By: RH Elliot Silver ran a best moderator contest on his blog. Thanks to Jeff Overman I was nominated as one of the five mods up for a $200 prize that Elliot was awarding out of his own pocket. It is very generous of Elliot to recognize forum moderators and put up his own money. […]
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What does the Small Domainer Do ?
By: RH What does the small domainer do ? Over the last month we have heard a lot about the new tld program. We have seen which companies have applied for which strings. We have heard who is pro new tlds and who is anti new tlds. Frank Schilling's blog post entitled, "Lady Gaga and […]
Continue ReadingYou got to be in the right position for the big sale
By: RH Its always great to read the stories of big sales and in depth negotiations on domain sales. The key factor in most of these situations gets glossed over. You have to be in a position to be able to take part in these types of negotiations. Most domainers are not in the position […]
Continue ReadingBe sure to spot when the trend is changing
By: RH When you are investing in specific themes or trends you need to be much more active in monitoring that trend as opposed to holding quality generic domains. You need to follow both end user sales if any, and the wholesale domainer to domainer market. Over the years there have been many of these […]
Continue ReadingStart a little project to keep yourself sane
By: RH When you read about some of the bigger domainers getting x amount of offers every day, it can become frustrating when you get no offers for weeks. You have to remember that most of the time they own tens of thousands of domains, or they own some of the top domains you can […]
Continue ReadingBuying and Selling domains is more art than science
By: RH There will always be tried and true principles or techniques that many adhere to when buying and selling domains. Just like there are basic principles for playing something like Poker. New poker players will be told to start out only playing strong hands, pay attention to position and keep within their bankroll. There […]
Continue ReadingFacebook is the “Internet”
By: RH That was a reply I got when brokering a domain to a Fortune 1000 company. I was out with some people at a company get together and met the person in charge of marketing for a Fortune 1000 company. We were discussing domains for awhile, he mentioned he made the decisions for the […]
Continue ReadingKudos to Elliot Silver for a nice idea
By: RH Last week Elliot Silver of ElliotsBlog.com came up with a nice little promotion to help one person promote a quality domain for sale. Elliot has mentioned that over the years he has had good success advertising on Domaining.com. For those not familiar with this, you can pay $150 for the day (full 24 […]
Continue ReadingThe weekly sales report, the page of dreams
By: RH Each week a lot of people read the weekly sales report on DN Journal. Those new to the business see this as the page of dreams, where some names they can't even imagine anyone registered, sold for a few thousand dollars. Every week there are plenty of names in the $1000 to $5000 […]
Continue ReadingIs the business of domains moving forward without the domainer ?
Over the last few weeks I had some interesting conversations. They were with friends who flip domains, they have no real development plans, no little to nothing about SEO or branding. One of the funny things was these were separate,unrelated conversations and all three expressed their disapproval of certain blogs or bloggers in the domain […]
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