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Domain name Slamming.. NameJuice.com AKA Domain Registry of America
Use social networking to fight back against these types of companies..!!! BE A SNIPER!
I’m bringing this up because it irritates me personally to no end to see innocent people taken for a ride.. so I just wanted to make sure that everyone who reads my blog knows that Domain Registry of America (DROA) is pulling off their domain name scam under a “nifty” new domain name, “NameJuice.com” (a.k.a. Domain Registry of Canada, droc.ca)
So, if you've never heard of the scam known as “Domain name slamming”. Then….…please read on..
The scam is this... DROA sends you what appears to be an invoice for a domain name renewal, making it appear as if they're your current domain name registrar and that it’s absolutely URGENT that you renew your domain name or risk losing it forever. They also email out “Transfer confirmation” emails to domain name owners and how people don't question those I have no idea but people continue to fall for them.. in these emails people are asked to confirm their transfer request. It seems everyone would know wether they requested a transfer or not but I guess not.
Anyway, some people are completely clueless when it comes to who their domain name registrar is, and will unwittingly pay the invoice, not realizing they are actually transferring their domain to someone other than their original provider. In many cases this is just the beginning of much bigger problems and MUCH higher renewal fees AND..In most all cases the domain name wasn’t even up for renewal!! AND It’s not cheap!! They charge $75 bucks a year from what I’ve heard which as most of us know is ridiculous to say the least..Sad thing is none of this is illegal! Because somewhere in the letter in small print.. it says “this is not a domain name renewal this is a transfer” and as we all know… most people don’t even know the difference between the two anyway.
Well, DROA.com also knew this and that’s why they've continued to get away with this scam for the past 6 years. If you do a Wikipedia lookup on the definition of “Domain name Slamming” it actually mentions DROA.com in the freaking definition!!
My point? Try to warn people. Tell your friends who own domain names to watch out for this company and to ignore those letter in the mail. Write about it on your blog, share this post on your facebook, twitter etc.. you can use social networking to make it harder for them to scam people out of their hard earned money. You might really save someone a lot of heartache if you do. Think how messed up it would be if your company domain name was hijacked by these clowns. Some people depend on their websites to survive.
Read This.. Court bars Canadian domain slammer (however they continue to do it, just in a more legal way)
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17 Twitter Tracking Tools & 6 for Stat Analysis…who’s watching you?
17 Twitter Tools for Tweet Tracking
- Tweet Effect : Find out which of your Twitter updates made people follow or leave you. I think this is the best tool in the entire list according to me to track and analyse yourself which tweets attracts and hurts your follows.
- Tweet Beep : It is a Google Alerts for Twitter. It enables anyone to receive alerts by email whenever a specific word or phrase is tweeted on Twitter. You can follow them on Twitter here.
- Twitter Charts : You can view the number of tweets by the user according to the time of the day and day of the week.
- Retweetist : It displays most Re-tweeted tweets on its home page. The Most Re-tweeted users will also be displayed. You can track most popular Re-Tweets. You can follow them on Twitter here.
- Twitter Analyzer : Twitter Analyzer, as the name suggests, provides with various statistics for your Twitter account. It is The Most Advanced Twitter Analytic System In The World. You can follow them on Twitter here.
- TWADL : A suite of free Twitter tools, to let you Tweet photos or music and lets you count how many people click on your links. You can follow them on Twitter here.
- Tweet Burner : TweetBurner tracks the links you share on Twitter and Friendfeed. It keeps track of web links used in Twitter status updates.
- Twitter Vision : Twitter Vision is a real time geographic visualization of posts to Twitter. You can follow them on Twitter here.
- Twellow : A search directory of people by area of expertise, profession or other attribute listed in personal profiles on Twitter. It is simply the twitter yellow pages. You can follow them on Twitter here.
- Happy Tweets : Happytweets is a measuring stick for how positive, or happy, a particular Tweep is. Enter the Twitter username for you or one of your buddies, click the “get happy” button, and you’ll find out how happy your Tweets are.
