With the internet becoming the primary marketing tool for many businesses, having a memorable domain name is important, but it’s getting harder as nearly a thousand domains are being registered every hour – your dream domain name could be taken soon (if it’s not already)!

Twitter this week has a new feature that when enabled means you always access it securely (previously you would have to remember to type “https://”).

Facebook has a similar option and you should consider using these particularly if you regularly use these sites on public WiFi connections such as in a Starbucks – Ashton Kutcher was hacked last week during when he was at TED using their unsecured WiFi.

There are many Social Media success stories – Will It Blend? and Old Spice are two that come to mind. These have shown that getting your product/brand into social media can have huge returns and catapult your business to internet stardom. Another less known story is the hang drum – otherwise known as the internets first ‘viral’ instrument, but this is one that I only recently discovered myself through social media.

The hang drum is a unique instrument which only I learned the existence of by chance – someone mentioned on Facebook they had seen one on eBay for the timely sum of £6,000! Being a drummer myself, I was interested to see what this instrument was and why it was so expensive on the ubiquitous auction site.

A QR code (which stands for “quick response”) is a special type of barcode, readable by mobile phones. To us it looks like a few squares and blocks but to a QR reader this can contain any number of pieces of information.

Last month the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) made available a new Top Level Domain (TLD)  “.co”.

What’s a top level domain I hear you say? Well, a Top Level Domain (TLD) is the final part of your domain name, with the most familiar being “.com”.

The two-character domain names were originally for country specific domains, such as “.uk”  for the United Kingdom (although in this example the second level domain “.co.uk” is more widely used). In addition to the country specific Top Level Domains there are also the generic TLD’s such as .gov, .net. org and .com.

The “.co” TLD is the country code top-level domain for the Republic of Colombia but is now generally available for anyone to register.

.mobi is another relatively new TLD made available in 2006, derived from the adjective ‘mobile’  and is an alternative choice to having a sub-domain on your website – such as “mobile.yoursite.com” – for your mobile optimised website. All .mobi sites must be optimized for viewing on a mobile phone.

Contact a member of our team at whiteinteractive to have your .co and .mobi domain variants registered now – and check out our blog for more information about mobile websites.