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Category Archives: Internet trends
TweetEpik is pleased to announce the Content Dashboard, a unique new feature that offers integrated content creation, provisioning, and management to all our users. Users can scalably order and manage high quality, original text content for any properties in their domain name portfolio, enabling them to improve the value, page rank, and usefulness of their [...]
Read moreAug 12
The Quest for Recurring Income
- posted by Rob Monster
- in Economics, Internet trends
- 9 Comments
TweetBack in the good old days, domainer owners would buy a name, park it, and wait for the check. During the 2008-2010 recession, that model largely broke down. Since then, we have seen a period where liquid domainers bought inventory from the illiquid domainers. However, recently, domain traders are reporting that they are having a [...]
Read moreAug 10
The Chinese are coming
- posted by Rob Monster
- in Economics, Internet trends
- 3 Comments
TweetBack in November, I blogged about what is sometimes referred to as The Pacific Century. There are a number of scenarios that could still play out that would make this not the case. However, the odds-on favorite to emerge as the next global economic super-power is China. And right on queue, the Chinese are also [...]
Read moreJul 22
Amazon.com — cracks in the foundation?
- posted by Rob Monster
- in Domain Development, Economics, Internet trends
- 15 Comments
TweetAmazon’s Q2 earnings are out. They missed the analyst estimates and the stock tanked 15% in after-hours trading. Domain owners with product category names, take note, as I believe this has implications. I previous blogged about Amazon here. I continue to follow Amazon closely, not just because they are a Seattle-based internet success story, but [...]
Read moreJul 04
Start the conversation with an Epik Wiki — it is free
- posted by Rob Monster
- in Domain Development, Domain Names, Internet trends, Publishing, Wiki
- 20 Comments
TweetHappy Independence Day. One of the early promises of the Internet was that it would lead to a proliferation of independent media targeting an ever-expanding array of topics. On the surface, the 1st amendment would appear to be alive and well. Yet the web is still dominated by a collection of top 100 sites that [...]
Read moreDec 17
Does your domain name have a mobile strategy?
- posted by Rob Monster
- in Domain Development, Drop catching, Internet trends, Mobile web
- 1 Comment
TweetOne of the most significant developments taking shape in 2010 is the all out footrace to power the mobile internet. iPhone, Google Android, and Amazon Kindle are three of the more visionary platform entrants. The pace of innovation in the area of mobile internet is breathtaking. Forward-thinking domainers can profit from this megatrend. A growing [...]
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