Six months ago Ron Jackson of DN Journal announced the NDA sale of Chocolate.com. The domain was brokered by Buckley Media. After there was no movement on the name for a couple weeks one Namepros member started questioning the validity of the sale. A few months later that same member posted: So am I the only one questioning this sale? NDA, Points still a couple months later to a for sale … [Read more...]
YMCDN.com closes at $127,801 on GoDaddy – Will it get paid?
YMCDN.com closed at $127,801 on GoDaddy Auctions on Wednesday. The domain has a big link profile. Looking at Majestic.com: Information Homepage TitleN/ACrawled URLs333Indexed URLs15,672Educational Ref. Backlinks3,044Governmental Ref. Backlinks698Educational Ref. Domains479Governmental Ref. Domains128 External backlinks Fresh … [Read more...]
Some registrars continue to markup your domains without your permission
Registrars are still marking up our domains without authority of any legal right to do so. So two years ago I wrote about a topic that had bothered me for years and Andrew at DNW had brought it up in a post and that got me to finally take the time to address the situation. Many if not most domainers add their names to Sedo and Afternic who in turn work with their distribution networks to … [Read more...]
Mike said this 8 years ago, is it still true?
8 years ago Mike wrote a very popular post that got a lot of views and over 120 comments. Domain Investing Isn’t Playing The Lottery, It’s Investing When Mike wrote the post it was before new gtlds, it was before cryptocurrency and the blockchain became mainstream fare. There were not as many domain investors back then as there are now. I agree with Mike 100%. But I can say discussions, … [Read more...]
A look at what skills are fetching the most cash
For domain investors who focus on occupation and service related domains, knowing which categories are hot and which are fading is important. UpWork recently published what are the top 20 highest paying skills for Independent Professionals currently on their platform. Top Upwork skills and their average hourly rates Legal entity structuring – $255Blackline – $220Bitcoin – … [Read more...]
Subdomain leasing – another potential revenue source?
I read an article on subdomain leasing that I thought was kind of interesting. I can't say I read anything on this topic before. The article was published on SearchEngineLand.com. The author on SEL was of course interested in the SEO ramifications and what Google thought on the topic. Apparently Google replied awhile back to a question with a series of tweets. Google also addressed the … [Read more...]
Vote now – Selling a domain name you don’t own fair or foul?
So a debate is starting to stir on a topic I wrote about back in 2015. Selling A Domain Name You Don’t Own – Cool or Not Cool ? My article was sparked by a post written on AntiCareer.com. There was a blog post by AntiCareer.com which talked about buying and selling a name that they did not own. The post titled “Turning A No Into A Yes and a $5,000 profit. Morgan Linton had touched upon this … [Read more...]
