Ritesh Sapra Digitalized

No one looks at you with surprise these days, if you tell them you own a domain. You take your wife out for a movie at a multiplex, and that could cost you more than the price you pay for a regular domain name (.com, .net, .org) for a whole year.

But I am just wondering how much would you pay for a domain name? If the domain you wish to acquire is available, absolutely good for you, but if it isnt, how much will you shell out to buy it.

I recently inquired about the domain name “riteshsapra.com”, and the owner of the domain asked me for a cool $2200. I owned riteshsapra.com in 2003 I think, but didnt renew it, and it was acquired by someone else. No way am I shelling out $2200 for a .com, if I already have riteshsapra.net

Now for the kicker. A relative of mine owns “Surat.Com” and has had it since the year 1999. For those you dont know, Surat is a city in Gujarat, and was even awarded the cleanest city in India. He has put up Surat.Com up for sale, and is expecting a whooping 6 fugure $. Any takers?

Is he justified in asking for so much, or is that a distant dream?

O2 is the sole network on which the iPhone is available in the UK. O2 said that the initial order of new iPhones had been split roughly in half between pre-orders, which can only be made online, and stores, which will begin selling the device on Friday.

O2 started the pre-orders at 8am on 7th July. Around 2,00,000 people had already pre-ordered their iPhone online, but as more and more people started getting online - the O2 website crashed. It couldnt take the load of so many users simultaneously tryign to pre-register their iphone.

Now, this is the impact the iPhone already has

Egosurfing (also called egosearching, egogoogling, self-googling, or simply Googling yourself) is the practice of searching for one’s own given name, surname, full name, on a popular search engine, to see what results appear.

It has become increasingly popular with the rise of popular search engines such as Google, as well as free blogging and web-hosting services.

With EgoSurf, you can check how many points you get with EgoSurfing, and compare your results with others, which gives you a clue as to where you stand.

Addictomatic gives you the search results of your name from various services like Google Blog Search, Twitter, YouTube, Wordpress.com blogs, Digg, Flickr, Bloglines, so you can see if your name is mentioned in any of these services.

So how often do you Ego Surf? Do you use any other services for Ego Surfing?

There’s often a need to convert our word documents or powerpoint presentations into PDF format. There are offline softwares which you can install on your PC to convert these docs into PDF.

What if you dont convert regularly, and you need a convert a document on an one off basis.

Head over to PDF Online where you can upload your document and the site will eMail you the converted PDF document.

If you’re at work and dont have access to the Internet, but can shoot out an eMail - worry Not. You can simply send an eMail to iphone@pdfonline.com attaching the document you want converted.

Note: At times, it might take a while for the site to send back the converted document.(PDF)

We’ve all heard of news about Microsoft wanting to take over the online search component of Yahoo!, but the deal fell through.

Whats new is Yahoo! has agreed a major deal to use Google’s advertising technology. The tie-up will see Google ads appear alongside Yahoo! search results in the US and Canada. Currently, its unclear as to how it will affect the UK market. This move will further boost Google’s dominance.

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