ZWAH REPORT

Bang! The gun goes off and the rush to claim your name in the live.com space is on! What’s at stake? Well, no longer do you have to suffer as bill10whoohah@hotmail.com, you can get a nice shiny new email under the live.com moniker. One big gripe though, as it related to domain names, is why […]

Don’t you just love Facebook!
I don’t. I’m going to compare the Facebook platform to a Bingo Hall. Here goes:
Facebook is like a Bingo Hall because no matter how many friends, neighbors and random people sign up and join in the fun, everybody is still holding the same boring square game boards. Sure, you can arrange […]

Just noticed a flyer in the breakroom advertising a house for sale (Reduced!). If want to find out more about the house, it says I have to go online to Zillow.com and search for the address… [pause for thought]
How lame is that?! Too bad Zillow doesn’t give out cool URLs, like http://zillow.com/spacious-living/1234. Or anything you […]

Here’s a great post that further ties up the sometimes loose ends of domain names and personal publishing. In that post, Isabel Wang references Jon Udell’s post on “Hosted lifebits” commenting that GoDaddy, Dotster and Demand Media all currently, or have at some point, explored this connection.
This makes sense in the light of my previous […]

I don’t remember if I saw “HangerSpace.com” from an expiring domain list or went looking for it after reading Sahar’s post about clothes hanger advertising, but it surfaced again — this time in an email from the DomainTools domain monitor robot.
That email came at 7:00am today, but I lazily came to grab the domain at […]

What’s playing at some of the 100,000 new sites launched by Marchex? Probably a lot more than you think and likely right next door. If you live in Los Angeles, one way to find out is to google “Your unique local guide to” “los angeles”, and examine the results. You’ll see a lot of websites […]