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10 Questions to Ask Before Buying A Domain

Published March 27, 2007

Over at the Tucows Blog my boss, company President and CEO Elliot Noss wrote a great piece offering 10 Questions To Ask Before You Pick Your Domain Name Registrar.

Many people don’t give a second thought to WHO they are buying their domain names for. They go with the cheapest, what they’ve “always used”, or whatever is offered with the services they’re looking to buy without much thought to the incredible value that domain names represent these days.

If you own domain names or have to buy domain names as part of your job, you owe it to yourself to read Elliot’s post.

BTW: Elliot’s post hit Digg.com today (digg it here) and made it to Techmeme.

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QotD – How Much Visitor Information Can We Share?

Published September 28, 2006

Today’s QotD is directly related to you, our esteemed reader, and me, the publisher of One Degree:

Through the email addresses of our subscribers and the IP addresses of site visitors we can create a list that reads like the who’s who of Internet marketing agencies and clients in Canada. I’d love to publish these to show potential sponsors the quality of our readership. But I hesitate because the information, while general and aggregated, seems like something people might consider sensitive. For example, I could say “people from FedEx and BlastRadius visit our site weekly.” Is that an invasion of privacy and inappropriate disclosure?

Discuss.

BTW, the feedback here will largely make the decision for me on what I do in fact publish – so make your case if you feel strongly one way or the other!

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