EstDomains Still Offering Unexampled Discounts

EstDomains, a US-based domain registrar, prolongs its special offer and announces that company's domains will remain cheaper than the net cost from original domain zone owners up to August 31, 2008.

(PRWEB) September 6, 2007 -- It is common knowledge that domain registrars selling domains to end buyers have relative marketing freedom in their pricing -- still, their prices remain tied to the prices set up by companies who own this or that domain zone, like VeriSign. EstDomains Inc. started its special offer with domain prices set below the net cost of original domain registries. Originally this special offer was to expire on August 31, 2007, but following the feedback from its customers, the company now extends the duration of the offer to August 31, 2008.

It has to be noted that the prices of EstDomains Inc. remain tied to the original costs from corporations owning the domain zones. However, if the original costs are subject to change, the margin between the net costs and prices for EstDomains Inc. end buyers will still remain. This makes the prolonged offer from EstDomains Inc. a perfect domain deal for every customer.

Currently, EstDomains Inc. customers can get a .com, .net, .org or name domain for as low as $5.99. One-year registration of an .info domain will cost $3, while .biz domains cost $5.39. As for .us and .tv domains, their registration is priced at $5.49 and $24.99, respectively. Learn more about the services and special offers from EstDomains Inc. here: www.estdomains.com.

Press Contact: Konstantin Poltev
Company Name: Estdomains, Inc
Phone: 302-722-4217
Website: www.estdomains.com

A1 Merchant Accounts Announces New Strategies for Offshore Merchant Accounts

A1 Merchant Accounts, a leading online merchant service provider, is revealing new strategies for high-risk businesses with offshore merchant accounts.

Carlsbad, CA  -  September 29, 2007 -- A1 Merchant Accounts, a leading online merchant service provider based in southern California, has some new strategies for high-risk business clients using offshore merchant accounts. The point of these strategies is to protect the reputation of the business as they earn money overseas.

With a high-risk business such as travel, online pharmaceutical, adult escort, telemarketing, multimarketing or various high level businesses that operate offshore merchant accounts, A1 Merchant Accounts say it is important to look more reputable than the competition. In fact, they say that these types of businesses must struggle to increase their reputation twice as much as a more low-risk business with only U.S. merchant accounts.

Some of the most important strategies for risky businesses with offshore merchant accounts have to do with monitoring their public relations. It is important for these business owners to keep an eye on the overall workings of their company, according to A1 Merchant Accounts, as well as information about their competitors. It is also crucial to stay current with information about their particular industry in general, particularly in regards to the Web.

For high-risk businesses with offshore merchant accounts, A1 Merchant Accounts believes being an active member of the cyber-community is an essential step to creating a solid reputation. This includes monitoring by the hour, and creating customized RSS feeds with keyword searches as a basis. It is also advantageous for this type of business owner to make use of Technorati.com, Icerocket.com, Google.com/blogsearch, Yahoo! News, Google News, MSN News and Blogpulse.com to stay on top of information about their industry, and opinions about their own business.

Business owners with precarious offshore merchant accounts may also want to create accounts in google.com/alerts and alerts.yahoo.com to get the latest on their industry, and monitor postings on forums and groups. It is best to use as many resources as possible to build a solid online reputation, rather than being viewed as a questionable business that consumers are afraid to give money to. With a little patience, A1 Merchant Accounts believes all businesses can create a good word-of-mouth reputation through blogs and industry-related resources.

For more information about merchant accounts, visit www.a1-merchant-accounts.org.

About A1 Merchant Accounts:
A1 Merchant Accounts is one of the leaders in the merchant accounts market for both small and large companies; retailers and wholesalers. They provide merchant accounts for businesses that take orders by phone as well as ecommerce Web sites. In order to provide top notch services, bulletproof security and the lowest fees on the market, they partner with the largest banks and processing networks in the country. They are always in constant search for better and safer solutions, as well, using the latest technologies available. No matter what account type a company prefers, they can be sure they are using the best and latest tools available on the market when they work with A1 Merchant Accounts.

Press Contact: Mike Cheslar
Company Name: A1 Mercant Accounts
Phone: 760 300 5563
Website: http://www.a1-merchant-accounts.org

.Asia Trademark Sunrise and Company Sunrise are Over

The Landrush is about to start. There are only 2 days left to submit all your names for the .ASIA Landrush at the promotional price of 4.-Euro*.

