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Guest Post: Jacqueline Daly on Dynadot’s Website Re-Design

Elliot Silver
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DynadotYou may have noticed that Dynadot’s website recently underwent a major overhaul. The following is a guest post from Jacqueline Daly, Marketing Manager for Dynadot, to discuss the changes.

Change and innovation are concepts that domain investors know very well. The industry as a whole is a constantly evolving landscape that our customers have to be aware of and adapt to. At Dynadot we are no stranger to innovation as it takes place behind the scenes on a daily basis. In order for us to maintain our commitment to innovation we thought it was time for our site to reflect the state-of-the-art technology that drives us.

In the process of redesigning our site, we focused on two things: making our site easier to navigate and having a site that conveys our core strengths and values. From our analytics and customer feedback we discovered that people would occasionally get lost on our site, especially on our homepage. With our new design, our goal was to make the most important parts of our site easy to find. Dynadot’s greatest strengths are making state-of-the-art technology look simple and providing friendly, personalized customer service when our customers need help.

Not only are we updating the aesthetics of our site we are also revolutionizing the user experience. The next step in this project is a new control panel that will be cleaner, faster, and more robust than our current control panel. We’ve been working close with some of our power users to develop a control panel that caters to our clients’ needs. Our new control panel will still have all of the capabilities of our current control panel; it will also include new features such as widgets so you can personalize your experience with the features you use most often. We want it to be the fastest, smartest, and easiest control panel in the industry. On top of the new control panel we will be launching new mobile applications as well as a desktop client. So stay tuned! The innovation is just getting started!

A special thanks to Elliot for giving us the opportunity to connect with you! As a thank you (for reading this far =p), take 15% off your next order to celebrate the launch of our new site. Use code: BACKinBLACK

*1 coupon per account. Excludes prepay orders. Offer expires 9/16/11 23:59 PDT

Lana Del Rey, AKA Lizzy Grant, Sells Out New York City Concert in Minutes

Elliot Silver
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Lizzy Grant, daughter of original domain investor Rob Grant, sold out her first New York City concert at The Box in about an hour this morning. Grant, whose stage name is Lana del Rey, has attended numerous domain conferences with her family over the years. In fact, she was live blogging a Traffic auction with me the first time my blog was really noticed by anyone.

If you’re interested in seeing Lana Del Rey perform and you live on the west coast, she will be performing in LA on September 27, 2011. Tickets for this concert just went on sale. Her NYC concert date is September 21.

Congrats to the Grant family.

Democrats Register AmericanJobsAct.com in Anticipation of President’s Speech

Elliot Silver
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According to a number of news outlets, US President Barack Obama is going to announce his new jobs initiative called the American Jobs Act, in a speech this evening.  In anticipation of tonight’s  speech, the Democratic National Committee  has registered the domain name  AmericanJobsAct.com. It is registered to the DNC and uses a @democrats.org email address, without privacy protection.

Whether the Democratic National Committee plans to use AmericanJobsAct.com to promote this proposed legislation remains to be seen, but it was a smart domain registration nonetheless. I am sure the Democratic Party would rather own it for its own platform rather than see someone else register and use it as a platform to oppose the legislation. The domain name was just registered yesterday, September 7, 2011.

At the present time, the domain name resolves to a Go Daddy landing page with pay per click (PPC) links, most of which are for job-related websites. According to various articles I’ve read  (albeit not from clearly reputable sources), it appears that GoDaddy CEO Bob Parsons is a donor to (and supporter of) Republican causes, so you’d wonder if he’d be able to change some of the jobs PPC links to Republican cause website links.

The smart thing for the DNC to do would be to either forward the domain name to its party’s website or push a new website live just before the speech. I am sure “American Jobs Act” will be a highly searched term over the coming days and weeks.

Monitor Your WordPress Plugins

Elliot Silver
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File this under common sense advice, but it’s something to keep in mind when using WordPress plugins. You should always be aware of how they work, what they do, and their current settings on your WordPress based website.

I have the Simply Exclude plugin used on a few of my websites. In fact, I essentially copied the meat of one of my sites to use as the base for my other sites. Unfortunately, I never checked the Simply Exclude plugin settings, and I had blocked a specific type of page on my site. Upon replicating that particular page over and over, I was creating pages that blocked search engines from seeing them. They aren’t critical pages or advertisers’ pages, but they are important.  Bozo move on my part.

