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Eubrowser.com .ie Domains Released – nike.ie, reebok.ie, irishindependent.ie

Richard Hearne — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 07:13:57 +0000

This is likely only of interest to a few Irish readers. John McCormac hasn’t been actively blogging recently, but he generally has great coverage of .ie domain stories.

I just noticed that a tranche of .ie domains previously owned by eubrowser.com have now been released. Some of the high profile domains include:

irishindependent.ie
sundayindependent.ie
nike.ie
reebok.ie
onecare.ie
one-care.ie

There are some sweet .ie domains in the latest release. I’ve pointed out before the benefits of pre-owned domains, although I should qualify this by noting that Google has tightened this up in recent months.

Watching John’s blog for further coverage…

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Phuket – The Domaining Capital of The World

Richard Hearne — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 16:19:48 +0000

DOMAIN SHE.INFO FOR SALE
The Search engine ranking of this domain puts you ahead of the competition right away. To place the minimum bid at one million dollars please contact us via our website at www.she.ifo.

Published in the Phuket Gazette, December 15-21 2007.

Apparently now the domainers newspaper of choice

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nch.ie – National Concert Hall

Richard Hearne — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 13:25:42 +0000

My mother is one of the many Internet users over the age of 65. Like many older web users, until recently she had no real prior experience of using a web browser. My mother is also a classical music lover, and today she tried to look at the National Concert Hall website.

nch.ie

Surprisingly my mother knew that nch.ie was the web address of the National Concert Hall. It’s fair to assume that she discovered this offline, so the NCH has been branding the web property, and quite successfully so given my mother’s instant knowledge of their URL.

Not nch.ie

source: http://nch.ie

Further Irony

source: http://www.nch.ie

Accessibilty Information:
This site has been constructed to be as accessible as possible to visitors of all abilities.

Except those who don’t realise that the www is absolutely necessary…

DublinIreland.com at Auction for $75,000

Richard Hearne — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 08:18:57 +0000

If you are a long term site owner do you know that the greatest value of your site may lie in the domain?

Believe it or not, but the domaining industry has been growing to an extent that premium domains can fetch 6 and 7 figure dollar sums at auction.

For instance, dublinireland.com is currently being auctioned and the opening bid is $75,000. The latest DomainTools live suction is going on right now and a number of high value domains have already been sold. (You have to login to domain tools to view/bid.)

Other notable sales/bids:

invention.com $500,000 (sold)
rebate.com $1,000,000 (sold)
etv.com $899,000 (bid)
makemoneyonline.com $95,000 (bid)
lovestories.com $100,000 (open)
sucker.com $75,000 (open)
villas.com $600,000 (open)
technique.com $149,000 (open)
supremecourt.com $225,000 (open)
autobiography.com $179,000 (open)
sendmoney.com $400,000 (open)
how.com $500,000 (open)
junkyarddog $1,500,000 (open)
az.com $500,000 (sold)
exterminators.com $165,000 (open)
collegestudents.com $150,000 (open)
stockmaster.com $144,000 (open)
publicforum.com $99,000 (open)
copies.com $80,000 (open)
sciencemuseum.com $80,000 (open)
deskchairs.com $55,556 (open)
carexchange.com $100,000 (open)
digitalcameras.com $600,000 (open)
beachrealestate.com $200,000 (open)
commentcard.com $99,000 (open)
snowboards.com $400,000 (open)
votersguide.com $99,000 (open)
internetkeywords.com $50,000 (open)
consumersguide.com $66,750 (sold)
dieselcars.com $99,000 (open)
searchwords.com $50,000 (open)
newsnow.com $95,000 (open)
recordcollection.com $100,000 (open)
frenchfries.com $100,000 (open)
mortgagebrokerage.com $60,000 (open)
gamblingworld.com $95,000 (open)
event.com $165,000 (open)
americanpeople.com $67,000 (open)
exportproducts.com $50,000 (open)
poker.in $60,000 (sold)
goodhotels.com $35,000 (sold)
usedmotorcycle.com $39,000 (sold)

Very obvious that direct navigation is the hot theme at the minute. Might be some food for thought in the above…

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Ireland .ie ccTLD Safest In The World

Richard Hearne — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 11:46:00 +0000

I wrote previously about using aged and trusted .ie domains to bolsteryour search engine rankings. Well now comes further confirmation of the value of the .ie ccTLD.

According to McAfee’s Site Advisor Mapping the Mal Web Ireland’s .ie ccTLD is second only to Finland’s .fi in terms of online safety risks:

Four of the five least risky country TLDs are Nordic countries: Finland (0.10%), Norway (0.16%), Sweden (0.21%) and Iceland (0.19%).Ireland (0.11%) rounds out the top five least risky country TLDs. This could be due to governing bodies employing stricter regulations of these domains.

I would imagine that the last comment is very much the reason for the low risk of .ie ccTLD.

Seven TLDs (.com, .info, .net, .biz, Tuvalu (.tv), Cocos Islands (.cc), and China (.cn)) earn the dubious distinction of ranking in the top 20 riskiest for each of the four risky facets we examined.
Of these seven domains, .biz and .info are the overall worst domains with highly risky rankings in each of the four categories:
.info ranks 2nd (overall risk), 1st (e-mail practices), 10th (download risk) and 12th (exploit risk)
.biz ranks 6th (overall risk), 6th (e-mail practices), 2nd (download risk) and 5th (exploit risk)
Again, low cost appears to be at least one factor in drawing scammers to the .info TLD.
Spammers flock to .info, which was created as an alternative to the crowded .com, because its domain names are cheaper – registrars often let people use them gratis for the first year – which is helpful for those, like sploggers, who buy Internet addresses in bulk. Splogs so commonly have .info addresses that many experts simply assume all blogs from that domain are fake.
Others note that “.info is the first and only top-level domain that was explicitly created and chartered for unrestricted use, though various other TLDs have ended up that way as a de facto situation.”
.biz is said to be the most popular TLD for spammers because the name servers update immediately, meaning spammers can start using the domain as soon as they register, rather than wait up to 24 hours for the registration to take effect. This is particularly attractive due to the transient nature of spam and phishing Web sites.

Nice to see that .ie ccTLD is so trustworthy.

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