DNCart – Domain Network

Our Domainer’s Community is powered by Mixx an amazing social media and link sharing portal that has rapidly grown in size and popularity over the last year.  The interface is clean, beautiful, quite simple to use and packed with great features like member messaging, tagging, photo and video display, secure voting, message boards, comments and more.

Sign Up For Your Chance to WIN!

The first 50 members to join the Domainer’s Community and comment below on this announcement will be put into a prize giveaway drawing for 2 free domain name registrations at GoDaddy and a copy of “The Domain Game” book!

Comment below with your member username for your chance to win!

• 2 Domain Registrations from GoDaddy.com
• 1 Copy of David Kesmodel’s new book “The Domain Game“

Competitors Lack Many Important Features

Currently the domain industry has three sources which aggregate and deliver domain news.

• DNHour – A website powered by the Pligg script which is plagued by spam links and has virtually no organization or social features. Voting can easily be duped by deleting cookies or voting on different computers.
• Domaining.com – An excellent resource for top domain blogs, but lacks versatility, customization, voting and commentary.
• Discussion Forums – Rarely updated and often only displaying the biggest news items.

The Domainer’s Community is fulfilling the need for a one-stop stable and easy to use domain industry news source.  Please join us and contribute your favorite domaining resources, news, photos and videos.

This article is from DotSauce Magazine – The Domain Industry’s HOTTEST Publication!

Domainer’s News & Media Sharing Community Goes Live!

Seth Coman, Director of Marketing at Modern Domainer Magazine recently posted this announcement about their “Domain Blog Bible.” This issue special will feature the top 12 domaining blogs and DotSauce is honored to be included! We can’t wait to see what Modern Domainer has to say about us!

Domain Blog Bible: Volume 1

Modern Domainer is pleased to announce the launch of our eagerly anticipated Blog Bible Issue (Vol. 1). We’ve scoured the top 12 domaining blogs for the biggest news stories, most insightful observations and hottest tips that the industry’s most respected names have reported in 2007. Volume 1 will feature Sahar Sarid’s The Conceptualist, Rick Schwartz’s Rick’s Blog, Elliot Silver’s Elliot’s Blog, Rick Latona’s RickLatona.com, Mark Fulton’s Dot Sauce and Frank Schilling’s Seven Mile Blog. Also in this issue is an exclusive look at the .ME ccTLD, a legal overview of the Snowe Bill, and all the show coverage and regular columns that you’ve come to love. Volume 2 will feature DomainNews.com amongst others…

So watch your mailbox for our sixth issue with everything you’ll need to break-in, keep up or get ahead. Please visit www.moderndomainer.com for more information and subscription requests.

This article is from DotSauce Magazine – The Domain Industry’s HOTTEST Publication!

Modern Domainer’s “Domain Blog Bible” to Feature DotSauce

It’s not everyday that a company hands out $50 to anyone willing to take it, but today is one of those days!  Facebook is holding a private promotion for their innovative advertising system.  Advertising on Facebook allows you to target very specific niches, age groups, interests, gender, religion, political views and much more.

How to Claim Your Free $50 Credit Code

Naturally, I don’t want this free $50 code to get in the wrong hands or spread like a wild fire, so I have published instructions for redeeming your free $50 credit on the DotSauce Forums in this private thread.  You must first register a username before you can view the private forums.

This code expires on July 7th, so act now!  Registration only takes a minute and you will find many more coupons, discounts and tons of domaining resources, scripts, software and free services.

Domainers Are Taking Over Facebook

Thank you to Omar for sharing this news with me. Omar runs two successful Facebook groups that you should definitely  check out:
Internet Marketing Strategies and the Facebook Domain Name Network.

If you would like more information on the domain industry’s presence on Facebook, please check out this article, “Facebook: Social Domaining” for a list of groups and applications relevant to domainers.

This article is from DotSauce Magazine – The Domain Industry’s HOTTEST Publication!

Free $50 Credit for Facebook Advertising!

The Domains Into Dollars program by Phil Craig has received many great reviews and comments from satisfied customers.  The package features video tutorials and guides for finding available domains, domain sales, and exclusive techniques for monetizing your domains.   Free templates for custom parking pages and eBay domain auctions.

Don’t get me wrong… I’m not here to sell you the program.  I just wanted to let you know that if you visit the site now Phil is offering a free report for anyone interested in his Domains Into Dollars program.