The good news is that I caught this error and can advise you on not doing the same thing. The other good news is that upon allowing search engines to see those pages, I should see quite a jump in traffic. The bad news is that I was blocking certain pages for a long time, which probably cost me traffic and revenue.

Do yourself a favor when you develop. Learn about the features and functionality of all your plugins. Avoid silly mistakes like the one I made.

Is 3D Dead? Where Does That Leave The 3D Domain Names?

Elliot Silver
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It’s very difficult to predict what technology trends will be popular and which will fizzle. Buying domain names based on future technology trends is a bit like playing the lottery… except there are guaranteed winning tickets with the lottery.

Have a look at the first sentence from this New York Post article from September 5:

“The next big thing in TV — 3-D — is proving such a bomb with consumers, the first victim may be ESPN’s sports-in-3-D channel.”

Judging by the thousands of 3D domain names for sale on Sedo, Afternic, and other domain sales platforms, it looks like there are going to be a lot more losers than winners in the 3D domain lottery.  Based on what I’ve seen, some people justify these purchases as $8 lottery tickets, which is fine I suppose, but when people buy dozens or hundreds of names to cover their bases, it becomes a big problem.

I don’t want to sound preachy here, but think about the reality here when you’re buying domain names. There are gamblers and domain investors. Investing in domain names can be a bit of a gamble, but it shouldn’t be a total gamble.

When you buy a domain name, are you investing or playing the lottery?

Afternic Sells Nearly $700k in Domain Names

Elliot Silver
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In a fairly strong week considering it was the final week of what most people consider to be the summer, Afternic is reporting 300 public domain sales last week of $1,000 or higher, worth a total of approximately $690,000.

DanceFashion.com was the leading sale of the week, selling to a Chinese company for $27,780. The rest of the sales are listed below.

