Have you voiced your opinion at Nominet regarding their planned introduction of the .uk TLD, which will effectively make .co.uk redundant? I completed the online form a few weeks ago. If you haven’t NOW is the time to do it. Visit the Nominet consultation page at: http://www.nominet.org.uk/how-participate/policy-development/current-policy-discussions-and-consultations/consultation-new-uk and complete the online consultation document at http://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/1025946/Nominet-Consultation-On-a-New-UK-Name-Service [...] Continue reading →

I was asked this week to take part in Robbie Ferguson’s blog, which I was pleased to do. It was interesting to see the questions, which were the same set asked of others in the domain space, which got me thinking about domains and development and in fact, whether I’d actually got things right or [...] Continue reading →

Automated content scrapers are now commonly used by people desperate to increase their own search engine rankings. The users of this type of black-hat software simply type in their chosen key phrase and the software crawls the top ten or so sites for the phrase and copies the content which is then spun and presented [...] Continue reading →

It happens to us all sooner or later, a malicious attack on our web server that creates a bit of havoc, if not for the webmaster, then potentially for users. Now I have written in the past about security, especially with WordPress, since there are a number of excellent plugins that will prevent unauthorised attacks. [...] Continue reading →

After posting about trust and credibility yesterday, I received a call The UK’s Environment Agency asking my advice about contaminated, mixed asbestos waste disposal. This was interesting for two reasons. 1) The Environment Agency sets the rules on these kinds of thing 2) They saw my site as the authority on the subject So I [...] Continue reading →

People often speak about creating trust & credibility online and this week, I contacted a USA based company with a view to buying a web service that I had seen and absolutely wanted for my own sites. It was a graphic service that really captured attention, not just mine, but everyone I showed it to. [...] Continue reading →

Hardly a day goes by without me finding somebody leeching my bandwidth or stealing images that I’ve paid for legitimately. Today was no different so I thought I’d share with you my tactics that to date, have worked very well in getting stolen images removed from web sites. Sadly, it’s usually domainers and PPC affiliates [...] Continue reading →