The folks at Google Webmaster Central stated pretty clearly at SES NY that there won’t be duplicate content penalties for domains with identical content but different TLDs - provided each is targeted at a specific country. So we’re testing that theory by making slicksurface.ca a separate site…

Old domains that have clean histories can be incredibly powerful - even if they’ve been somewhat stagnant over the years. We’re fortunate that slicksurface.com was registered in 1999 - it gives us a bit of help ranking in search engines.

Picking a new domain name can be frustrating. You come up with a good name only to find out it’s not available. Surprisingly I found some good domain names on my bookshelf - and they were available…