Wow! The last day of 2009! What a great year this has been!

At the time of writing countries such as New Zealand and Australia have already entered 2010!

Today is the end of a year, a decade, and an era. Tonight, a new year, a new decade, a new era and a new season begins.

Unfortunately, I don’t have time to give a proper review of 2009 or the last decade, or even to make any predictions for the new year and decade. All I will say is that once 2010 kicks in, unbelievable changes will happen at unbelievable paces.

I remember that 10 years a go, we were just losing bulky analogue mobile phones to embrace heavy digital handsets with monochrome screens. I used to struggle to find space on my desk after the bulky computer monitor took up all the space, and the desktop then sat beneath the monitor. Internet connection was a mere 56kbps.

Fast forward to 2009, we hold the power of the Internet in our hands. We can do video calls, take pictures (color), send text and multimedia messages and browse the internet at well over 10mbps from hand-held devices than can fit in the palm of our hands.

I am one of those people that judge our technological advancements by the innovations in mobile technology. After all, mobile phones will dictate the future in a lot of ways. Internet surfing will be completely different from what it is today in a few years time, thanks to mobile technology.

Businesses had to wake up to the idea of doing business on the Internet (ebusiness) or at least having an Internet presence. Going forward, businesses will have to grasp and embrace the concept of social networking and mobile browsing.

As for the domain industry, I don’t know how it will pan out. Lots of changes are already slated for 2010. However, I believe the domain name industry will have to decisively take care of a few problems before it can progress. It has to clean up its practices, most importantly, its image and reputation.

But, saying that, the domain industry needs to be properly defined. Domain parking seems to be on the decline. The question is, can there be a domain industry without domain parking? How will domain parking evolve in the next 10 years?

Will mobile browsing kill the need for a domain name? Will there be a new Internet? Will improvement and further widespread usage of mobile browsers spell the end of the domain parking, AND the domain industry?

There are just too many questions. We all just have to be proactive and stand ready to be flexible to adapt to the new realities coming our way.

Nonetheless, there are some that believe that the world will end in 2012. As a Christian, I do believe that we are in the end of days. The signs are all around. But as they say, plan as if you will live forever, live as if there is no tomorrow.

I believe though, that for people who are proactive, hardworking and smart, 2010 and beyond will be very prosperous. There are loads of opportunities out there. I will surely waste no time in grabbing as many as I can!!

So, let me thank everyone for a great 2009 here at eBusinessDomains.com. I wish for you and your family a fantastic and prosperous 2010.

Happy New Year!!!

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It’s been hectic and chaotic over the past few weeks, but within all the madness, a lot of things got done.

In the summer I blogged about my intentions to have 2 new brands launched by year-end. I also purposely wanted these 2 new brands to be non-domaining related. Work on the Aeroplanes.com project has justifiably taken up the bulk of our time, and it will be some time still before Aeroplanes.com go live.

Nonetheless, I was determined to launch a new project using one of our top domain names. After much research, strategising, planning, development and hard work, we have now successfully launched Skull.net.

The idea behind Skull.net is simply “What were they thinking?!!” or better yet, “Have you knocked your head (skull)?”

It is a community where users can upload and share their funniest pictures and videos, and even audio. The pictures and videos can contain anything that people witness and manage to capture in their everyday life that is just out of the ordinary.

Users can easily share the pictures and videos that are uploaded in a variety of ways. They can embed videos, share the links and even copy and paste the links to their blogs, forums, websites, via email, etc.

Social bookmarking is also enabled, making it easy for people to share videos and photos on social networking sites such as Twitter, Digg, StumbleUpon, Facebook, etc.

There is also a social networking element built into the site itself, where users can invite their friends to join, make new friends in the community and comment on and rate pictures and videos uploaded by other users.

There are loads of other features. The technology is quite robust. However, this is just the beginning. We are getting ready to start work on phase 2, which will even give users the ability to share more funny stuff. Can’t say what’s coming next. You just have to wait and see.

This brand will play a strategic role going forward. Unfortunately I cannot share in public or private anything else about the technologies or plans, as we cannot afford to lose any competitive edge. This is the real world, where business is as real as it gets.

It’s good to share ideas, but what competitive advantage or benefit would one have if they openly expound their business/operational plan?

Skull.net should set the pace going into 2010. I have preaching from day one about branding. It’s now time to practise what I preach. We have some big and mighty plans for 2010 and beyond. So expect less domaining from me.

As I said before, this is a non-domaining venture. I doubt domainers will find Skull.net useful as it is becoming increasingly obvious that a lot of domainers don’t have a sense of humour. I can imagine as well that a lot of people will not “get” the logic behind this brand. Watch this space.