dancefashion.com $27,780.00
garnish.com $22,000.00
powerbox.com $21,200.00
adguard.com $14,800.00
publishingsoftware.com $8,888.00
futurevisions.com $8,580.00
professionali.com $6,500.00
hotelplaza.com $6,500.00
mailz.com $5,250.00
ospgroup.com $5,170.00
colore.com $5,000.00
brasilcentral.com $4,888.00
dialingcode.com $4,410.00
BabyBouquets.com $4,400.00
checkinnetwork.com $4,235.00
dateknight.com $4,225.00
schmancy.com $4,188.00
maintenancemechanic.com $4,070.00
AssuranceVoyage.com $4,050.00
selfsupport.com $4,000.00
innerweb.com $4,000.00
bananaphone.com $4,000.00
3rr.com $3,995.00
standardair.com $3,800.00
teamday.com $3,588.00
llell.com $3,588.00
optiontrading.net $3,588.00
optiontrading.net $3,588.00
pamu.com $3,500.00
InfoRE.com $3,500.00
massv.com $3,488.00
en-garde.com $3,438.00
dfcb.com $3,411.00
swissinnovation.com $3,388.00
doctorcams.com $3,288.00
brightlist.com $3,288.00
theatrepeople.com $3,288.00
danceuniversity.com $3,288.00
mediaresourcecenter.com $3,288.00
healthmode.com $3,188.00
medicaldiet.com $3,188.00
locationbasedmarketing.com $3,188.00
arithmetica.com $3,088.00
qpme.com $3,066.00
defensebase.com $3,055.00
bodyware.com $3,000.00
CoalHarbourLIVING.com $3,000.00
pianella.com $2,988.00
getmytrip.com $2,988.00
otroplaneta.com $2,888.00
reclamationservices.com $2,888.00
hefco.com $2,800.00
cancerrisk.com $2,800.00
centerchurch.com $2,788.00
netval.com $2,788.00
letsreview.com $2,788.00
communitymagazines.com $2,788.00
connectme.org $2,788.00
connectme.org $2,788.00
waterreclamation.com $2,600.00
umeinc.com $2,588.00
dancelove.com $2,588.00
GoSolarGoGreen.com $2,588.00
englishiseasy.com $2,577.00
noahsarkpet.com $2,527.00
healthy-choices.com $2,510.44
effectivesolutions.com $2,500.00
on-web.com $2,500.00
allsuppliers.com $2,500.00
icedreams.com $2,500.00
dabest.com $2,500.00
uniquehospitality.com $2,500.00
atlashealth.com $2,500.00
TalkFinance.com $2,500.00
konzert.net $2,500.00
konzert.net $2,500.00
princeclub.com $2,488.00
arabiamotors.com $2,401.20
isolabs.com $2,388.00
iconi.net $2,388.00
iconi.net $2,388.00
canape.net $2,300.00
canape.net $2,300.00
publitech.com $2,250.00
clickchemistry.com $2,250.00
kinoplex.com $2,222.00
pinkonline.com $2,200.00
inspirationweddings.com $2,200.00
camshub.com $2,200.00
soundandlighting.com $2,188.00
chiefonline.com $2,188.00
groupmix.com $2,166.00
ForexSpace.com $2,150.00
govote.net $2,144.00
govote.net $2,144.00
toocoolforschool.com $2,088.00
attorneysinflorida.com $2,088.00
bicyclebook.com $2,088.00
wellnessu.com $2,088.00
bowlingbar.com $2,088.00
howtoforgive.com $2,088.00
maxsec.com $2,000.00
chkp.com $2,000.00
alternativeresearch.com $2,000.00
midtownhealth.com $2,000.00
broadcastnetwork.com $2,000.00
fibrecare.com $2,000.00
chinesegroup.com $2,000.00
surroundsoundmusic.com $2,000.00
vamuseum.com $2,000.00
obdesign.com $2,000.00
interiorsusa.com $2,000.00
marinaslips.com $2,000.00
blogtheory.com $2,000.00
unimed.org $2,000.00
unimed.org $2,000.00
localsquare.com $1,999.00
fictionfilms.com $1,995.00
choosenergy.com $1,928.55
exchangemigration.com $1,900.00
belcoelectric.com $1,900.00
sanmin.com $1,900.00
seefelder.net $1,900.00
LifeBased.com $1,895.00
totalpayments.com $1,894.00
abouthow.com $1,888.00
facingthefuture.com $1,888.00
adtruth.com $1,888.00
fing.net $1,888.00
floralinspirations.com $1,875.00
baseballsavings.co $1,870.00
elegantshopper.com $1,850.00
OneUnion.com $1,850.00
trendingtoday.com $1,830.00
primacoffee.com $1,800.00
memorylinks.com $1,800.00
clipflip.com $1,800.00
sushizone.com $1,800.00
carinsurancecalifornia.com $1,800.00
YoungLearning.com $1,795.00
DuraZone.com $1,795.00
investorscorner.com $1,794.00
explorerseries.com $1,788.00
brewworks.com $1,788.00
officegarden.com $1,788.00
backergroup.com $1,788.00
scarlethouse.com $1,762.00
investmentdynamics.com $1,750.00
americanbrain.com $1,750.00
realdynamics.com $1,750.00
makinggoodmoney.com $1,750.00
travel-impressions.com $1,747.00
atlasnetwork.com $1,700.00
