When it comes to website addresses, the more memorable the better. Experience suggests that website names of three characters are amongst the easiest for visitors to remember which is why three letter domain names are so popular. However with demand … Continued
A recent survey suggests that 70% of UK online Christmas shoppers will choose a high street store to spend their money if online stores perform badly. This means that websites that are slow to load, or are poorly designed not … Continued
When establishing a website, most businesses will have given careful thought to choosing a domain name that suits. This could be a website address that matches the company’s name, a specific product or another term that fits with the company’s … Continued
The UK capital has become one of the first cities in the world to successfully secure its own gTLD domain name after ICANN signed off its application. London now joins New York, Berlin, Vienna and Paris as one of the … Continued
With so many factors affecting search engine rankings, businesses need to carefully consider how their website is assembled, where it is hosted and who links to it. Get the combination wrong and your website’s position in the search results could … Continued
A long running court case between domain name registrar GoDaddy and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) has moved to a new stage, with a judge ruling that trademarks relating to the “Oscars” movie awards had been … Continued
The rush for new global Top Level Domains (gTLDs) has seen a number of potentially awful variants registered with ICANN already. Here is our pick of the most dubious. .cheap Although consumers appreciate low prices, the word “cheap” has become … Continued
When choosing hosting for your company’s website, one of the choices you face is whether to go with shared web space or a dedicated webserver. Using shared web space, your website sits on a shared server where it uses a … Continued
After the first part of this article you could be forgiven for thinking there was nothing left to learn about the website addressing system. But here are five more facts for your next pub quiz. 1. Google.com was a mistake … Continued
With so many of them around (147,158,378 at the last count), there are a lot of little-known facts about domain names. Here are the first five of ten things you probably didn’t already know about them (Part Two to follow … Continued