- Retweetradar : Retweetradar finds trends in the mountains of information ‘retweet’ed on Twitter.
- Tweader : It is a new way that enables us to view the twitter conversations. It is one of the few twitter tools that is proved to be useful.
- Twit Clicks : Twitclicks shortens the URLs and then tracks those links. It does a lot of innovative tracking like clicks, who clicked the link, etc.
- Twistory : Adds your Twitter backlog feed to your favorite calendar application and browse through your personal Twitter diary, making your Twitter history both fun and useful. You can follow them on Twitter here.
- Curse Bird : Cursebird is a real-time feed of people swearing on Twitter. You can follow them on Twitter here.
- Twitturls : Popular Links on Twitter. What’s Hot. We Spy on Everyone’s Twitter! Updated Every Minute. It is also providing the WP plugin. You can follow them on Twitter here.
- Mr.Tweet : Mr.Tweet is your Personal Twitter Assistant, suggesting great people and news to you regularly. You can follow them on twitter here.
6 Analysis Tools for Twitter
- Twitter Grader : Its a free tool to measure you power and reach on twitter. This tools also allows you to compare with millions of users in the worlds using twitter who were also graded. The only thing that you need to do here is, just enter your twitter username it will give the instant report of your power and grade. You can follow the Twitter Grader on twitter too.
- Tweet Stats : If you love to check stats and graphs of your tweets in the twitter, this is the tool that is going to make its impact.
This tool generates the stats and graphs that which can generate the report based on number of tweets per hour, number of tweets per month, tweet timeline, reply stats. Its been used by over 1,00,000 twitter users. You can follow Tweet Stats on Twitter too.
- Mr.Milestone : Mr.Milestone will send you a tweet if you have reaches 100 followers, 200 followers, 300 followers, (every 100 followers). It sends you the tweet for every 100 followers. When you his a milestone you will receive a tweet “@username Congrats! You just reached 200 followers!! You can follow Mr.Milestone on Twitter too.
- Tweet Rank : It displays the graphical information about how many people follow you. If you want to know where your followers come from, this the tool that you are searching for. This provides you the relevance to each tweet by checking how much followers you won or lost with each tweet. You can follow Tweet Rank on Twitter too.
- Tweet Wasters : This is a useless website that helps you to find how much time you and other users waste on twitter.
- Retweet Rank : This gives us the whole database of how many retweets you or your friends have. Based on the number of retweets it gives you the rank. You can follow Retweet Rank on Twitter too.
Too Cute! Twitter Icons
Square Twitter icons
A gorgeous new free icon set designed by Dirceu Veiga. The square Twitter icons resemble iphone app buttons and would be good on websites, blogs or even your iphone.
Twitter Square Icons: Free Icon Set
Twitter Tweets and Twitter Whales?
Here is a new block style set of Twitter icons designed by Dirceu Veiga, including two of that cool whale.
Twitter Block Icons
HOT Black and White Social Icon Sets
Black White Pearls Icons »
Flat Gray Floral Icons »
Glossy Black Icons »
Simple Black Square Icons »
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New Social Networking Icon Sets Galore!
Two cool new sites offering new social networking icon sets. It's always nice to see new sets and I'm always looking so if you know of one I have not posted please let me know or if you've designed one and you'd like to be featured - Let me know!
Both sites were designed using.. My Site My Way which is something new to me..what I found strange instead of them having their own domain names they use a subdomain - for example: icons.mysitemyway.com must be great for mysitemyway's search engine optimization! If I were the webmaster however at one of these sites I would definintly register my own domain name. I'd want my ranking, seo etc.. to go towards my site not my web hosts.
Do you Poken?
What is a Poken? Well..Watch the video! Basically a poken is a gadget that allows you to transfer social networking data such as and I can only assume since i don't personally have one but I assume your myspace, Linkedin, Website, Twitter...etc and of course your email address. This is done when you touch your poken to another poken your data is instantly transferred. - Click Post Title to Read More..
An old Bird with a NEW Look – Dont-cha dare Twit and Drive!
