Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Why would you advertise your company during the Super Bowl if your target audience wasn’t average Americans? GoDaddy’s phenomenal growth over the last few years is evidence enough- domaining is mainstream! While the average person might throw their arms up in frustration at not finding an available name they like, they certainly won’t hesitate to […]
Thursday, September 16, 2010
Steve Huffman, co-founder of Reddit and Hipmunk was recently the guest on This Week In Startups with Jason Calacanis. In this audio clip, Steve and Jason share their frustration with acquiring good dot coms and discuss their minimal criteria for choosing a domain. Funny that but for the random passing of a S. American tourist, […]
Thursday, December 10, 2009
Again from ThisWeekInStartups.com, the Jason Calacanis ustream.tv show. It’s a great show, and the experience of watching it live has turned out to be a little bit addictive. Check out #TWIST on Twitter. Jason is simply Twitter.com/Jason. In this audio clip from ‘Jason’s Shark Tank’, Jason tells caller/developer Kevin, of pikk.com what he likes about […]
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Also tagged audio clip, domain broker, domain noob, domains, domains are brands, four letter domain names, Jason Calacanis, pikk.com, startups, This Week In Startups, twist
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Wednesday, December 9, 2009
But don’t take my word for it. Here’s another Jason Calacanis audio clip from This Week In Startups, episode 29. Jason on ‘Dot Com’ The context is a domain/brand a caller mentioned in a previous ‘Ask Jason’ segment. Jason Calacanis: Isn’t it amazing though Tyler? The people with the naming. Tyler Crowley: I just found […]
Saturday, December 5, 2009
I wasn’t the only one scratching his head when I read the TechCrunch story announcing Twitter founder Jack Dorsey’s new, very cool, credit card reading startup. It’s called ‘Square’. But the domain is squareup.com. Here’s Elliot Silver’s take (links to full post) TechCrunch reported today that Jack Dorsey, founder of Twitter, has launched a mobile […]
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Also tagged domain broker, domains, domains are brands, elliot silver, feedafever.com, fever, jack Dorsey, Shaun Inman, square, squareup.com
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Tuesday, November 3, 2009
I’ve been listening to a LOT of startup related podcasts. Especially ThisWeekInStartups.com mentioned earlier and Andrew Warner’s Mixergy.com. I’ve pretty much spent the last month going over every one of Andrew’s podcasts. It’s surprising how many startups miss the boat on domains and how that can impact marketing efforts. I think this clip from an […]
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Also tagged adly.com, Andrew Warner, audio clip, domains are brands, Entrepreneurship 101, GetGambit.com, Grasshopper.com, Mixergy, mp3, Noah Kagan, poleon.com, startups
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Wednesday, October 14, 2009
From Jason Calacanis of Mahalo and ThisWeekInStartups.com TWIST Episode 16. Listen to the clip Jason Calacanis – … Number one, the name is terrible… If the name of the company is Aardvark you should own Aardvark dot com. They only own Vark dot com. I mean this is like 101 entrepreneurship stuff like name […]
Something Chris Tolles, CEO of Topix.com said on a This Week In Startups episode got this started. He stated that Content was worth $.08 to every $1. of Search. Thanks to the magic of Twitter, a DomainNoob like myself, was able to follow-up with Chris directly for details. He pointed me to research (here and […]
the second man gets the shell.” Andrew Carnegie. Today marks the 4th year anniversary of My Trip To Domainland. 4 years ago I concluded a four figure deal on a domain name I’d owned for years. I bought it for a vanity video site where I planned to host my collection of off-beat backstage band […]
Update 090709: FIXED! Just noticed that a domain transfer I purchased didn’t actually initiate. I didn’t receive the usual request for the Transaction ID and Security Code that GoDaddy uses to begin the transfer procedure. Checking the status of my transfer I see a new bit of information there, The transfer cannot be processed because […]
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