I received an email from Snapnames today. I was a bit surprised as it was not the normal announcement that my domains were going to expire (they never end lol). Snapnames has had the need to come clean bout their Snapnames service.
It seems that an employee of Snapnames has been bidding on auctions using a faked account to drive prices up. What is more they have been ciphering money from refunds.
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Just been reading an article that Copy Blogger regarding marketing.
The article is talking about such things as the recent Radiohead announcement that they will be releasing their album via the internet and allowing fans to decide how much they wish to pay for it. (more…)
I have decided to cover domain tasting as my first post. It is a subject I feel very strongly about and would like to tell you why.
So what is domain tasting. Domain tasting is the practice of registering domain names and parking them, if they do not achieve $x amount of revenue within the first 5 days the domain is dropped and returned to the registry. For domain tasters to make a profit they have to make roughly $0.10 in the first five days on the domain name (going on a domain price of $6.95 per domain). If the domain does not make this money then the domain tasterswill drop the domain name and return it to the registry. The domain tasters either have an agreement with the registrar to ensure that they do not incur any fees or they use a registrar that will allow you to drop a domain without any questions (a registrar is not charged for a domain that has been dropped within the first 5 days).
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