I want to share a humorous domain name business video that I had not seen before. The video was posted to YouTube in 2012, so it’s not a new video, but I think you’ll get a laugh from it.. The video was created on behalf of the Japan Registry Services Company, the operator of the .JP ccTLD extension.
When I discuss what I do for a living, I have found that people are either really super interested or bored out of their minds.
Thanks to Lori Anne Wardi for sharing this video!
It shouldn’t come as a surprise to you, but I don’t have a great deal of experience with ccTLD domain names, aside from seeing them in my travels. I know that Ron Jackson breaks out the ccTLD sales from other domain names in his sales reports, and there are frequently solid sales reported (ie $40,000 last week for SC.TV).
If you are interested in ccTLD domain names, you will want to read an article on The Moz Blog that was published this morning. Eli Schwartz, Online Marketing Manager for SurveyMonkey, published this: “International SEO Study: How Searchers Perceive Country Code Top-Level Domains“.
In the article, Schwartz discusses some research conducted to get user data regarding ccTLDs. The results
Yesterday afternoon, various tech publications including TechCrunch wrote about a new Facebook app called “Rooms.” According to the Rooms page in the iTunes Store, “Rooms lets you create places for the things you’re passionate about. Pick a topic, customize the look and feel, be whoever you want to be and share with others. It’s perfect for the things you love and interests that make you unique.”
You can learn more about Rooms on TechCrunch and the other news outlets covering this, but the most interesting aspect to me is that Facebook is using a repurposed ccTLD, Rooms.ME, to promote its Rooms app. If you visit the Rooms.ME domain name, you can learn more about Facebook Rooms and find a link to visit the iTunes store to download Rooms for your iPhone or iPad.
As of September of this year, Rooms.ME was owned by
I played soccer throughout my childhood, only stopping when I went off to college. I was never really excited about watching soccer (no surprise in the US), but for the past few seasons, I have been watching the English Premier League and rooting for Arsenal. My Arsenal affiliation has everything to do with my brother, who has had a rooting interest in Arsenal for quite some time.
In the US, .com generally serves as the default domain name extension for websites. I can’t think of any professional sports team that doesn’t use a .com domain name for its website. Since many (or maybe most) UK-based companies use the .co.uk or .uk now for their website, I thought it would be interesting to see how many Premier League teams use a .com domain name for their website.
Here is a list of EPL teams and whether they use .com:
This week, news of Amazon’s acquisition of Twitch was widely reported. If you are like me and hadn’t heard of Twitch before this news, you may have simply navigated to Twitch.com to learn more. If you did that, you would have landed on the wrong website since the Twitch that Amazon plans to acquire is not found on a .com domain name but rather a .TV domain name: Twitch.TV.
The New York Times has been covering the acquisition, and yesterday the newspaper published an article by Noam Cohen that discussed the .TV extension. In the first line of the article, the question was posed, “Is the dot-tv boom next?” The article had quite a bit of history about the .TV domain name extension, and although I was familiar with some of it, there were quite a few interesting aspects I didn’t know before reading the article.
Some of the things I found particularly interesting:
I read a great story about the CarLoans.com.au domain name, and I want to share it with you. The article was written by CarLoans.com.au founder Shaun McGowan, and it was published in the first person on Startup Smart, “Australia’s leading news and advice resource for start-up businesses.”
You should read the article in its entirety, but here are a few things I found particularly interesting about the CarLoans.com.au story:
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