Posts Tagged Domaining

If you're using a domain name that doesn't end in ".com," you could be losing hundreds of thousands of visits a year (or more).  Michael Berkens tells you why.

It's a lot harder than you think.  Rick Latona writes today about the most important element.

Andrew points to a Wall Street Journal article today about how Google is looking into a number of ways to maintain profitability during tough economic times and speculates: As Google struggles to keep its earnings growing, another place the company will look is to squeeze its content partners. All it has to do is dial back the revenue share it provides to content publishers. That includes domain name owners. Since Google has essentially killed ... Keep reading »

Back in January, Sahar didn't agree with my advice in How to (Really) Make Money with Domain Names and wrote in response on his own blog: [T]here is gold in development, however, if you think it is better than domain ownership and PPC, think again, many times over. I personally am a believer that some of us are property owners, some are developers, some are deal makers, ... Keep reading »

I wanted to revisit a topic I first wrote about almost three months ago, How to (Really) Make Money with Domain Names. Before I wrote that, and increasingly since then, I've seen public admissions by a number of domainers that the potentials for growth by just buying and holding domain names isn't what it used to be. 75% of domain industry professionals may expect domain prices to increase this year, but even Andrew Allemann from Domain Name Wire ... Keep reading »

When I started writing this, my first sentence was "The time for making easy money with domain names has passed." It didn't take me long to realize, though, that there never really has been any easy money in domains. Think it was easy to invest $70 each for domains back in the mid-90s when no one could really be sure at all that the Internet was going to be as life-changing as it has proven to be? Think it was easy ... Keep reading »

Achieving success often involves taking risks. Frank certainly understood that: When he started his funding was limited to his relatively modest life savings and a string of credit cards that he quickly maxed out. Schilling literally bet the farm on his dream. He and Michele sold their house and the remaining homes Frank had built and emptied their retirement accounts to build a $200,000 war chest. They also decided to move to Grand Cayman Island where they felt the absence of ... Keep reading »

I've thought lots of times, as many of you have, "Man, I wish I had what Frank has." "Schilling built his phenomenal domain empire from scratch despite taking the field just five years ago, when almost everyone else thought the game was already over." Phenomenal. Why can't that be me (or you)? I think the biggest thing we lack is the desire to put in the work that Frank did, and Ron Jackson points that out early on ... Keep reading »

Some people will tell you it's a dog-eat-dog world. One thing you hear over and over about Frank, though, is how nice a guy he is -- including in Ron's article. Ron mentions in the very first paragraph that Frank "is universally regarded as one of the nicest people in this (or any other) business," and he mentions later how Frank called him out of the blue "just to introduce himself and let me know he liked the publication." ... Keep reading »

A corollary to yesterday's lesson about some elements always being out of your control is that not every disaster is a disaster -- as we learn from Frank: In September 2004 category 4 Hurricane Ivan slammed into the Cayman Islands. Schilling had gotten his family on the last evacuation flight off Grand Cayman before the storm hit. Though they were safe their home was destroyed along with everything in it. Their cars were also wrecked but the biggest loss was ... Keep reading »