Check out these two new Twitter icons sets with a unique concept. Twit and Drive and also a Twitter bird with a little bit of an evil look compared to the sweet "button eyed" version we're used too. Make sure to visit FlipZ website Adobemagic.com. Click the birds below to download the icon sets and PSD files and don't forget to Leave a comment on the artists website if you like his work and especially if you plan on using it on your website that's the least you can do for an artist who's offering their work free to the public. Thank you FlipZ!
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Favorite Tweets for the week..
Here are some this weeks favorite tweets:
70 Tutorials Using Photoshop To Design A Website: http://ow.ly/hC9L
50 New Beautiful Blog Designs: http://bit.ly/lqZEU
Beautiful Launching Soon pages: http://bit.ly/CAE7h
Meet the ‘Spoonasaur”: http://bit.ly/GIoaj (via @abduzeedo)
Free @fontface fonts: http://bit.ly/wPZtO
Ribbon Staircase: http://bit.ly/14ynqZ
Cheesiest Pick-up Lines to Use on Graphic Designers: http://bit.ly/1bqVz4
Creative ad for Ben & Jerry’s: http://bit.ly/1hfxrg
Amazing Diving Photo: http://bit.ly/Tprsu
It’s a Bird! It’s a Plane! No! it’s a… Hostel?! http://bit.ly/MVwE
10 Reasons to Politely Decline a Web Design Gig: http://ow.ly/hCai
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80+ ridiculously rad social networking icons
Introducing 80+ ridiculously rad social networking icons, made by deft-fingered Haitian refugees, not really… but really. I’ve developed over 80 refined, amazing social networking icons for the top networks around. They’re all the rage with you crazy newsk00l intarweb kids. Use them on your blogs. Put them on t-shirts, coffee mugs, your face-space or whatevs.
These are just to cute I had to post them..Make sure to check out the website to download the rest of the icon set including the twitter icon and more.. at komodomedia.com!
Twitter from Your Outlook Inbox
Are you addicted to Twitter, but afraid to use it while you’re at work? Here's a cure for your addiction! Well, not really a cure… I guess it would be more like throwing fuel on the fire. Now there’s a way for you to post on Twitter directly from your Outlook Inbox for FREE! Not only that but you’ll also be able to read posts from the people you’re following? Sounds great, right?
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IconFinder.net – A Web Designers Helpful little friend..
Here’s a handy little site that I think is useful to add to your bookmarks if you are a web designer, it is called Iconfinder. It does exactly what it says…. finds the icon of your choice.
So, if you like icons I’d recommend a visit!
The site is simply designed and straight to the point, add your search query, click and wait for the results. I think it’s very useful. All icons are licensed with either Creative Commons, GPL, or LGPL. Below is a screenshot for “home” icons.
Hatched! Twitter Eggs – Free Twitter icon set
- Cool Link of the Day: Web 2.0 free buttons maker
10 New Social Networking Icon Sets
I'm constantly looking for new social networking icon sets to post but they are few and far between. Good ones at least.
Here are 10 social networking icon sets. A few of them are new to me and a few are not.But all of them are cool.
Make sure to do a search for social networking icons on my website to find more social icons. I've posted a ton of them. Also if you know of any new sets that have not been posted here.. pleeze let me know!
Leave a comment, subscribe to my RSS Feed! Follow me on Twitter!
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Mini Social Networking Icon Set – komodomedia.com
This icon set consists of 30 (16×16) finely crafted social media icons. They are free to use non-commercially. Put them on your blog or on your website to help users bookmark or share your site socially. I hear its all-the-rage these days.
www.komodomedia.com
5 Social networking icons, brush sets and shapes!
New social networking icon sets & even a few social networking icon brush sets and shapes!
Tweet Tweet Cute Tweet: Another Free Twitter Bird Icon
Free Heart Social Networking Icon Set
Social Media Grungy Watercolor Brushes
Make your own grungy social networking icon set to
match your blog!
Free Social Networking Hand Drawn Photoshop Shapes
Free Set of Social Networking Coffee Stain Icons
