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1. Canadian Porno Pizza Proves Once Again - Sex Sells
Porno Pizza in Winnipeg has been doing brisk business since opening last week, titillating the hungry with racy pictures at the bottom of every pizza box. āThey range from softly-lit, lube-on-the-lens pictures like in Playboy, to raunchy, hardcore photos that would make (porn publisher) Larry Flynt blush,ā pizzeria owner Corey Wildeman said. āThe image is revealed as you eat the pizza.ā
The most noted pioneer in the poop-scooping business is Matthew Osborn, who runs Pooper-Scooper.com. He never knew that this business would one day make him a millionaire. Osborn got started back in 1987 when he opened Pet Butler in Columbus, Ohio. “I had been interested in small-business ideas since I was a kid,” he says. “My friends thought it was an interesting but far-out idea, and many of them just couldn’t grasp the concept. They all said, ‘People aren’t going to pay you for that.’”
3. How Unknown Designer Tricked Stars Into Taking Her Purses To Oscar
It was Friday afternoon, two days before the Oscars, and Lauren Merkin, a little-known New York handbag designer, waited inside her room at the swank Peninsula Beverly Hills hotel, hoping that the $31,000 she had invested in producing a collection of 65 one-of-a-kind “Red Carpet” bags for Hollywood’s biggest evening was about to pay off.
4. The Richest Piano Player You’ve Never Heard About
After ten years of university training in classical piano, Lorie Line finally landed her first job as a professional musician. For $40 a day she was hired to tickle the ivories every afternoon at Dayton’s department store in downtown Minneapolis. Wedged between handbags and lingerie, she serenaded shoppers with a seamless stream of pop tunes - and occasionally gave directions to the restroom - without missing a note. But the young pianist in the glamorous black gown was definitely resourceful. After noticing shoppers lingering around the girdle racks listening to her play, she figured she had the start of a fan club. So she cashed in her husband’s 401(k) and used the $2,000 to record a CD, which she stacked on a corner of the piano to sell. It proved to be as popular as the push-up bra. Within three years she had sold more than $1 million worth in Dayton’s.
5. Pregnant Woman Finds A Strange Way To Make Money Online
When Holly was pregnant a few years back in 1999, she looked for a unique way to tell her friends and family of her pregnancy. Making phone call after phone call to every cousin, aunt and uncle was a daunting task, but she still wanted to share her news with everyone. She hunted through stores and on the Internet and all she could find were birth announcements. Thus, Holly’s idea for Fetal Greetings was born.
6. How To Make Millions Destroying Something
Looney Bins found a market niche by contracting with local Hollywood movie studios to deconstruct movie lots containing wood, cardboard, metal, plastic, and other salvageable items; Looney Bins then sells and/or donates the recovered materials. Some of the uses promoted by Looney Bins have included providing wood to a company that makes reconstituted pallets; reusing Warner Bros. Studios’ telephone poles for the Special Olympics; shipping reclaimed nails, screws, and other building materials to hospitals overseas; and helping a Southern California nursery reuse wood scrap for planter boxes.
7. How To Turn $5000 To $25 Million In 5 Years Selling To ā¦ Babies
Most great ideas are born from a need. The Baby Einstein Company LLC based in Littleton, Colorado, came from Julie Aigner-Clarkās need for a learning tool for her infant daughter. In 1995, this former teacher and new mom read the latest research regarding babiesā capacity to learn. Finding nothing in stores that used the research and that was developmentally appropriate, educational and fun, Aigner-Clark (pictured with daughters Sierra, 3, and Aspen, 6) decided to create something herself.
8. How One Guy Became A Millionaire Selling Antenna Balls
As Jason Wall sees it, success is all about having a ball. Since 1998, Wall has been topping car antennas with happy faces, 8-balls and even cowgirls - complete with braids and hats. Wall is president and CEO of In-Concept Inc., the company behind Antennaballs.com, which manufactures more than 500,000 custom antenna balls per month.
9. How To Make A Ton Of Money From Balsam
Wendy and her husband Jack moved from East Brunswick, New Jersey to Maine in 1979 with a dream of building their own home and have a simple, natural life. Wendy, then 24, even went back to college to study the newest methods of farming in anticipation of their new life because āthat’s what we thought we would do when we came up here.ā Their hope was simply to lead a self-sufficient life. As she puts it, āwe didn’t want to become big farmers.ā The reality, however, was not easy.
