the domain name WHOIS record–here web server was not down. Craft is among many domain name owners whose domain names have been suspended due to invalid WHOIS data.

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Rogue Snapnames Employee Bids on Domain Name Auctions, Drives Up Prices

Bill Hartzer

Snapnames, an aftermarket domain name auction service, has reportedly discovered that a rogue employee set up an account and bid against other bidders. Recently, SnapNames discovered that an employee had set up an account on the SnapNames system under a false name and, under this name, bid in SnapNames auctions.

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How Not to Increase Online Credibility: MediaPost Fail

Bill Hartzer

Is that MediaPost graphic claiming that the home page of Aldi’s is a Parked Domain Name? Rather than doing some simple research by Googling Aldi to get the facts right, the image used in the story is a graphic/screen capture/thumbnail image of Aldis.com , a domain name that is not owned by Aldi Foods.

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25 Important Search Engine Optimization Mistakes to Fix Right Now

Bill Hartzer

If you are linking to the privacy policy page, then use the anchor text “privacy policy&#. Your privacy policy page should be privacypolicy.html or domain.com/privacy-policy/ rather than domain.com/125.html. Owning multiple domain names and they all are mirrors of your main website. Post this on Diigo.

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7 Deadly Blog Writing Sins

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

One tip i can tell you about the Domain Name, Choose a Keyword and select.COM,ORG,NET. Editor’s note: Somehow I don’t think your name is BITTU. Sorry, you must have not read my blog policy. I reserve the right to edit your comment when you don’t use your real name and I did.

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How friendfeed Can Teach You About Your Friends

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

This way if I go to digg/reddit/SU before Friend Feed, I don’t see duplicates. link] Show the domain: You can’t underestimate HOW something as simple as showing the domain name beside a link makes it easier to scroll through the information. I actually think the links are coming from Digg and StumbleUpon.

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Analysis of Five Top Blogs and What You Can Learn from Them

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Their domain name Their post type – length, frequency and value. Their Domain Name Another great thing to analyze from these blogs is their domain name. I personally believe that your domain name will affect your blogging career and how people look at your blog. All this info.

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