There has been quite a huff about this over the past couple of days. Most people don’t even understand what frontrunning is. I have done some research and I too believe front running starts somewhere between a registrar query/dns query and the underlying registry.

Front running means you get the domain name and then mark it up for resale.

Now for what network solutions is doing:

First off network solutions does not mark it up, heck they aren’t even monetizing it at all (with ads) they are offering it for the same price they have charged for a while now.

As a business in the mind of protecting their OWN customers, not anybody else this is a great practice. Many of NSI’s cx have been with them for years due to great service. If they login to their account and search a domain name netsol is ensuring if they wanted it they CAN get it because NO ONE ELSE is worried about THEIR CX’s.

All of the people who are complaining and whining are essentially saying I go to network solutions to use their resources but I will not work with them! Why don’t they use their registrar’s search tool? Most often it is because their preffered registrars tool sucks!

Thanks for reading,

Nick

http://www.routermods.com

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Eric Dahl, PC World 2 hours, 47 minutes ago

The Buzz: If search engines could talk, what would they say? Now that it’s acquiring giant advertising network DoubleClick, Google could potentially say a lot more about you. For the most part, the company is making the right kinds of noises about building walls between its different collections of data, but… Remember when everyone was worried about Eschelon, the secret intelligence project that would monitor phone calls, e-mail, and other data? Well, let’s run down all the Google services most people use: You have Gmail, Docs & Spreadsheets, Calendar, text and voice chat through the still-in-beta Google Talk, shopping at Google Product Search–and of course everything begins with Web search. Throw all of that together, and Google could probably do a good Eschelon impression. And while the company’s motto is “Don’t be evil,” giant data repositories always attract attention–from hackers, governments, and corporations.

Bottom Line: That’s cool, though. Governments and corporations always have everyone’s best interests at heart. Where’s my anonymizing service again?

New Cells All Flash

The Buzz: If you can’t get something as useful as an iPhone, why not go for a cell phone that’s as weird as the iPod is cool? Actually, I can think of several reasons, but none of them will stop phone vendors from releasing their latest crop of wild and wacky phone features. LG is working on a phone in Korea that borrows from Philips’s Ambilight TV concept, flashing colors that match the video you play; it rumbles at preset moments, too. Why? I have no idea. Then there’s NTT DoCoMo’s Wii-like, motion-sensing phone, which could be neat if I could figure out what to use that for.

Bottom Line: Up next, a phone that automatically asks for a refund when it senses me throwing it across a room after I’ve realized how silly it is.

$79 DirectX 10

The Buzz: Microsoft’s DirectX 10–the Vista-specific graphics API that will power drool-inducing games like Crysis and Alan Wake–is still just getting off the ground. Available around the time you read this, ATI’s Radeon HD 2000 series graphics boards should assist the takeoff, as they join previously released nVidia boards in bringing that capability to users for as little as $79–and ATI extends affordable DX10 support to the mobile market, as well. Plus, all of the new value-priced nVidia and ATI boards also include full video encode and decode acceleration, so even low-end systems can handle high-definition movies without dragging down the CPU.

Bottom Line: Before gamers see sweeping benefits from Microsoft’s DX10, developers need to know that a critical mass of PCs can actually run DX10 games. That both major graphics vendors have a top-to-bottom line of DX10 cards can only help matters.

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Google NSA: Google protecting information?

Google Dance: Google making a stab at us webmasters!

Google Latin: Google once again in a funny language!

Google Easter ???Google sharing the easter experience!

French joke: Go to Google????in the search box type french military victories and hit i’m feeling lucky. This is what we call a google bomb!

Google Work: Google gets free lunch!

Google Cares: Google cares……with their wallet!

Google Store???? : Google sells stuff?

Google Love: Googles match.com

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The slippery slope of search engine marketing is laced with tricks and traps like Google’s Teflon Bomb! Googles Teflon Bomb is more commanly known as the Google Sandbox.

The reason I refer to it as Google’s Teflon Bomb is if you are not careful your ranks will drop like a greased pig down a teflon hill!

What it is: a holding area for new content. Google puts all new content in this area and then determines rank from its performance in the sandbox. Depending on how much Google trusts you it will assign temporary rank either really high or really low. Over time google will assign a permanent rank based on your performance in the sandbox.

Sandbox performance???? is based on several things some that I can confirm are:

1. Amount of changes you make while in the sandbox
2. Percentage of change per page when a change is made
3. Age of domain
4. Length of Registration
5. Page title changes
6. Page name changes

Remember be very careful when you think you are in the sandbox!

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Well, through the ages their have been many tips and tricks as outlined in my blog about google and SEO. I myself along side of my colleagues have learned that no matter how hard you try what it all boils down to is Google likes Kosher!

By Kosher I mean a site that is made for people and not a site that is made for search engines and spiders!

Making a kosher site can be a challenge but keep in mind if you dont think you would want to browse around your site neither will google or other popular search engines and spiders!

Here it is from the horses mouth http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=35769

Quality guidelines – basic principles

• Make pages for users, not for search engines. Don’t deceive your users or present different content to search engines than you display to users, which is commonly referred to as “cloaking.”
• Avoid tricks intended to improve search engine rankings. A good rule of thumb is whether you’d feel comfortable explaining what you’ve done to a website that competes with you. Another useful test is to ask, “Does this help my users? Would I do this if search engines didn’t exist?”
• Don’t participate in link schemes designed to increase your site’s ranking or PageRank. In particular, avoid links to web spammers or “bad neighborhoods” on the web, as your own ranking may be affected adversely by those links.
• Don’t use unauthorized computer programs to submit pages, check rankings, etc. Such programs consume computing resources and violate our Terms of Service. Google does not recommend the use of products such as WebPosition Gold??????? that send automatic or programmatic queries to Google.

Quality guidelines – specific guidelines

• Avoid hidden text or hidden links.
• Don’t employ cloaking or sneaky redirects.
• Don’t send automated queries to Google.
• Don’t load pages with irrelevant words.
• Don’t create multiple pages, subdomains, or domains with substantially duplicate content.
• Don’t create pages that install viruses, trojans, or other badware.
• Avoid “doorway” pages created just for search engines, or other “cookie cutter” approaches such as affiliate programs with little or no original content.
• If your site participates in an affiliate program, make sure that your site adds value. Provide unique and relevant content that gives users a reason to visit your site first.

If a site doesn’t meet our quality guidelines, it may be blocked from the index. If you determine that your site doesn’t meet these guidelines, you can modify your site so that it does and request reinclusion.

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