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TheNextWeb.org IS NOW TheNextWeb.com!

Boris Written on 11th November 2008                                                                                                              21 COMMENTS some text
Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten, Serial Internet Entrepreneur

TheNextWeb.org IS NOW TheNextWeb.com!Last month we bought TheNextWeb.com in an auction at Sedo.com for only $1000. It took a while to transfer the domain to our hosting provider but it worked out and today we decided to take a deep breath and switch our blog from TheNextWeb.org to TheNextWeb.com.

The .org version of our domain will always work too but now redirects to the .com url. No need to update any old links! We will also start using the .com version for our email addresses but the old ones will also keep working.

So far it looks like everything still works but we are keeping an eye on it and if you see something that doesn’t seem to work as expected please do let us know. As far as I know there shouldn’t be any effect when it comes to Search Engine Optimization but I can imagine that readers are more inclined to return to a blog that has a .com domain name. Right now almost 30% of all our traffic comes from Google so we are keeping on eye on that too!

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TheNextWeb.org & TheNextWeb.com!

Boris Written on 6th October 2008                                                                                                              26 COMMENTS some text
Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten, Serial Internet Entrepreneur

Earlier today we were the lucky winners of the Sedo auction for TheNextWeb.com. We noticed it was for sale a few weeks ago and offered $1000 just to see if the owner would be interested in selling. Turned out that $1000 was enough to start a public auction that ended today.

Near the end of the auction we all grouped around one computer and kept reloading the page ready to bid more if the bid would increase. The last 3 minutes were extremely noisy with everybody screaming their lungs out in excitement! Luckily nobody else placed a bid and we were announced the winner by Sedo.

Here is a screenshot of the last minute. It seemed to take forever:

TheNextWeb.org & TheNextWeb.com!

We will be keeping the .ORG domain name and will move to the new domain somewhere in the following month.

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