Who would have thought this two years ago. Google Chrome was accounting for 41% of our visitors in December with Firefox ranking 2nd (27%) and Safari 3rd (21.50%). From the 5% using Internet Explorer, 70% are browsing with IE8+.
We quite like this.
Tuesday, August 2, 2011
Recent App & Service Additions For Your Domains
You can now even add more cool apps and services to your domains from your iWantMyName dashboard. Here are the latest additions to our domain application directory which enables you to easily apply DNS settings to your domain in one single click:
Blogetery — lets you start your own Wordpress blog for free which makes it the perfect service for starting out with the world's most popular open-source blogging software. Blogetery offers custom domain functionality at no extra cost.
Cargo — The Cargo content management system (CMS) allows you to easily publish a website with all your creative content. You can add image slideshows, embed video and audio files and have full control over the look and feel of your site.
cloudControl — offers a higly scalable hosting stack for creating, managing and scaling your web applications. It currently supports PHP (Java, Python and Ruby following shortly) with database support for MySQL and MongoDB.
Rackspace Email — offers reliable email hosting for your business or organization. It works on your desktop (e.g. Outlook, Thunderbird), on the web (Webmail) and on any internet-enabled mobile device (e.g. iPhone, BlackBerry or Android).
ShortSwitch — hosted URL shortening service that allows you to use your own custom domain for sharing links. It includes full API access for custom integration, brandable interstitial pages and additional features such as QR codes and link analytics.Featured Domain: youMust.me - A Simple Recommendation Site
youMust.me from 18-year old Zack Fernandez is a simple tool to get all sorts of recommendations by sharing a personal URL with your friends. Zack was inspired by the recent success of threewords.me so he decided to launch his own project. He registered the domain, created the site and tied everything together using oursimplified Heroku DNS setup.
Here's how youMust.me works:
- Share your personal URL youmust.me/yourusername with your friends and ask them what you must "do", "hear", "read" or "see".
- Get the results on your personal youMust.me homepage:
Congrats to Zack for launching his site! Want to have your domain featured on our blog? Send me an email to timo@iwantmyname.com.
Apps for Domains News Roundup January
News digest for January 2011 covering the latest from the apps and services in our iWantMyName marketplace:
- Blogger — launches 77 web fonts to all Blogger users
- Heroku — improved maintenance mode with custom error pages
- Ning — publishes product roadmap for 2011
- Flying Cart — now with XML sitemaps for custom domains
- Rackspace Apps — answers the question "In-house or Hosted Email?"
- Shopify — gives an overview of important e-commerce dates for 2011
- SmugMug — makes photo sharing on Twitter and Facebook easier
- PBWorks — announces Amazon S3 export for all your data
- Posterous — gets new beautiful slideshows
- Viewbook — what they are working on for 2011
All domains registered with iWantMyname can be easily configured for hosted web applications using our simplified one click setup service.
How Much Is Your Domain Portfolio Worth?
Most readers of this blog have, at some time or the other, indulged in a bit of domain speculation. And what better way to pass the time on a warm summer afternoon than speculating on the value of our portfolios and the riches awaiting us on disposal?
But how do you value a domain?
With physical assets such as houses, sale prices of neighboring properties provide a reasonable guide. With other asset classes such as gold and shares, very definite markets exist within which prices are constantly fluctuating. With intangibles like domains and websites however, it's a little trickier. The old adage that it's worth only what someone is willing to pay for it is all very true but ... it doesn't help you put a figure to the online property.
That's where the various online valuation services come into play. There are paid ones, yes, but there are also a lot of free services. So you just head on over to one of those and have each individual domain in your portfolio valued at the speed of your average broadband, right? Wrong!
A detailed valuation report at SitePoint explains just how these services demonstrate the art of being free and still being a con.
Quite simply, nobody can put an accurate value to a domain or website as the price one buyer is willing to pay for it could differ quite considerably from what another would. The best way to test the market is in a competitive auction. Even that isn't 100% efficient as the auction is viewed only by a small selection of buyers. There is one site that monitors sale prices and tries to predict value based on what sites similar to yours have sold for. That's your best bet for getting a close enough picture. For further reading, try this site that provides a lot of useful information on buying and selling websites and domains.
But how do you value a domain?
With physical assets such as houses, sale prices of neighboring properties provide a reasonable guide. With other asset classes such as gold and shares, very definite markets exist within which prices are constantly fluctuating. With intangibles like domains and websites however, it's a little trickier. The old adage that it's worth only what someone is willing to pay for it is all very true but ... it doesn't help you put a figure to the online property.
That's where the various online valuation services come into play. There are paid ones, yes, but there are also a lot of free services. So you just head on over to one of those and have each individual domain in your portfolio valued at the speed of your average broadband, right? Wrong!
A detailed valuation report at SitePoint explains just how these services demonstrate the art of being free and still being a con.
Quite simply, nobody can put an accurate value to a domain or website as the price one buyer is willing to pay for it could differ quite considerably from what another would. The best way to test the market is in a competitive auction. Even that isn't 100% efficient as the auction is viewed only by a small selection of buyers. There is one site that monitors sale prices and tries to predict value based on what sites similar to yours have sold for. That's your best bet for getting a close enough picture. For further reading, try this site that provides a lot of useful information on buying and selling websites and domains.
Why You Should Not Rely On Your Social Media Presence Only
Rand Fishkin of SEOmoz fame hits the nail on the head with his answer to the following Tweet: "if he could have just one: site or social media presence. Which one would he choose and why!"
