It’s Shrove Tuesday today so instead of thinking about the many ways we can combine this with domain registration (and there are lots) we’ve decided to simply give our readers a simple recipe for creating the perfect pancake instead.
1. Mix eggs, flour, sugar and salt to a paste. Slowly add the milk mixing continuously until it becomes the consistency of paint. You may not need to add all of the milk for this.
2. Pour into a flat, hot, buttered pan. Lift the pan moving the mixture so that it evenly coats the base of the pan to form a thin pancake
3. After about 2 minutes the pancake should be loose. Tease the edges and then with a rolling motion, toss the pancake and catch it again to cook the other side for approx 1 minute
So after all those pancakes if your still looking for something to do tonight you could always take a look at our domain names (opps – we linked it)
The Australian Football league has become the first Australian brand to publically announce that they will be applying for a top level domain name.
The application window to apply for a new TLD ends on April 12th and so far brands such as Canon, Unicef and Hitachi have announced to the public their intentions to apply for their own TLDs.
The Australian Football league are applying for their .AFL domain ending to provide the sport its own platform to deliver content and engage with the sports audience. They also recognise that the registration will safeguard and protect the AFL brand.
General manager of AFL marketing and strategy said “We are making major investments in the digital media and fan development space and the decision to apply for ‘dot AFL’ supports this initiative,”
ICANN won’t be releasing a list of applications received until some time after the applications for new TLD close, but as big brand already start to announce their interest we are getting more excited about seeing who has submitted applications.
We always say it, when registering your domain name always take time choosing your name. We’ve come across some examples of domain names where time may not have been on the right side…… Take a look, some domains are funny, some just bizzare and well some just plain wrong.
Some Just bizzare……
This domain name simply answers it’s own question. What the owner of this one was trying to achieve who knows – it certainly captured our interest though
Creating a website, puts you ahead of the game, but it doesn’t automatically mean that your site will attract visitors. To do that you need to start appearing in the search engines (Google, Yahoo or Bing). To be indexed within search engines in can take weeks or months, so don’t expect this to happen instantly now that your new site is live.
One of the best ways to promote your site in the search engines is with back linking. This means getting an existing website (that ideally has similar content to your own) to link back to you. That way the search engines start to view your site as a knowledgeable source of information, that others regard highly.
It’s important to know that SEO takes real work. You’re going to have to give it some thought and you almost certainly are going to have to make changes to the pages in your site.
Register your site with Google Analytics and monitor the behavior of your visitors. Take with it the knowledge of where your customer are entering and exiting from and learn how to interpret that and make any necessary changes to your website.
This will take time and you may want to adjust things after a few months as you start to see results.
Remember in the hard months ahead of you that the Internet is a great potential market but you need to invest time and effort in promoting your site and understanding your visitors behavior if you want it to be successful. SEO is a good way of doing this but it won’t be instant, it’s something that builds over time.
As of January 2012 there were 133,727,968 global top level domain names registered, a continued increase year on year.
Taking a look at the registration figures for some gTLDs as they stood in January 2012 we see that .com remains unchallenged as the favorite and most popular global extension.
(opps – we linked it)
