Topher’s Scribbles

This is more a rant than anything to do with what I normally post, but I just had to post this!!

In case you don’t know, I am a System Administrator for a web design company and I used to work in Tech Support for a hosting company. Since the beginning, I used dnsstuff.com for all my DNS, domain name, email tests. That site was great up until they require you to register. I was so upset that I purchased my own domain name, dnsyard.com, and started to work on my own “dnsstuff”.

Anyway, I periodically check my google ranking (OK, you got me, more like everyhour!!) and I noticed that I am on page 4 for the keyphrase, “free dns tools” (WOO HOO!!). Of course, dnsstuff ranks number one, but I noticed that the number 2 spot has changed. Well it happened to be freednstools.com. I never noticed them, and I’m sure I would have a while ago, but I decided to check them out.

So I did some snooping around. I checked their source code and first of all, noticed that they weren’t using any Keyword Meta Tags, and they rank 2nd, which doesn’t really bother me because the domain name is pretty much the keyphrase (noticed I didn’t link to them at all in this post? haha). Also, their homepage is exactly how dnsstuff used to be, and it included the same exact tools too. So I did a whois for their domain name on their site. And what do you know… The page returned an error.

WOW!! I guess that’s one way to compete with dnsstuff.com. What more can I say??

BTW, check out my site,  http://dnsyard.com/ (in case you forgot it). I only have a few tools, but I will continue to add to it. Hope you enjoy it.

Done!!