Thursday’s Daily Dropping Domains And Auctions and a Joke

By ShaneCultra - September 30, 2010 - 0 Comments

Looks like the large Internet entities are starting to buy up smaller successful websites. Techcrunch was the site that makes the headlines but in the last few months 3 of my website owning friends with sites that make $10,000 plus per month have been approached by big media companies. Damn I sold too soon. Now onto the names x40.com Remember yesterday when I was talking about domains I like? This is # 3 PreStartup.com Startups are big news on sites like techcrunch. You could start a site talking about companies BEFORE they even became companies. Brilliant MyChildren.org Touchin... Read More »

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5 Domain Trends I’m Buying

By ShaneCultra - September 29, 2010 - 12 Comments

There are plenty of ways to make money in domaining and even more ways to lose. Some people buy generic dot coms, others buy other tlds and develop them. I like to follow trends and try to capitalize on them. I really like to buy and sell "commodity" type domains, collectibles, 3L, 4L, 3N, 4N types. The goal is to see value early, buy as many as I can afford and then get out. Some times it's a quick flip of weeks. Often it takes years. It's very much like trading it's as simple as buy low sell high. Buy the rumor, sell the news. Here are 5 Domain "trends" I'm buying, notice how most are d... Read More »

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Wednesday’s Daily Domain Drops And Auctions

By ShaneCultra - September 29, 2010 - 1 Comment

Yesterday was a shitty day. I had two trucks break down for various reasons and THEN.........on the way home the drive shaft in my BMW X5 broke. I've had several things break on a given day before. When you run lots of equipment and trucks, things break. It's part of life but yesterday was a bit much. I couldn't help but laugh as I am right in the middle of an intersection blocking traffic from both sides at 5 pm rush hour, it was just a very fitting ending to the day. I had 20-30 people roll down the window with a smile and say something to the effect "get that piece of junk out of the way".�... Read More »

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Scared of IDNs? Fear is Merely Lack of Knowledge

By ShaneCultra - September 28, 2010 - 2 Comments

The main reason people don't deal with IDNs is they just don't feel comfortable with the foreign languages. They are a bit more work and involves uncertainty. Traditionally things that required a bit more work and are shunned by others, lead to great wealth. Fortunately for you, there is now a conference that is going to take the mystery out of IDNs. IDNTools and sponsors Register.com, Moniker® and SnapNames® will be hosting an IDN Event in Manhattan on Saturday night October 30th at 7:00pm. The focus of the event will be the following A general education about IDNs Their values H... Read More »

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Tuesday’s Daily Domain Drops and Auctions

By ShaneCultra - September 28, 2010 - 1 Comment

A funny thing happened yesterday and it epitomizes life. I'm having a conference call to go over our company moving all our databases online so that we can access them from anywhere and of course, our internet is out. It only goes out one to two hours a year and it was out 36 hours. I didn't even report it until Monday morning and it was fixed in 6 or 7 hours but now that we're going to be moving online I expect this to happen more often. Fogarty.com Very popular last name. I have a friend named John Fogarty, of course, not THE John Fogarty. You can't even imagine how many times he heard so... Read More »

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