It’s hard to believe that 2018 is halfway over. It’s been an exciting year when it comes to domain names selling on the “aftermarket”. While only one domain has been publicly disclosed as selling for more than $1 million, the recent sale of Crypto.com was surely for more than that. As you’ll see below, cryptocurrency … Continue reading Top 10 Domain Sales of 2018 (So Far)
More than half of all web traffic now originates from mobile devices such as cell phones. That’s why it’s absolutely critical that your website is responsive and automatically adjusts for smaller screen sizes. But having a mobile-friendly, responsive website isn’t enough. You also need your pages to load very fast on mobile devices. That’s the … Continue reading Speed Up Your Website with AMP – Accelerated Mobile Pages
Google has been on a mission recently to get websites to adopt SSL. You may recognize sites with SSL certificates: they’re the ones that start with https:// instead of http://. When a site uses SSL, information that’s passed to that site’s server remains private. To incentivize website owners to adopt SSL, Google has done two … Continue reading Google is Changing How it Treats SSL
Nobody enjoys going through airport security. If you’re a business owner who travels a lot, you’re wasting precious time standing in line when you could be working. Thankfully, in the U.S. there are a few programs you can use to drastically reduce the amount of time you spend waiting in security lines. That means you … Continue reading Breeze through Airport Security
Did you know that two-letter top level domain names belong to countries? There are several types of top level domain names. Any time you see just two characters to the right of the dot in a domain name, the top level domain name represents a country. These “country code” domain names sometimes come with restrictions … Continue reading Five Country Code Domain Names Open to All
Email marketing is a powerful way to grow your business and let people know about your products and services. If you’re just learning about email marketing, we’ve already explained why your business should start email marketing and how to get started. But once you’ve taken the plunge and started building your list, there’s still more … Continue reading Make the Most of Your Email Marketing
As you have probably noticed lately, there are now hundreds of options for top level domain names (a TLD is what is right of the dot in your domain name). While .com remains the dominant TLD, you can now choose from domain endings like .design, .blog and .guru. A company just paid a record amount … Continue reading Why a Company Paid $500k for a New Domain
.App domain names officially became available to register on May 8, 2018, and there was clearly a lot of demand. People registered over 150,000 names ending in .app within the first 24 hours! Why all of the buzz with this top level domain (TLD)? Should you register a .App domain name? Read on to find … Continue reading Why the .App Domain Name is Insanely Popular
One of the great things about building a site on WordPress is the thousands of plugins you can use to improve your site. While most people are aware of popular plugins like Akismet and Yoast SEO, there are some other useful plugins that are a bit harder to find. As someone who’s used WordPress since … Continue reading 3 Useful WordPress Plugins You Haven’t Heard Of
When new top level domain names (TLDs) such as .guru and .money became available a few years ago, many people thought there would be another gold rush like when people bought good .com domain names back in the 1990s. After all, people bought .com domains in the early days and sold them for millions of … Continue reading Making Money Reselling New Top Level Domains
