Qinetics Solutions Bhd has been appointed as the domain registry service outsourcing provider for the .cd registry, the country code top level domain of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Qinetics is a leading provider of business to business (B2B) outsourced registration services for domain names and enterprise solutions.

In a statement, Qinetics said it was appointed to provide, manage and operate the .cd domain names on a revenue-sharing basis for a period of five years.

It said the provision of registry service outsourcing was based on Qinetics’ Registry ASP shared registry-registrar system (SRS) suite, which is a software infrastructure developed in Malaysia.

Its chief executive officer, T K Tan, said the outsourcing engagement by the .cd registry would provide Qinetics long-term and potentially robust growth in revenue stream.

He added that the company would secure another country-code registry next month.

Tan said Qinetics had earlier secured the development and maintenance of .hk registry system by the Hong Kong government in 2005.

“It is a strong endorsement of the potential and the marketability of our solution.

“We believe our dedicated research and development in the registry solutions would elevate Qinetics to be a dominant provider to country-code registries in the world,” he said.

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Berkeley, CA, USA, March 120, 2006 — TheWisdomOfDomainers.com, a division of DomainMart, announced today the launch of a new domain name appraisal service based on combining experts’ opinions.

The market value of a domain name is appraised using a model that is based on a scientific methodology to aggregate valuation estimates from a group of independent professional domain name appraisers. The resulting estimate represents the “consensus market value” of the domain name at the time of appraisal.

The patent pending methodology was inspired by James Surowiecki’s bestseller The Wisdom of Crowds. “The book presents strong and well researched arguments for a deceptively simple idea that large groups of people are collectively better at solving problems, making wise decisions, and predicting the future,” says Alex Tajirian, President and CEO.

“Our domain name is a spin on the book’s title,” notes Tajirian. “We use the same powerful concept to appraise domain names,” adds Tajirian.

“The concept is no different than why you may want to get a second opinion (whether from doctors or friends). A doctor (or friend or broker) may be wrong or biased or just having a bad day. The more ideas or outcomes that you average together, the less randomness and the more certain you are about your conclusion,” notes Tajirian.

TheWisdomOfDomainers.com pre-qualifies its appraisers. Moreover, to give them incentives to provide their best and unbiased estimates, in addition to a monetary compensation, the “name” of the winning appraiser is publicized on the website. The winner is the appraiser whose estimated value is closest to the “consensus market value.”

The cost of an online appraisal is $50 per domain name with volume discounts available. The appraisal report, which is kept confidential, is emailed to the requester within 5 business days.

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WorldCupGermany.com as a Premium Dot Com Domain name is now being listed for sale in the secondary domain name market at sedo.

As Germany is preparing for the world cup this year all companies and businesses are getting ready for a good season that will boost the financial position of all businesses in Europe and Germany starting from airlines, hotels, ticket agencies, restaurants, pubs, transport, taxis & cabs and tour guide companies.
The world cup Germany is a big event and will bring good business in all sectors and boost financial revenue.

Worldcupgermany.com is the place to go and it is a good opportunity to provide information and direct contact with all businesses and services that fans need starting from booking a flight, hotels, accommodation, eating out, drinking in a restaurant or a pub as well as calling a cab or a taxi or to show you different ways of moving around or getting transport as well as buying a ticket to attend a match or a game event.

Worldcupgermany.com can also provide up to the minute news, match results and events that will take place during the tournament.

Worldcupgermany.com has the potential to be a complete directory during the tournament which will allow all businesses and companies that offer services to advertise themselves and can be used as the one stop point for anyone to get information or book a place, buy a ticket or advertise themselves.

WorldCupGermany.com as a Premium Dot Com Domain name is now been listed for sale in the secondary domain name market at sedo.

Worldcupgermany.com is expected to sell between a five to six figure sum.

Sedo’s domain name selling model is an offer-counteroffer model.

This means that you negotiate directly with the bidders, and you maintain control over the selling price. At Sedo, if you don’t feel an offer is sufficient, you’re under no obligation to sell. There is no risk, no uncertainty, and no disappointment.

Sedo is the global marketplace for buying and selling domain names and websites.

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The biggest privately owned domain portfolio sale for 2006 starts today at NicheCashCows.com. Internet entrepreneur gets hitch, hence, he’s selling his domain name portfolio in one fire liquidation sale.