Click here to sign up for your free Domains Into Dollars PDF report.

The report details some of Phil’s background and experience, what it is to be a Domainer today and details the various profit models for domains as well as a bit of info on tasting, traffic, typos and trademarks.

This article is from DotSauce Magazine – The Domain Industry’s HOTTEST Publication!

Free Report from Domains Into Dollars

The third edition of the DotSauce Available Domains Newsletter was sent out yesterday evening.  We’ve had a great response from subscribers who are finding quality .COM domain names.

Providing Quality Over Quantity

Our best measure of success is in what’s taken; About 50 available domain names are delivered every few days and so far over 30 great domains have been claimed and registered!

There are many available domain newsletters floating around the domainersphere, comprised mostly of mediocre names with made up words, non-profitable niches and littered with .NET and other extensions.

We Do the Research, You Develop or Resell

You will clearly see the value in each and every name we publish to the newsletter.  We manually examine and research these expired domains to produce the best quality lists of domains with profit potential through development or resale.

Some names we have found for our subscribers that are now taken…

CreateFlags.com … RetiredUSAF.com … KnickersLingerie.com … ForumPoll.com … BorderlineCrazy.com … EducationalPurposes.com … TechTuesday.com … NewsletterProducer.com … FoundGifts.com … ProfitRoundtable.com … RealDrugStores.com … FreelyGiving.com … RockProdigy.com … ScentedThings.com … OnlineAdvertisingSales.com … FlashMemoryDevices.com … ImpressiveSales.com

…and we believe there are even better names which haven’t been claimed from our list yet!

So go ahead, sign up for free to receive our available domains newsletter.

This article is from DotSauce Magazine – The Domain Industry’s HOTTEST Publication!

Don’t Miss Another Available Domains Newsletter!

DotSauce has always been a strong supporter of the Mozilla Firefox browser. It’s plugins and addons allow web developers and domainers the necessary tools and shortcuts to succeed in our fast paced web industry.

All you have to do is get Firefox 3 during Download Day to help set the record for most software downloads in 24 hours – it’s that easy. We’re not asking you to swallow a sword or to balance 30 spoons on your face, although that would be kind of awesome.

~ SpreadFirefox.com

The official date for the launch of Firefox 3 is June 17, 2008! So go ahead…

and help set a world record by downloading or upgrading to the world’s best browser.

The launch of Firefox 3 represents the next level in browser innovation, security, speed and stability.

This article is from DotSauce Magazine – The Domain Industry’s HOTTEST Publication!

Firefox 3 Download Day: Help Set a Guinness World Record

Joost De Valk, a leader in WordPress plugin development, has recently re-launched his blog under a new brand name “Yoast” which is how his name is phonetically pronounced. With the launch of Yoast.com comes an amazing WordPress SEO guide.

Visit: The Definitive Guide to High Rankings for Your Blog

While I must admit I have not read completely through the article due to it’s comprehensive nature. Virtually everything you could possibly imagine related to optimizing your WordPress based website is included.

The guide is broken down into 7 main optimization points:

1. Basic Technical Optimization
2. Template Optimization
3. Advanced Technical Optimization
4. Altering Your Blog’s Structure for High Rankings
5. Conversion Optimization
6. Comment Optimization
7. Off Site Blog SEO

This is a must read for anyone serious about the success of their blog!

If you like Joost’s WordPress SEO guide then you will love his professional and extremely useful WordPress Plugins. I especially recommend the RSS Footer plugin for anyone who’s blog content is being syndicated elsewhere.

This article is from DotSauce Magazine – The Domain Industry’s HOTTEST Publication!

Yoast’s Deffinitive Guide to WordPress SEO

Joost De Valk, a leader in WordPress plugin development, has recently re-launched his blog under a new brand name “Yoast” which is how his name is phonetically pronounced. With the launch of Yoast.com comes an amazing WordPress SEO guide.

Visit: The Definitive Guide to High Rankings for Your Blog

While I must admit I have not read completely through the article due to it’s comprehensive nature. Virtually everything you could possibly imagine related to optimizing your WordPress based website is included.

The guide is broken down into 7 main optimization points:

1. Basic Technical Optimization
2. Template Optimization
3. Advanced Technical Optimization
4. Altering Your Blog’s Structure for High Rankings
5. Conversion Optimization
6. Comment Optimization
7. Off Site Blog SEO

This is a must read for anyone serious about the success of their blog!

