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Tag Archives: Domaining

Selling Domains at eBay

Well, it has been quite a while since I posted last. I have been busy acquiring high-quality end-user domains, while ditching (errr…trimming) much of my lower-quality inventory. In the past, I have always had success selling average-…

BargainDomains.com – My Experience

It has been approximately a month, but I have finally sold my first domain through BargainDomains.com! Sure, the sale was only for $60, but this represented over a 200% return on investment. When it comes to completing the transaction,…

1and1 Free #Fail

The point of the post is not so much that the free domain offer failed. It’s that the marketing dept. really screwed up. How could I ever trust 1&1 with my hosting if they can’t get a simple domain registration together?
Wow, sometimes things u…

Naming Your Company – A Venture Capitalist Tells You How

Mark Suster is a 2x entrepreneur turned Venture Capitalist. He joined GRP Partners in 2007 as a General Partner after selling his company to Salesforce.com. He focuses on early-stage technology companies. He is also the host of This Week In Venture…

Everybody has a sale that he regrets…

I keep on reading about the guy who sold camroullete.com for $1400 to Adam Strong, who flipped it a few weeks later for $150k at his Domain Madness auction. Congrats to Adam of course.
Everybody has a sale that he or she regrets, it’s just part of th…

If You Didn’t Know What An Mp3 Is, Why Did You Register The Domain?

Ultimate early internet domain name play story. In this excerpt Michael Robertson tells how he came
to own mp3.com and what happened when he ‘turned on’ the traffic.
Michael Robertson tells the story of mp3.com.
In addition to starting mp3.com (l…

Old Domain, Old Design, Old Script, Renewed Passion

Several years ago, 2004 to be exact I found myself developing websites like crazy.  At this time I was a domainer, but I was not a complete domainer.  The projects I worked on would fall by the waste side and I would just move onto the next one.  Th…

My Spreadsheet for Tracking End-User Sales

I have received a lot of interest in how I approach end-users over the last year. If you haven’t yet downloaded my domain sales letter you might want to grab it as it is an essential part of the process. Today I thought I would share with my readers …

Naming Names – At $75k A Pop

Salon has a super-interesting article on the business of naming companies. It’s long and detailed with lots of quotes from main players in the industry. I had no idea really. It’s a huge industry and people are charging a lot of money to help compa…

How To Pick Which Domains To Develop – Three Easy Steps

I don’t think a week has gone by that I haven’t received an email from one of my readers asking me how to pick which domains from their portfolio they should develop. Of course if you had infinite time the correct answer would be – all of them……