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Get A Little More Social With Personalized Domain Names
Social networks come and go. How many of us remember MySpace? How about Xanga? LiveJournal anyone? The challenge for your business is to seamlessly evolve along with these social networks — and that's where personalized domain names come into play. Maximizing 3rd Party Investments Take the .
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Who Wants .pizza? Brand SEM as Google Strategy
The explosion of generic top-level domains (gTLDs) has begun, with forward-thinking brands having already snapped up their domain names of choice. If this rush turns out to be more than just a fad, how can your brand use it to create a search engine marketing (SEM) advantage? The Rise of gTLDs Gone are the
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Google Apps Makes Big Push for International Markets with ccTLD & Arabizi Support
Google Apps has made a big splash in the enterprise market, with businesses moving their apps to the web. But even as emails, calendars, IM and online storage have increasingly gone cloud-bound, the service has been limited by the languages and domains supported.
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ICANN Approves Massive Expansion of Internet Domain Names
During a special meeting today in Singapore, the ICANN board of directors approved a plan to dramatically increase the number of Internet domain name suffixes (e.g., .com, .net, .org) -- called generic top-level domains (gTLDs) -- from the current set of 22 to a nearly unlimited range.
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Amazon Grabs Several .Co Domains, Not Outsourcing To Columbia!
Amazon (news, site) has picked up some fun short domains to help promote its services. Come play the fun one letter guessing game. A Short Stack of Letters In an impressive marketing move, Amazon has picked up the Columbian-based domains a.co, k.co and z.co domains, along
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Are You a Global Company? Consider an Internationalized Domain Name (IDN)
It has been about an year since ICANN approved IDNs (Internationalized Domain Names) on November 16, 2009. Now, the euphoria is over and the first adopters are already the proud owners of their Internationalized Domain Names. Many Web CMS with an IDN are already in operation but does this mean
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