I’m a garbage miner. Everyday, I go to the garbage dump of expiring domains to try to find one tiny nugget of ‘gold’. While this is fun, I can’t do it without tools. Recently, I was given a complimentary membership to try a tool called dotDB. So, today I’ll talk about my experience in using […]
Continue ReadingYour best bet for liquidity probably still lies with auctions
As the discussion about the Uniregistry liquidity program rages on at Namepros. Some interesting points have been brought up both in that thread and offline. Offline a friend asked me why anyone would want to allow the cherry picking type transaction? Elliot Silver shared some great info on his blog and even more in the […]
Continue ReadingBe careful bidding on an expired name of a troubled company
You always need to be cognizant of what kind of business was run on a name you are bidding on in an expired auction. There is a lot of excitement around the auction of Trustify.info on GoDaddy auctions. Currently the name that GoDaddy values at $265 has a high bid of $8,900. I am sure […]
Continue ReadingSee this is why we can’t have nice things
The headline is a quote from Paul Nicks of GoDaddy where he accurately posts back at a member on Namepros with regards to Uniregistry and their new wholesale liquidation program. Vito from Media Branding (who is a friend of mine and a contributor here) posted that he was excited about the new program and wanted […]
Continue ReadingA short and succinct guide to domain investing
There are plenty of guides, ebooks and courses out there on domain investing for newcomers, I wrote a piece here that has seen a lot of traffic since it was written, to give a quick synopsis for the TL;DR crowd who does not and will not read a long lengthy course. Namepros member Dave wrote […]
Continue ReadingNamepros wants threads to stay on topic
Yesterday was a long day on Namepros, a ton of posts and a ton of posts mods had to delete. As someone who modded for 12 years it makes for a long day and gets a lot of people upset. I have said for years, some are just coming to do battle, they do not […]
Continue ReadingIs .com still the number 1 extension?
So a gentleman name Kyle Byers published a post and a Reddit thread that took a look at .com vs other tlds. The Reddit thread has 138 comments and it’s interesting because this is mostly people, (maybe entirely) outside of the domain industry. The post opens up with: How important is having a .com URL? […]
Continue ReadingWhat are you hoping to acquire with $500?
The topic I am curious about, the buyers (wherever they are) looking for 1 word .coms, generic, descriptive not made-up or anything like that. What kind of names are you hoping to acquire with a $500 budget? This is a serious question, are the hopes for very obscure, not well known, one word names that […]
Continue Reading6 Domain Name Suggestion Tools to Find Your Next Domain
Naming a product, service, company, or project can be very time consuming, to say the least. In fact, sometimes selecting a name can be more challenging that actually executing the idea. Nothing kills the mood like checking the domain availability only to find out that someone else had your same thought and beat you to […]
Continue ReadingOne big waste of money
I was looking at Name.com expiring name and there was a pattern around 2006, some of the worst typos you could ever find in bad extensions. Many a domainer made a lot of money off .com typos back in the day when parking paid well and more people get to where they were going via […]
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