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...]
The good, the bad and the ugly – Squadhelp 2019 Edition
Back in 2016 we started a series here that looked at the best and worst about companies in the domain industry. Over the last 30 months a lot has changed at many companies so we are revisiting the good, the bad and the ugly. Each post will deal with just one company, readers are encouraged to share their positive and negative experiences. Suggestions for improvement are also … [Read more...]
ICYMI: August 2019
The top posts of August 2019 on TheDomains August was a pretty busy month. Alvin Brown gave his take on the first Asheville and Michael gave his first glimpse into his new gtld experience. “please don’t buy any of these domains, they’re all terrible and you’d be supporting asshole domain squatters” Final Thoughts: 1st Asheville Domain Investor Meetup The new g’s and me Part 1 No! … [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...]
Sedo weekly sales led by Home.io
Sedo released their weekly sales and Home.io led the way at $25,000. A couple three letter .coms were right behind with SXO.com selling for $23,000 and JBT.com selling for $20,500. 33 .com sales 17 cctld sales 4 other tld sales Domain … [Read more...]
When someone doesn’t pay, name and shame or let it go?
To Shame or not to shame that is the question? I touched upon this subject of name and shame a few years ago, the world is a bit different now has many use doxing as a weapon in many areas of life. You can read here, here and here when it comes to dealing with racists or political differences. Some believe that name and shame is the way to go, that domaining is a small tight knit industry where … [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...]