GE Owns Several Domains of Fictional Websites Referenced On Television Shows of Subsidiary NBC

February 15, 2012

Yesterday I wrote about my curious finding that General Electric Company owns the domain PokerFastlane.com. Still struggling to find some connection between the two, my next step was to sleuth Google for some answers.  A search for the domain PokerFastlane.com revealed numerous hits referencing a quote from another television show called 30 Rock.  Here was [...]

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Is General Electric Getting Into The Online Poker Business?

February 14, 2012

One of the company’s curious domain holdings would have you wonder … I’m not sure where exactly this story begins, so let’s start with PokerFastlane.com.  The domain’s registrant is none other than General Electric Company (GE).    Registrant: General Electric Company Domain Administrator 3135 Easton Turnpike Fairfield, CT 06828-0001 US Email: domain.admin@ge.com Registrar Name….: CORPORATE [...]

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WordPress Plugin ‘My Domain List’ Releases New Pro Version With Enhanced Features

February 13, 2012

My Domain List is a WordPress plugin which allows users to easily implement a way to list their domains for sale from any WP website.  Once the plugin’s settings are configured and you’ve uploaded a list of domains, displaying the domains for sale on your website is as easy as entering a simple piece of [...]

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Don’t Be Too Quick To Judge an Odesk Contractor’s Test Score Until You’ve Taken the Test Yourself

February 12, 2012

I’m attempting to hire a writer for one of my developed websites.  I’ve been using Odesk to subcontract other types of work for a while now, so I turned to them to seek some help. The site I’m hiring for is about distance learning at the University level, so it’s pretty important that the person [...]

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Your Non-performing Domain Could Be Blocked By the Upstream Feed Provider

February 11, 2012

Feed providers may block a domain at any time and the parking provider has no way to know This may not be news for some of you, but I just learned about it.  About five months ago I picked up an expiring domain with traffic in a very high paying vertical.  Since then I’ve been [...]

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Sedo Should Open a Premium .ME Domain Auction For Public Submission

February 10, 2012

As I blogged about yesterday, the results of this month’s .ME domain auction over at Sedo.com were nothing less than fabulous, tallying north of $340k in total sales, with more than 50% of auction inventory sold. Over the past year Sedo has been holding a regular series of .ME domain auctions in coordination with the [...]

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Sedo .ME Domain Auction Results

February 9, 2012

Sedo’s February .ME domain name auction sponsored by the .ME Registry ended a short while ago at Sedo.com.  Read the results below. There were 178 .ME domains up for auction, and of those, at least 94 closed at prices above their reserve range.  That is better than 50% of domains sold. (Note: this number may [...]

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Go Daddy Quickly Ammends New Arduous Bulk Search Feature

February 8, 2012

(Editor’s forward to this article: The screenshot taken below and the proceeding details were dated from January 25th.  While writing this article and double-checking some facts today (yes, I actually fact-check each of my posts prior to publishing) … it appears that the feature in question is no longer present, and has been updated to [...]

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