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Posts tagged Investments
ccTLDs lead from the front!
Jan 25th
Everyone seems to have woken up to ccTLD investments all of a sudden.
The big ticket sales in 2009 – 2010 have really seem to peaked an interest in ccTLDs from all over the world. Specially since these chart breaking sales are seen in the Global contenders charts now, instead of just the ccTLD charts on DNJournal.
I’ve been a ccTLD evangelist ever since I started domaining back in 2007. It shows in my posts, in my purchases and also on my portfolio. It also shows in the forums I help lead over at NamePros – the ccTLD Discussion and ccTLD sales sections.
Back then most people called More >
Five Top Domain Investment Strategies – Part 2 of 5
Jan 14th
Ok, this is part two of my five part series on what kind of domains make good investments. I hope the three people who read my blog will find this interesting.
Investment Strategy # 2: First Names & Last Names First name domains are extremely rare, specially if they’re common enough and people will usually pay a huge premium to get their hands on a first name. Last names are even rarer and have the advantage of the entire family using the same domain for email and other branding. However, buying one of these is extremely difficult, especially if it is More >
The Extension Agnostic
Jun 9th
I’ll start with what a lot of people will consider a fairly radical statement, though those in the know should probably agree – “Extensions are less relevant than the keyword of the domain”. I’ll take Exhibitions.ws over ExcellentTopExhibitions.com any day of the year.
With each new extension you have a subset of domainers who invest most of their money in that extension, then have to go around touting it as the next big thing since sliced bread else their investments will not get them the returns they want.
What it does for the extension is get a secondary rung of investors who More >
