More Censorship in China – Making It Harder For Domainers To Reach The Chinese Population

Posted on | January 2, 2010 | 2 Comments

There’s always a lot of controversy when it comes to China and the internet (‘Great Firewall’). We all know that the big boys like Google and Bing (November 20, 2009 Bing.com statement regarding Chinese searches) need to adapt to censorship laws in some countries such as China, but that doesn’t mean the average-Joe in China always “follows the rules”. These make it much harder for domainers to monetize Chinese traffic due to there being many restrictions on the type of content that can be fed without getting your site blocked.

There are major repercussions when rules aren’t followed:

Chinese authorities caught nearly 5,400 suspects last year in a crackdown on online pornography and have vowed to strengthen Internet policing.

And more…

The ministry said nearly 9,000 pornographic Web sites have been deleted from the Internet and 5,394 suspects captured in 2009, although it did not say how many of them were formally arrested or charged.

Source for full article

Always something I keep my eye out for since there are different opportunities to target such a huge and developing population. The problem is there is much more leg work that needs to be done in order to do this properly and I’ve chit-chatted with some people that have been trying to monetize the Chinese web-space. It isn’t easy from what I understand, but it is definitely rewarding if you have the knowledge and experience. I’ve tried, and failed miserably. Again, these censorship laws are hard to get by, especially when it has been mentioned that some domain parking companies such as Namedrive parking pages are blocked in China due to their firewall.

Examples of censorship in China:

tiananmen square – Google.com

tiananmen square – Google.cn

The point of this post? Awareness. Awareness of both the situation in China regarding their internet as well as opportunity.

AdSense Domain Parking (AdSense For Domains) and Dynadot Settings

Posted on | December 29, 2009 | 2 Comments

I’m bringing back an old post since I’ve received 3 e-mails in the last month or so regarding AdSense for Domains (Google’s own personal domain parking system) and how to get the settings to work with the registrar Dynadot.

Dated exactly 1 year and 10 days ago:

Setting Up AdSense For Domains With Dynadot – Google AdSense Parking Help

Quick and Sloppy instructions:

Find domain in Account Area
Use “Dynadot DNS” settings
Domain Record: Type A, IP/Target: 216.239.32.21
Subdomain Records (optional): www subdomain, CNAME type, Target host: pub-xxxxxxxxx.afd.ghs.google.com (where pub-xxxxxxxxx is your unique ID listed on the AdSense setup page)
Make sure to click Use Dynadot DNS

Picture of settings:

Dynadot Advanced DNS Setting for AdSense For Domains

Again, check out my original post for more details:
Setting Up AdSense For Domains With Dynadot – Google AdSense Parking Help

Category: Domain Parking
Tags: adsense for domains > Domain Parking > dynadot > google > google parking

Another GoDaddy Coupon Code – .info domains with free private whois – $0.49 each

Posted on | December 28, 2009 | 4 Comments

Well, here’s another GoDaddy coupon code!

GoDaddy will allow you to register .info domain names for $0.49 EACH and that includes free private who-is for a whole year. The catch? You have to have FIVE of these in your cart to see them at this price (not that bad of a catch though, eh?). If you still cannot see them, try coupon code gdr1259.

*make sure to add the “Add Private Registration for free” checkbox when you are checking out!

Here are some other GoDaddy coupon codes:

cjc749b002 – $7.49 .COM/.NET
cjcssl12t2 - $12.99 SSL
GRAVITY1 (expires: unknown yet)
cjcfat30 – $5 Off w/ $30 Purchase (exp 12/31/09)
cjcfat50 – $10 Off w/ $50 Purchase (exp 12/31/09)

I am continuously trying to update my GoDaddy coupon codes page on my blog, so if you ever need a quick coupon code, check it out!

Category: Domaining
Tags: dot info > Godaddy > godaddy coupon code > info > private registration > whois

A Day In The Internet

Posted on | December 28, 2009 | 3 Comments

A very cool infographic about “A day in the internet“. Some amazing statistics I figured a bunch of people will enjoy.

Just goes to show how much we might underestimate the actual reach of the internet, right? It’s amazing to know that there is still a LOT more room for internet growth!

(Click image if you need to enlarge. A new window will open!)

Number of emails sent daily is over 210 billion (more than a whole years worth of letter mail in the United States)
3 Million images are uploaded to flickr everyday (how many images are uploaded to flickr everyday?)
43,339,547 gigabytes sent across all mobile phones globally everyday (how much data is sent through mobile phones everyday?)
$145 million is made from all mobile services daily (how much is made from mobile services everyday?)
700,000 new members are added on facebook everyday (how many new members are added on facebook everyday?)
45 million status updates on facebook are being recorded daily (how many facebook status update changes are there everyday?)
There are 5 million tweets per day (how many tweets are there on twitter per day?)
Bloggers post 900,000 new articles everyday (how many new articles are posted on blogs everyday?)

Source: Online Education

Category: Internet
Tags: A Day In The Internet > inforgraphic > Internet