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What is SSL? SSL is a concept little understood by most people. Many people ask us, what are the benefits of SSL? How secure is SSL? In this post we try to answer all your questions. SSL stands for Secure Sockets Layer, an encryption technology originally [...]

20th June 2011, 11:14am

It may be summer now, but when the sting of the heat goes away, it’s easy to forget that sun protection, like your online brand needs constant care in any season. To avoid exposing domain names relevant to your business to the eyes of your competitors, read [...]

4th February 2009, 12:41pm

In March and April this year, Google Adwords customers received an email which appeared to be a genuine email from Google requesting the username and password for their Google Adwords account. This was a clear attempt by individuals or groups, known as phishers, [...]

14th July 2008, 3:35pm

There are not many occasions where you can get away with calling someone a quitter. But when it comes to Smokenders, it’s actually their expertise to get people to quit, smoking that is.

16th June 2008, 1:46pm

From 1 June 2008, an .com.au domain name can be marketed and sold to an eligible third party by its current license holder. Australia's Internet domain authority, auDA, has finally ended the anticipation that has been building since news of the policy change was [...]

22nd May 2008, 2:24pm

While premium brands engage in logo wars to win the hearts, minds, and pockets of the consumer market, a battle more explosive than logomania may be unfolding on the Internet with premium domain names.

25th March 2008, 12:07pm

You don't need to deliver kicks and punches like Jackie Chan's to make an impression on the Chinese market. With 800 million searches performed each day, having an online presence on Chinese search engines

8th February 2008, 4:55pm

One readily understands that relevant keywords are crucial to getting targeted hits. Both for SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) and pay-per-click ads.  But how does one construct a list of keywords that are likely to increase the number of interested web surfers?

14th November 2007, 11:32am

When registrations for .com domains began in 1985, a total of six names were registered that year and forty-four more the following year. Two decades later,  there are now more .com domain names registered than there are words in the English language.

31st October 2007, 3:43pm

Melbourne IT Corporate Brand Services (CBS) announced that it has helped Endemol Nederland B. V., producers of the global Big Brother programme, to secure the bigbrother.com domain name which has been owned by another party since October 2004.

20th July 2007, 3:13pm

Do you know how much traffic you could be missing out on when customers mistype your web site address? Misspelt and mistyped domain names can be a risk to your website and impact traffic to your online business.

18th July 2007, 5:05pm