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Dotster Says Buyer Beware: Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Is Hot Buzzword, but Many Providers Offer Little More Than Hot Air

In today’s ultra-competitive world of online marketing, Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is life or death. SEO improves the ability of Search Engines, such as Google or Yahoo!, to recognize and find your Web site.

Use of .EU Domain Names Up 23% during Third Quarter

EURid, the European registry for .eu, announced on Monday that registrations for the .eu top-level Internet domain continued to grow during the third quarter of this year.

Rentmycastle.com is Quickly Gaining Ground on its Competitor

Rentmycastle.com has quietly entered the web vacation rental advertising field and has quickly received the attention of vacation home owners, property managers, and vacation marketing managers. It has made solid inroads into the New Jersey and Florida market space and already has vacation property adds outside of the US in the Caribbean, Europe, and Canada.

You Might Be A Domainer If…

Via In the Lab

… you think .mobi is a whale.
… on your job application you list cybersquatting.
… you can recite GoDaddy promo codes from memory.
… you’ve named one of your kids Alexa.
… you think “tasting” has nothing to do with food.
… you’ve appraised your own name.
… your main source of income is Adsense revenue.
… your Sedo rep sends you holiday cards.
… you consider “traffic” a good thing.
… your company’s CEO is not as important as it’s SEO.
… you own a “Vint Cerf for Pres” shirt.
… you have a diverse portfolio, but don’t own any stocks.
… you consider new visitors to your home as unique.
… you’ve registered a LLLL.com that doesn’t even make sense.
… you’d rather register a domain than register for class.
… you consider Whois a social network.
… you still refer to Zuho as SwapNames.
… you’re not a lawyer but can recite trademark laws from memory.
… you own some sort of iphone related domain name.
… your backlink quality is more important than your quality of friends.
… two words: ICANN
… you’ve ordered chips & Dotsauce.
… you knew GoDaddy before he was even a father.
… you’ve been in a fistfight because someone has dissed your Pagerank.
… you’ve registered a celebrity’s name.
… you consider parking nothing to do with an automobile.
… you’re favorite quote is “may the Rick Schwartz be with you.”
… you’ve posted over 1,000 posts in any domain forum.
… you trust Estibot more than your girlfriend.
… you’ve registered a misspelled word…on purpose.
… you cried when all the LLLL’s were gone.
… you don’t know a country’s capital, but you sure as hell know thier .cc
And the last reason You Might Be A Domainer is….
…you have a bracelet that says “What would Frank Schilling Do?”

Cyveillance Reports Malware Attacks via Web Sites Grew

Cyveillance, the world leader in cyber intelligence, announced its latest “Online Financial Fraud and Identity Theft Report.” During the third quarter of 2007, Cyveillance identified a significant shift in the nature of online attacks with malware-based attacks jumping 30 percent to more than 3 million attacks.

1MIL .au registrations this month

25% growth year on year for 5 years! What a namespace.

25 percent growth every year for the last 5 years. I love this CCtld space.. Very potent/powerful extension. Would prefer name.au to name.com.au.. But there’s lots to love about Australia.. Lex Luther had it right.

Via Frank Schilling!