Domain Name Review & Check Up

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From: TechSoup - Automated Email
Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 5:26 PM
Subject: Free Domain Name Review & Check Up

Free Domain Name Review & Check Up

By Christian in Web Building

Techsoup has offered site reviews in the past, but I don't think we have ever offered a review and checkup for the domain name(s) an organization has.

I'm going to offer to provide this on a limited basis and see how it goes. While this could be seen as fishing for business, and I do provide Internet consulting and domain sales, I think there is a real need for organizations to have someone look at their domain name and make sure they are not at risk of losing it due to it containing outdate information or lack of security. My review will cover these main points:

- Do you have a good domain and is it suitable for your mission? If you have a .org domain, are you losing visitors to the sites that may be hosted on the .com or .net versions of your domain? Could someone solicit donations on those other domains and cause confusion for your visitors? Who are your neighbors?

- Is your domain contact information current? Each of your contacts should be different or at least use a different email address under a different domain. If you don't get the renewal emails for your domain, you could lose access to your site and email, and if not renewed, you could lose your domain. Who is listed as the owner of your domain? Is is your org, your ED, your web designer, or your hosting company?

- Is your domain hosted at a good registrar? The yearly fee for most domains should only be between $8 and $12 a year. If you are paying $30 a year you may be a register.com customer and supporting their high profit margin business model.

- Is your domain "locked" and secured against unauthorized transfer or changes? If you have a small, struggling NP this is not going to be a problem, but if you have a larger site with a lot of traffic, it might be.

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Some domain names for sale that are suitable for non-profit organizations:
airsc.org
andah.org
dirby.org
fania.org
hsby.org
ifch.org
rmcis.org
SearchBy.org
SENBy.org
Spring-Training.org
wJet.org
 

 

 

16 Credit Card .com package; and Sale Domains GreenSprayPaints.com, BlackLiquorice.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Kevin J. Sinclair
Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2009 3:35 AM
Subject: 16 Credit Card .com package; and Sale Domains
GreenSprayPaints.com, BlackLiquorice.com

Welcome to Domain Deals Of The Day.com


1) $99 each:

Green Spray Paints.com, Green Wood Cleaner.com, Lasik Astigmatism.com, Black Liquorice.com, Mobile Sex Pix.com, Advanced Directives.com, Cell Searches.com, Dating Web pages.com, Girl Fight Movies.com, 3d Sports Broadcast.com, 529 Saving Account.com, Auto Pet Insurance.com, Water Contaminents.com, Burn Relief Gel.com, Cell Advertiser.com, Cellular Pornos.com, Postage Stamp Machine.com, Pre Paid Music Download.com, Printed Gift Card.com, Rage Concerts.com, Resovling Debts.com, Wine Coops.com, Modify Home Mortgages.com, Hawaii Coffees.com


2) Brokering a set of 16 Rewards Cards Domains.  These are all .com, and to be sold as one package.

Price: $12,750 for the set - which averages under $800 each!

Airline Group
Airline Reward Card.com
Airline Reward Cards.com
Airline Rewards Card.com
Airline Rewards Cards.com
Airline Rewards Credit Card.com
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Gas Group
Gas Rewards Cards.com
Gas Rewards Credit Card.com
Gas Rewards Credit Cards.com

Hotel Group
Hotel Reward Card.com
Hotel Reward Cards.com
Hotel Rewards Cards.com
Hotel Reward Credit Card.com
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DomainDealsOfTheDay.com
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Symptoms-of-lung-cancer.com

If you got a message like this by email, and found this page, then we have to tell you that if you want the domain that is being offered to you, just go to your domain registrar and see if you can register it yourself for the normal fee that should be less than $10. Sometimes the people that contact you do own the domain, but often as in this case they do not. I went to Domainsite.com and registered this domain for $7.30...!

While this company does offer a service that people may find useful and their price is not TOO bad, considering that some of these jokers charge hundreds of dollars sometimes. But the use of email SPAM is inexcusable and even if you want the domain you should NEVER buy from someone that sends you bulk emails like this one.

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-----Original Message-----
From: domains@dcinchq.com [mailto:domains@dcinchq.com]
Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 5:04 PM
Subject: symptoms-of-lung-cancer.com

We are selling the domain name symptoms-of-lung-cancer.com.  Since you own symptoms-of-lung-cancer.net if you would also like the more desirable .com we are making it available.  The cost is $99.97.  That includes a year of registration and transfer of ownership to you.  To purchase or to learn more go to:

http://www.dcinchq.com/checkout.php?domain=symptoms-of-lung-cancer.com

If you pass on this opportunity someone else could purchase this domain and it may not be available again.

For questions contact us or go to:

http://www.dcinchq.com/faq.html

If you are not interested there is no need to respond.  We will not contact you again regarding this domain.

