I was recently invited by PROFIT Magazine to judge their third annual Innovations @ Work Awards. The awards are designed to celebrate the spirit of innovation among Canadian small businesses, to give broad public recognition to small business innovators and to identify innovation role models and strategies that can help other entrepreneurs launch successful businesses…
JuliannaBelow are my “top picks” from this week’s CIRA’s to-be-released domains list. These names will be released May 5th, 2010. We publish our “top picks” list each week after CIRA publishes its latest batch of expiring dot-CA domains (aka to-be-released or TBR ). More domains are added to the TBR each day until the date…
Cybele NegrisAs a long time supporter and sponsor of the New Ventures BC Competition, Webnames.ca would like to congratulate the following 134 companies shortlisted to round 2 of the competition. Judges of the competition will whittle down this list to only 40 companies May 10th. The companies advancing to Round 2 in alphabetical order are: “Greedy…
John DemcoFirst IDN Top-Level Domains Approved – The ICANN Board has approved the delegation of the first four IDN ccTLDs: рф (xn--p1ai, “R.F.”) representing the Russian Federation, السعودية (xn--mgberp4a5d4ar, “Al-Saudia”) representing Saudi Arabia, امارات (xn--mgbaam7a8h, “Emarat”) representing the United Arab Emirates, and مصر (xn--wgbh1c, “Misr”) representing Egypt. New Second-Level Domain Names Considered for Australia – auDA,…
Cybele NegrisIf you missed Malcolm Gladwell’s presentation at Vancouver’s F5 EXPO on April 7th, here’s a chance to participate in a second screening. Many people disagreed with Gladwell’s perspective on social media. His mile wide and inch deep philosophy may be accurate, but he failed to look at the benefits of a mile wide network…
Webnames.ca StaffA WordPress Newbie Sets up her First WordPress Website! Here at Webnames, we are bullish for WordPress. We’re helping any and all of our customers get their webhosting set up so it can take a WordPress install. My personal website was done in WordPress but I had the help of our web designer to get…
JuliannaBelow are my “top picks” from this week’s CIRA’s to-be-released domains list. The TBR for April 21 has tonnes of great names, so prebook early. We publish our “top picks” list each week after CIRA publishes its latest batch of expiring dot-CA domains (aka to-be-released or TBR ). More domains are added to the TBR each…
An Illustrated Guide to Setting up AdSense for your .TEL If like many of us, you invested in a few .TEL names that you hope to sell one day, you might have been interested in Telnic’s announcement that from the beginning of April, they would be supporting Google AdSense. Google AdSense is the program that…
John DemcoSome domain name items from the past week: The .fr registry AFNIC has published a paper called “The Secondary Market in Domain Names”. The paper presents a clear description of concepts and issues in this rapidly growing area. CIRA has announced that ArtSchoolReviews.ca is the winner of CIRA’s ShowUsYour.CA video contest. Runners up were DringDring.ca…
Webnames.ca StaffI do a lot of research on the trends in Social Media and where its future may lay. Professional marketers bang on and on about how it is time consuming for companies to be involved in social media with no clear return on investment. Large and small businesses are jumping into social media for more…
Cybele NegrisAs the province’s largest and most prestigious awards night, the Technology Impact Awards Dinner celebrates the achievements of BC’s most innovative and dynamic technology companies. Over 700 senior representatives of the technology and business community will attend this impressive night of awards and recognition. Plan to join in the celebration! This event will be a great networking…
Cybele NegrisAs a sponsor of the New Ventures BC 2010 Competition, Webnames.ca can refer up to 5 technology companies to attend the seminar series for free (does not include entry fee for NVBC Competition). And we want to refer you! [Learn more about the competetion] Simply Tweet this post on Twitter or email…
Cybele NegrisWebnames.ca wants you to know about an incredible opportunity that we are proud to sponsor: The New Ventures BC Competition. New Ventures BC is one of North America’s largest technology business-idea competitions. The five-month, four-round competition includes a unique mix of business education, networking and mentoring. It’s like a boot camp for business start-ups. Participants will: Learn from…
JuliannaThe BBC recently posted an article about the first .COM registration way back in 1985. To put this in perspective, 1985 was the same year ‘Back to the Future’ was released. The first .COM domains registered were: 1. 15-March-1985 SYMBOLICS.COM (Their Wikipedia page is a great snapshot of the era.) 2. 24-April-1985 BBN.COM 3. 24-May-1985…
Webnames.ca StaffOn March 5th, Cybele published her secrets to high page rank for her dot tel. Given the incredible rank she achieved with Cybele.tel, I asked her to wave her magic wand at Webnames.tel as it was sow’s ear rather than a silk purse. On March 11th, she updated the information and enhanced the listings. Twenty…
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