10. Big Money In Coming Up With Domains For Others
At the beginning of the ādot comā era you could get paid thousands of dollars for a single domain name if it caught the attention of the right people. Dmitry Davydovās success online went something like this, except he charged a measly fifty dollars for each domain name that he came up with. The buyers liked it since it was risk free and they didnāt have to pay anything if they didnāt like the name. Dmitry liked the idea because every single domain name he sold meant fifty dollars gotten doing something that he enjoyed. Soon enough The San Francisco Chronicle got wind of his story and with the fame came more customers. Crowd sourcing became the next step for Dmitry and the rest is history.
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1. Domain Tasting May Soon Be Banned
THE global internet regulator is investigating domain tasting, the controversial process where users register domain names to test their effectiveness in collecting extra traffic and then cancel the registration before fees become due.
2. Courts Are Starting To Issue Restraining Orders Against Cybersquatters
Companies sometimes find that opportunistic purchasers of domain names (often referred to as ādomainers”), will purchase a domain name quite similar to that of the company, and establish a site at the URL loaded with revenue-generating sponsored ads. To accomplish these purposes, domainers seem to prefer the services of companies like HitFarm and Domain Sponsor. A web user types in the confusingly similar URL and is bombarded with pop-up ads and sponsored links to goods and services, often competitive to the company whose name or trademark is being appropriated in the URL.
3. Russia fights with ICANN to save .SU domain name
The US organization that oversees the web’s structure, ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), wants to kill of the .su domain that was assigned to Russia just 15 months before the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991. The new domain assigned to Russia is, of course, .ru which is the most popular domain but many Russian organizations continue to register and use the older .su domain, partly because of its nostalgia.
4. Iraq.Com Is On Sale On Sedo. Current Bid Is $560,000
The domain name Iraq.com is up for auction at domain name aftermarket Sedo, and is currently bid up to the equivalent of $560,000 USD. Eight bidders have staked a claim, but the reserve price hasnāt been met. On the plus side, you donāt have to set foot in Iraq to own a piece of the country by buying this domain. Unfortunately, buying Iraq.com doesnāt come with any oil rights.
5. Grassroot Effort Started To Give New York City Its Own Domain Name (.NYC)
Is it time for the big city to start cornering a piece of the Internet? A growing grassroots movement says yes, and is trying to create a “.nyc” domain name to go alongside the dot coms and dot orgs of the World Wide Web. “When Ford introduced their first car 100 years ago, no one thoughtto start building roads for it,” said Tom Lowenhaupt, an interactive marketing consultant who heads Connecting.nyc, a group he formed to lead the effort. “So we ended up having to tear down miles of the Bronx to build freeways to start accommodating them all. It’s the same thing now. We have the opportunity now to plan for the future and start organizing ourselves and our resources in a responsible way.”
1. Dotcom Falls Into Baby Name Domain
This is a topic close to my heart and I have to say I agree whole-heartedly ā well, it’s a good idea, anyway. Parents are picking baby names based upon the availability of a domain name that matches. For instance, if you want to name your kid John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt, you would check to see if johnjacobjingleheimerschmidt.com was available before settling.
2. Surviving Band Members Battle For Pantera.Com
The surviving members of PANTERA are involved in a legal battle with their former webmaster over the Pantera.com domain name, which once served as the band’s official web site (since February 2003, PANTERA’s official web site has been located at www.officialpantera.com). According to the Justia.com legal portal, which maintains a database of Federal District Court filings and dockets, Pantera.com webmaster Leif Alfenas filed a lawsuit.
3. Are Domain Names Overrated?
Last week a newborn baby left the hospital with a birth certificate reading āBennettPankow.comā. Well not exactly. As reported in story by The Associated Press, Mark Pankow, father of Bennett Pankow, registered the internet domain name.
4. Lower Prices Result In Surge Of Chinese Domain Name Registrations
An aggressive price promotion in China of website domain names with the “.cn” top-level domain helped spur a fivefold increase in the number of websites using the suffix, according to the company that operates many of the web’s core directories.
5. How To Transfer A Domain Name
The first thing to do is to log into the old registrar, where the domain is currently being managed, and make sure the domain is not locked and that all the registration information is correct. This is important because the domain registry information is used during the transfer process, so make sure the email address listed is yours (or you have access to it). From here, log into the new registrar and request a domain transfer. This is where complications arise, as the registrars look for verification that you are the owner of the domain.
