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Do you want to win over $2,500 in prizes?

2008-06-02T16:16:00.000-07:00

HostingRealm is running a contest with all sorts of prizes. The prizes are comprised of shared hosting accounts, reseller hosting accounts, virtual private servers, dedicated servers, and more! m

Prizes for the contest

A basic VPS for 3 months donated by Crissic Solutions, LLC (A $59.97 value)

A business shared hosting plan for 1 year donated by Crissic Solutions, LLC (A $95.88 value)

A business reseller hosting plan for 1 year donated by Crissic Solutions, LLC (A $143.88 value)

A US1 free for 3 months donated by HostingForYou (A $71.85 value)

An advanced reseller for 1 year donated by HostingForYou (A $311.88 value)

A gold shared hosting plan for 1 year donated by MidnightSoftware (A $305.88 value)

An Inter VPS for 3 months donated by Steadcom (A $134.85 value)

A stellar shared hosting plan for 1 year donated by Exact-Hosting (A $58.99 value)

One free domain registration for 1 year donated by Exact-Hosting (A $9.99 value)

Two copies of the Domaining Manifesto donated by John Motson (A $54.00 value)

Two Shared 0.5 plans for 1 year donated by Fused Hosting (A $23.40 value)

Two Shared 0.75 plans for 1 year donated by Fused Hosting (A $23.40 value)

One VPS6 for 1 month donated by Atjeu (A $85.00 value)

One Swamp plan for 1 year donated by HostGator (A $155.40 value)

One Basic shared hosting plan for life donated by Cirtex Hosting

One Bronze shared hosting plan for 6 months donated by AYKSolutions (A $83.40 value)

One Starter reseller hosting plan for 6 months donated by AYKSolutions (A $119.80 value)

One 6 month server management plan donated by BlueTrident (A $300.00 value)

One [cx]Argon VPS donated by CreativeVPS (A $128.85 value)

Three gigadeal shared hosting plans for 3 months donated by JaguarPC (A $53.73 value)

Two partner plus reseller accounts for 1 month donated by JaguarPC (A $39.94 value)

One freedom VPS hosting account for 2 months donated by JaguarPC (A $79.94 value)

How It Works

Now that you have read the prizes and are hooked on the contest, let's explain how it works.

This contest will last forty five days, and end on July 16, 2008. All of the prize drawings will be done randomly. Drawings will be held in a chat room, the location is to be announced at a later point. Each point is one entry in the drawing. You can obtain more entries in the drawing by accumulating more points.

You can earn points in many ways:

Any social bookmark (Digg, StumbleUpon, Furl, Delicious, etc.) is worth one point

Making a blog post about this contest on your site in your own words is worth two points

Making a blog post about this contest on your site by using our post is worth three points

Subscribing to our newsletter is worth one point

Stay tuned for more ways to earn points, they will be announced during the next few weeks via the newsletter and with posts there.

When you have completed one of these tasks, leave a comment here saying what you have done and post URL's so they may verify it.

Good luck to everyone!

Interesting new Concept I just found

2008-05-07T16:33:00.001-07:00

Bodzo is a new search engine and way to advertise your site.

It is an interesting idea, so I added my Minisite.info using the Tag “minisite”

PayPal mandatory, says eBay Australia

2008-04-18T13:34:00.001-07:00

PayPal mandatory, says eBay Australia

ONLINE auction website eBay is using Australia as a guinea pig to trial a new policy where all other modes of payment are barred except its own transaction gateway, PayPal.
Direct deposits, personal cheques and money orders will no longer be payment options from June 17. This is the first time these restrictions will be imposed by eBay anywhere in the world and could be enforced in other markets in the future.

Buyers will have to pay for items via PayPal, cash-on-delivery or Visa and MasterCard debit and credit cards but these transactions would be processed by PayPal as well.

My Posted response to this news item and the many short-sighted comments
is the following quote

Err Guys, most of you are forgetting one very important point.
eBAY is a Commercially run Website not a GodGiven Right.
Talking about government intervention is Madness
You don't want another Snowe style Bill controlling internet usage.

I think eBay profits will increase in time because of this policy.
Confidence of the average eBay/Paypal user will increase due to the better control of transactions.eBAY has better chance of tracking and ensuring safe transactions via PayPal than any using alternative methods.

eBAY owns/control PayPal ,it does not have access to all the other methods people use online to track the transactions.
Requiring exclusive use of Paypal for eBay transactions is no different than Australian Government Requiring Exclusive Use of their own issued banknotes and coinage for payment of goods/service. No-one in Australia can print their own banknotes and than expect them to be usable by others.

Any store can issue their own internal coupons/voucher/ StoreCash/ChargeCards / Whatever ,but will not / cannot expect to accept the same things issued by the oppostion store across the road.

If you don't like their policies ,LEAVE.
If that affects eBay profits,then eBay will/may re-consider the policy
My prediction is an initial 10-20% user reduction ,than a general increase to even higher level of usage than at present.

Australian Domaining And the Future

2008-04-06T00:10:00.001-07:00

An article in Sydney Morning Herald recently stated that there is no real future in Reselling Australian Domains .
This is so wrong on several levels.
UK and German Markets provide a valuable insight into the potential market in Australian Names. German Sites that have been succesful include ebay.de and Sedo.de

.DE and .Co.UK have become almost as valuable as the .com & .net Equivalent Names.
So I think .Com.au and .Net.au could achieve a very high resale value.
Any Keyword Name regardless of the ccTLD is valuable. So any good Keyword .Com.au or .Net.au will naturally be in demand. With 1million Plus .Com.au's Registered before the change in auDA policy, a Massive market for New registrations and Aftermarket sales awaits.

One unusual aspect of the new policy is a requirement for any Australian Domain being resold to be at least 6 Months since originally registered. This opens up new markets in Australia for a combination Short term Parking & Sale listing site similiar to Sedo. Another opening is the development and marketing of a minisite style site as an alternative to parking it.

N.B. Anyone needing to register Australian Names needs to be an Australian resident /Registered Business

For further Information and Resources about Australian Domaining, check out my new domaining WebSite Domainer.Net.Au

Great News

2008-03-28T05:52:00.000-07:00

Dogablog.com.au Has shifted and is now hosted by Blogger.com
Why the shift?
Simple economics
Google has a lot more space than my hosting and is easier to expand the site

Various Ways To Make Money With Domain Names

2008-02-19T04:42:00.000-08:00

By David Underhill

As more people and companies than ever are investing in domain names, it has become evident that not all of these names will realise their full income earning potential. As a Domain reseller and investor with a reasonable sized portfolio ,I have often been asked the best way to make money from these investment domains.

Read the Rest of this exciting and informative article at www.minisite.info