Domains on a whole, even great ones, are not going to be doing so good in a few months. A massive tidal wave of domains getting ready to drop.....especially alternative TLDs to the .com. It will be phenomenal to watch. The extra supply will lower the purchase prices willing to be paid by other domainers. End user sales on a whole might still do ok....

The cry that comes up very often from the domain community is, ?they don?t get it, they don?t understand why my domain is worth xxx.? I myself have said just this and commented that we need to educate businesses and individuals on the benefits of owning a good domain name.

No one would willingly buy a bad domain name, but quite a lot of companies and individuals new to the Web are unaware of why some names are worse than others. Many have sadly learned that if you choose poorly your dreams for online business success can be over before they?ve begun.

There was an interesting thread at DNforum some time back where people listed their favourite domain related quotes and I took a note of my favourites. I?ve done this for years and have thousands of quotes collected on a variety of topics, anyway you?ll be pleased to hear I?m not going to witter on in this post but leave it to others to do the tal...

I?m cleaning out my portfolio and the following names are all for sale at $30 each. They are all held at GoDaddy and the expiration dates are by the side. As you can see most of them are generic and pretty good names. Sadly I?m having to be ruthless with the portfolio and these names aren?t the direction I want to go in.

I saw a very interesting interview in Barrons today by Ray Dalio, CIO of Bridgewater Associates, whose Long Term average returns (net of fees) average +15%. Throughout the difficult 2008 their pure Alpha fund returned +8.7%. Basically this is a person who knows what he's talking about, not a hack from the Daily Mail. I won't go into all the details...

I normally get three types of offers from people writing to me on my domains. The first is from people who ask me to make the first move, ?What would you sell x for? Are you considering selling X ? what is the price?? I realise that this is a standard negotiating tactic and I will be going into this in a later post. The second is from the chancers ...

Every name in our portfolios has been registered because we think we can make money off it. The sad thing is not all of them will sell. A few of them may pay their way with parking income, but even that is unlikely. So the others just sit there burning a hole in our pockets as we wait for the big payday to come along.

Well I?m not going to lie to anyone ? it?s been a pretty tough couple of weeks. I haven?t had any serious enquiries on my names, but I have had a couple of $200 offers on my CC.coms and about 5 other ridiculous offers.

I was asked by a colleague of mine the other day (who knows about my domain moonlighting) if I had any domains I wouldn?t sell. At first I said yes, there are a couple of domains in my portfolio I will not be selling as I have grand development plans for them. After thinking about this for a little while I changed my answer to no

There was a rumour going round some time ago that Google takes the registration period of a domain name into account when ranking a new website. Basically a longer period of say 10 years tells your visitors (and Google) that you?re serious and in it for the long haul.

Last night I had another learning experience on Namecake. Apparently anything I enter on my site is by default being sent as new content to the feeds. So adding domains I had previously forgotten to list has caused my site to send about 40 messages to the news aggregation services out there that republish the articles I post.

I have recently interviewed Bradley Epstein from SiteGraduate.com - where he goes into greater detail about what their offering is and their plans for the future.

When I started my first large web development project i foolishly thought it would be relaitvely simple to grow the site into a popular destination and have hundreds of eager buyers looking over my domains. I'd had some experience with running minisites and not only were they a doddle to look after, some of them were receiving over 300 uniques a da...

I saw a very interesting post by Frankie over at SkyDomains.com yesterday. He had previously posted about minisites he was developing, but soon decided his efforts would be better served by focusing on one or two larger sites. One of these is Vowels.Me ? basically it?s a marketplace for minisite developers that is similar to Guru.com. What happens ...

Looking around the web you see some well thought out sites on premium names that are a great asset to their owners. But there are also some sites built on names that are innocent at first glance, then you dig a little deeper and you find that innocent name has an entirely different meaning. Anyway, you should have a good laugh when you see some of ...

Some days I curse Kevin Ham and Business 2.0 for the article, ?The Man Who Owns the Internet.? As it was after reading this that I became involved in the domain business. I started off with rose tinted glasses firmly in place and expected my millions were just around the corner

There are now hundreds of billions of pages of information circulating the web and every one of those is vying for yours and your customers attention. How do you plan to be heard and seen amongst all the other millions of sites? Will you write great content? Will you have a great SEO guy putting your site together and undergoing a Link Building cam...

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Hi everyone ? I?ve just managed to sneak away to my beloved laptop and just wanted to wish all my readers a Happy Christmas and prosperous new year. Nordsanta.org has recently reported tha Santa successfully completed his 2008 flight. Well done Santa!

Like most of you guys, time is my most precious commodity and there?s nothing I hate more than spending great amounts of it doing grunt work (checking e-mail addresses, sending mails, listing my site on directories, etc..) There are companies that can help you outsource these niggling time intensive tasks, but the problem here is that they are norm...

I came across a very interesting site the other day: Cubestat.com - Similar in concept to Estibot, but for established websites. There?s also some other very useful data, such as Page Rank, Alexa Rank, etc? Now I think the figures they are quoting may be a little on the high side, but it sure makes interesting reading.