Your Macs, iPods And iPhones Are Now Being Targeted
11 posts on the front page of Domaining.com are reporting the sale of Property.com.
Not here! I have a Mac trend instead!
One of the main draws for Macs is the sense of security that you have in that malware is designed for Windows. Combine that with the halo effect (iPod, iPhone) and you have about 8% of computer users on macs.
And they’re just going on with their malware-free happy lives.
Not so fast.
You see, these people who were fed up with the viruses and spyware on their PCs moved on to Macs. Only… it was their OWN computing habits that got them the malware. It was their downloading of p0rn and pirated software. It was their not having a firewall or anti-virus software. It was their not running anti-malware or anti-spyware software. It was their own fault for not taking preventative action and being reckless of the tubes.
Virus programmers realize this and are starting to target Macs because the users are easy victims. For example, a Mac trojan came out in June and is capable of doing everything a PC trojan can do, such as stealing passwords and opening firewalls. So are the Mac’s OS’s really more secure than Windows? Or is it that no one really paid attention until fairly recently?
So here we are in the third week of July and Apple STILL has not fixed the security issue.
But that’s not all! Your iPods and iPhones are vulnerable too! With the ever increasing popularity of these two gadgets, the probability of malware grows higher.
Don’t worry though, just visit your favorite Mac site that focuses on security issues like malware. Oh noes!! Where the hell are you going to find one?
There’s your opportunity.
With Macs being targeted and the vulnerabilities of the iPod and iPhone, now is the time to prepare for it. Sites will need to be built to provide Mac users with the proper downloads and content on how to protect themselves from malware.
You can build them yourself, or sell them some domain names.
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Ultra Unique Content: Movie-Themed Establishments
Don’t worry, this is not a post about Property.com (the last SEVEN posts on Domaining.com were the same news).
This is a post about a growing trend that’s just brilliant. It really surprises me that this isn’t already big.
That would be movie themed establishments.
When I say “movie themed,” I don’t mean places like Red Robin or Planet Hollywood that have various movie decorations. I mean places like this freakin awesome H.R. Giger designed bar.
To theme an establishment after one movie is such an obvious move. EVeryone loves movies. With the restaurant business being ultra competitive, places are trying to provide unique environments to give that one extra reason to choose them over their competitors. This takes it one step further and provides people with that ‘wow’ experience.
Now this wouldn’t really be a trend if all I had for you was the Alien bar. I’m sure those who were both amazed and disgusted by Stanley Kubrick’s movie A Clockwork Orange would love to visit the Korova Milk Bar in White Plains, NY. Check out the photo section, it’s pretty nifty.
Trekkies actually have a few to choose from. And if you can’t afford to visit any of these places, just build your own in your backyard.
This would be unique content for a geo site, or should get big enough to warrant its own mini-site. People are looking for daytrips that don’t break the bank. Well, a visit to a place like this should be in line with most peoples pocketbooks, even the ultra-violent.
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CNN Money’s Top 100 Places To Live And Why Dickinson.com Sucks As A Geodomain
CNN Money has posted their top 100 best places to live in the U.S. This is an indispensable article for the geodomainer. Not only is it a wealth of information, CNN Money exposes and reinforces the trends to make them stronger.
How do they decide what the best places are? Affordable housing, leisure activities, cultural options, job growth, crime rate, sunniness and health care among others. A good set of qualities to judge a city on. Perhaps not perfect- I’m a stormy weather kind of fella, not sunny- but I think it’s in line with the common perception.
Lets take the top city: Middleton, Wisconsin. Obviously they’re doing something right to place at the top of the list. Even so, now that CNN Money has labeled them the best place to live, you can bet everything on their tourism and real estate industries increasing… by a lot. If you lived near the top city, wouldn’t you want to check it out if you haven’t already done so? I would.
The absolute best part is that these city’s .coms can most likely be acquired at bargain prices. I’m curious to see how much Dickinson.com will go for at Bido’s auction. One of the selling points I’ve seen for this domain is the size of the city Dickinson, Texas. I work just 10 miles from Dickinson, Texas and can tell you that you do NOT want to use this as a geodomain. The place is a hole. The entire area is a hole. I’ll take any of the below cities over Dickinson.com as a geodomain.
