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Top level domain extension dot me (.me) landrush starts in an hour (at least to us).

Grab one here.

Godaddy domains are ok. But hosting? Nah. I think free ones are a lot better.

Here’s another unsatisfied customer. BittBox:

I switched the DNS and this morning I canceled my GoDaddy account. I’m looking forward to this fresh start, and again, I apologize to those of you who were inconvenienced by GoDaddy’s incompetence.

Yeah. Go daddy. Gone.

–aj

DotAsia Organisation recently launched the “Landrush” for the .asia (dot asia) top level domain (TLD) name and anyone can register a .asia domain name worldwide.

Landrush will close March 12, 2008 and it is the right time to purchase your .asia domain now or you risk it being purchased by domain squatters.

YouTube.asia, Google.asia, Yahoo.asia, Microsoft.asia might still be available if you want to be sued.

–aj

I thought offering customers “Unlimited” hosting is a sign of good things to come. I was wrong. Yahoo! just emailed my billing for a domain and it also stated that they will increase their domain renewal from $9.95 to $12.95!

There is also something wrong in this billing. Read the part “…and your credit card will be charged the annual fee of 0″. Yes, you are reading it right. Zero as in zilch, nada, none. Does that mean I will not pay for this year’s renewal?

Desperate times ahead for at Yahoo I guess.

Netfirms is still $5.95! I hope it’s easy to transfer my domains.

–aj

NOTE:  *Domain .com, .net and .org sale pricing at Netfirms is $5.95 for first year. Domain will renew at $9.95 per year thereafter.

Most website owners and webmasters wonder if the site they’re managing is on Google. We often search our domain, our company name, or even our own name and some specific keywords to see if the website we’ve done a few days back has been crawled and placed on the massive index of Google.

Yes, most SEO (Search Engine Optimization) professionals already know these things. However, for the newbies and for the rest of us, here’s a quick tutorial to know if your site’s status is in the Google index or not.

It’s a basic 2-step process to be in the know. But, you can further move forward enhancing your SEO efforts like verifying your domain, adding a sitemap, getting to know your search rank, top keywords search for a specific time, etc. at the Google Webmaster Tools.

Let’s start. Here’s how:

1) Go to https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/sitestatus

2) Enter your domain on the input box (ex. http://www.mployd.com). Click on the “Next” button

Now, if your website is in the Google index, you should be able to see this notification

And you will be asked if you want to go and manage your website at the Google Webmaster Tool

If your website isn’t listed yet on the Google index, you should see something like this

Google will also suggest that you submit a Sitemap on their Google Webmaster Tools (which will eventually help your rankings on the Google’s search engine results).

Pretty simple huh? Go and check your website now if it’s listed and I hope it is.

Cheers!

–aj

It was reported long ago that this Javascript trick does not work anymore. Well, just for heck of it, I tried it using Safari 3 and the easter egg for showing more @live email domains still works.

Here’s how:

1. Open up your Safari 3 browser on your Mac (haven’t tested on Windows)
2. Visit this link http://get.live.com/getlive/overview
3. Click the “Sign Up” button
4. On the Address Bar, enter this Javascript code:

javascript:function r(q){} function s(q){e[q] = new Option(a[q],a[q])}; r(e = document.getElementById(‘idomain’).options);r(d=’live.’);r(a = new Array(d+’com’,d+’com.au’,d+’be’,d+’ca’,d+’co.uk’,d+’de’,d+’fr’,d+’it’,d+’nl’)); for (i=0;i<a.length;i++){ s(i ) }alert(‘Success – additional domains added!’);

Press ENTER.

You should now see the confirmation alert that you have successfully added additional domains (see below):

Click OK and off you go. You should now see the available domains for you to choose from.

Currently the available domains are:

• Live.com
• Live.com.au
• Live.be
• Live.ca
• Live.co.uk
• Live.de
• Live.fr
• Live.it
• Live.nl

Pretty cool huh?

Enjoy!

–aj

Network Solutions front running domains? According to sources, it seems that domains that you search at NetworkSolutions.com (NSI) are being purchased by the them, thereby preventing you or any registrant from purchasing it at any other registrar other than NSI.

This particular move seems to be the most unethical way of doing business over domains. Worst than blackhat SEO in my book.

More here

–aj

BlogPerfume just launced Feed Analysis version 1.1. This handy tool is a very useful addition to your blog analytics.

In their own words:

By the use of Feed Analysis, the number of subscribers for each month is neatly shown on the column chart. You can also view the number of subscribers, hits, views and clicks for every single day from the line chart. The best/worst day of the week is also available which is displayed on the pie chart. And also, Feed Analysis can give you an estimated value for your blog / site according to the number of your subscribers.

Check it out!

–aj

I’ve just been granted access to the preview version and newly re-designed delicious – a social bookmarking website.

What can I say? Well, for one the design is simple yet uber cool. Awesome, for a lack of a better word. Take a peek below. One notable thing is that they didn’t use the domain del.icio.us on this one and opted for an easy-to-remember domain name, delicious.com.

The preview can be found at http://preview.delicious.com and I think it’s only open for select power users.

So, what’s new?

1) Navigation
o New organization
o Fast contextual search
o Contextual sub menus

2) Tag Bar
o Tag navigation
o Autocomplete
o Sorting

3) Bookmarks
o New layout
o Blue boxes
o Details page

4) Sidebar
o Top 10 tags
o New bundles
o Private nicknames

5) Action Box
o Contextual actions
o Tag descriptions
o Bulk edit

That’s everything you need to have in a social bookmarking application. I couldn’t think of anything else that they can add at this time (maybe stats on the specific site? Ok, I’m asking too much).

Anyways, kudos to the delicious team. Love it!

–aj

Just as I was talking about Adobe Photoshop, Pixelmator the would-be competitor of Adobe Photoshop (read: with ungh new logo) is now available.

We posted this software last month and I was impressed with the listed features. I hope it won’t dissappoint.

What are you waiting for? Download now!

–aj

UPDATE: I tried it out and what can I say? Not bad, not bad at all. You’ll need to get used to the tools, fonts, colors, layers if you’ve been a die-hard Photoshop fan for the longest time.

Here’s a screenshot of what the UI looks like:

Simple and cool!