(PRWEB) February 20, 2008 -- The Landrush is about to start. There are only 2 days left to submit all your names for the .ASIA Landrush at the promotional price of 4.-Euro*.

During the Landrush you can try to get any name without restrictions. Landrush starts on the 20th February, and EuroDNS/ AsiaDNS offers for this Landrush a promotional code that allows you to get the .ASIA for only 4 Euros* (*=per domain/per year; 2years minimum).

The Promo Code is: 4ASIA20 (valid from now till only the 20th February midnight UTC). Application for .ASIA domains can only be submitted via the new portal of EuroDNS / AsiaDNS: http://v2.eurodns.com

Not only EuroDNS/AsiaDNS offers the best possible price for the .Asia Domain Registration, but as AsiaDNS is the registry for .asia.com domains, AsiaDNS/EuroDNS offers for every successfully registered .asia domain also the same domain in asia.com for free (1year free registration).

For any questions, please contact support @ eurodns.com

For people who want to submit a high quantity of domains (more than 100), please contact and send your lists to: email protected from spam bots

Further details about the Landrush:

The Landrush period goes from 20th February to 12th March (but the promo price is only valid for all applications submitted from today to the 20th included).

It is NOT a "first come first serve" Landrush. No domain will be assigned by the registry till the end of the Landrush. The registry will accept more than one application per domain.

All domains that have been applied for more than once (where at least two persons applied for the same name) will enter into an auction. The auction starts (after the landrush period) between the persons who applied for the domain (no open auction). All persons whose domain(s) enter in an auction process will be informed and will be able to see who they are bidding against. The auction will last a few days and the bidding will be done through the EuroDNs /AsiaDNS account (v2.eurodns.com).

All domain names that only got one application during the Landrush will be registered to the registrant without any auction at the end of the Landrush period.

About EuroDNS

EuroDNS is a global domain registrar headquartered in Luxembourg, with offices in the Netherlands, France, Poland, and Korea. Specializing in geographic domain names, the group focuses on the European market with EuroDNS and the Asian market with AsiaDNS. With its registration portal in 10 languages and more than 25 top-level domains, EuroDNS covers 97% of the market in the enlarged European Union.

Contact:
Melanie Delannoy
DCL Group
2, Rue Leon laval
3372 Leudelange, Luxembourg
Phone: +352 261916312

Press Contact: Melanie Delannoy
Company Name: EURODNS.COM
Phone: +352 261916312
Website: http://v2.eurodns.com

The following spam email message has been going out for a few years. It was a scam in the past and it's a scam now. NEVER do business with anyone that sends SPAM. Always check into something that doesn't seem right. If you have not heard about them before, don't assume it legitimate. And don't waste your money on useless offers that warn about a "Final Notice", but don't use a company email address.

An Internet company that doesn't have a web site and expects you to send the order in via postal mail! Can this be anything more than a scam for those too unaware to know better...?
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Subject: Domain Notification: rod delany This is your Final Notice of Domain Listing
From: Domain Srvcs <domsevs9883d@gmail.com>

DOMAIN LISTING CENTER

8171 Yonge St. Suite# 149
Thornhill, ON L3T 2C6
Canada

NOTICE

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ATT:  rod delany
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rod delany
rod@scammedeasily.org
340 louis blvd ste 7756
houston, tx
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www.scammedeasily.org

DESCRIPTION OF SERVICES:
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ANNUAL WEBSITE SEARCH ENGINE SUBMISSION
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        . Helpful professional support

THIS IS NOT A BILL.  This is a solicitation.  You are under no obligation to pay the amount(s) stated unless you accept this offer.

Domain Name

www.scammedeasily.org

Amount

Requested Reply

February 22nd,2008

THIS NOTICE IS A SOLICITATION AND A RECEIPT OF PAYMENT WILL CONFIRM YOUR ANNUAL SUBMISSION
*100% SATISFACTION IS GUARANTEED OR YOUR MONEY BACK

Please select the number of years you would like to signup for
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If you have other domains you may list them below (please send a separate check for each domain and write your domain name on the memo section of the check)
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By accepting this offer, you agree not to hold DLC liable for any part. Note that THIS IS NOT A BILL. This is a solicitation. You are under no obligation to pay the amounts stated unless you accept this offer. The information in this letter contains confidential and/or legally privileged information from the notification processing department of the Domain Listing Center Inc.

