Chairman Welcomes ICANN Community to a Celebration of Exciting Ten Years of Working Together

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ICANN's 29th International Meeting opens Monday in San Juan

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ICANN Posts Sao Paulo Board Meeting Agenda

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Chairman Vint Cerf's Opening Remarks at Internet Governance Forum, Athens, Greece, 30 October - 2 November 2006

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Video from Vint Cerf Tribute Released

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Partnering to Promote Internet Education in Russia

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The Domain Name Debate - Brand Versus Keywords

When it comes to choosing a domain name, there are two schools of thought. You can either elect to register a domain name based on a new or existing brand name OR one or more keywords. Here the pro’s and con’s.

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Domain Flipping - Use Domain Flipping to Start Your Income Online

With the increase in cost of living, people are working harder to earn huge income. Apart from their day jobs, people are looking for secondary jobs that will add some extra money in their bank accounts. Due to this reason, people are getting into online businesses. Many kinds of online businesses are available at present. Affiliate Marketing and Multi-Level Marketing (MLM) are some prominent types of online business. However, these businesses have disadvantages (such as time sinks and no guarantee of income.)

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Establishing a Domain Portfolio

According to the Domain Name Industry Brief from Verisign, there are more than 162 million domain name registrations across all of the Top Level Domain Names at the end of the first quarter of 2008. This means there are a lot less domain availability and more competition. If you want two lettered sequences, sorry to say they’ve all been taken. You want to shift to three lettered sequence, you’re out of luck for that as well. To fulfill the growing demand there are more domain extensions now like .us, .tv, .biz but .com and .net still are still the most widely sought after extensions.

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2 Reasons Why You need to Search for Domain Names

2 Reasons Why You need to Search for Domain Names.

A domain name is one of the most important things you will decide on in the course of starting a business. As we have numerously discussed on this site, a domain name needs to be short and memorable. A long name is easy to forget; http://we-are-the-best-place-in-the-whole-wide-world-to-buy-vintage-toasters.com is not nearly as likely to be successful as is http://www.vintagetoasters.net.

If your domain name is one which is too silly, you may have a hard time having your business taken seriously. The domain names which make a business successful are those which stick in the mind and can be typed in quickly. Remember, web surfers have short attention spans.

• First reason to search for domain names is to make money.

To come up with domain names which will help your business become profitable, there are a few things that you will need to do in order to make money with domain names.

Make a list of names you are considering, then search for domain names to see which are already taken (a lot of them will be, almost guaranteed). Having a domain name which is memorable is one way to almost guarantee that your site will make money - provided you have a product or service to offer which people actually want.

Take these names which you have purchased and park them; this way people can see that the names are taken – and wait until the demand grows before selling them. You don’t want to lose out on potential profits by being impatient. Sit on these domain names for a while.

You will then need to find a way to publicize the fact that you are selling all of these great domain names. You can try auctioning them on Sedo or similar websites; this can be a way to get a surprisingly high price for a good domain name.

Shop around for domain names which have expired, since these will often command a much higher price (there are probably others who have been hoping these domain names would expire and may be willing to pay top dollar for them). Again, don’t be afraid to sit on these domain names for a while in order to bump up the price you can ask for them. Another way to make money from domain names is to purchase as many domain names as possible which are good ones, but not applicable to your own site; you can sell these domain names to other companies and individuals later, sometimes for quite a lot of money!

• Second reason to search for domain names is to use them yourself or for business.

If you are instead just looking for a domain name for your own business, rather than going into the business of buying and reselling domain names, you should do some research into your target market; find a domain name which will appeal to your target market.

This will be a big help to your site’s search engine rankings right off the bat and will help potential customers find you more easily. Read more information on the introduction guide to domain names.

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