Morning Folks!! I have seen some GTLD collapses as we see HUNDREDS of new GTLD’s that are dying on the vine. But I have never seen a meltdown like .Boston. Arguably one of the stronger Geo GTLD’s. Seems all geo’s are in trouble. .Taipei, .Miami, .Vegas etc. All, DEAD EXTENSIONS still walking! .Boston has 13,588 domains [...] Continue reading →

Morning Folks!! A big congrats to Paul Nicks who found something interesting Friday evening that had not been discovered until then and it is pretty big news!! So, I was posting pictures on Twitter of folks as they registered for the first TRAFFIC 15 years ago in 2004 in which we also held the first [...] Continue reading →

Morning Folks!! I will keep this short and sweet. Give me 30 minutes and I will change your destiny just as I have in the past. If you already listened to my podcast with Andrew Allemann of DomainNameWire.com, you can skip this unless you want another great pep talk!. Why come to Asheville? I’ll give [...] Continue reading →

Morning Folks!! So when I found the 2004 picture of me in front of the Grove Park Inn yesterday I started to reflect on the similarities and differences between TRAFFIC 2004 and the Asheville Meetup. Let me share some thoughts with you. For one thing, I had never produced a trade show before nor had [...] Continue reading →

Morning Folks!! So how can you tell a company is going to go out of business when they are barely in business? Pretty simple for me. It’s football. And in football you have an offense and a defense. You need both to win games. In business, your offense is sales and marketing. Companies that minimize [...] Continue reading →

Morning Folks!! For some, investing in domains was are is their first investment. For others it is another investment you stumbled on. Either way, if you found success in one arena there is a high likelihood that you will invest in other instruments. It’s a casino with unlimited places to make a bet. But when [...] Continue reading →

Morning Folks! Sales need several elements. Without those elements there are no sales. If there is no sales there is no profit, there is no business, there is nothing. Sales don’t happen on their own. You have to have the proper ingredients to make a sale. To make a spark. To ignite the will of [...] Continue reading →