This information is intended only for the use of the individual(s) named above. Email domainlistingcenter@hotmail.com if you do not want to receive further updates from DLC. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that disclosure, copying, distribution or the taking of any action in reliance on the contents for this letter is strictly prohibited.

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I'm doing some testing of one domain over at http://www.WhyPark.com. I thought I should give them a fair test and not just judge them on the basis of the fee they charge. One the one hand, paying $100 to park up to 100 domains is not cheap, especially if your domains are junk and are not getting any traffic. Even if WhyPark is great, it's going to take some time to get some traffic and earn some money. Still, paying for a hosting account that will let you put up 100 sites and all the time it's going to take is not trivial. But that's not what this post is about.

Tonight I got a comment on one of my blogs and it was a spam comment. They found my post about WhyPark and I guess they didn't like it, because they made a somewhat cryptic comment to the effect that Instant Website was better. So, after I deleted the spam and posted a reply, I went over to IW and thought I would give it a try. I opened an account and set up a test using a domain they provided: 

http://wally.nordfish.nowiw.com/

I don't know how long that will stay up, and I decided to not do a screenshot. But I'll tell you that while their site may actually be effective, they look like crap and I would be embarrassed to say one was mine...! At first they don't seem too bad, but they take what looks like magazine articles on good topics, and then put other spam crap in dim faded text in every other paragraph. Do a search for a topic that has nothing to do with the site and then look at the articles. It looks like a site of a a mad person, or some of the really old spam content sites we used to see on GEOCITIES and TRIPOD years ago.

Here's a partial list of sites to look at so you can get a better idea:

appetizer.co.za
arcon.co.za
badcreditloans.net.cn
badcreditservices.co.uk
broadband-high-speed-internet.com
chunky.co.za
commercialloan.net.cn
creditguide.org.uk
dentistry.co.za
guy.co.za
ins.co.za
lifeliberty.co.za
mygoals.co.za
nanoiphone.org.uk
propertyguide.ws
redfly.co.za
sacouple.co.za
simpleloan.eu
stayout.co.za
there.co.za
uncle.co.za
univision.co.za
website-hosting-servers.com

I don't know, I guess it's worth a try if you think it's for you. I guess you have set your DNS to point to their site before you can get a "credit" and setup your site for real. So it doesn't seem to cost anything, they have some ads on the site that are theirs and that is how they expect to make money. They might make more if they just buy a lot of cheap domains and make sites for themselves...

I was just granted a free trial account at WhyPark.com for one domain. There has been some discussion on Namepros.com about this service that you pay about $100 dollars for and that allows you to set up as many as 100 domains. As an alternative to domain parking there system allows you to enter in some information including some ad network code like AdSense, and quickly set up something like a web site that pulls in articles that are on the topics for keywords that you choose.

For my test, I selected the domain http://www.music-download-universe.com that has been parked for several months and earned perhaps a dollar. I choose this domain name because it does get a lot of traffic, so I won't have to wait, but also because it gets few clicks and those clicks pay very little.

The setup is about the same as a parking page where they provide you with options to customize your parking pages. Unlike parking, there did not seem to be any defaults, so if you have a lot of domains you are going to be spending time getting each domain name set up. The good news is that each site should not take you long one you get started. They include a tool to help you find keyword for you domain and it looks like the data may be coming from WordTracker, but I could not tell. The search terms have numbers so you can see what it popular. I added "free music downloads" and a few other related phrases.

Then there are two areas where you can enter in your ad network code. I added normal AdSense at first and then after thinking about it I pulled that out and replaced it with the AdSense for referrals. This works much the same, but I think there are more interesting ads and many of them can pay you a LOT more than normal AdSense. I picked some categories for music/entertainment and consumer electronics.

I may experiment with this and see just what I can get away with in the manner of creative coding such as links and iframes... Since you just pay for the service once, I don't think WP will care unless you create sites that look trashy or broken, or cause problems for their servers.

You can choose a number of domain templates and customize one as well. You can also add new pages. I will see how the basic setup goes and then consider doing more work on my site. You will find they sites look much like what we are used to from Made For AdSense (MFA) sites, so adding a contact, about, and other pages could "round out" the site so it really looks like a site. One of my suggestions will be to WP that they offer pre-configured pages like an about and contact page for users to make this easier. I would like to create one page of content for an about page and then have that as a default that I can edit on a site by site basis.

