The real reason Bob Parsons changed his blog from .com to .me

Jan22 in Domain Registration & Transfers by admin
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Bob Parsons, the owner of Godaddy, has created a lot of discussion in the last few weeks about the .me domain extension. The reason : he has changed his personal blog from BobParsons.com to BobParsons.me. This has been followed by many people claiming that the .me domain extension is going to be the next big thing, encouraged by higher sales than the .mobi and .asia domains extensions. Many have even gone as far as claiming that .me will be the most popular domain extension after .com.

In my opinion, nothing could be further from the truth. The .me extension is a pretty good choice for a personal blog and there have been some good sales of premium domains like love.me, save.me and insure.me. However, beyond that I don’t see the domain doing too well, certainly not better than .net or regional domain extensions like .us, .co.uk or .de.

The real reason Bob Parsons changed his blog to BobParsons.me

The .me domain extension was launched last July. It is the regional domain extension for Serbia and Montenegro, which previously used the code .yu (for Yugoslavia). The goverment worked out a deal with some top level registrars so that the domain could be used worldwide, no doubt encouraged by the fact that .me could be branded very easily in English and many other European languages.

So why did BobParsons change his own blog domain from .com to .me? Well, quite simply, to promote the domain extension. The .me extension costs between $5 and $10 more than .com on most domain registration websites and GoDaddy has been promoting it heavily. So the domain change was a smart move in my opinion. It displays how the domain can be used and seeing the owner of Godaddy use the domain extension will surely go a long way with a lot of people.

If you want a domain for a personal blog or if you can find a good keyword which uses me (e.g. help.me etc) then the .me extension is a good investment but beyond that, I don’t see this domain extension being more than an addition to the already large list of domain extensions that aren’t used.

What do you think of the .me domain?

The 100 Oldest Dot-Com Domains

Jan11 in Domain Registration & Transfers by admin
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I came across an interesting article on MSN recently entitled ‘The Internet’s 100 Oldest Dot-Com Domains‘.

The first .com registered was symbolics.com, in March 1985. You will see many familar brand names in this list including IBM, HP and Apple however you may suprised to know that it took around 2 and a half years for the first 100 .com domain names to be registered. I bet a lot of people still regret not purchasing a domain during this time :)

Here is the list of the first 100 .com’s registered in full :)

