Newsflash: just because you can install wordpress you are not a domain expert!
I am getting tired of people registering a domain name and setting up a simple wordpress blog and claiming to be a domain expert.
So many wanna bees popping up each month that have no business giving out advice to anyone…..
Domainsherpa, Chef Patrick and Morgan Linton to name a few but there are many more, nothing against these three. I just don't feel they should be selling themselves as domain experts, good marketers — yes.
If you don't make a good living in domaining you have no business giving out domain advice or pretending to be someone important in this industry.
The only ones I follow are dnjournal and domainnamewire.com
What blogs to do you follow?
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Read the thread here : http://www.dnforum.com/f17/newsflash-just-because-you-can-install-wordpress-you-not-domain-expert-thread-456982.html
I read that post, a lot of replies in there. I think some of the so called experts are borderline idiots. Just because you got lucky and regged domains at the right place,right time,does not make you smart.
Half of these douchebags would be doing what ? If it were not for hitting the lottery.
The idiots who worship these twits is even worse.
Wait you have to be rich to be smart ? Is that for real ? Look domainers as a whole are the lowest form of business person. All vultures who bring nothing to the table, assbags that got there first.
George Pickering is a bright guy, he does not blog and he does not make $500,000 a year selling names. I have learned alot when he posted on lead generation.
I don’t know how much most of these guys make, I respect Berkens,Schilling a guy like Adam Strong who has had some great sales like the camroulette sale. Rick and Greg McNair, and that’s about it, no one else impresses me.
Domain Sherpa is out there calling himself the domain authority. He lost me once I read that. It might be his way of trying to have newbs believe that. He is no authority. May be a nice guy but what is his background. I support Adam Dicker 100%, Dn Journal and DNW nothing else needed, and that certainly includes Berkens and Silver,,, Boringgggg
You know what is funny? That most of the people lapping this up, have made nowhere near $500,000 in their life.
It certainly is an interesting thread.
Adam Dicker is a pompous douchebag. DotComGod, ya right…
Acro, another brown noser that needs to be added to the list.
George Pickering is a bright guy, he does not blog and he does not make $500,000 a year selling names.
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The only way to judge a persons success at domaining is by the money being made. Everything else is fluff, excuses and long winded arguments.
Props to Adam Dicker for saying making this “politically incorrect” statement, it is something that will never by popular with the masses of unsuccessful domainers or the people who claim to be “building something big” but never get anywhere.
As usual snoopy cowtailing to the old guard.
Someone can have knowledge without selling a lot. Dicker picked easy targets, Domain Sherpa is not even a domainer, Linton is more of a make money through ebooks or mlm guy, I have no idea who George Pickering is.
Do you make Dicker’s $500,000 a year Snoopy ? I doubt Silver does either. I don’t have any info one way or the other. But if I had to bet I am all in neither of you make $500,000 a year. And before the idiotic notion of its crass to talk about making money, that’s how we keep score.
Silver paid something like $50k for a geo city domain, and he said in a post once he makes like $200/month with it.
Great ROI, it’ll take him 25 years to recoup his investment.
Like anything in life, some times would be necessary to blow your own horn.
I’m a “micro” domainer compared to some of those “Guru & King” domainers but, apparently I was aware of the “Parking Affair way ahead of them. Since 2009 how come?
To be a domainer you need few dollars to start with. The rest have to be done using the best tool you could ever find: Your Own Brain. I don’t have to tell you that domains are everywhere and available. Once you find your empty lot, you find an end user and give an honest offer. Works every time. No mystery at all. Would you believe I don’t even have a website? Yes; I don’t.
I think that the secret pass by designing your own step by step system and work with it every day. Last but not least applying the old method of : Test, test, test and test and when you’re done, go and test more.
Try it and you can give a who about what the “Real Domainers” are saying and/or doing. They may have more money but, no more brains; necessarily. That’s for sure…
Cheers,
George
“Silver paid something like $50k for a geo city domain, and he said in a post once he makes like $200/month with it.”
@ Jason
I can tell you that the revenue is closer to $500/month now (top banner alone is $250 for 50% of the rotations), but that’s neither here nor there. I probably overpaid for Lowell.com, but fortunately, I can afford to make mistakes like that and I have no qualms admitting it. I would bet there are a lot of people that overpaid for names in 2006-2007. Thankfully, I have enough capital that I don’t need to sell the name at a possible loss, and I have done pretty well over the last few years. I still earn most of my money flipping domain names, and it’s my full-time profession.
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“Do you make Dicker’s $500,000 a year Snoopy ? I doubt Silver does either. I don’t have any info one way or the other. But if I had to bet I am all in neither of you make $500,000 a year”
@ Pondman
You’d bet “all in” that I am not making $500,000 a year without any information about my business (like private sales)? That sounds like an unwise move to me.
To me the most respectful blogs are, TheDomains and DomainNameWire and 3rd Eliott.
Domain Sherpa’s publisher has a background in publishing and engineering. He knows what he’s doing. Who else would build a media website that generated nearly a million unique per month based on business content? He sold that publishing company.
I find many to be a bunch of followers on these forums. I would never recommend a forum to any new domainer. Too many people talking with little results to back up their success.
The problem is that experts visit sites without reading a title. A title such as how to appraise a domain name using online valuation tools is not suggesting that domain valuation tools are the standards. Of course, you can leave it to several idiots to debate the article.
Domain Sherpa is innovative. I don’t see Frank Schilling doing any interviews on other sites. Many domain blogs are too advanced for any common domainer to understand. Most of the time people visit to post their worthless domains. I suupose thread expert domain investors are teaching new domainers how to become good domainers.
Elliot didn’t make a mistake purchasing Lowell.com for $50k. People laugh because they want to entertain others. GEO city sites hold great value.
The website can easily make a huge return based on job leads alone. It wouldn’t take much work to make back a roi. You can even build lead generations for cleaning, legal, services, and etc.
Several people list their favorite blogs. Nonetheless, these domainers show up at the blogs they claim to feature less than quality information.
“To me the most respectful blogs are, TheDomains and DomainNameWire and 3rd Eliott.”
All of these blogs are made up 70% of the exact same content- sales reports they rip from a press release. Only DNJournal takes the press release and does something original with it and formats it so it can be useful. All these reports do is bait and entice newbies into spending their last dollars trying get rich quick because they see a sale advertised and expect their advertised variant to sell tomorrow for double. What a crock…
probably overpaid for Lowell.com, but fortunately, I can afford to make mistakes like that and I have no qualms admitting it. I would bet there are a lot of people that overpaid for names in 2006-2007. Thankfully, I have enough capital that I don’t need to sell the name at a possible loss, and I have done pretty well over the last few years. I still earn most of my money flipping domain names, and it’s my full-time profession.
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Win some, lose some. Can’t expect to win on all deals, just as long as there is an overall profit. Personally I probably get it wrong 25% of the time.
True about 2006-2007 names, there has been dozens of sales reported that were sold for a loss after being bought in that period.
Area Sherpa is over there calling himself the space power. He lost me once I peruse that. It could be his direction of attempting to have newbs think that. He is no power. Would be a great chap but what is his underpinning level. I underpin Adam Dicker 100%, Dn Journal and DNW nothing else required, and that absolutely combines Berkens and Silver,,, Boringgggg
George Pickering is a bright guy, he does not blog and he does not make $500,000 a year selling names.
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The only way to judge a persons success at domaining is by the money being made. Everything else is fluff, excuses and long winded arguments.
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One company, I personally started has made over $50m in the past decade. I’ve been part of the executive team of a company that went public. Another sold to Intuit. Another just sold to a large public company in the US.
I think my track record speaks for itself, sir….
I may not flip domains, but I know how to build domains into businesses that can be sold for and that generate alot of money.