The Biggest domain name portfolio of 2006 will be up for sale beginning March 20th, 2006. After 9 years of starting over 31 internet businesses, Mr. Dillon Dao, has literally met his match. With plans of a future engagement, he has promised his significant other more quality time, hence, he’s decided to sell all of his internet businesses. His asset sales include: his company’s online dating division, along with 423 niche dating domains, and a huge portfolio of 567 generic domain names, all of which can be seen at www.nichecashcows.com and www.datingsoftwaretips.com.

Asked why he’s selling, Dillon states, “I’ve worked 16 hours days since the start of the internet since 1996, and now its time for a new chapter in my life. It’s about time for me to start a family and settle down.” At first inspection of his domain portfolio, one would agree that they are truly great domains, not junk or made up domains. They do have a lot of intrinsic value and great potential for starting online portal and ecommerce businesses. A lot of the names are very generic and easy to remember. Basically, that’s what counts the most in valuation and domain pricing.

For instance, if someone were looking to start a college student discount ecommerce or an affiliate portal site, then CollgeDiscounts.com would perfectly fit the business model. Or how about starting a grant writing website, helping people search, find, and write grant proposals? Then GrantWritingTips.com or GrantSecrets.com would be the ideal name for this venture. If those weren’t enough, then here’s a few more domains to turn on your entrepreneurial spirit : PrepaidHealth.com, CampusModels.com, HypnoticSecrets.com, TonerSuppliers.com etc. These are just a few of the top level domains in Mr. Dao’s domain portfolio up for grabs at http://www.nichecashcows.com. All of the domains in the portfolio have a business model waiting to be launched. Dillon has had a lot of successful online ventures thanks to the easy branding of his domains.

DnJournal, a website dedicated to domain sales and industry news stated that domains are more valuable than ever. Take a look at these recent domain purchases announced on dnjournal.com

Recent domain purchases:
On.com – sold for $635,000
Sex.com – sold for $12,000,000
Cellphones.com – sold for $4,200,000
Brown.com – sold for $300,000
Jasmin.com – sold for $310,000
Hedonism.com – sold for $126,000
Macau.com – sold for $550,000
FlashGames.com – sold for $226,950

Domain names are back and their valuations are even greater then when the internet peaked during years 1996 to 2000. For a brief education on domain names and their valuations, go to www.nichecashcows.com and check out two articles from The Wall Street Journal’s “New Money in Domain Names” and Business 2.0’s “Masters of their Domains”. Learn why the domain name industry will be red hot for the next 15 to 20 years to come, and why you should take action now.

To check out Mr. Dao’s portfolio sale, visit www.nichecashcows.com and www.datingsoftwaretips.com. Domainers looking to buy valuable domains will find this sale a great investment because he will be selling his portfolio way below market appraisal at bulk discounts. Everything Must be Sold!

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New York (PRWEB) March 16, 2006 — Global domain name registration and Web business services provider, Register.com, has been named a 2006 sponsor of the Web Marketing Association’s 10th annual WebAward Competition. The WebAwards is the standards-defining competition that sets industry benchmarks based on the seven criteria of a successful Web site. It recognizes the individual and team achievements of Web professionals who create and maintain outstanding corporate Web sites. The 2006 WebAward Call for Entries will begin soon at http://www.webawards2006.org.

“Register.com is a leader in providing services and domain names to Web professionals and small businesses. We are excited that we will be working with them to promote the WebAward Competition this year,” said William Rice, president of the Web Marketing Association. “The WebAward.org domain has been with Register.com since the WMA was founded in 1997. Register.com has a stellar reputation for seeking out and providing the best services to business owners and Web professionals and we are delighted to work with them.”

“In addition to fostering the online interests of small business owners and assisting them with their Web needs, helping to support the online marketing community is an important part of Register.com’s philosophy,” said Monica Hodges, general manager of Retail at Register.com. “We recognize the value of participating in a program such as the WebAwards and believe that the expert feedback participants receive is invaluable. Moreover, winning an award provides businesses with a valuable marketing tool and demonstrates to company management that their online investments are on the right track. We are pleased to support the efforts of the Web Marketing Association and the WebAward program.”

