It’s always interesting to travel back through time, and examine the lifecycle and events of a trending topic, especially when it relates to domains.

Having been entrenched or involved with domains for the last 7-8 years, I find that the domain industry is no exception.

There have been a number of trends — blockchain, crypto, bitcoin, 4L .coms, numeric, and emoji domains, to name a few — that have come, gone, returned, and left once more.

Out of the aforementioned topics, emoji domains are the most intriguing for a number of reasons.

How important or critical is having a sitemap for a website? Extremely important if you ask me.

The obvious current-day need for a website sitemap is more so for SEO purposes. Specifically, search engines crawl the sitemap.

In fact, submitting one’s website sitemap to search engines is one of the first actions to take when launching a website, especially if you desire good ole’ SEO love for Google.

Nevertheless, one of the things likely forgotten or simply done away with is the use of a human-readable HTML sitemap.

It’s been one week since I boarded a plane from Orlando heading back to good ole’ Austin, Texas.

I thought I’d take a moment to share a few thoughts and interactions from my MERGE! 2018 experience.

Day Two opened the doors to many more exhibitors as well as a CMS Summit Keynote from Robert Jacobi, Executive Vice President of Perfect Dashboard.

As with Day One of MERGE!, the day was filled with many sessions and networking opportunities.

If you’re new to the domain investing (even if you’re not), then you likely encounter a how cumbersome of a task it is to identify undervalued domains.

From NameJet to GoDaddy to Dynadot to SnapNames along with many more domain auction aftermarket platforms, identifying and narrowing in on undervalued domains — whether expired, public, private, or closeout — is a full time job in itself.

Thousands of domains expire in auction daily (as a subset of data is shown via DomainState.com chart below), and an unidentified number of those domains go on to be caught, or deleted and made available for hand registration (small percentage, but still happens).

I’m back with another tutorial today that builds on a previous tutorial that instructs you how to change and customize the default WordPress logo displayed on the WordPress login page.

Although I thoroughly discussed and provided code examples and plugins, I forgot to mention one additional aspect not discovered until a customer clicks my customized logo, only to be redirected to WordPress.org. DOH!

If you are prepping to attend NameSummit — A Digital Branding Conference covering geo-domain names, SEO, social media and marketing trends, then you’ll want to make sure check the dates and the updated agenda.

It appears NameSummit NYC has opted to favor cooler fall climate over the scorching summer heat, moving the event from early August to November.