Eric Lyon wrote a very extensive and detailed post on 10 psychological triggers to help you when selling domain names. It’s not a short read, so bookmark and refer back if you don’t have the time to read it all at once. I think it’s worth the read. From the article: Psych 1. Scarcity & […]

For most it goes without saying, you check all your email boxes, not just the inbox. Stuff that is not trash gets into the trash box, stuff that is not spam gets into the spam box. When you are in the business of having email be a vital part of your communications you need to […]

Namepros member William posted today about a domain sales and change in strategy. After having a $1,999 buy it now on a domain name he got the buyer’s final offer at $1,500. Instead of accepting he raised the price to $4,500. The whole thread is a good read for those newer to the business or […]

One of my favorite songs from The Kinks is Celluloid Heroes. The song is about Hollywood stars. Well in domaining a lot of stars are domain brokers. And if you pay attention it seems like everyone is a domain broker. So I changed the lyrics a smidge: Everybody’s a dreamerAnd everybody’s a starAnd everybody’s a […]

There has been a lot of angst and outrage the past couple of days. Whether it’s domain investors not liking a prominent industry player and their new sales initiative. Or it’s a startup founder calling domain investors scammers, squatters and immoral. Whenever someone asks me why do we put up with this? I hearken back […]

Words have meaning and knowing those meanings is fundamental to getting by in life and hopefully having a happy life. Like there is hate speech, that’s very true. Some however think that anything they don’t want to hear is hate speech, that’s not true. Some people engage in cybersquatting. Cybersquatting is the practice of registering, […]

Simone Catania and the good people at InterNetX (an advertiser here) published an in depth piece on the evolution of the domain name industry. It’s one of those pieces that’s worth bookmarking in case you ever want to reference a specific piece of data for your own content or sales pitch. Highlights include: The report […]

Michael Santiago published a really cool story on the power of domain names and his journey from i-newswire.com to newswire.com. Michael started out by saying the one thing he has learned in his 26 years of business was “A premium domain has the potential to make you and your company a lot of money.” I […]