Premium Domain Name Auction at Sedo

Sedo have organized an auction of premium .mobi domain names starting 26th September for 5 days to follow th eauction and see what sort of prices are being achieved go here .Mobi Domain Name Auction

At the moment the highest bid is $30,000 for loans.mobi followed by hello.mobi at $19,500 and wifi.mobi at $19,000

Apart from seeing what sort of prices will be achieved for .mobi domains it's also interesting to see what qualified as a premium domain, and wonder why you didn't buy one yourself or what other names you coul dbuy that might qualify as a premium name !

The full list is :-

AntiSpam.mobi
ask.mobi
busca.mobi
cell.mobi
Cellphone.mobi
chat.mobi
chatrooms.mobi
chats.mobi
Desktop.mobi
domain.mobi
domainname.mobi
domainnames.mobi
domainregistration.mobi
Donwload.mobi
download.mobi
Downloads.mobi
E-mail.mobi
forum.mobi
freedownload.mobi
freedownloads.mobi
freesoftware.mobi
hosting.mobi
image.mobi
images.mobi
index.mobi
Message.mobi
mp3downloads.mobi
searchengine.mobi
telefono.mobi
telephone.mobi
telephones.mobi
traffic.mobi
voip.mobi
Webcam.mobi
webcams.mobi
webdesign.mobi
Wifi.mobi
atm.mobi
atms.mobi
bank.mobi
bills.mobi
credit.mobi
creditcard.mobi
creditcards.mobi
creditdebt.mobi
currency.mobi
debito.mobi
debthelp.mobi
dinero.mobi
exchange.mobi
finanza.mobi
Funds.mobi
loans.mobi
mutualfunds.mobi
payment.mobi
pension.mobi
qoutes.mobi
rent.mobi
salaries.mobi
sales.mobi
sell.mobi
stockmarket.mobi
stockprices.mobi
Taxes.mobi
trade.mobi
peace.mobi
pet.mobi
Pets.mobi
police.mobi
pumps.mobi
push.mobi
surf.mobi
hello.mobi
hotstuff.mobi
marketing.mobi
free.mobi
bed.mobi
beds.mobi
accidents.mobi
advertising.mobi
als.mobi
automobile.mobi
automobiles.mobi
hospitals.mobi
insurance.mobi
interviewtips.mobi
Alerts.mobi
bag.mobi
blue.mobi
book.mobi
books.mobi
calculator.mobi
calendar.mobi
casa.mobi
colleges.mobi
cricket.mobi
dad.mobi
firstaid.mobi
get.mobi
Moto.mobi

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Who is the Richest Person in the World ?

Who is the world's richest man (is that a sexist question ?) ? Well it's not Bill Gates and it's not Warren Buffett either, the world's richest person today is officially Carlos Slim. Never heard of him ? Well, you should stay in more.

Apparently when Senor Slim was a young lad his father used to train him to keep clear accounts of all his income, costs and pocket money (why didn't my dad do that with me ?). Any errors or omissions and pocket money was deducted.

Well it took 50 years, but the training finally paid off: Carlos Slim has overtaken Bill Gates in the richest man competition. He is now said to be worth somewhere in the region of $63bn, with Bill Gates on $57bn and Warren Buffet on $52 bn.

How did he make his money ? Telecommunications and department stores in Mexico, and thanks to his father who started the family fortune back in 1902..

How much richer does he get each hour ? $2.7 million, that's 45,000 dollars a minute - so while you're sitting here reading this he's made 45,000 dollars, more if you're a slow reader!

What does he do with all his money ? God knows. Perhaps he gives it back to all those poor people in Mexico (after they have given it to him in the first place of course - less a small commission).

Let's face it he could give away $2.5 million an hour and still be making a pretty penny.

So there you have it. The super-rich make 2.5 million dollars every hour then give 10% back to the poor sods who made them rich. It makes them feel good and restores your faith in humanity does it not ?

If you want to know what the super-rich do with their money (they don't buy BMWs and Rolexes by the way ) then check this out -How Much is a Ticket to Richistan?

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What is a dotMobi Premium Domain Name?

dotMobi is making hundreds of premium domains available through three online auctions, hosted by Sedo. For full details have alook here : http://www.dotmobiz.com/

If you are wondering what constitutes a ‘premium domain’ then read on.

The first of the 3 auctions is on 26 September 2007 at 12 p.m. U.S. Eastern time and will last for seven days. There will be 100 premium names auctioned.

The next two auctions will be held in October and November.

Anybody will be able to bid on these domains, if you want to bid you just need to create an account with Sedo. It will be interesting to see what sort of prices these domain names fetch, as .mobi is still relatively new, but seems to be becoming increasingly significant as a domain extension.