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Digital Caucus
Dalton, Georgia
866-832-8718
domains@dcinchq.com

 

Domain name: DCINCHQ.COM
Registrant:
 Steven W Davis II
 1530 W Walnut Ave
 Dalton, GA 30720  US

 

 Administrative Contact:
    Caucus, Inc, Digital 
    803 W Waugh St
    Dalton, GA 30720     US
    +1.706-537-8927

Domain For Sale With Traffic

Domain Name News has published another great story that is not new, but still important that people hear about. And that is that some domains or sites that are touted as having traffic may not be what they seem. There are many companies that sell "traffic" and if you buy a domain or site that is getting paid traffic, yup it all goes away after the buyer is paid, or soon after.

The author, Adam Strong, has included the results of some investigation he has done that clearly shows proof this is happening, not that most of us need to see any.

Domain Name Scam Warning : Pumping and Dumping Domains

Important Domain Name

You may or may not get emails like these that follow, but I urge you to
reply and tell them you don't buy anything from those that send spam. If you
want the domain, then wait a while and contact them. That way they won't
know it was from their spam, and you may find the price, which is often
excessive, has gone down a lot.

If you are not aware of it, .cn domains can be purchased for as little a 24
cents for the first year. This makes registering domains that people own in
other TLDs pretty cheap. If they are only "tasting" the domains, you may
find they are available to be registered in a short while. In my case the
domains seem to have been registered since September. I have been in contact
with someone in the past named Rosa at Todaynic.com and this could be the
same person...
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-----Original Message-----
From: Domain [mailto:ljp1899@gmail.com]
Sent: Sunday, January 04, 2009 1:51 AM
Subject: Important Domain Name texasrefinance.cn

Dear Sirs or Madam,

Happy New Year!

The domain name texasrefinance.cn is available for purchase. Since you own
this name in another extension, we thought this name would be of interest to
you.

Please let us know if you would like a price quote or would like to make an
offer.

Thank you for your time and consideration!

Best Regards.
Rosa
NameFriend
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-----Original Message-----
From: Domain [mailto:ljp1899@gmail.com]
Sent: Sunday, January 04, 2009 1:51 AM
Subject: Important Domain Name laser-surgery.cn

Dear Sirs or Madam,

Happy New Year!

The domain name laser-surgery.cn is available for purchase. Since you own
this name in another extension, we thought this name would be of interest to
you.

Please let us know if you would like a price quote or would like to make an
offer.

Thank you for your time and consideration!

Best Regards.
Rosa
NameFriend
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-----Original Message-----
From: Domain [mailto:ljp1899@gmail.com]
Sent: Sunday, January 04, 2009 1:51 AM
Subject: Important Domain Name strungout.cn

Dear Sirs or Madam,

Happy New Year!

The domain name strungout.cn is available for purchase. Since you own this
name in another extension, we thought this name would be of interest to you.

Please let us know if you would like a price quote or would like to make an
offer.

Thank you for your time and consideration!

Best Regards.
Rosa
NameFriend
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-----Original Message-----
From: Domain [mailto:ljp1899@gmail.com]
Sent: Sunday, January 04, 2009 1:52 AM
Subject: Important Domain Name vanity800numbers.cn

Dear Sirs or Madam,

Happy New Year!

The domain name vanity800numbers.cn is available for purchase. Since you own
this name in another extension, we thought this name would be of interest to
you.

Please let us know if you would like a price quote or would like to make an
offer.

Thank you for your time and consideration!

Best Regards.
Rosa
NameFriend

Click Fraud Problem: Massive In It's Smallness

I just looked at part of a client's web log file for one day. What I saw was a DISGUSTING amount of questionable traffic activity and much that was CLEARLY CLICK FRAUD. Now I don't know how much is being detected and credited or blocked by the search providers, but there is little doubt in my mind that fraud is rampant and customers ARE losing money.

I said the problem is Massive in it's Smallness because the fraudsters have mostly caught on that if they drink too deeply the well dries up. So now the idea is to just sip here and there, clicking different ads on different sites using different IP addresses. Steal a penny from a billion people and you can retire with little risk of anyone saying anything. I can't look at a PPC ad anymore without thinking about Aphids.

I've reported some of this before, contacting parking page service providers and large search providers. They always seem concerned, but I never hear back much of ANYTHING from them. And my offers of setting up something on my sites where they can SEE, what the visitors they send are doing has been ignored. There could be other reasons, but frankly I think it's because they DON'T WANT TO KNOW. My suggestions that they move to a Flat Rate Advertising model have also been dismissed.

Well, until the outrage reaches a critical mass, ain't nothing gonna change. So I advise clients to just keep a close watch on advertising budgets and conversion numbers. And make sure the conversions are real! We are seeing an increasing amount of bogus contact forms sent from our sites because they will register as "conversions" by those doing click fraud.

(hris
Http://www.NielsenTech.com