Service businesses should use hyper-targeted referral marketing. Whenever I interact with a local service company such as a carpet cleaner or pest control, I take a look at how they are marketing. I think most are missing a big opportunity for referral marketing. So I was happy to see a window washing company do something [...] Continue reading →

I’ve been consolidating my domain names at one registrar. It makes management of the domain names easier, and I have less work tracking down renewals, sales listings, and parked pages. On some of my domain names, I have forwarding enabled. Instead of parking some of my domain names that don’t earn much revenue, I forward [...] Continue reading →

Morning Folks!! The real estate market is based on a square foot price. Prices range from perhaps $50/foot or less in places like Detroit and rural areas to over $10,000/foot in places like Manhattan and even more in places like Hong Kong or Singapore. But what’s the square foot price for a domain name? I [...] Continue reading →

The .ie ccTLD had finally removed DNS checks from its processes. Up until the change, which came last night, any new registrations, transfers or other updates would be delayed until the DNS delegation had been checked. What that meant in reality is that if a domain’s delegated nameservers were not 100% compliant with the RFCs [...] Continue reading →

I sold another domain through Afternic this week.  I talk over the name and the price on Monday’s edition of Domain Sherpa.  It was a name that I picked up at auction.  Most of my names I sell through Afternic are exactly that. Auction names.  None of them cost more than $500 and most [...] Continue reading →

Are there tons of “influencers” who money without even having a website? Sure… we have Instagram celebrities, Twitter rock stars and so on. But while it definitely CAN be done, it doesn’t mean it should or that it’s a good idea. On the one hand, we do need to understand that managing a website [...] Continue reading →

A couple weeks ago I wrote about Translate.com at auction on Flippa, it was at $201,000. The auction closed at $853,000. There were 172 bids Now this was a full business not just a domain sale. Translate.com: almost 2M monthly visitors, Translation website with ~2M monthly visitors generating $469k annual revenue Premium domain and translation [...] Continue reading →