The premium names on offer are :-

AntiSpam.mobi
ask.mobi
busca.mobi
cell.mobi
Cellphone.mobi
chat.mobi
chatrooms.mobi
chats.mobi
Desktop.mobi
domain.mobi
domainname.mobi
domainnames.mobi
domainregistration.mobi
Donwload.mobi
download.mobi
Downloads.mobi
E-mail.mobi
forum.mobi
freedownload.mobi
freedownloads.mobi
freesoftware.mobi
hosting.mobi
image.mobi
images.mobi
index.mobi
Message.mobi
mp3downloads.mobi
searchengine.mobi
telefono.mobi
telephone.mobi
telephones.mobi
traffic.mobi
voip.mobi
Webcam.mobi
webcams.mobi
webdesign.mobi
Wifi.mobi
atm.mobi
atms.mobi
bank.mobi
bills.mobi
credit.mobi
creditcard.mobi
creditcards.mobi
creditdebt.mobi
currency.mobi
debito.mobi
debthelp.mobi
dinero.mobi
exchange.mobi
finanza.mobi
Funds.mobi
loans.mobi
mutualfunds.mobi
payment.mobi
pension.mobi
qoutes.mobi
rent.mobi
salaries.mobi
sales.mobi
sell.mobi
stockmarket.mobi
stockprices.mobi
Taxes.mobi
trade.mobi
peace.mobi
pet.mobi
Pets.mobi
police.mobi
pumps.mobi
push.mobi
surf.mobi
hello.mobi
hotstuff.mobi
marketing.mobi
free.mobi
bed.mobi
beds.mobi
accidents.mobi
advertising.mobi
als.mobi
automobile.mobi
automobiles.mobi
hospitals.mobi
insurance.mobi
interviewtips.mobi
Alerts.mobi
bag.mobi
blue.mobi
book.mobi
books.mobi
calculator.mobi
calendar.mobi
casa.mobi
colleges.mobi
cricket.mobi
dad.mobi
firstaid.mobi
get.mobi
Moto.mobi

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Wordpress Column Formatting Problems

8 September 2007 - 16:35

How to Keep Your Columns in Place in Wordpress

In my previous post - My Other Blog's a Ferrari - I described how I am trying to set up a financial blog using Wordpress - but the day job and the inherent non user-friendliness of Wordpress has had me bogged down somewhat.

If you are having problems with columns in Wordpress and you want to know why your columns are moving down to the bottom of the page then read on, as there is quite possibly a simple solution.

I have finally managed to install a Wordpress 'theme' (template to the rest of us) on my financial blog Financial Mites, but not without much effort, as I wanted a three column theme and, unfortunately, all the 3 column themes I installed insisted on putting the two right-hand columns down at the bottom of the page underneath the left-hand column. So I got one long column instead of three short ones. Why ? I wondered. Well, it was a bit of a conundrum !

So, if you are having the same problem, don't spend 15 hours like I did wandering round the Internet tearing your hair out (unless you already have of course) - or trying to change the margins or the column width or the padding etc... etc... the problem may actually be quite easy to solve. Just follow this simple instruction.

Don't use Word to write your posts in Wordpress !

Copying and pasting from Word into Wordpress will totally mess up your formatting, if you are using 3-column templates at least, but also with other stuff. I read in the Wordpress forum that people were also having trouble formatting columns with images and it turned out this was caused by using Word to write their posts.

So, either type directly into Wordpress, or if you have typed in Word, then save what you have typed in Notepad and copy and paste from Notepad into Wordpress.

You would think that such an important piece of information would be placed somewhere prominent so that you can see it when you first start using Wordpress, but unfortunately, as seems to be the case with so much of Wordpress you simply have to search round the Internet or the Wordpress forum until you find a clue as to what the solution to your problem might be.

The three-column template I finally chose for my blog comes from DoshDosh - 16 Adsense Optimized Wordpress Themes to Maximize your Contextual Ad Earnings - ( thank you Maki and Dosh Dosh). It is SEO optimized and already has Adsense installed, which is excellent, as it saves me messing around with stuff I don't understand yet. But I can't say I like the colours, so I am going to have to change them. Also, because I called my blog Financial Mites (a cunning anagram on Financial Times, as you may have noticed) Adsense at the moment insists on putting up ads. about mites and bedbugs! So I'm going to have to sort that out too.

One thing I have managed to do is change the size of the font in the header, not difficult you might think, but if you don't know what it is you are supposed to do then you can spend a long time trying to find out. I finally discovered what needed changing by another combination of guesswork and deduction, but I will post about that in a separate post.

Hopefully this post has proved useful to someone. So far my experiment with Wordpress has been painfullly slow, and I have not been at all impressed with the help available from Wordpress to sort out the 'problems', but as I haven't paid for any of it, except the hosting, I can't really complain (ha ha), but at least I have got some sort of blog up and running and I can now post on it.


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