In my opinion, an advertising platform powered by Facebook would represent excellent news for our industry. I was one of the first advertisers back when FB launched its self-serve platform (you could only advertise on Facebook and they still haven’t made their platform available to third party publishers) and literally saw how the costs per click evolved from peanuts to impressive.

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It seems that as of this month, PayPal no longer offers international masspay payments at $1 each. Instead of $1, you’ll be paying 2% of the amount that is being sent with a maximum which varies depending on the country you are from and the country you are sending to (in most cases, the maximum seems to be $45).

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I know I have quite a few European readers, just wanted to let you guys know that it’s time to set back your clocks (one hour). Winter time always kicks in on the last Sunday of October and as a domainer, it’s very easy to lose track of these things. So yeah, you’re welcome 🙂

It seems that for some queries, Google is giving you answers instead of simply delivering search results. And I’m not talking about stuff like currency conversions (for example if you perform a search for the term “100 USD to EUR”), I’m talking about actual questions. For example, perform a search for the term “who are the founders of google?” and the following message will be displayed above all search results:

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Sedo’s premium .me auction will start on the 27th of October at 1 PM EST and the .me registry is releasing some impressive domains. If you want to analyze the entire list of domains, click HERE. And here are my picks along with a reason why I like each domain:

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… how do things stand in 2011? Obviously a rhetorical question and the point I’m trying to get across should be quite obvious: if we’re talking about an industry as volatile as the parking business, domain revenue cannot be considered a reliable stand-alone metric for the simple reason that things can (and will) change in a heartbeat.

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Noticed a pretty interesting image which I want to share with you guys (if you earn a living online, I encourage you to check it out), impressive stuff! Want to know what happens in 60 seconds on the Web? Well, over 70 domains are registered, almost 700,000 Google search queries are performed, almost 700,000 Facebook status updates are posted, almost 400,000 minutes in Skype voice calls are made and so on.

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Up until this point, DomainingTips.com was mostly about me posting personal opinions and what not. Well, I’ll still do this but as of today, DomainingTips.com will cover domaining news as well, so you might as well get used to the logo because you will see it quite often 🙂

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… how would you rate your current involvement in the domaining industry at this point and how would you like things to stand in the future? 1 would mean something like “not even a hobby” whereas 10 would mean something like “full time” in an obsessive compulsive way haha.

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I upgraded to Firefox 7 earlier today and at this point, there are two features which make domains stand out: first of all, the http:// part has been removed and this makes it possible for the domain to receive more “attention” (as you can see if you take a look at the screenshot) and secondly, the actual domain (so domainingtips.com, for example) is displayed using a different and more visible color.

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