Chargers’ Ladainian Tomlinson LT Slide Electric Glide Website

Ladanian Tomlinson dancing

Will the San Diego Chargers beat the New York Jets this weekend? I sure hope so, but I am also rooting for a small start-up that was spawned by a You Tube video of Ladainian Tomlinson. Apparently, Nike leaked a video of star running back Tomlinson doing the “LT Slide Electric Glide,” a 1980s themed music and dance video.

The video is kinda hilarious, and it caused a buzz on blogs, Twitter, and other websites. One San Diego Chargers fan built a LT Slide Electric Glide website, where he is offering an awesome 80′s style throwback t-shirt complete with Electric Glide logo. Get a shirt and show your support for LT’s dancing moves.

How long will this buzz last? Probably for as long as the Bolts are in the playoffs. Here’s hoping they handle the NY Jets and Mark Sanchez this weekend. If they have moves like LT, they should glide right through to the AFC Championship.


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Domain Investor Interviews on Domainers Digest

Based on feedback I have received from people regarding my “5 With…” series of interviews, I know people love to read about how others got started and found success in the domain investment business.

Steve Kaziyev recently launched a new website, Domainers Digest, and the purpose of the site is to give people an inside look at people from all parts of the domain industry.

Today, Steve has an interview with Frederick Schiwek of EuroDNS.com, the person who sold Voodoo.com for $300,000. Over the next few weeks and months, Steve has interviews lined up with people such as Parked.com’s Jazmin Carrillo, Bill Sweetman of Tucows, John Yeomans of Edge Capital, and many other people you may know but may not know much about.

I wish Steve lots of luck with his new venture.

Just as an aside, this isn’t a paid post nor am I being compensated for it in any way.


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Vail Resorts Gets Domain Names

Vail Ski ResortsVail Ski Resorts seems to be way ahead of the curve when it comes to owning great domain names that are important to their businesses. I was doing a bit of research, and I noticed that Vail owns 3 of the 5 .com names for their resorts, which are also syonymous with the names of the towns in which they are located.

Vail Resorts owns Breckenridge.com, Vail.com, and BeaverCreek.com. They do not own Heavenly.com (owned by Scott Day) or Keystone.com (owned by Keystone Software). In addition, they also own another great generic domain name – Snow.com, which is used by the company as a vacation and travel planning website.

Vail Resorts also owns quite a few longer tail keyword domain names such as ColoradoSummer.com, KeystoneDining.com, and ColoradoPass.com. They aren’t using the long tail keyword names for SEO though – all of them seem to redirect to the Snow.com website.

Vail Resorts has also been a bit aggressive in attempting to defend their virtual turf, filing a UDRP for BeaverCreekReservations.com and VailResortVacations.com. The UDRP was successfully defended by domain attorney John Berryhill. Vail also filed an unsuccessful UDRP for VailOnSale.com, while they were successful in winning the UDRP for RockResorts.com.


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