Rand's excellent answer:
I'd always bias to taking the website over the social media presence. It's not that a great Twitter, Facebook, Yelp, Foursquare or LinkedIn account aren't great, it's just that the flexibility, power, branding and measurability of a website has yet to be matched on any platform. With a website, you can custom build virtually any form of analytics, leverage any type of web technology to display/deliver content and control your own destiny. Even if Facebook or some other new, wholly flexible platform allowed for all of these features, you would still never truly own your home on the web.
I'm a huge supporter of and advocate for social media marketing, but I don't think I could ever endorse having your primary base of marketing and acquisition happen anywhere but on a site you fully own and control.
And that is exactly why should have your own domain name which easily allows you to switch services at any time.
14 New Domain Hosting Services And Applications
The iWantMyName marketplace keeps on growing with many new hosted services that can be easily added to your domains in just one single click. We also improved the setup for subdomains, e.g. help.yourdomain.com for helpdesk services or status.yourdomain.com for your website status, making it dead-simple to mix and match your preferred applications.
Helpdesk & Customer Community
Developer / Webmaster
Bitbucket — Mercurial code hosting with unlimited public and private repositories for your projects.
Ecommerce Hosting
Open Source
Portfolio, Photography & Design
500px — Photo community for sharing, discovering and hosting great photography websites on your domain.
Social & Community
Meetup — The best service for organizing and managing local groups / communities in your area or city.
Website Builder
All these services and applications can now be added to your domains with a single click.
July Domain Transfer Specials
July is here and brings you some great domain transfer deals. If you're tired of your current registrar or overwhelmed by their confusing website, iWantMyName comes to the rescue with 60+ transferrable extensions and easy domain customization features.
Don't waste time and start your domain transfer at discounted prices for the following top-level domains:
$10 .COM / .NET / .ORG
$12 .INFO / .NAME
$20 .ME
$85 .FM
Also, just a heads up that some domains such as .IO, .CO.UK or .CO.NZ can be transferred completely free of charge!
P.S. Should you need any assistance with your transfers, please get in touch or check out the following tutorial from GOOD on how to transfer your domain name from GoDaddy to iWantMyName.
Don't waste time and start your domain transfer at discounted prices for the following top-level domains:
$10 .COM / .NET / .ORG
$12 .INFO / .NAME
$20 .ME
$85 .FM
Also, just a heads up that some domains such as .IO, .CO.UK or .CO.NZ can be transferred completely free of charge!
P.S. Should you need any assistance with your transfers, please get in touch or check out the following tutorial from GOOD on how to transfer your domain name from GoDaddy to iWantMyName.
Zerply Implements Profile Domain Customization
Zerply is an online personal profile service that is rapidly gaining traction with creatives and young Internet users. The company has just launched domain customization, which means you can direct a chosen domain to your Zerply profile site.
Based at Mountain View venture incubator 500 Startups, Zerply is an exciting new contender making waves in the digital profile space. Why wait until you need to look for a job before you start building an online profile? AtiWantMyName, we love stuff that takes away pain and drudgery. If you already have a personal profile elsewhere and want to move over to Zerply, they make this painless by offering an import process.
Zerply and LinkedIn are often mentioned in the same sentence. But where LinkedIn caters for corporate networkers and business professionals, Zerply pitches itself more as a solution for promoting one's vocation generally. It also offers attractive design templates that users can tailor to their own specifications, differentiating it from the cookie-cutter approach of LinkedIn. This makes Zerply a more interesting proposition for folks wanting to express a little more individuality.
Part of the attraction with Zerply is that, unlike many other social network sites, you can now overlay your own personal domain name across your Zerply profile site. This adds a personal touch that continues to evade other similar services such asabout.me or Google Profiles. Consequently, we've made it really easy to connect your domain to Zerply by adding it to our growing list of hosted services and apps in the iWantMyName marketplace. One click and you're away laughing!
Press Release Writing And Distribution
Writing and distributing press releases is a key part of my SEO strategy. Been doing them for more than 5 years now, for lots of different sites.
Was using PRWeb until 2009. I liked them because I could easily add links to my releases (which one can still do, of course), and my releases used to rank well in the search engines. For some reason -- and completely out of the blue -- my releases stopped ranking well in both Google and Yahoo!, so I decided to try other distribution sites.
Have been using MarketWire since mid-2009 and they've been OK. With MarketWire, however, I couldn't help but think I could do better. So I've been on the hunt for more value.
Been helping my friend Sharay Hayes revamp his GetPunished.com site recently. Sharay is an entrepreneur and entertainer; when he's preforming, he's known as The Punisher. We're going to do a press release for his site soon, and I've decided to give eReleases a try.
Was using PRWeb until 2009. I liked them because I could easily add links to my releases (which one can still do, of course), and my releases used to rank well in the search engines. For some reason -- and completely out of the blue -- my releases stopped ranking well in both Google and Yahoo!, so I decided to try other distribution sites.
Have been using MarketWire since mid-2009 and they've been OK. With MarketWire, however, I couldn't help but think I could do better. So I've been on the hunt for more value.
Been helping my friend Sharay Hayes revamp his GetPunished.com site recently. Sharay is an entrepreneur and entertainer; when he's preforming, he's known as The Punisher. We're going to do a press release for his site soon, and I've decided to give eReleases a try.
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