That Which We Don’t Understand Scares Us: Don’t be afraid of ccTLDs and IDNs but Be Careful
Over the last few days I have been working with Aaron of IDNTools on registering IDNs (full story at a later date) and friend Morgan Linton has recently unveiled his new site ccTLDinvestors.com (he’s evidently made some money because he bought the i in this name). I am smart enough to know that there is [...]
8 MORE Reasons to Be Excited About the Future of Domaining
Domaining can be profitable. For most, domaining will lose you money. It’s a perfect way to $8 yourself into a financial black hole. Despite the risks, an intelligent, long term approach to this industry has enormous possibilities. Here are 10 more reasons to be excited about the future of domaining.
1. 500,000 estibot evaluations A DAY. [...]
Domaining on a Budget: A Free Dropping Domains Analyzer
When it comes to analyzing drops and checking through the names falling each day, we all have our favorites. From Domain Stryker to GoDrops to FreshDrops there are a ton of pay services out there but there’s one I use every day and it’s free. I’m writing this, not because I’m being paid (they couldn’t [...]
If You Aren’t Answering Emails You’re Leaving Money on the Table
I’ve gone over this before but I was talking to a friend the other day who I really respect and something came out of our conversation that stuck with me. In the same conversation he said two things. Something to the effect, so and so never returns my emails. It’s hard to work with them [...]
Links are More Than Just Links
One of the most important things I’ve learned in the last two months in the “domaining world” is that my efforts are much better spent learning SEO and user habits , than picking perfect names. My
latest self teaching is link building. Rather than pay someone to randomly and blindly throw links up all over the [...]
8 Mistakes Made On Wordpress Sites Than Can Be Fixed in 10 Minutes
We all do or have done at least one of them. I think I did all 8 on this blog. As domainers, many of us live and die by the wordpress based website. We can throw up a site in a few hours, have a nice looking site in a day but here are 8 [...]
ProTip of the Day: Drag and Drop in Valuate.com
I, like many other people, like to get second opinions on my possible domain purchases and use Valuate and Estibot . Something that’s not mentioned on Valuate is the fact you can drag and drop an entire auction database in the box and it will filter out everything but the domains. For instance, the Great Domain/Snapnames [...]
Domainer Blog Tip: How to Take a Screenshot of Your iPhone
You see them on all the blogs. Somehow they’ve taken a screenshot of an iPhone and it usually has the content they’re talking about on the screen. At first I thought they had used photoshop or some special program but it’s actually built into the iPhone. Simple press thee HOME and ON/OFF buttons at the [...]
