Where our technology will take us in another generation is anybody’s guess, but one thing is for sure: we are eating up mobile media like crazy. Programs from pointless games to organziation solutions fully-integrating scheduling, GPS, contacts, and location reporting are flying off digital shelves in the Apple, Android and Blackberry app stores.

Many of these applications are even free, and in exchange for their utility or entertainment value, a user only has to put up with a small text pop-up in some part of the program.

Something I’m beginning to notice: the advertisements are actually starting to become relevant. Just a couple of days ago I saw an ad for a local restaurant on one of my apps. That means at least two things. First, it means even small-time phone app developers are benefitting from more accurate visitor targeting. Second, it means that local businesses are starting to become convinced of the power of the web.

Whether that restaurant specifically knew they were signing up for mobile traffic, I can’t say—but seeing such an accurately targeted advertisement makes it clear: the web in undergoing a revolution in market relevance, especially through the world of mobile devices.

One common question asked by domainers is as to the advantages and disadvantages of moving their domain portfolio or business “offshore”.  Offshore, in this context, is simply meant to imply a location outside of the United States.

Obviously, one of the seeming advantages to moving a business or domain name portfolio to an offshore location is to protect it from the reach of the U.S. judicial and alternative dispute resolution system.  Keep in mind that if you operate a website that engages in contacts within the United States (i.e., through online sales of products or services), you are not sheltered from the long arm of the courts.  Further, if personal jurisdiction is what you are looking to avoid, don’t plan on seeking to set aside an unfavorable UDRP decision or attempt to reverse a seizure of your domain names by a court.  Doing so will directly submit you to such jurisdiction.

Why every domainer should at least "play" with Linux.

I know, I know...  Linux is a “4 letter word” to all of the Mac/Windows users out there that like their pretty GUI’s (Graphical User Interfaces). But I want to take a minute or two to show you some of the things that you can do with Linux without diving in head first. Basically there are two popular methods to try Linux without having to change your existing OS. They are “CD/DVD Live” or “USB Pen Drive Live”.  First, let me begin my discussion by explaining why you should care.

As you probably know, domaining requires a lot of text manipulation.  For example, you may have a list of keywords you want to add .net, or .com to.

First of all let me clarify – even though Germany is known for it, not all of Germany celebrates Oktoberfest. The different areas of the country have different customs and dialects. One thing they do have in common is the widespread use of the .DE ccTLD.

In the late 80s the Group that operated the Computers in the Computer Science Department (“Informatikrechner-Betriebsgruppe”, IRB) of the University of Dortmund set up a nameserver for the use by the German Internet community, which was very small at the time. A service like this was known as Network Information Center (NIC), which lead the group to name their service DENIC. DE stands for Deutschland and is the two letter abbreviation for the country as per the ISO 3166-1 list.  DENIC remains the name of the registry operator today.

Link-building is a long-term investment that really pays off in the end if you can get good quality, keyword-rich, relevant links to your site. The best way to get new links is to do something newsworthy, create interesting content regularly, launch something innovative or make a huge public mistake!

Although there are many different ways of obtaining these highly-valued backlinks, in this article I will highlight the advantages of leveraging press releases as a valuable online tool to increase the overall visibility of your website on the search engine results pages (SERPs).

Quick’n Safe! This could be the battle call for successful domainers who need to maneuver instantly when it comes to getting hold of rewarding domains and protecting their valuable haul. Being able to register rewarding domains quickly and keep them safe is a strategic advantage, which can pay off in hard cash.

The German registrar InterNetX has taken these challenges to heart and arms domainers with winning agility and safety features integrated in its in-house domain registration system AutoDNS 3.0. Apart from improved  user-optimized implementations, InterNetX provides domain specialists with innovative add-ons  such as the AutoDNS App for iPhone enabling mobile domain registration, a useful parking system synchronized with leading monetization providers and DomainSafe.

Shifts in the Domain Market

The domain market is undergoing change. “Getting hold of really remunerative domains under popular TLDs like .COM, .NET, .ORG is no longer as easy as it used to be in the past. There are still undiscovered gTLD domain valuables out there, but actually finding them can be quite difficult without a streamlined search and registration tool”, says Thomas Moerz, CEO of InterNetX, about the current domain market situation.

Comwired.com was founded in 2008 as a service for domainers to split traffic between parking companies. After already developing a separate solution for domainers to manage their domain name portfolios, and meeting with domain investors at conferences around the world, we recognized that there was an opportunity for domainers to optimize their domains further than any individual parking company was offering by splitting out traffic (according to the origin of the visitor) to the parking company that was best equipped to handle that traffic.

This was particularly important as the industry entered a period when PPC revenues were on the decline and we saw many domainers turning to mini sites and other alternatives to replace or augment their domain parking income.

Comwired Inc. acquired the DNS.com domain in 2010. We have offered a commercial DNS service since the beginning, but in the last two years we have fine-tuned our management software and global infrastructure substantially. With upgrades to security, a modern control panel interface, and a custom anycast DNS network, we were confident enough in the service that we launched it as a true enterprise solution under the DNS.com badge. DNS.com itself has a long history as a destination for DNS services, having been registered all the way back in 1991 – a mere 11 days after Microsoft.com was registered.