Guest Writers wanted for website / domain names / entrepreneuship / technology website

Guest Writers wanted for website / domain names / entrepreneuship / technology website

TechFilipino has grown over the past few months into the PR3 status, it has been a truly a rewarding experience to be able to learn and to share that to thousands of people online. TechFilipino is now open for guest writers…

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Domain Names: Office.COM is now Microsoft Office’s official website

Domain Names: Office.COM is now Microsoft Office’s official website

Domainers have been longing for large companies to see the power of domain names and start investing in them. We now welcome Microsoft’s recent acquisition of the domain name Office.COM, It’s a premium and generic domain name that will surely boost their Microsoft Office products…

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Online Advertising Opportunities for website / domain names / entrepreneuship / technology website

Online Advertising Opportunities for website / domain names / entrepreneuship / technology website

TechFilipino has been up and running since January of 2009, it has been a fun and fulfilling experience writing and talking daily about my interests in the tech particularly the online industry focusing on websites (web 2.0), domain names, entrepreneurship, and technology. TechFilipino has now grown into PR3 status with 264 posts (as of August [...]

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Domain Name Investment: Monetizing Sub domain names

Domain Name Investment: Monetizing Sub domain names

For us, domainers, it would be great to make the most revenues from our domain name investments. We’ve all been used to buying & selling, PPC campaigns, Affiliate Marketing, renting domain names but nothing on leasing ‘parts’ of our domain names. This basically means using a certain subdomain (Example Domains.techfilipino.com)…

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Philippines Companies are now switching to PH Domain Names

Philippines Companies are now switching to PH Domain Names

What’s really interesting lately is what I’ve been noticing with Filipino Companies’ domain names, they suddenly start to make sense. Instead of going with the gTLD (Global Top Level Domain Names), like .COM, they’ve started to open up for our local ccTLD (Country Code Top level Domain Names), which is the .PH or .COM.PH. Finally [...]

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Domain Name Investment: How many domain names should we buy or register?

Domain Name Investment: How many domain names should we buy or register?

One of the questions that I wanted to know when I started investing in Domain Names is “How many domain names should we buy or register?”. I wanted to know whether I was investing way too much or too little. When I read some of the domainer’s stories, some of them had a good hundred [...]

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Death of Web 2.0: Professional Content vs User Generated Content

Death of Web 2.0: Professional Content vs User Generated Content

Web 2.0 introduced user generated content, it was such a big hit, investments and startups sprung like mushrooms which focused on their own niches. But as web 2.0 is dying, is it the end of user generated content? Is web 3.0 about professional contents?…

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Domain Name investment: How to invest in GeoDomain Names

Domain Name investment: How to invest in GeoDomain Names

GeoDomain Names are one of the biggest money makers, if done right, it often attracts millions of visitors with no effort at all for both type-in traffic and SEO traffic. But how far can we get into GeoDomain Names? Do we just invest in Countries? Cities? Area? Streets? …

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Domain Names: How to stop cyber squatters by Securing Typo, Singular / Plural and reverse of your domain names

Domain Names: How to stop cyber squatters by Securing Typo, Singular / Plural and reverse of your domain names

Domainers have always been regarded by most as cyber squatters, although I totally disagree to this statement, some domainers actually capitalize on this hence the negative image it portrays. As long as there are money to be made in it, there will be at least some who’d be doing it (Like how Google had many [...]

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Philippines and Web 2.0: Startups and current websites, where you at?

Philippines and Web 2.0: Startups and current websites, where you at?

I’ve always been a fan of Web 2.0, I believe it’s one of the biggest thing that changed the whole internet landscape (after the Internet bubble burst in 2001). The Philippines has always been known for outsourcing in the I.T. industry, but what I’m really interested is to find web 2.0 companies that exists here. [...]

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Domain Name: Questions to ask before you get that domain name

Domain Name: Questions to ask before you get that domain name

For people getting their own domain name the first time, whether it is for your business, self or as an investment, there are a series of questions that you might want to think about before you get a domain name. Here are some questions to ask before you get the domain name that you want…

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Domain name: How much would you pay for a domain name?

Domain name: How much would you pay for a domain name?

One of the things that I asked when I first started in domaining, is ‘how much would you pay for a domain name?’ I found it really interesting and vital before I do start investing in Domain names. If people were only prepared to pay a small value, it might not be enough for me [...]

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How companies or individuals should register a new domain name

How companies or individuals should register a new domain name

I remember the first time I registered some of my domain names, there were a lot of hesitations and questions that I had. There are questions on to how it all works and also how safe it would be for us to use credit cards online (yes, this has been and still is a problem [...]

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Zappos: Acquired by Amazon for $888 million, values domain names

Zappos: Acquired by Amazon for $888 million, values domain names

The idea started when the founder couldn’t find the right shoes for himself, and so he started a website called Zappos. Zappos was initially a online shoe retailer but has later expanded into different things (like clothes, accessories etc.). They’ve become a household name as an online retailer and is one of the most popular [...]

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