Building Online Sucess
When I started this blog in February 2008, it was more or less a vessel for venting on personal and professional matters surrounding technology and the Internet. Blogging was used as a means of counter-balancing my often-skewed daily routine, and through these rants I was able to document and share personal experiences with regards to [...]
Read More »It’s 2012, and domain Registrars should provide bulk edit features – or risk losing their accreditation. I kept about 100 ccTLD domains with Domainmonster for the past year; when the time came for renewal, I decided that having waited for a full year for them to implement their bulk edit feature was plenty of time. [...]
Read More »Everyone has their registrar of choice and prefers to register their domains with them. For the purpose of organizing one’s domains, it’s prudent to keep your domain names with as fewer registrars as possible. Register.com is not my choice of registrar, although it belongs to the first group of domain registrars to become available after [...]
Read More »As a domain investor I follow a simple mantra: buy low, sell high. The question is, what exactly is that “low” that will eventually determine the “high” price and how does one determine that? When evaluating the potential of a domain to be acquired, I consider its TLD, keyword, age, positive meaning and Google results [...]
Read More »Wikipedia is out of bounds today, participating in a global protest against the proposed SOPA bill that threatens our civil rights. And yet, I’m not so sad seeing Wikipedia’s black page after each search query. You see, centralized sources of information aren’t really a good thing. Free or not, Wikipedia has somehow become an authority [...]
Read More »On Friday, Rick Schwartz announced a deal that myself and 34 others could not refuse; a $995 ticket for TRAFFIC 2012 in Ft. Lauderdale. Having attended TRAFFIC 2008 in Orlando and TRAFFIC 2010 in Las Vegas, I can only say that I’m very excited to have booked my attendance for this year, a full nine [...]
Read More »The owner of Bodis.com – the domain monetization company that acquired the domain forum NamePros – gave an excellent speech today; albeit in the form of a unity post. It’s not a secret that both DNForum and NamePros each have their own “gang” of supporters, fans and sworn “servants”. It’s what makes cliques fun and [...]
Read More »When I met the Parked.com crew during TRAFFIC 2008 in Orlando, I had the opportunity to engage with some of the best people in the domain monetization business. It was clear that Parked rocked during those times and the company did remarkably well; the people that worked for Parked were top notch and experienced professionals. [...]
Read More »When success arrives in the form of a sale of a business, those of us that partook in its first steps, observing its growth should rejoice. Ron James of NamePros negotiated a deal with domain monetization company Bodis that few could refuse; the end result will be a bigger, better, faster domain forum for its [...]
Read More »I’ve a bone to pick and it tastes like Toblerone. The sticky Swiss chocolate is among my favorite brands but it’s definitely not the easiest to chew. Back to domains. I just completed a nice mid $x,xxx sale with a Swiss buyer. He put faith back in me with regards to Swiss domainers or investors. [...]
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