Last week I was having terrible problems with my host Media Temple. I realize the value of a quick load for my sites and the impatience of today's Internet user and knew I needed to get my site to load faster or else. Fortunately, my host was able to rectify the situation and get my sites up to par and keep me from the pain of changing service providers. Ironically, Google recently introduced Page Speed Labs to allow users to test their site to see how it ranks on a scale from 1 to 100 about the same time it happened. I was able to use it to see whether my speed was increasing or not. For shits and... Read More »

If you visited any domain sites over the last month, including this one, undoubtedly you've seen the big orange ads for Big Jumbo.  I wanted to get a little info about the company so I sent an email with a few questions to Andrew Allemann who you may know better as the man behind Domain Name Wire but also works for Directi which owns Skenzo and a few other companies. 1. What exactly is Big Jumbo? BigJumbo is a domain name parking platform built with the evolving world of domain name parking in mind.  It's designed to be simple to use, and our instant sign-up feature means you can sign up and sta... Read More »

Google recently added a new tool to their analytics program that gives even more information about what your visitors are doing.  Now they've added how your users are navigating your website. They're calling it In-Page Analytics As a website builder I always want to know where my users are clicking and how they navigate my site, but I've until recently, I've been forced to add third party application to get this kind of data. Google now makes it much easier by adding click tracking to their Analytics program. With click metrics you can make better layout and content decision based on where and how ... Read More »

Had another good sale for $800 on a 5L.  That's two in a week.  Two more than last month.  Found a few good drops lately and looking for more.  Here are the ones I like for todayCKit.com   A great search name  "Seek It"  Of course seekit.com will get half your trafficSimbo.com  Another 5L.com that is going to go for over $1K but a very nice name.  Vovo.net  vovo.com would be a $10,000 name so this one is certainly worth a few hundredMoats.net  You really need to get in on this one.  Moats are the hot new security devices.  I having on... Read More »

Craiglist is an amazing site.  You can get anything and I mean anything you want.  Yes that too,  but when it comes to business I've had great success finding people with specific skills.  No not those skills. Some of the skilled people I've found (or our company) on craiglist over the years 1. An actress for a video blog.  She even got hired by ABC 2. A photographer to take pictures of a certain city for a geo site.  I needed a bunch of pictures for my site but didn't want fly there or use stock so I hired someone cheap to drive around and get me 20 specific shots 3. Content writers for ... Read More »

No you are not going to make tons of money on this trend but it does have some value.  When companies or people name their business or wares they want it to be something that people can remember.  There is nothing easier to remember than a color followed by an animal.  Blackdog, bluedog, purplecow.  They are all names that will be remembered and most likely not going to be misspelled or misinterpreted.  Most likely you'll have to wait on an end user to get good money for the names but I've found that some of these names can be flipped for 100% profit on the forums and sedo.  I've also recently exp... Read More »