beachattitude.com $1,700.00
gettreatment.com $1,700.00
gbsltd.com $1,699.00
NelsonFree.com $1,695.00
fusiontan.com $1,688.00
electronicswizard.com $1,688.00
coastalluxury.com $1,688.00
growingmedium.com $1,688.00
emotionalcare.com $1,688.00
nationaldeal.com $1,688.00
informationmatrix.com $1,688.00
animationbook.com $1,688.00
idealhabitat.com $1,688.00
scriptor.net $1,688.00
doctormorris.com $1,677.00
evergreenacres.com $1,670.00
zenhealing.com $1,650.00
lilas.com $1,650.00
annexio.com $1,619.00
churchhome.com $1,605.00
teliko.com $1,600.00
indiecentral.com $1,600.00
inspirationtravel.com $1,600.00
mobber.net $1,600.00
ChicagoKick.com $1,595.00
easternatlantic.com $1,550.00
olta.net $1,525.00
clicklove.com $1,502.00
magicpixel.com $1,500.00
ntctech.com $1,500.00
vpndirect.com $1,500.00
publicpages.com $1,500.00
thefirstround.com $1,500.00
inewport.com $1,500.00
wholesaledistributionsoftware.com $1,500.00
makemyvacation.com $1,500.00
abbeyroofing.com $1,500.00
pieceofparadise.com $1,500.00
socialobserver.com $1,500.00
webtshirt.com $1,500.00
healthpark.com $1,500.00
reggaeshop.com $1,500.00
mindfulnessatwork.com $1,500.00
farrs.com $1,500.00
vertov.com $1,500.00
customer-relationship.com $1,500.00
newroofing.com $1,500.00
ontheground.com $1,500.00
postalsource.com $1,500.00
babysavers.com $1,500.00
dancelover.com $1,500.00
manhattanforeclosures.com $1,500.00
edgeworks.net $1,500.00
firedepartment.net $1,500.00
drumsticks.net $1,500.00
LeadershipHouse.com $1,495.00
goodknowledge.com $1,488.00
black-hat.com $1,488.00
countrydollar.com $1,450.00
usametal.com $1,450.00
FORUMAUTOS.com $1,450.00
TeacherGrade.com $1,449.00
myfamilysolutions.com $1,416.00
malloffers.com $1,400.00
VanguardHeating.com $1,400.00
ChangeSuccess.com $1,400.00
getgame.net $1,400.00
MagicPuzzle.com $1,395.00
culturelive.com $1,388.00
fleetcom.net $1,388.00
learningnetwork.org $1,388.00
PlatinumMarine.com $1,350.00
cajons.net $1,350.00
allteachers.com $1,344.00
exxl.net $1,316.00
surveybuild.com $1,300.00
BusinessIdentityTheft.com $1,300.00
vinix.net $1,300.00
MarineSpot.com $1,295.00
AmericanaFoods.com $1,295.00
ExtraordinaryProject.com $1,295.00
KatherineNelson.com $1,295.00
radonsafety.com $1,288.00
comprehensivecapital.com $1,288.00
maineconnect.com $1,288.00
theelectriccigarette.com $1,288.00
irineo.com $1,288.00
mndivorceattorney.com $1,288.00
stopthemadness.net $1,288.00
gohistoric.com $1,280.00
unionnow.com $1,275.00
zippro.com $1,250.00
workplaceenvironments.com $1,250.00
pixelkicks.com $1,250.00
bigtippers.com $1,250.00
mobul.com $1,250.00
ironrooster.com $1,250.00
tonymills.com $1,250.00
WirelessSiteSurvey.com $1,250.00
InjuryCaseLawyers.com $1,250.00
fhegroup.com $1,222.00
dyky.com $1,210.00
safeanywhere.com $1,200.00
visiosoft.com $1,200.00
purchasingonline.com $1,200.00
morehairnaturally.com $1,200.00
globemarine.com $1,200.00
russiatrading.com $1,200.00
geekabyte.com $1,200.00
carhistory.org $1,200.00
HawaiianFoodRecipes.com $1,199.00
realestatesimplified.com $1,188.00
healthful-living.com $1,188.00
impactfund.com $1,188.00
xdirect.net $1,188.00
transportplanner.com $1,180.00
thebatterydoctors.com $1,150.00
cajon.net $1,150.00
spotlitemedia.com $1,125.00
healthrev.com $1,100.00
clientneeds.com $1,100.00
walkowski.com $1,100.00
johnlasseter.com $1,100.00
invisibleassistant.com $1,100.00
SITEWHOIS.com $1,066.00
zorgvoorelkaar.com $1,000.00
whscorp.com $1,000.00
monek.com $1,000.00
worldwidemarket.com $1,000.00
convertnow.com $1,000.00
lomer.com $1,000.00
brightideasmarketing.com $1,000.00
taxibooker.com $1,000.00
misterwine.com $1,000.00
aquabook.com $1,000.00
tnttreeservice.com $1,000.00
happybacks.com $1,000.00
entrepreneursedge.com $1,000.00
blackcheese.com $1,000.00
scanfirst.com $1,000.00
fleetcast.com $1,000.00
yourtop.com $1,000.00
americanprosperity.com $1,000.00
cleansingcenter.com $1,000.00
bestasianrecipes.com $1,000.00
yachtreise.com $1,000.00
goldeneagle.net $1,000.00

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