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2009 is drawing to a close. I can’t believe that another year has gone by so quickly.

One of the things that I had set out to do this year was to take web development to another level. We did redesigned the eBusinessDomains.com website and launch a few other sites such as BrandingSuccess.com.

We also wanted to launch 2 full-scale brands before the end of 2009. That will not happen as one project took most of our time. Well a lot of key developments here at eBusinessDomains.com and in my other businesses took most of the time.

So in the end we only did some serious work on Aeroplanes.com. We have been working on the Aeroplanes.com project for some months now. I am truly excited about what is coming.

The developers have been busy for some while now creating, customising and integrating a lot of technologies.

In the research phase I contacted a lot of developers. I did promise to have some web developers handle different aspects of the project. However due to the complexity and sheer scale of the project, I have decided to contract only one company instead. So, if you are one of the developers that I had previously approached, please don’t feel insulted or sidestepped. I’m sure that after the launch you will agree that this was a job for one company.

I was hoping to have Aeroplanes.com launched by the end of November. This will not be a reality, obviously. As they say, choose 2 and sacrifice the other of time, quality and money. I am not sacrificing any. Period.

The project is a huge and complex one. Another reason why we would not be able to meet the deadline is that one of the technologies that we are planning on using is still in beta, and we will not be launching until this technology is given the all clear.

So, this may take us into 2010. This will be my last blog post for the next 3 weeks. I have some urgent and pressing matters to focus on elsewhere. When those matters are dealt with, I will then need to give the Aeroplanes.com project my full attention. By then, we should be in the testing phases and I will need to be on the ball getting the project ready for launch.

I will also need to start focusing on the strategies that will need to be implemented prior to and after the launch.

So, as for the next few months, it will be less domaining for me, and more web and brand development.

eBusinessDomains.com will take a backseat until we get Aeroplanes.com at cruise control heights. Taking off is one of the most key aspects of a flight. So, we will be doing a lot of checking and preparation before take off, and then a lot of work once we are in the air, web and brand development-wise.

When we focus again on eBusinessDomains, our main and only objective will be to decisively take our business to end-users. By developing Aeroplanes.com we are now end-users, and as such we should have some very intimate knowledge about ebusinesses.

I say again, web development is hard work. Laugh all you want. It is not as hard as doing manual labour in the tropical sunshine. But, it is nothing close to the minisite-level of web development (design) that some people only seem to be able to associate web development with.

There is web design, web development, business development and brand development. If we were launching a mini site we would have had a site up in July without even having to wink. We would only need to simply send an email and a Paypal payment to one of those minisite service providers. Minisite creation is barely web design. We are doing full-scale business and brand development.

In 2010 we will shake off the domainer mentality, block out the noise, and get clothed in the entrepreneurial spirit by launching full-scale Internet brands and doing business with like-minded entrepreneurs.

I’m blogging about the Aeroplanes.com project here as we don’t have any sort of temporary functional website setup yet at Aeroplanes.com, and our corporate site (WidestMedia.com) won’t go live until next year.

If you want to be notified of the launch of Aeroplanes.com or participate in any of our beta tests, then you can subscibe via email at Aeroplanes.com.

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We will aim to send domains to auctions on a daily basis.

We own a large inventory and also list/broker thousands of domains on behalf of our members.

Our members can request for their domains to go to auctions via their user control panel.

Everyone is interested in different niches. As you never know when the perfect domain from your desired will go to auction, it is best in your best interest to check every day to see what’s on offer.

We set reserves as low as $99 for domains that could retail for as much as $9,999, and higher.

Here are 2 hot picks for today:

FemaieModel.net
Perfect domain to start a model website similar to ModelMayhem.com. I am involved in the modelling and fashion business. It is huge.

LungsDisease.net
This is a category killer health-related domain name that needs no explanation.

Click here to see the current list of domains in our auctions.

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There are quite a few domain auctions going on at various venues. There are also numerous domain marketplaces popping up here, there and everywhere. Well. Even the bible said that in the last days there would be more sellers than buyers .

Anyway, we are now sending domains to auction on a daily basis here at eBusinessDomains.com. We will aim to have at least 5 domains in auction at any given time. Our reserves will be between $99 and $999.

This is another step we are taking as we prepare to launch our full-scale advertising campaigns to target end-users.

Please check back on a daily basis for great deals. Our auctions will either be 24 hours, 3 days or 7 days long.

You can be assured that you will find great domains at low reserves.

Visit our homepage to view the aunction inventory or simply visit the auction list here.

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