Are you an expert? Are you an expert in something? Anything? Chances are that many domainers are leaving money on the table by not putting their niche expertise to work. What do I mean by "niche expertise"? It has been said that almost everyone has some area of specialized knowledge where they know more than

Afternic just relaunched and so I decided to check it out and start searching for some domain names to buy. A recent press release announced a "new and improved user interface" so I was quite unhappy to see that whoever designed their interface somehow thinks that I do not want to see the entire domain

I was just reading a post over on SmashingMagazine.com and I saw a Google AdSense image ad run BY Google directing people to check out their various "Google for Advertisers" services. Nothing unusual so far as Google often advertises using their own ad network. What was interesting to see was the creative way that Google

Wordpress photo gallery plugins can be an easy way to add some pizazz to your Wordpress site. While photo gallery plugins for Wordpress are most often used by blogs that tend to be more personal in nature (i.e. a photography blog or personal portfolio site) there are in fact some excellent ways to use a

The more web development I do, the more I'm grateful for the plethora of amazing Javascript libraries out there. It's never been simpler to add advanced front-end functionality like drag-and-drop, animations, or sortable, paginated, searchable tables (like those used in our Type-In Traffic Finder, for instance). Here's a few of my favorite javascr...

Although the focus of Domain Superstar is of course all about our domain name tools and making it easy for anyone to consistently find loads of valuable domain names we do also have some additional perks for our premium members, one of them being some hopefully very helpful website development tutorial videos. The tutorial videos

I love hearing/thinking about/dreaming up new business ideas. Why? It's fun and the payoff can be huge! Lots of hard work is involved of course but starting new businesses and new websites is something that is definitely enjoyable. I usually put up 3-5 new websites every week and I like to think of each website

If you are like me then you can sometimes be very paranoid about losing your website data, your site going down, your hosting company screwing something up, a hacker doing damage to your site, etc. etc etc. (the more paranoid you are then the longer the list can grow). One thing that I do to

One of the reasons that FireFox is my favorite browser is the wealth of different plugins, extensions, addons, and themes that are available to use free of charge from the Mozilla community of developers. Here is a list of my personal favorite Mozilla FireFox plugins/addons/extensions for SEO, Domaining, web development, Internet marketing, etc: S...

Whether you park your domains, develop your domains, or really no matter what you do with your domains - I bet that I know why your domains are not making you much money (or at least not as much as they could be making you). I bet that I could tell you why your domains

I recently watched one of the best business/entrepreneurship/technology videos that I have seen in a long, long time. The below video is a presentation by the creator of Ruby on Rails and partner of 37 Signals (creator of Basecamp), David Heinemeir Hansson. The presentation takes place at Startup School 08 (Startup school is an annual

There is an absolute ton of different things to consider when finding a domain name?s value. I will probably go into more detail in a future post on each of these different domain valuation considerations but here is a list that I put together just off of the top of my head with some different

Today we're pleased to announce the release of our new Bulk Keyword Domain Finder tool. This tool allows users to bulk-check the availability of keyword or keyword phrase domains (for instance, entering the phrase "domain superstar" would check the availability of "domainsuperstar.com". This tool is available to both free and premium members, bu...

One thing that I love about domaining and really any type of Internet marketing or web work is that as long as you have a computer and an Internet connection then you can make money from anywhere in the world. I remember years and years ago it was (and still is really) just the coolest

I spoke with Art from Bido and he gave me clearance to go ahead and post up the live chat transcript from yesterday's live domain name auction where I answered questions in their live chat room. Read through some of the interesting discussion below about keyword domain names, finding type in traffic domains, and more. Here

We recently received a series of questions related to type in traffic by a visitor to our site and I thought that they were great questions so after replying to his questions in an email I decided to include the transcript of our email exchange as it may be useful for anyone else that has

A couple of days ago Art from Bido.com contacted me to see if I would be interested in being the guest speaker for their live chat that takes places during today's live auction of the domain name knoxlanding.com. Art took the time to email me a few times and then followed up with a phone

What do you do when you come across a steal of a premium domain name but you don't have the funds available to purchase the domain name outright for cash? One option available to many domainers, webmasters, and business owners is to use a domain name financier like Domain Capital LLC. I recently obtained a domain

Do you ever have one of those days (weeks, months…) when you feel like you are just sapped of all creativity and you can't really get any good ideas for finding profitable domain names? I know that I have. It's often the easiest part of the domaining process to find good domain names once you

I just finished watching a great video from one of my favorite blogs that is not necessarily related to domaining, SEO, or Internet marketing: The Four Hour Workweek. The video is an informal conversation between Timothy Ferris (the author of Four Hour Workweek - highly recommended) and Kevin Rose (founder of Digg.com) and has a lot

Here is my down and dirty 3 month plan for building traffic to a new website. Of course, these are just general things as every niche will be different and you will want to devote more time to certain websites than to others but generally speaking here is a great action plan for building traffic

Here at Domain Superstar we've been working like crazy to create new, unique, premium tools for our members. Today we're announcing the release of a ground-breaking new tool that utilizes Google Maps, GeoNames.org, and domain availability checking to help our members find great, valuable geodomains. Although many of you are already familiar with ...

Here at Domain Superstar we've been really busy coming up with exciting new tools for our members. Just in the last week we've added the geo-domain finder Google Maps mashup and the bulk keyword domain finder to our beta dashboard, where you can preview the full versions of these tool before they are added

I always love hearing stories about people who have hand registered domain names years and years ago and now they are worth big bucks. However motivating it is, I sometimes get tempted to say that there are no great domain names available to hand register anymore (especially .com's). However, this is definitely not the case.