Winding up for now, there was on feature that was something I just suggested on the forums the other day. When domainers buy and sell domains, there doesn't seem to be any way to easily transfer the domain within a parking service. You must contact support and have them verify you are now the owner of the domain and then you can set it up under your account. It would be a big plus to be able to transfer the domain parking page set up to the new owner so they can easily maintain the current earnings. WhyPark has this option now for site owners. Yes, you do have to open an account with WhyPark, but at least you don't have to re-create all the settings and start from scratch. I would like to see WP charge the new domain owner $1 for the transfer of the domain name to their account. That way they would not be forced to pay the full fee for something they may not really want, but there would be some incentive for them to leave the domain with WP which may not provide much income, does provide continued advertising for their system.

CitizenHawk, Inc. is sending out emails to domainers that they feel are infringing on the trademarks of some companies. Domainers that get emails from them are upset in part because they come on so strong and are demanding that the domainer turn over the domain to Citizen Hawk. Many domainers think this is a scam since they are being asked to turn over their domains.

While not exactly a scam, it seems to be a service that may or may not be legal. Unless the Squawker has been authorized to act in the behalf of the trademark holder, they may not have any right to do what they are doing.

On the other hand, there is nothing wrong with  providing a service that goes after those that may be abusing a trademark.

My concern is that there are some cases where a trademark may be involved but no abuse is taking place, such as a domain like Xboxforums.org. If a site is not doing things that should be considered abuse, will they still be targeted? My advice to companies is to go easy on those that may be loyal and good customers at first. You can always get tough later on if you find real signs of abuse and infringement.

Frankly, I could see this area ripe for a different kind of service that provided not only a policing service, but also one that offers education as well. Many new domainers start buying domains and do not realize that they may be potentially infringing on a trademark. After all, if you find some valuable land that no one owns, but that they could have staked a claim in and didn't, it doesn't seem likely that they are interested in it.

Ebay had the right approach last year when they sent out thousands of emails to people that registered different variations of the word "ebay". Rather than pay a lawyer to get all nasty, they simply notified people that they were being put on notice and that they should not use, sell, or renew any domain with their trademark. The implication was that if the advice was not followed, they would come after you and you were not going to like the encounter...

www,citizenhawk.com

Study: Users in Finance, Banking, Legal, Insurance and Real Estate Industries Demand Better Anti-Spam Technologies

Email users rate better anti-spam technology as top choice to improve email experience. Users in finance, banking, legal, insurance and real estate industries get 39% less spam. They waste 65% more time each day searching for the 30% of the good email trapped by anti-spam filters than others.

Northborough, MA (PRWEB) September 11, 2007 -- Brockmann & Company released its latest industry report on the email experience for business users in the finance, banking, legal, insurance and real estate industries. The report, entitled "Email in Finance, Banking, Legal, Insurance and Real Estate Industries" is available for a limited time for free download on http://www.brockmann.com.

This report is one in a series of research on business users' experience with email: The Problem with Email reviews the business case for investing in anti-spam technology, The Spam Index Report compares the experience of 520 email users with nine different anti-spam technologies recommending that challenge-response technology delivers the lowest average Spam Index, and the highest user satisfaction, and Mobilizing Email which presents a new policy framework for balancing mobile user needs with IT goals.

Email is the most important communications service for users in the finance, banking, legal, insurance and real estate industries. Yet, only 16% of users are very satisfied with their email experience.

Peter Brockmann, President and Research Director of Brockmann & Company said, "That's because users spend 65% more time each day than others dealing with spam searching for the 30% more good email trapped by their anti-spam filters than their peers in other industries."

Brockmann added, "No wonder, better anti-spam technologies is rated as the most frequent choice to improve the email experience."

The report shows that although users in the finance, banking, legal, insurance and real estate markets receive about the same total volume of email as others, the principal sources are different in a few important ways. Users receive 39% less spam than others but more email from customers and coworkers as well as more email from automated business processes. Nevertheless, the most frequently cited recommendation to improve the email experience is better anti-spam technology.

About Brockmann & Company
Brockmann & Company is a consulting & advisory firm serving high tech equipment & application vendors and service providers. Clients accelerate growth through customer research & thought leadership. Our motto: "In God we trust, all others bring data." Learn more at http://www.brockmann.com

Press Contact: Peter Brockmann
Company Name: Brockmann & Company
Phone: 508-904-0171
Website: http://www.brockmann.com