More than 2,300 sites from 33 countries were adjudicated in 93 industry categories during last year’s competition. Entries are judged on design, copy writing, innovation, content, interactivity, navigation, and use of technology. The competition is judged by a team of independent Internet professionals representing a variety of relevant disciplines of Web site development. Judges included members of the media, advertising executives, site designers, creative directors, corporate marketing executives, content providers and webmasters.

The Web Marketing Association thanks all of its sponsors for helping to make this annual competition possible.

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So you want to start a business, sell a product or have the next big dot Com idea, huh? Well, undoubtedly, you will need a domain. Wouldn’t an expired domain name give you a head start? Think about it…the site attached to the domain already has a page rank and backlinks.

Maybe the site is listed in Dmoz or several other directories and search engines. By purchasing an expired domain, you wouldn’t have to worry about Google’s age factor for new sites. It would likely save you a whole lot of time and money, right? Wrong. Like most things in life, nothing is that easy.

Expired domains are viewed by many as a way for a new domain owner to capitalize on a the previous site’s page rank and traffic. Unfortunately, that’s simply not the case. Once a site expires, it loses its page rank, meaning all existing links are no longer counted towards the site. That’s right…you start fresh. You’ll have to re-establish PR. Dmoz has even mentioned that they will pull a site’s listing once it expires.

Of course, depending on the popularity of the name in terms of it’s relation to search traffic, you’ll probably get more traffic than if the site was new. The site already has established links that bring in traffic, they just won’t count toward your page rank…ever. But honestly, that’s really the only benefit you get, unless you are lucky enough to buy a domain whose name you can benefit from because of a direct relation to your products or services. The chances of that happening are pretty slim. Think about it…if someone owned a successful site with a successful name, would it be expired and available? This is why even the best attempts at garnering an expired domain usually only result in a loose association by name at best. If you want to sell computers, you won’t find “computers.com”. You might find “discountcomputerperipheralsupply.net”, but that’s not exactly memorable, is it?

There are many SEO gurus who advocate buying expired domains. I don’t necessarily disagree as long as you know what the benefits will and won’t be. Google has stated that expired domains will lose their PR and backlinks. I have even heard of instances where attempts to re-establish PR after purchasing the expired domain and registering it have failed. In fact, more than a few people have had problems with Google failing to recognize backlinks set up after the domain is re-established.

So, is there any safe way to get a jump on the SERP’s? Well, if possible, you’d want to purchase a domain before it expires. This way, there is no chance of losing the backlinks and PR. Still, if it holds a site with a high PR and good backlinks or is simply a popular phrase or term, it’s likely going to cost you a lot more than the registration fee on a domain. The cost could be justified, however, in some instances.

In my research, I couldn’t find one instance where Google or any other search engine had a problem with a transfer of ownership regarding domains. This basically entails buying a business with the location, not just an empty store with a sign. Of course, someone could own a domain with no site on it, but then pre-existing PR and backlinks wouldn’t be a factor. You would simply be buying a name. For domains with successful sites already established, it’s a good way to get a head start if the price is right. If you can afford it and find someone willing to sell, this is one way to avoid the loss of any pre-existing PR and backlinks. Of course, we are talking about domain purchase in the context of small business. If you bought “Sears.com” in 1990 and you don’t own the company, it wasn’t because your last name is Sears.

Back to expired domains…

If you do decide to buy an expired domain, keep one thing in mind. The site already has backlinks, anchor text and other off site SEO factors.

There are two considerations you will need to make before you plunk down your cash:

1. Are you buying the domain because the domain name is related or because the previous site had high traffic? If the site you are planning is unrelated, you won’t benefit from the traffic (provided there is any) or off site SEO work.

2. Make sure you know what you are getting into when you buy an expired domain. Any “black hat” methods, links to bad neighbors, paid links and other unethical practices can affect you.

If all else fails or your search for a related expired domain bears no fruit, start from scratch. You will be able to develop your site knowing that the success or failure of it can’t be attributed to someone else’s efforts. In other words, you will know if your SEO methods are effective for the particular business you are in and not a result of traffic already established by the previous owner. I have written many articles that can help you boost your pagerank and get indexed faster. Sometimes, it’s better to start fresh than go through the headache of searching for the right expired domain.

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