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For people who can’t get enough of lists I present to you… The oldest domains on the internet!

Top 10 oldest domains are:
1. 15-Mar-1985 SYMBOLICS.COM
2. 24-Apr-1985 BBN.COM
3. 24-May-1985 THINK.COM
4. 11-Jul-1985 MCC.COM
5. 30-Sep-1985 DEC.COM
6. 07-Nov-1985 NORTHROP.COM
7. 09-Jan-1986 XEROX.COM
8. 17-Jan-1986 SRI.COM
9. 03-Mar-1986 HP.COM
10. 05-Mar-1986 BELLCORE.COM

You can find the whole top 100 list over at theforrester.wordpress.com.

Online businesses can select domain name that suits best to their business from the list of available domain names. Several sites are providing free of cost domain name info including domain name rules and regulations. Online webhosting reviews will help you in finding companies that are providing not only cheap web hosting services to their clients but also offering domain name registration service at discounted rates. Similarly, new web design trends in web designing industry exert a pull on various IT firms, previously dealing in only web hosting, to start web design projects as well.

Online pornographers and religious groups are in a rare alliance as a key Internet oversight agency nears a decision on creating a virtual red-light district through a “.xxx” Internet address. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, which has already rejected similar proposals twice since 2000, planned to vote as early as next week on whether to approve the domain name for voluntary use by porn sites.

Continue to read over at Newsvine.com - And yes, the link is work-safe!

Yes you heard right. Google will start selling domain names. They will be partnering with GoDaddy.com and eNom.

Google said in a statement that it plans to charge customers $10 per domain, per year. It’s a price that includes private registration to protect personal information.

Read more over at internetnews.com

1. A site called “Who Represents” where you can find the name of the agent that represents a celebrity. Their domain name - wait for it - is
www.whorepresents.com

2. Experts Exchange, a knowledge base where programmers can exchange advice and views at
www.expertsexchange.com

3. Looking for a pen? Look no further than Pen Island at
www.penisland.net

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6210g1mtkLs

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What is the right domain for your company? If you can find your company name in a .com, I would get that, though it may not be the best domain to promote your site in advertising campaigns.

If you have a long company name, like say: “thisisareallylongcompanyname.com”. How about “longname.com”. Well, really, it isn’t that long as it said in the name, though it is much shorter and easier to remember.

Another thing that I know companys do is use their slogan in domains and promote that. I think that is a good way, becuase slogans are made to be remembered, and just adding a .com to that wouldn’t be that hard. Common names that are maybe products that the company makes (like bike) or just really common names that is related to what the company offer, are other names that companys like getting. This can really increase their sales. Like is someone goes to bike.com, they maybe looking for a bike to buy.

Another thing is that domains like that could get high rankings in search engines. Just a few things that you may want to remember when looking for a domain, especially for a small business.

Posted by Josh.

That’s how much a domain name can be worth. Guess which domain got soled!? Read more here:

http://xbiz.com/news_piece.php?id=12847

Here are some real companies that have, well, bad domain names. Thanks to Geoffrey Mack over at Alexa - Web Discovery Machine for posting these from the humor portal Snopes.com.

Pen Island - penisland.com
Amgen Italia - amgenitalia.com
Who Represents - whorepresents.com
Experts Exchange - expertsexchange.com
Mole Station Nursery - molestationnursery.com

The links are work-safe.

A pretty good article from Stylegala.com about choosing the right domain name.

Domains are hot again. After the bubble burst in the 90’s, no one ever thought that anyone would pay a 5 years salary for a domain name again. Think again. iFly.com was recently sold for $65.000. Thats not a wild sum, but it’s not a wild domain either. I did read somewhere that creditcards.com was sold for $2.750.000 last year. Someone did a pretty good investment there. I browsed ebay and found that ss.com was up for bidding, and the tag was around $55.000.

http://www.stylegala.com/articles/choosing_a_good_domain_name.htm