Archive for the 'Websites' Category

‘The owners of Weather.com have understood the power of domain names for years. ‘

Fusible.com posted an interesting article about Weather.com and its history.  The article is entitled, ‘More Popular than Twitter: Weather.com, a brief history of a Year-round Category-Killer Domain’.  It says that the Website is ‘the 25th most popular website in the United States’.  Weather.com is indeed one of the domain names that I type in directly [...]

Clothes.com, Zappos.com and Amazon.com

The article (written by Erick Shonfeld), ‘When Amazon Bought Zappos, Clothes.com Also Came In The Box’, on TechCrunch.com tells about the new relationship between these three domain names.  In a nutshell, Amazon paid $928 million for Zappos (the business) and inherited the domain name, Clothes.com (which had been purchased last year for 4.9 million).
Why [...]

Hosting Packages that can’t be beat!

I have used 1and1.com for about four years and have been quite pleased with their service.  I prefer Moniker.com for registering names but for hosting I couldn’t be more pleased with 1and1.com.  If you order services by May 31st you can get some unbelievable deals.  These include:

web hosting packages are 50% off
99 cent domain names
50% [...]

Benefits of a Good Website for Small Businesses

Gladys Edmunds wrote for USA Today.com a great article entitled, “Tightrope: A good website is a great asset” where she shares lessons she learned from visiting a Website discovered via a friend.