A venti a day keeps the dentist away, right?

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It’s been a while since I last posted, but I’ve certainly seen some good, bad, and ugly uses of domains to advertise a wide variety of businesses.

It’s a shame to encounter businesses that use a domain that doesn’t pass the radio test while there are domains available at hand registration cost comparable to venti chai tea latte from Starbucks.

Speaking of Starbucks, my office away from my office, a few weeks ago I was tending to a business call while outside on the patio.

It was a great day. As always, I tend to people watch in between tasks or as I engage a customer call.

Thank Goodness Tiff’s Treats Delivers With Memorable Domain

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Well, we’re 3 weeks into having our baby girl grace us with her presence. She’s doing quite well, even sleeping 4-hour blocks at a time.

We’re so blessed to have her as a part of our family.

In between the meals, flowers and well wishes, there have been quite a few treats that arrived. One of the most recent sweet treats has prompted this post due to the domain on its packaging.

Betcha’ can’t eat just one of these “kremey” treats!?

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As I was getting my early Saturday morning started with a few quick errands, I encountered an effective vehicle wrap advertisement for a Texas tasty treat that’s been around for some time now.

My boys (and now daughter although too young to enjoy) love when Saturday’s roll around because they know exactly what we’re having for breakfast.

I pulled into the drive through and placed my order for a full dozen of Texas’ best doughnuts at Krispy Kreme.

And no, I didn’t misspell Krispy Kreme for those thinking it’s Crispy Creme or Crispy Cream as it phonetically sounds.

Defensively Registering Domains: Psst, your park gate is open…

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I encountered another billboard while on my home that made me think about the importance of defensively registering domains.

I was able to quickly and safely pull off the road to capture a snapshot as the billboard stuck out to me for a number of reasons.

The billboards’s blue, white, and black hues are simple in design and layout, having an appealing white call-to-action text on a blue background.

Next, the billboard contained the logo and blue text describing its services placed on a white background.

Finally, at the bottom of the billboard in white text on a background was the domain name and phone number.

Most importantly, the billboard was well designed and well positioned for the nearly 180K plus Austin-based drivers that pass it daily along highway 183.

Knocking Stains Out of the Park

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Welcome back!  As I was in search of a sporting event the night we arrived home from the hospital after the arrival of our beautiful baby girl, I encountered MLB game.

Not much of a baseball fan outside of the Texas Rangers, I decided to let channel surfing rest and watch a few innings.

As innings progressed, I took notice of a billboard behind home plate.  

Although present, it wan’t the normal MLB team domain name that was on display as the main attraction and that caught my eye.

Curbside Groceries Coming to a Store Near You!

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Minding my own business, I was traveling form the Egg and I Restaurants located at 183 and Lakeline Blvd to my office out in Volente.

As I headed north and circled underneath 183 to head south, I encountered an interesting banner hanging in in front of a familiar Texas-based and founded supermarket.

The banner was quite interesting. You could tell this company put a lot of effort in branding this new service offering for their customers.

In a world of always connected devices, even a supermarket, also known as a grocery market or store, is finding a way to use the internet to its advantage.

I’m sure you’re wondering what company I’m referencing, right?

It’s a dirty job, but the poop must be scooped!

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I sat outside for a bit this morning before the brutal Texas heat reared its ugly head.

My hope was to allow our boys to run off their breakfast tacos and chocolate milk in the cool of the morning before being held captive indoors for most of the day.

The boys did play, and even my baby girl got a chance to catch a bit of Vitamin D too.

But what caught my eye as my kids played and enjoyed themselves was a small black compact car that passed by.

The car passed by rather slow as if it was lost and trying to find it’s way to a specific house along our street.

At last, the car pulled in front of our neighbors house and I was fumbling and bumbling in an attempt to pull out my phone to snap a shot of the car’s company advertisement.

Lawn mowing company markets perfect .co domain

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It’s not very often that I’ve encountered a .co domain.

I own a handful of .co domain names, but most are for the sole purpose of development and nothing more.

.co was once touted as the new kid on the block that every startup would venture to when the .com was taken for the domain they wanted so desired.

There have been many .co sales to occur over the years based on DomainNameSales.co and DNJournal.com.

However, .co came and went, and now .io is the new diamond in rough that cool and hip tech companies are clamoring over when registering a short and easy to brand domain when the .com is not available.

Although .co’s day came and went, it didn’t go out without a bang.