1. symbolics.com: March 15, 1985
2. bbn.com: April 24, 1985
3. think.com: May 24, 1985
4. mcc.com: July 11, 1985
5. dec.com: Sept. 30, 1985
6. northrop.com: Nov. 7, 1985
7. xerox.com: Jan. 9, 1986
8. sri.com: Jan. 17, 1986
9. hp.com: March 3, 1986
10. bellcore.com: March 5, 1986
11. ibm.com: March 19, 1986
12. sun.com: March 19, 1986
13. intel.com: March 25, 1986
14. ti.com: March 25, 1986
15. att.com: April 25, 1986
16. gmr.com: May 8, 1986
17. tek.com: May 8, 1986
18. fmc.com: July 10, 1986
19. ub.com: July 10, 1986
20. bell-atl.com: Aug. 5, 1986
21. ge.com: Aug. 5, 1986
22. grebyn.com: Aug. 5, 1986
23. isc.com: Aug. 5, 1986
24. nsc.com: Aug. 5, 1986
25. stargate.com: Aug. 5, 1986
26. boeing.com: Sept. 2, 1986
27. itcorp.com: Sept. 18, 1986
28. siemens.com: Sept. 29, 1986
29. pyramid.com: Oct. 18, 1986
30. alphacdc.com: Oct. 27, 1986
31. bdm.com: Oct. 27, 1986
32. fluke.com: Oct. 27, 1986
33. inmet.com: Oct. 27, 1986
34. kesmai.com: Oct. 27, 1986
35. mentor.com: Oct. 27, 1986
36. nec.com: Oct. 27, 1986
37. ray.com: Oct. 27, 1986
38. rosemount.com: Oct. 27, 1986
39. vortex.com: Oct. 27, 1986
40. alcoa.com: Nov. 5, 1986
41. gte.com: Nov. 5, 1986
42. adobe.com: Nov. 17, 1986
43. amd.com: Nov. 17, 1986
44. das.com: Nov. 17, 1986
45. data-io.com: Nov. 17, 1986
46. octopus.com: Nov. 17, 1986
47. portal.com: Nov. 17, 1986
48. teltone.com: Nov. 17, 1986
49. 3com.com: Dec. 11, 1986
50. amdahl.com: Dec. 11, 1986
51. ccur.com: Dec. 11, 1986
52. ci.com: Dec. 11, 1986
53. convergent.com: Dec. 11, 1986
54. dg.com: Dec. 11, 1986
55. peregrine.com: Dec. 11, 1986
56. quad.com: Dec. 11, 1986
57. sq.com: Dec. 11, 1986
58. tandy.com: Dec. 11, 1986
59. tti.com: Dec. 11, 1986
60. unisys.com: Dec. 11, 1986
61. cgi.com: Jan. 19, 1987
62. cts.com: Jan. 19, 1987
63. spdcc.com: Jan. 19, 1987
64. apple.com: Feb. 19, 1987
65. nma.com: March 4, 1987
66. prime.com: March 4, 1987
67. philips.com: April 4, 1987
68. datacube.com: April 23, 1987
69. kai.com: April 23, 1987
70. tic.com: April 23, 1987
71. vine.com: April 23, 1987
72. ncr.com: April 30, 1987
73. cisco.com: May 14, 1987
74. rdl.com: May 14, 1987
75. slb.com: May 20, 1987
76. parcplace.com: May 27, 1987
77. utc.com: May 27, 1987
78. ide.com: June 26, 1987
79. trw.com: July 9, 1987
80. unipress.com: July 13, 1987
81. dupont.com: July 27, 1987
82. lockheed.com: July 27, 1987
83. rosetta.com: July 28, 1987
84. toad.com: Aug. 18, 1987
85. quick.com: Aug. 31, 1987
86. allied.com: Sept. 3, 1987
87. dsc.com: Sept. 3, 1987
88. sco.com: Sept. 3, 1987
89. gene.com: Sept. 22, 1987
90. kccs.com: Sept. 22, 1987
91. spectra.com: Sept. 22, 1987
92. wlk.com: Sept. 22, 1987
93. mentat.com: Sept. 30, 1987
94. wyse.com: Oct. 14, 1987
95. cfg.com: Nov. 2, 1987
96. marble.com: Nov. 9, 1987
97. cayman.com: Nov. 16, 1987
98. entity.com: Nov. 16, 1987
99. ksr.com: Nov. 24, 1987
100. nynexst.com: Nov. 30, 1987

Link : The Internet’s 100 Oldest Dot-Com Domains

Why You Should Always Auto Renew Your Domains

Dec11 in Domain Registration & Transfers by admin
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I have never let a domain expire that I didn’t want to keep however it has happened to a few friends. Particularly when I have registered a domain for them and pushed it to an account and told them how to renew it every year. They inevitably forget about renewing it and then email me about why their website has stopped working.

Small businesses who are not familar with the internet and have no technical employee are also prone to letting their company domain expire. I’ve helped a few companies who registered a domain via my domain reseller website only to let it expire a year later and then panic when they realise they can’t access their email!

The danger with letting a domain expire is that someone else will register it. If you just used the domain so that you had your own personal email address then it may not be reregistered however any website with traffic and/or a pagerank will be snapped up quickly by domainers via backorder.

I read about such an incident today. The Domainer reported that the owners of GeorgeWBushLibrary.com let their domain expire recently. A company in Raleigh NC, Illuminati Karate registered the domain for $10 after it expired and has since sold the domain back to the original owners for a whopping $35,000!!!

So remember, always set the domains you want to keep to auto renew so that your web properties don’t slip through the net :)

Link : This is Why People Squat On Domains: GeorgeWBushLibrary.com Sold Back For $35K

Get a $0.99 .com Domain at Godaddy today

Nov27 in Domain Registration & Transfers by admin
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Godaddy have released another fantastic coupon. All you have to do is enter the the code 99DOMAIN when registering a domain to get the domain for $0.99.

Note :

  • One domain per account.
  • New domains only.
  • ICANN applies . 20-cent fee so the total cost is $1.19 a domain.

I’m not sure when this deal ends so I recommend taking advantage of it within the next few days :)

Link : GoDaddy (make sure you use coupon code 99DOMAIN)

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