6. What’s a perfect domain anyway?
We all know the Internet is an endless spring of community, entertainment, commerce and information. Unlike traditional mediums (print, TV, radio, brick and mortar businesses), the web promotes interaction by enabling everyone with a computer and a connection to cautiously dip their toes or cannonball full force into the world’s biggest pool party. Encouraging that do-it-yourself spirit in each of us are an endless line of designers, programmers and hosts who are anxious to assist even the most technically timid to sprout wings with their own site. However, you’ll never make it out of the nest if you don’t have the perfect domain name for your site. And thus, the search begins.
7. Top 30 Underused Great Domain Names
These are all great domain names … but the sites suck. It’s either ads, nothing or half-dead web pages. Too bad because, as you’ll see, most of these domains are AWESOME and cost quite a lot.
8. Typo-squatter faces 20 years in jail
A man in Nevada is facing a possible 20 years in jail after trying to defraud people out of their domain names. David Scali pleaded guilty in court to a charge of mail fraud after being caught out in the scam. Scali registered an email under a false name and pretended to be an intellectual property lawyer, threatening $100,000 lawsuits unless domain name holders signed over their property within 48 hours.
9. Tiny Pacific Island Gets Its Fair Share Of Domain Money
Just as the United Kindgom was given the ā.ukā suffix for use in website addresses, Tokelau was granted the ā.tkā suffix for its website addresses. In 2001, the islandās government was approached by Joost Zuurbier, an internet entrepreneur, with a view to his company licensing the rights to the website extension and sharing some of the revenue generated from these sites with the Tokelau government and its people.
10. Contextual advertising litigation heats up
Previous litigation against contextual advertising involved adware companies that delivered pop-up advertisements promoting competitorsā Web sites when Internet users visited sites such as Overstock.com and 1-800 Contacts.com. Those cases had mixed results, with some courts finding that such business practices constituted legitimate comparative advertising no different than displaying low-cost generic brands next to name brands on grocery store shelves. The most recent iteration in this line of cases comes from American Airlines, which sued Google in August for selling advertisements on search results pages for āAmerican Airlinesā to Web sites promoting cheap airfare.
How do I find website name? Where do I get website name ideas? That’s the question a lot of people are asking today. Let’s look at some options.
Naming agency, as the name implies, is a company that names products, companies, domains and so on for you. Branding and advertising agencies frequently offer the same type of service.
First, you have to decide what you want from your name. Some people arenāt sure about future scope of activity of the company they are starting, so they want a name that wonāt be too restrictive. Others want a name that conveys a specific message ā like 9 Dollar Haircuts or 24/7 Plumbing.
As soon as you do that, you’ll start getting hundreds of website name ideas. All suggestions you get will be available for registration (i.e. unregistered). And if you don’t like any suggestions, the money returns to you.
5. Brand Naming
The first thing people think about when naming brand is searching for naming or branding agency. Unless you have thousands of dollars to through away, this is THE WRONG WAY to go.
Running out of domain name ideas? Have you tried all the usual online naming venues, like domain name generators and expired domain lists with no success?
7. Business Name Ideas, Company Name Ideas
Looking for business name ideas? Pickydomains.com is worldās first risk-free naming agency that opened its doors in 2007 and has come up with thousands of cool business and domain names, like GymGenius.com, Xutta.com, Geomium, Eyes On Fries Diets or GetMapped.Com since then.
BenePark.Com is a recently launched Finnish domain parking service where 90% of all accepted sites get at least $5 in ad revenue each and every month. This is 5 to 10 times the industry average. Most parking services (like Sedo.com, for example) simply load the page with ads, which immediately leads to Google downgrading domain to a ājunkā status. Which, in turn, leads to domain being omitted in the search engine results. And that means that such companies are capable of monetizing type-in traffic only.
BenePark.Com takes a different approach. First, domains have to be approved, prior to being accepted into the system. Then BenePark turns an empty domain into a regular webpage. This is done by placing relevant content onto the page, which is not limited to text only ā videos, for example, are added as well. As a result of this ātransformationā, domains parked with BenePark turn into regular sites. Because content is updated and new links are been placed for the parked domain, search engines start treating them as regular sites. Which means that type-in traffic isnāt the only type of traffic for BenePark domains, as over time domainās pagerank and search engine traffic increase.
If you have domains youāve purchased and donāt plan to develop soon, consider parking them with BenePark.com