Choosing a domain name for a new project can be a little daunting.
All the good names are gone. Once you find something acceptable, you’ll have to be sure you can live with it for a long time. And what about the implications for SEO?
Fuel up on that caffeine because today I want to discuss how trademark law plays out in the course of a domain name dispute. We’re going to compare and contract the Anti-Cybersquatting Consumer Protection Act with I-CANN’s Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy. Read the rest of this entry »
How Domain Names Play a Role in SEO & SEMMany marketing and advertising costs are recurring. Re-registering domain names is a minimal cost, but many domains (especially .com names) get type in traffic worth thousands of dollars a year. Some get type in traffic worth thousands per day. And this traffic stream is defensible from search engine algorithmic swings.
How Domain Names Play a Role in SEO & SEMMany marketing and advertising costs are recurring. Re-registering domain names is a minimal cost, but many domains (especially .com names) get type in traffic worth thousands of dollars a year. Some get type in traffic worth thousands per day. And this traffic stream is defensible from search engine algorithmic swings.
Some of my domain names were registered as a joke (haggisdiet.com was a bet against Andy Hagans), and it wouldn’t be hard to register domains in the name of another person. Having said that, I doubt few people put my name on their domain names, and now you can look up a list of domains owned by a person by using Registrant Search. If you have thin affiliate sites that rank well in Google and are not using fake whois data then now might be a little late to start.
Domain names are like piece of land in cyberspace. If you can strech your imagination it also means good, unique and very creative domain names are like piece of property at the heart of prime area.
Domain name, which sound like simple and obvious things run transaction of billions of dollors behind curtains. There are speciality companies investing huge amounts to grab those unique domain names with the hope that it will bring them one time fortune.