Stick with Dickinson as a surname.
Back to the list! You can sort towns in many different ways here. Want to buy a .com of a city with high household incomes? Not a problem. How about a geodomain that focuses on the health industry? Sort by health care access. This list is great!
Here are some great ways to sort this list:
- Top-earning towns
- Hottest towns
- Priciest homes
- Most singles
- Youngest
- Job growth
- Affordable housing
- Plentiful leisure activities
- Plentiful cultural options
- Sunny weather
- Short commute time
- Good health care access
- Skinniest
- Clean Air
And, here are the top 10 places to live in the U.S.:
- Middleton, Wisconsin
- Hanover, New Hampshire
- Louisville, Colorado
- Lake Mary, Florida
- Claremont, California
- Papillion, Nebraska
- Milton, Massachusetts
- Chaska, Minnesota
- Nether Providence, Pennsylvania
- Suwanee, Georgia
Want a geodomain that would be great for a social network for singles?
- State College, Pennsylvania
- Durham, New Hampshire
- Amherst Center, Massachusetts
- Storrs, Connecticut
- Oxford, Ohio
- Stanford, California
- East Lansing, Michigan
- Indiana, Pennsylvania
- Blacksburg, Virginia
- Geneseo, New York
Notice something? They’re all college towns. Stanford, Miami U, UConn, Penn State and Michigan State are great schools and would be perfect to focus a geodomain on.
If you’re a geodomainer, this is a great tool for informing yourself before you buy. Boomark it!
EDIT:
This is the 2007 list. You can find the 2008 list here. And here is the post explaining my blunder.
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Using Your Domain Name As Your Actual License Plate Number.
Marcus over at DomainingUK.com published an article today comparing the viral popularity of vanity license plates in the UK with domaining. I agree that there are more on the road today than ever before. What I’ve also seen are domain names AS the license plate number.
I’ve seen a couple instances where someone used a short domain name as the plate number, such as ESPN.com or MSN.com. Most states will allow you to use 7 or 8 characters, which gives you enough space for a CCCCC.com. I’ve even seen a state put the DOT in there as an actual imprint. I wish I had the picture to post here as I saw it on the net.
I figured why not? If you have a website with such a short name, why not put it on your plate?
People would notice it just as much if not more than a decal on your rear windshield. The cleverness and vagueness (no logo to frighten people away) could entice many people to type it in when they get home.
Anyone else seen this on a license plate?
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The Chaos That Was The .me Land Rush Or: How I Lost Houston.me And Want To Complain Like Everyone Else
It’s been a goal of mine to not post general domaining news. You can get this on all the other blogs. But I had to chime in on this one as it made me a grouch yesterday.
Like everyone else, I planned on buying a few .me domain names. I was at work ready to buy at 10am, and I had my wife ready to buy just in case something went wrong on my end.
Well, something went wrong on my end. 10am hit and I attempted to purchase two domain names:
Houston.me
NYC.me
Later I found that NYC.me was on “the list.” It wasn’t on the list that I saw before I placed the order, but apparently it’s on “a list.” So that aside, this post is a rant on how I lost Houston.me.
In the end it’s my fault, I understand that. I didn’t place a pre-order. But that doesn’t excuse the chaos that was the .me land rush.
So, at 10am I placed my order. And since GoDaddy has about 100 pages you have to “continue” through, I eventually timed out on the third one. So I asked my wife to proceed with plan B. While she was attempting to place the order, I kept trying myself. I never EVER could get past the third “continue.” It timed out every time. My wife was able to get past it, and purchased the names on my behalf. I was sweating, I tell ya.
I received my Godaddy email confirming the purchase. Completely satisfied that I had just purchased two great domain names, I went back to work. As a Houstonian, I already had plans to develop Houston.me, it wasn’t something I was going to flip. NYC.me I would have flipped.
A half hour later I received two more emails; Error: HOUSTON.ME: cannot register - already registered. A half hour that if Godaddy didn’t let me buy a registered name I could have spent grabbing another one.
I’ve learned a lesson. I should have pre-ordered. I should have used Dynadot. But I still feel screwed by Godaddy. One by one I will remove my domains from them.
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