The founder of Namecheap does an AMA on Reddit and while I only scanned the comments (because I don’t do any business with Namecheap so I don’t have a huge interest in them) I did find it interesting that Reddit was giving a lot of good and solid feedback. This is definitely a tool that [...] Continue reading
I listed a few domains for sale (with reserve prices) on GoDaddy recently through their 7 day auction format. My reserve prices on these domains were about what I paid for the domains so I was willing to take a little loss on them (after commission). A few ended up selling and a few didn’t. [...] Continue reading
There’s been two sales of domain names that have happened recently and both of them had me trying to read between the lines and see if there is more to them then meets the eye. I think it is a smart move for anyone to do this instead of solely relying on articles that [...] Continue reading
If you use DomainNameSales you know that even if you don’t use their internal brokerage team, after a lead has sat there for a while it gets forwarded to one of their team members to try to rekindle the lead and see if they can turn it into something. I don’t know if you [...] Continue reading
Normally the summer is slow for domain sales but July was my best month ever in terms of volume of sales and total sales dollars. Every sale was either 4 or 5 figures which is the typical price range I ask for the majority of my domains. The only time I’m willing to [...] Continue reading
Would you rather pay more but be guaranteed to get a domain, or pay next to nothing but have an unknown chance of getting it? I prefer the latter and I’ve gotten tons of domains by being smart. On GoDaddy auctions if an expired domain auction ends and there are no bidders it takes a [...] Continue reading
Domaining can be hard. It can be especially hard when you teach yourself. When you have to learn by trial and error, and when you waste money on domains that in hindsight you have no idea what you were thinking about when you bought them at the price you bought them at. Sometimes there are [...] Continue reading