The shock news late yesterday that the News of the World was to close came as a surprise for many, however, this was clearly not news to some. I will not comment on the rights or wrongs of the owners of the paper closing it down, nor the alleged activity in that paper over the …
Tag Archive: Domain Names
May
04
Duke And Duchess Of Cambridge Domains
While watching the royal wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton recently, it was announced that they would become the Duke and Dutchess of Cambridge. It appears that the .co.uk domain names for those titles have been registered for some time, and not by the royal family. I have taken a punt and bought the .org.uk versions …
Feb
27
A Basic Search Engine Optimisation Introduction A WordPress View
Search Engine Optimisation or SEO for short is a hugely complex field, often controversial, but always changing. In the most basic terms SEO is making your site attractive to Search Engines. It is a game of chess played by web masters with the search engines, where web masters try and work out what the search …
Jan
16
Alternative Vote Referendum Domain On Auction
I have several domains that would be great for a campaign for or against the Alternative vote referendum. One of those domains I have at auction on dnviper. The domain in question is alternativevotesystem.co.uk. It has one day left and bidding starts at £50, so get your bids in quickly. I also have: alternativevote.co.uk alternativevote.org.uk …
Jan
05
Domain Drop Catching
Although I have dabbled in ‘domaining’ I have never done it for the purposes of domaining, but more to get good domain names for projects I have in mind. Recently I have been using DNViper to catch some good domains that have been suspended and are dropping. I have not been doing this for the …
Nov
03
Over 100 Domain Names For Sale
I have a selection of domains names for sale that I wish to push. If anyone is interested I am open to any reasonable offers for any of these domains. Most of these domains were bought for one reason or another, some have been caught and re-registered but most are hand registered domains that I …
Jul
09
Fasthosts Dns Issues
Fasthosts have had ongoing DNS issues over the last three days. This is very frustrating as one of the domains affected by these problems is my Digitalquill.co.uk domain. Fasthosts did have a message up on their status page about these problems, but this has now been taken down but my domain is still affected. I …
Jun
13
Tablet Pcs
I have been looking at tablet PCs for a while now, the recent launch in the UK of the Apple Ipad has the market buzzing with news stories and reviews and new products from competitors. The Dell Streak or Mini 5 being one of these competitors, I have been running a simple news aggregator website …
May
09
Proportional Representation Domain Names
What with the election result as it is here in the UK and all parties seemingly falling over each other to work with the Liberal Democrats to form the next Government it seems that electoral reform will be the name of the game in the next parliament. I am not going to express any of …
Jan
09
Started Adding Domains Into Domain Name Portfolio
One of the largest chunks of work I lost in the recent server failure was the Domain name portfolio I had setup on Quill Internet. This software enables me to list all the domain names that I own in one place. I want to do this for several reasons, firstly, I use many different registrars …







