The growth that the domain industry has enjoyed in the past few years, is marred by the entrance of 'parachuting' professionals. Salesmen are becoming "domain brokers" overnight, with minimal training and no background in corporate or b2b relationships. The notorious 'car salesman' attitude is finding raw territory in domaining, where anyone can become a "domain broker" and can start laying out their brokered assets. And that's fine, because to those of us who have been observing the game for years, it's evident who is the real domain broker, and who is nothing but a glorified robocaller. I won't mention names, in order not to embarrass the companies that employ them, but I'm tired of receiving 'brokered offers' for domains of mine, that aren't listed in those venues. When I … [Continue reading]
Went to hell and effed myself on the same weekend!
When I'm told to "go f***" myself and "dude u go to hell" on the same weekend, I know I'm doing something right. Of course, none of these high school level insults were told in my face, but there is plenty of keyboard bravado from those that believe talk is cheap. The first one came through a domain inquiry at Domain Name Sales, from a guy whose grammar and nonsensical sentences matched his first name of "Donovon." That's like a redneck Donovan, I suppose. Making an offer of $75 on a financial/mathematical term, single word .com registered in 1996 was responded to with a mid five-figure number from me. That didn't sit well with our friend Donovon, who supposedly runs some obscure forex/futures trading business. Note to those on the go: if you must use your blackberry/iphone to … [Continue reading]
Domainer time management: Take the weekend off?
The initial concept of having Sunday off from work, stems from religion. In the Jewish faith, the Sabbath serves the same purpose: taking off a day from one's activities to worship god. Islam declares Friday as the day of rest. While I understand and respect the purpose of fully taking that corresponding day off, I can safely joke that if a domain conference were to be attended by the religious folk only, it'd be empty: most tend to conduct a lot of business on a long weekend, spanning Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Quite often, I receive inquiries about domain names during the weekend; while I effectively work seven days a week, I manage my time to incorporate rest & relaxation on the weekend, and for that matter I tend to respond to queries on Monday. There are exceptions, of … [Continue reading]
Wipe your smart phone clean
Interacting with one's phone is a task that has turned from a simple 10-digit puncher, to a swipe, tap and pinch process that is repeated dozens of times daily. The old days of using a phone as a … [Continue reading]
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