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June 19, 2008                       Issue no. 2666
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            .....IN THIS DIGEST.....


==== CONTINUING =================

    --== Purchasing International TLDs ==--

        ~ Robert Andrews
".COM is the best one that you can have
anywhere in the world..."

        ~ Rob Tillett
"...we relocated the domain hosting to the
US [and] it dropped out of Google Australia...

    --== The New iPhone ==--

        ~ James Miller
"I'm still using a Nokia 6310i."


======== CONTINUING ===============================

From: Robert Andrews
Subject: International domains

> Can someone in the US buy UK, AU, etc
> domain extensions? If so where? Will that
> place my site in better positions in the
> natural search for the SEs of those
> countries? Would it be wise to also host in
> those countries?
    - Janet Picard, LED 2664
    - http://www.led-digest.com/content/view/2079/190/

I am (was) a webmaster in the United States. I used DirectNic, which is
a small company compared to GoDaddy or TuCows. I liked their interface
though. We moved to Spain (permanently) in 2007. My first European
domain was an .EU extension, which required residency somewhere within
the European Union. Also, at the time, DirectNic did not handle .EU
internet domains. I used EuroDNS.com. Their interface is nearly
horrible, but they allowed the registration of nearly any European
domain. Prices ranged from (equivalent) $11 per year for a Spain COM.ES
extension to $200 per year for Japan. My .ES and .EU extensions were
about $25 each.

My most recent .EU purchase was handled through DirectNic, at less money
than EuroDNS charged me. Still you can at least do it. Australian
domains are (as the others have stated) are a bit more difficult. They
require residency, which may be as simple as a PO Box mailing address,
which is all I had when I registered my first EU extension.
Domainsregistration.com.au is one company that can do this for you.

We are currently travelling through Turkey, where I've found that MOST
of the vendors, rug dealers and companies have a .COM address. About a
tenth of them have a .COM.TR extension. With a whole new dictionary of
words, the .COM worked well. As was true in the earlier days .COM is the
best one that you can have anywhere in the world, followed by .NET and
.ORG. The others may come of age, but it's certainly no longer a
necessity to have a .COM extension.

Robert Andrews


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From: Rob Tillett
Subject: International domains

You definitely need to be a resident or incorporated in Australia to get
a dot com.au domain. However, there is no reason why your dot com domain
cannot get high in the rankings for overseas searches.

There is a warning though, with regard to Google rankings vs Google
Australia rankings. Our company is based in Australia and one of our
sites, "Astrology on the Web" http://www.astrologycom.com was ranked
high in the top 5, 10 or 20 for most of our relevant terms on Google (as
it is now), and similarly on Google Australia when searching for
Australian pages.

Late last year we relocated the domain hosting for this site from
Australia to the US, as that is where most of its visitors reside. Not
long after this occurred, it dropped right out of the Google Australia
rankings, though remaining high in the main Google rankings and the
rankings in other countries.  Remember, the business and most of the
staff are located in Australia, but the site is now hosted in the US.

Astrology on the Web currently averages around 80-100,000 pageviews per
day. Our Alexa ranking in Australia today is 12168, India is 16551, US
is 21223 and UK 38679. South Korea is 1965, with 17 countries ranking
higher than 50,000, so it's not that we are especially unpopular, even
though we do not have local domains elsewhere.

My advice is not to worry too much about local domains. Just write
content that appeals to everyone and you will do fine.

BTW, on the topic of SEO and Numerology, I think that an astrological or
numerological analysis of your site (or any site) actually *would* do
you quite a bit of good in the SEO battle... :)

Best wishes

Rob Tillett
Digital Online Technology
www.digital.net.au


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From: James Miller
Subject: New iPhone

> Sure Apple's innovating. But does it
> deserve 6 paragraphs of partially baseless
> praise on LED digest?
    - John Andrews, LED 2664

I'm still using a Nokia 6310i.  I also have a spare for when it dies,
but you can get them rebuilt in London.

I was purchasing a new radio for my nineteen year old Lotus Elan and
were testing the Bluetooth link in Halfords and the twenty-year-old or
so, thought my battered phone was really cool.  Perhaps times are
changing.

As to cameras for YouTube, I use a Fuji S5700, which cost $125 or so.
Put everything on a 16GB SD-HC card which gives four hours of video and
then modify the .avi files with Windows Movie Maker. Very simple and
ideal for small videos for a web site, where you just link to YouTube.

James Miller
Daisy Analysis
http://www.daisy.co.uk


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