David Kurniawan

Most of my close friends know that I'm a fan of S.H.E, the Asian girl band from Taiwan. My interest in them started during my stay in Singapore, and being populate with mostly ethnic Chinese, most Singaporeans are fans of Mandarin artists, one of them are S.H.E.

Well I'm not going to write more about S.H.E here but if you want to know more about them, you can read it here.

One of S.H.E members who I like most is Hebe Tian, but sometimes it is also written Hebe Tien, due to the similarity in the pronounciation between Tian and Tien (the Hanyu Pinyin of Mandarin). So when I encountered the domain name HebeTien.Com available, I immediately registered it. BTW, the domain HebeTian.Com is currently on parking page, showing S.H.E CDs, DVDs, and other related items as the advertisements.

Intially I used several parking providers for this HebeTien.Com domain name, but most of them did not show relevant "content". Lastly I put it on my WhyPark account, and still most of the time it did not show relevant contents, but it still generated quite a traffic due to its popular name. I realized that I will not be able to monetize on its traffiic if I solely rely on the parking provider.

After I learned how to create the Wordpress blog (this blog is the first serious blog I create), I plan to put this name on Wordpress platform. Finally I had the time to put this name on Wordpress recently.

The most time spent was to find the proper template, and find this great one here. Played around a littile bit and made several adjustments, to make it more suitable for its use.

Currently I have posted several articles which mostly taken from other S.H.E related forum, and more contents are already scheduled using the Wordpress great scheduler tools.

While I myself still learning about creating proper website, I will put this experience to develop my other potential domain names…..

Today when I opened my mailbox, I received an email from Estibot about its new Estibot v2.0 Beta. Here is what  written in the email:

"Dear David,

This invitation is extended to a limited number of valued Estibot.com subscribers.

Here are just some of the new features of Estibot v2.0:

• Improved valuations through a completely rewritten valuation algorithm
  
• XML API access for both private and enterprise level use
  
• Direct Match Network The world’s first intelligent network connecting domain buyers, sellers and brokers
  
• End User Lead Generator helps you find businesses that may need to buy your domain names
  
• And much more!

Please note that this in an early test phase and some features may be disabled.
Please help us by reporting any problems you may find and
give us as much feedback as possible during this Private Beta.
You now have an opportunity to influence the final development phases
so please tell us what you think. We want to hear from you!

To access the Private Beta test please go to:
BETA.ESTIBOT.COM

and login using your Estibot login credentials.

Best regards,
Esa and Luc"

Having used its service a while ago, during my Ebay domain selling days, I actually quite interested in finding out more about what’s offered by this Estibot v2.0.

I played a little bit  around with the new features and personally feel that this new site is much better than the old Estibot version.

Just try with yourself  and I’m sure you can make use of this site for most of your domaining activities.

I have been quite busy these few weeks due to my day job routines and other activities, so I didn’t have much time to update this blog until today.

As far as for my domaining activity, I actually have several ideas in developing some of the domain names I own.

One of the ideas crossed my mind is by having an affiliate online store type of websites, mainly for my product domain names. I’ve read the related posting about this here, but maybe I will try to do it myself by using the Wordpress platform. The reason why I want to do it myself, I can learn new things along the way, but it may require more time and effort, especially since I do it for the first time.

Well, I will share about this development project later, once I have finished it for one of the domain names.

So stay tuned!

Besides the sense of "coolness" by having your own name (dot) com, my other motivation in acquiring it is after I read the post of Brian Diener from Teen Domainer.  If you have not heard about him, he is the real teen domainer since he is only just 16 years old. But being young doesn’t mean he’s lacking the knowledge about the domaining industry, I myself frequent read his blog posts to find new ideas about the domaining world.

Brian points out about the importance about having your own name (dot) com here, and share his ideas about what to do with it here. Well for me, once I found out that my name (dot) com is available, I grabbed it immediately and use it to as this blog name.

After a few days (I say only a few days), this blog has appeared on the first page of Google. Altough it still not on the top search result yet (still on the bottom part), I believe it will reach that position soon if I update this blog frequently, which hopefully I would…:)

One way to stay updated with the latest news and information in the domaining industry is by setting up your own Google Alerts. Some of yo u may have known about this tool, but some may have not even heard about it. For those in the second category, let me just briefly show you how to set up your own Google Alerts

First go to this address: http://www.google.com/alerts

Put your desired search terms (keywords), e.g: domain names

Decide the type of the information you want, e.g: news. blogs, web, comprehensive, video or groups

Set the frequency of the alerts, e.g: as-it-happens, once a day or once a week

Key in the email address you want the information to be sent to

For me, the settings are:

a. Search Terms = Domain Names

b. Type = Comprehensive

c. How often  = Once a Day

d. Your email = your email address

Below is the example of the daily Alerts sent to my email address

You can also use this tool to provide you with other topics that interest you. Just play around with the keywords to get the information you want to see (you can set more than one Alerts and put several keywords for each Alerts setting)