Ever wanted to learn how to code but didn't know where to start? A new site is making it easy for you. CodeYear.com is providing free, easy to understand, interactive lessons for those that want to learn how to start coding. The verbage from their site pretty much sums it up. 'Make your New Year's resolution learning to code. Sign up on Code Year to get a new interactive programming lesson sent to you each week and you'll be building apps and web sites before you know it. ' ... Read More »

It used to drive me crazy. Seeing millions of people being suckered into believing they should change their oil every 3,000 miles. They even put a sticker in your window so that it reminded you every......single......day. I knew it was wrong. It says it right there in your vehicle's manual the correct amount of miles you should wait between changes. Yet the marketing of the oil change places prevailed new JiffyLubes and equivalents were put up on every corner. Hundreds of millions of barrels of oil wasted on the myth that we were all saving money and our engines from damage. And now CheckYourNumber.org ... Read More »

I've always wanted to buy and develop a geo domain. What the Castello brothers have done with PalmSprings.com has always fascinated me. As far as really developing a domain, I think a geo name is the perfect project, especially if you're interested in the city or area and have a passion to make it succeed. I recently began searching for available geo names. Obviously large city .com's are out of my price range as I don't have hundreds of thousands of dollars to throw around. So, I began searching for a smaller city based on certain criteria. After several days spent on Wikipedia sorting through c... Read More »

Network Solutions was just awarded this patent yesterday and despite reading it 10 times I can understand exactly what is so proprietary about it.  Can anyone explain this in a way that I can understand? ESDR Network Solutions Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 13 -- ESDR Network Solutions, Wilmington, Del., has been assigned a patent (8,037,168) developed by Eric Schneider, University Heights, Ohio, for a "method, product, and apparatus for enhancing resolution services, registration services, and search services." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark ... Read More »

I'm going to start off this entire post by saying I realize my sites aren't very pretty.  They have always been a work in progress to see what works.  To present in a way that gives the user information and yet have Google still deem it worthy of going to the front page.  I have big plans but like most of the domain investors I know, it's more in my head than in my site.  If fact, in the near future I will be working with Theo and Tia Wood to redesign the sites that present my information in a much prettier way. You've heard me say I make $500 to $1000 a month with my websites and many months mor... Read More »

The old business mantra is to never fall in love with your assets.  While it may be a good practice, the reality is occasionally there are things you own that you like more than others.  I have had a few such domains but one of my favorites was Tapsy.com. I am proud that the domain I sold has now become a iPhone/Apple app company name. One of the categories of domains that I concentrate in is start-up names.  For 10 years I have been buying 5 letter dot coms that would make good online company names.  I probably should have purchased more generics ten years ago but I bought what I liked and that's ... Read More »