For the last decade or so, I’ve produced and developed a number of websites spanning a various niches.

Of course, most of these websites are considered to be local or hyperlocal niches — riches are in the niches.

Whether my own websites or websites in general, no website is 100% protected from content plagiarism and copyright infringement.

It’s now weeks before the 2nd Annual MERGE! Conference — a digital asset conference event gathering a number of different conferences under a single roof and with a common access pass.

As a new conference bursting onto the domain conference scene in its inaugural debut last year, I wasn’t sure what to expect although I had attended insightful events, DNHouston and DNSeattle, leading up to it.

Little did I realize, MERGE! was perfect “next” event and stepping stone to have attended. I encourage all to consider attending MERGE! this year — especially domain investors — based on the following 5 reasons:

Whether you’re a novice or expert domain investor, we’re all faced with many decisions on a daily that can greatly impact the profitability of a domain portfolio.

One decision that eludes most domain investors is simple, yet soul stirring question:

What will happen to your digital estate when you die?

Not only should domain investors consider their domain portfolio, but what will happened to your social profiles, personal and business websites, email, and the list of digital assets goes on?

Specifically, if you invest in domain names, what will happen to and with your domain portfolio upon your exit from this life?

If you own a website and long for it to rank well across major search engines — specifically the “Great Google”, then you’ve likely heard or come into contact with Keyword Planner. And if not, then you need too!

Whether attempting to pinpoint the right set of keywords to rank for, or evaluating the estimated pay-per-click (PPC) cost of keywords for ads, Keyword Planner has become the goto tool of choice amongst a sea of paid and non-paid keyword tool options — KeywordSpy, SpyFu, BuzzSumo, SEMRush, Ahrefs, Wordsteam.

Yup, it’s the second week of the month and you know what time it is, right? That’s right! It’s time for Verisign’s Top Trending Keywords Report.

Moments ago, Verisign published to its blog July’s trending keywords registered for .com and .net domains.

Week after week, day after day I research a couple of hundred, if not thousand, domain names entering into expiring auction across 4-5 aftermarket platforms — GoDaddy, NameJet, SnapNames and DynaDot. Many factors are used to determine the perceived value of a given domain I desire to bid on in expiring auction.

Today, I’d like to share with you a tool good for determining a factor of online health for a given domain.  In addition, it’s a great tool to determine whether or not your website’s domain or domain used for email is blacklisted.

Here we are closing out a Tuesday with Hump Day fast approaching, and GoDaddy has found a way to bring small business websites throughout the world using their WordPress and Classic web hosting packages to a complete halt.

I knew something went wrong when I received a flurry of emails close to 5PM EST about a number of customer websites being down.

I really didn’t pay much attention because I saw most were back up in a matter of 5 minutes or less.

Then came the knockout punch some 15 minutes later when every last customer website I support was displaying the dreadful WordPress error message: