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7 Common Pitfalls of Domain Leasing

September 14, 2018 by Alvin Brown Leave a Comment

When most people think of leasing, they tend to think of common things such as vehicles, buildings and land to name a few. But what most fail realize is that domain names are high on the list of things to be frequently leased. Although leasing is nothing new under the sun, domain lease agreements often […]

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Filed Under: Domain Leasing, Domaining 101, KickstartCommerce

Branding 2.0 and domains

September 9, 2018 by Alvin Brown Leave a Comment

Image courtesy of various brands While traditional branding (Branding 1.0) focuses on “what”, domains add the “where” dimension to it. Well, I must say that I’m not a branding expert, so my knowledge about branding may be limited. As I understand, Branding 1.0 is about associating a brand with “what”. When you think of a […]

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Filed Under: Branding, Chinese Domain Names, Domain trends, Domaining 101

The Chinese domain strategy of Walmart

September 1, 2018 by Alvin Brown Leave a Comment

Image courtesy of Walmart.com Apple has moved its Chinese iCloud data to China and India is considering a policy to require data to stay within its country. National governments across the world will likely impose requirements on local residence of local data as time goes on. The “one .com to rule them all” domain strategy […]

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Filed Under: Chinese Domain Names, Coreile, Domain trends

Why do Chinese companies like acronym domains?

August 30, 2018 by Alvin Brown Leave a Comment

China is the largest owner of liquid domains according to the quarterly market report by GGRG.com. These are very short .com domains such as LL (letter-letter), NN (number-number), and LN (letter-number) .com which can be sold at any time because of a large pool of ready buyers. In this article, I’ll focus on the acronym […]

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Filed Under: Chinese Domain Names, Coreile, Domain trends

One Critical Action to Take Before Starting a Blog

August 28, 2018 by Alvin Brown 2 Comments

While settling down and preparing for the next day, I took a quick break to visit Domaining.com to discover any breaking domain industry news. If you’re not familiar with Domaining.com, it’s a curation of publishers and bloggers that produce newsworthy content in regards to the domain industry news. In fact, you’ll likely find a few […]

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Filed Under: Domaining 101, KickstartCommerce

Facebook, China, and Domains

August 27, 2018 by Alvin Brown Leave a Comment

He married a Chinese woman. He learned Chinese. And he connects with young Chinese. Mark Zuckerberg has made a lot of efforts to win friendship in China, including giving a talk completely in Mandarin at a top-notch Chinese university. Yet, Facebook is not in the Middle Kingdom. Well, it actually was in China – only […]

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Filed Under: Chinese Domain Names, Domain trends, Facebook

Emoji Domains: Where Are They Now? 🤔

June 28, 2018 by Alvin Brown 3 Comments

About a year or so ago, emoji domains were not red, but white hot and well on their way as a “riches in the niches” phenomenon. But as with everything in life, it’s good to stop, assess and take inventory from time to time in an effort to understand how much progress has or has […]

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Filed Under: Domain trends, Emoji

Is New gTLD Financing a Match Made in Heaven?

May 29, 2018 by Alvin Brown 2 Comments

Of course, financing domain names is nothing new under the sun. Domain leasing and financing certainly happens each and every week, if not on a daily basis. It’s not news to read about a person or company leveraging varying financing options to hopefully stake their claim to highly-valued virtual real estate. The question I pose […]

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Filed Under: Domain trends, Domaining 101, KickstartCommerce, new gtlds

Why Domain Investors Should Consider Domain Development

May 23, 2018 by Alvin Brown 1 Comment

There are countless carcasses littering the domain investing journey. Folks often enter domain investing thinking it’s nothing more than buying domains while sipping mai tai cocktails on a beach. And if not that image, then the image is that domain investors purchase domains at standard registration fees on Monday and flip them them for 5, […]

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Filed Under: Domain trends, KickstartCommerce, Podcast

Emoji Domains One Year After DomainSherpa Interview

April 26, 2018 by Alvin Brown Leave a Comment

It’s hard to believe it’s been just over a year since the debuting of DomainSherpa’s Emoji Domains May Take Over the World, having originally aired April 10, 2017. In short, emoji domains caught fire shortly after Mike Cyger interviewed Matan Israeli and Jon Roig about a universal language that most people throughout the world use […]

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Filed Under: Domain trends, Emoji

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