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March 2011 – Spring Forward

Filed under: Newsletters,This & That — Candy Zemon on March 24, 2011

Some Spring Thoughts

Your Site

When you are clearing out those closets this spring, take a few minutes to look at your hosting account. Are there email addresses no longer used that can be deleted? Is your inbox overflowing with email that should be filed or deleted? Do you have lots of outdated files taking up disk space? In fact, do you have adequate free disk space overall so that your site will keep running well? There’s no time like the present to do something about any unneeded clutter you uncover.

While you’re at it, take an overview look at your statistics. Include any reports you get from such services as Google Analytics. Consider what they tell you about your website health overall. Look for trends as well as the high and low points. Do you find that some pages are ineffective? Maybe it is time to update or remove them.

Your Communication

While you are thinking of things to do with your website, you might want to take some time to review how you communicate with your customers, site visitors, and prospects. If you are not already using email newsletters or similar email campaigns, you might want to think about doing so. There are several things to consider.

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Registering Your Domain in China or Asia

Filed under: E-Commerce,Hosting,Security — Art Zemon on March 15, 2011

One of our clients received a note which began like this. (I have replaced his actual domain name with “yourcompany”.)

We are a Network Service Company which is the domain name registration center in Anhui, China. On March, 12th, 2011, We received HUNDI Company’s application that they are registering the name “yourcompany” as their Internet Trademark and “yourcompany.cn”, “yourcompany.com.cn”, “yourcompany.asia”domain names etc. It is China and ASIA domain names…

Our client asked, “Is this a scam?”

Unlike a lot of the spam that shows up in our inboxes, this one is rooted in enough legitimate business that it deserves a longer answer than “delete the message.”

Yes, this is a scam.

And… many companies choose to protect their brand name by registering not only the .com domain name (yourcompany.com) but also .net, .org. .us, .info, .mobi, etc etc etc. International companies may choose to purchase country top level domains (cTLD) such as .uk (United Kingdom), .ca (Canada), .cn (China), etc etc etc. If you wanted to market in China then you might find it useful to own yourcompany.com.cn or yourcompany.asia. Similarly, if you had a competitor in China, you might want to procure that domain just to “stake your ground” and avoid any cases of mistaken identity.

Should you decide to register a .cn or a .asia domain name, I encourage you to do it via your normal decision making processes and register the domain name(s) with a reputable company operating in your own country, not with the folks who send messages like the one quoted above.

 

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