Four months ago I moved my last remaining domain away from Moniker. The timing was apparently right, as today I received notifications of a forced password reset via email. While these emails were legitimately sent out, they ended up in my spam folder, which does not reflect positively on … [Read more...]
Archives for 2014
Perfect numbers revisited
September 30, 2014 by 10 Comments
While there is a trend that treats every numeric domain as a coin of sorts, the truth is that not all numbers are created equal. In the course of a decade, I've invested in a limited amount of numeric domains in the original three TLDs, perhaps no more than 25 in total, maybe less. Selective … [Read more...]
Lessons learned during the past 100 years
September 24, 2014 by 1 Comment
During TRAFFIC 2010 in Las Vegas, I had the opportunity to meet with Natasa Djukanovic of dot .Me and other members of her team. As a Montenegrin, Natasa's excitement over the launch of dot .Me as both an open, national ccTLD and a brand, was quite evident. I, on the other hand, had additional … [Read more...]
Domain price quotes should be higher, not lower
September 17, 2014 by 4 Comments
In a given week, I receive dozens of domain inquiries for my portfolio, at Domain Name Sales. Not every inquiry is worth responding to, but I take the time to "ping" those that make the inquiry; sometimes, to educate them on the value of domain names. Sometimes, even though a sale seems to … [Read more...]
Offers made around a domain’s expiration date
September 15, 2014 by 2 Comments
Over the course of more than a decade in active domain investing, I've experienced that a lot of inquiries are made around the time of a domain's expiration date. There are several reasons why this happens, and here's what I've found the most important ones to be: The inquiries are made by … [Read more...]
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