Attempting to figure out the best price for a domain name or portfolio is quite comparable to trying to find a needle in a haystack. Most domain investors are often blinded by domain sales anomalies produced by the bigger personalities of the domain industry — Schillings, Berkens, Schwartzs, and Roseners. And if not jaded by domain legends, then most domain buyers and sellers often try to hang their … [Read more...]
Why and How .com Didn’t Impact This Interactive Startup
If you’re like most business and personal brands, then you’ve likely heard and read numerous stories about the importance of securing a .com domain for your brand. And while that is true, there have been a growing number of business and personal brands that have defied the “must be on .com to be successful” mantra to build successful and profitable companies. In a recent podcast episode, I … [Read more...]
Backordering Domains using Investor’s Edge Tool
There’s nothing like discovering a domain name you’ve long to own is up for sale, and even better when it’s not renewed and in expired domain auction. In the case of the latter, tens of thousands of domains expire in auction daily. There are quite a few expired domain aftermarket platforms for domain investors, hobbyists, and businesses to bid on expiring domains. But sometimes the domain a given … [Read more...]
How to Email a Lead Magnet Using Mailchimp
If you have a website — which is nearly everyone and their grandmother — and have not implemented a newsletter or mailing list sign up form, then you are totally missing out on a good monetization opportunity. And if you carelessly shrug your shoulders at the thought of possibly monetizing your website, then at least think about the opportunity of growing organic traffic. Executing a sound popup form … [Read more...]
Exchanging a .COM for a .IO Digital Presence
From Slither.io to Clothes.io to CodePen.io to a growing list of personal and company brands, .io domains have become the darling domain of tech startups and domain investors. The Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for .io was originally assigned to the British Indian Ocean Territory before tech world dubbed it “input/output” domain for the next great tech idea. There have been and are many … [Read more...]
7 Common Pitfalls of Domain Leasing
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 encounter significant setbacks when lessors and lessees forget to identify and address key elements … [Read more...]
One Critical Action to Take Before Starting a Blog
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 articles written by yours truly as a contributing writer for … [Read more...]
Is New gTLD Financing a Match Made in Heaven?
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 is whether or not financing of new gTLDs is likely the chasm that … [Read more...]
Why Domain Investors Should Consider Domain Development
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, 6, and 7 figure sales by Friday. Very few domain investors … [Read more...]
How to Negotiate Marketing Budget for Domain Lease Agreements
If you hang around the domain industry long enough, then you’ll likely discover most domain portfolios often sit priced unrealistically, and collecting more dust than inquiries and sales. And if researching and drumming up leads, inquiries, and sales for your domain portfolio is not within your wheelhouse, then things aren’t looking up for you, and it’s only a matter of time before you call it … [Read more...]
