Domain Names

Forget Domains, buy a TLD!

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ICANN’s Paris conference has thrown up some interesting ideas and questions, chief among them has been the possibility of introducing thousands of new TLDs on a pay and play basis. This BBC News Story has the crux of the issue.

What they’re essentially saying is that anyone willing to fork out between $39,000 – $390,000 for a TLD could possibly buy their own! What this means is that if I had the money and the inclination – I could buy and promote .mwzd (not really, merely an example ) and Coke could get .coke and Ebay could get .ebay, More >

Inside the mind of a Domain Seller

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Rick Latona has written a great series of articles on his site entitled “What makes a domain name sellable“. Its a very interesting, straightforward insight into the mind of one of the most successful domain sellers out there. His approach is hard core business minded which is perfect for this trade, which can lead people astray at times.

It’s a four part article that lays it out -

Part 1 -

I have one question that I ask myself that is more important to me than any other question. What sort of website would be put on the name? When More >

The World’s Biggest Domain Name Deal

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Unknown to me, since I was somewhere between San Francisco and Icheon at the time, a deal went down on the 15th of May that will shape the future of the web considerably.

CBS acquired C|Net for $1.6 Billion. This deal is totally sweet if you ask a domainer, it includes domains such as TV.COM, News.com, Radio.com, Upload.com, Future.com, Chat.com, Com.com, Computers.com, Browser.com, Auctions.com, Builder.com, Events.com, Marketplace.com, Store.com, Tunes.com, Online.com, Gaming.com, Buying.com, Search.Com, Help.com, Downloads.com, More >

The Different Types of Domainers

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There are quite a few approaches to domains and domaining that domainers take. Its like the stock market or real estate market to a certain extent, everyone has their own strategy and most of them pay well for their proponents. I’ve pretty much seen most of the types and will try and enumerate them to enable you to follow what you’d rather be doing.

The Investor These are the sharpest of them all. Buy good quality when prices are low, hold long term, sell high. These guys hold onto assets, maybe even develop them, ensure that they’re More >

The LLLL.com Conundrum

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I’ve been watching the LLLL.com or four letter .com scenario, fairly closely, for the longest of times. I started using DomainTools (or whois.sc as it was known then) to harvest these lists for a while in 2006. In fact, thats what got me interested in domaining in the first place. Well that and the fact that our programs were churning out domains that were nice seo-wise but terrible viz brand value, but thats another story.

In the beginning, around middle of 2006, there were hundreds of LLLL.com available for hand regs, even then More >

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