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LIVE DOMAIN AUCTIONS - BOOM OR BUST FOR DOMAINERS?

The photo at left shows a domain in the exhilarating process of selling for $400,000 at a Live Domain Auction. I won’t reveal the domain name, but I can tell you that the handsome guy with the final bid sign (416) is Donny Simonton from Parked.com. (Ignore the redhead guy posing with a peace sign in the front). The seller of this domain slept very well the night after this Live Domain Auction (LDA). However, how many other domain sellers were smiling after the LDA was over? Thus, this question is the subject of my article (but not based on this particular LDA’s results):

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WHEN YOUR DOMAIN HELPS TO CHANGE THE WORLD

There are many domainers I respect who have sold domain names to buyers that have made huge differences in their market with those domains. Slow down. Re-read what I basically said. “Some domain names have made a huge difference in their market“. That’s right. A domain you sold can go on to make a significant impact in the world market. Of course, you don’t even have to sell the domain. It could be you that makes the domain powerful in its relevant market.

However, maybe the domain you sold (or own) only makes an impact in your local market. Maybe the domain you sold ends up affecting the services and products in just your state, or maybe your country (just ask David Costello). If your domain sale affects the world stage, that’s big. Rick Schwartz, the man some call the “Howard Hughes” of the domain industry, sold “ireport.com” to CNN for $750,000 this year. When this news was reported, all of us domainers took a moment and muttered to ourselves, “Good God he’s good - and lucky!” We all want to be as fancy-free as Rick seems to be now, and you can only get that way by being smart and taking chances that coincide with your intelligence.

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T.R.A.F.F.I.C. “DOWN UNDER” – NEW ADVENTURES FOR DOMAINERS - FINALLY!

Sheraton Mirage Resort. Surfers Paradise. Gold Coast. Queensland. Australia. If ever there was a domain conference to attend based on the location of an event alone, TRAFFIC Down Under (TDU) is it. The hotel, environment, city and country screams success and adventure. Now simply add Dan Warner, Richard Moore, Michael Robertson, Andrew Wright, the rest of the team at Fabulous.com, their topnotch sponsors, and you get new ideas, powerful people, serious domain industry connections and valuable information.

At this point, you know you need to be there.

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DOMAINS SET THE COURSE OF YOUR ONLINE BUSINESS SUCCESS

The domain name industry, believe it or not, is less than eight years old. It depends on how you look at it, but doesn’t it seem like we’ve all been doing this a lot longer than eight years? Lot’s of changes in the industry have occurred in the last few years, but the tidal wave was started by Rick Schwartz with TRAFFIC, Frank Schilling and Dr. Kevin Ham’s astounding success stories, Andrew Miller and Zappy’s buildout juggernaut of Chocolate.com, and the sledge-hammer domain control of (the fore-mentioned pioneers), IREIT and other domain conglomerates like Name Media and Demand Media. These visionaries opened up the floodgates for domainers, and we all jumped into our rubber rafts to run the rapids to try to make it to the party at the Big Bucks Lagoon at the end of the run. Will we make it there, or end up squealing like Ned Beatty in “Deliverance”?

The root of our intent is fairly clear: teach the end-user the value of owning the generic descriptive domains for their products/services (prodservs). No domain investor will argue against this.

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MANY DOMAIN BUYERS ARE UNEDUCATED - ARE YOU?

I have been getting a lot of requests for my premium domains that I am weeding out of my portfolio to focus on about ten niches instead of 80. I have sent over 50 emails out by request of domainers who are looking for good buys. I attached my domain lists, totaling about 2000 domains, 95% of them generic descriptive domains of real products and services, and purposely did NOT put prices nor traffic stats on them. I just asked for bids on the domains, and I would consider them.

What I didn’t say in my emails was that many of the domains were fairly decent PPC revenue generators. I didn’t advise potential buyers to randomly take a domain and look it up on Google to see how many pages there were, whether the domain was indicative of a future technology that would soon be popular or trendy, nor whether the domain would be a good buildout.

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WHAT THE HELL IS IPv6 AND WHEN WILL IT DESTROY YOU?

Well folks, I’m going to sidestep the domain basics for a moment to ask a question about something you may have heard of but know nothing about. It seems like the oddball powers that be are hard at work to replace the IP addresses that make up your valuable domain names. Or are they? Who the hell knows?!! Seems like nobody. I did some research on this little funky name “IPv6″ and I got all sorts of “explanations” or “definitions”.

As I was casually perusing my future trend emails, I came across this little tidbit of doom… maybe a BIG JUGGERNAUT of doom, as in Black Sabbath style. http://inventorspot.com/articles/the_end_of_the_internet_switching_ipv6_12803

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SUCCESSCLICK OPENS UP NEW TECHNOLOGY WITH A DOMAIN

I know most domainers want to make a nice profit with their premium domains. I’m no different. I’d like to see some big money from domains I own, but something touched me a few weeks ago that made me want to explore new “trails” that I blazed by selling a domain for thousands of dollars less than what it actually was worth, and possibly tens of thousands of dollars less than what it would be worth in the near future.

I was contacted by Professor James Hamilton of the University of Wisconsin - Platteville when he asked if he could buy my domain “GRAPHENESOLUTIONS.COM”. I had just bought the domain (at Fabulous.com) after reading the new technological advances in energy efficiency. Without going into the mind-altering and sense-boggling descriptions of what graphene is, I can tell you that this new product is going to change everything in our world. I will bet $1000 on it if anyone wants to give me five years to prove it.

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