If you like Joost’s WordPress SEO guide then you will love his professional and extremely useful WordPress Plugins. I especially recommend the RSS Footer plugin for anyone who’s blog content is being syndicated elsewhere.

This article is from DotSauce Magazine – The Domain Industry’s HOTTEST Publication!

Yoast’s Definitive Guide to WordPress SEO

Smeego is a newly released content management system that you may mistake for PHP Nuke. The developer sold PHP- Nuke and has since moved on releasing Smeego CMS on June 5th as an open source web portal software. Many PHP-Nuke enthusiasts are already converting.

Business Development Opportunity

Released under the terms of the GNU/GPL license, Smeego can be used to develop commercial web properties at no cost. You can in-turn sell these web properties without any restrictions or licensing troubles. This is a major bonus for web developers of all kinds especially those who are currently developing blogs and businesses on platforms like WordPress. Smeego provides an alternate and promising avenue for developing websites.

User Generated Content & Social Actions

The out-dated concept of the “web portal” is now beginning to merge with social networking features, focusing on users sharing content and contributing to a community of like minded individuals. Smeego champions user powered content with friendly features that allow submissions of blogs, downloads, links, articles and news from your website visitors.

Features and Functionality

• Fully integrated File Downloads manager
• Open submission Links Directory
• Email to Friend and Printer Friendly Pages
• Automatically generated Mobile friendly version
• Theme/template system
• FAQ Manager
• Website Statistics
• Polls and Surveys manager
• Reviews manager (Books, games, etc.)
• Banner Advertising manager

As you can see from the list above, Smeego has some seriously cool features. This comprehensive CMS also has module management. New modules and features will be released by developers in the coming weeks.

Smeego Case Study: XboxMVP.com

Immediately after hearing about the release of Smeego a few days ago I downloaded a copy and choose to give it a go as a development option for my domain, XboxMVP.com which has great community potential.

This project starts off as one of the default templates called “Orange” which comes bundled with Smeego. I did some simple modifications to the CSS style options, then created a graphical logo and header design to replace the default white box and orange slice.

“Blocks” were customized to make their titles more relevant to the Xbox niche. Several blocks (Statistics, Advertising. etc.) were not needed during initial development and were deactivated from public view.

Now all that is left to do is promote and create content which is easily managed through the Reviews, News, Polls, and Stories modules!

This article is from DotSauce Magazine – The Domain Industry’s HOTTEST Publication!

Smeego CMS Goes Live: Is this a Dream Web Development Opportunity?

There are a handful of things we just couldn’t wait to tell you about, so here they are bundled up in this post. You don’t want to miss out on these updates, so take a moment and check it out. Thanks!

Exclusive Domain Industry Newsletters

We are excited to announce that DotSauce will be launching two separate but equally valuable email newsletters for domainers. These newsletters are currently free to subscribe to!

The first, Available Domain Names Newsletter, will feature unique lists of quality .COM domains that are available to register. If you are familiar with our lists from the DotSauce Forums or NamePros, you know that we put time and effort into researching only those names which have development and resale potential.

The second, Discount Domain Deals Newsletter, will feature exclusive discount pricing on quality .COM domains from our extensive inventory. These discounted prices will only be offered to email subscribers.

Subscribe now! Our first messages will be sent out soon.

BQB “Short” Domain Marketplace Contest

The Sony CyberShot Digital Camera Giveaway is still ongoing to promote the launch of the BQB domain marketplace.

If you are a seasoned domainer with greater than 50+ domains or an established reputation on domain industry forums, then now is your chance to win my digital camera!

Currently 11 people have entered, so the odds are quite good!

DotSauce Forums Closes in on 500 Members

While the DotSauce Forums are quite young there is a ton of great content and discussion taking place. Many of our original members were gladly paying $10 per month to access the premium forums which are now absolutely free.

You simply need to register a username to access the private forums. Thank you to all our nearly 500 members for your support of the DotSauce Forums.

Facebook Domain Name Marketplace

DotSauce has launched a Facebook group devoted to buying and selling domain names and websites. While there are hundreds of venues for you to sell your domains, we understand that promoting your sales is always beneficial.

This is intended to be a casual marketplace where you can promote your external auctions or forum sales or sell directly to other Facebook members. Please join the Facebook Domain Marketplace and if you really love us, check out the DotSauce Fan Page!

This article is from DotSauce Magazine – The Domain Industry’s HOTTEST Publication!

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