WHAT CAN YOU LEARN FROM DOMAINER GOSSIP?
April 23rd, 2008 Posted in General Domain News | 6 Comments »
This isn’t an expose on the leaders of domain industry news, nor on myself or any of my fellow domain bloggers. This is just a little “note” for domainers who want to learn the business quickly and find their profit goals without encountering despair. Maybe this little blog message can sail across the bows of all domainers (including the domain juggernaut companies) to remind them of our collective goal: Promote domains.
A popular band once sung these words:
Don’t we all wish we owned popular one word dotcom domains? Of course. Those domains are no-brainers for selling, parking, or building out to very valuable websites. 
Here’s an odd gift I’m giving to my readers: An old song that helps domainers keep their focus…
It’s true! We’ve all been destroyed. Domainers have been victims of a cruel hoax for the last ten years, and we’ve paid hundreds of thousands, even millions and billions of dollars to buy domains we thought would be valuable investments. BUT IT’S BEEN A FRAUD ON US! The domain industry is collapsing in on itself. Domain values have dropped to less than 90% of their estimated value.
I have about 100 domains with Go Daddy. The amount varies because I buy and sell domains with people who have Go Daddy accounts. I’m not a big fan of Go Daddy for new domain registrations because their prices are much higher than other domainer-friendly registrars (what domainer wants to pay $10 a domain?) and transferring domains out of GD is a bitch.
DOMAIN EBOOKS! There’s quite a few of them out there. For those who are novices and professionals, you might think you don’t need to buy a domain ebook because you’re “so well-informed and got it going-on as a domainer”. Think again. There are some MUST HAVE ebooks, whether just to re-organize your mind, or to introduce new ideas you hadn’t considered before. I admit, each ebook I read showed me one or more of some new way to look at domain monetization or inspired me to enhance previous knowledge I had about domain value.
There’s been a lot of talk around the industry of late regarding the changes in Google and Yahoo ad syndication. The changes don’t seem to be favorable to domainers, or to the future of adlink pay-per-click (PPC) monetization. I personally don’t have inside contacts to know the intent of those who provide the “non-transparent” revenue for domainers’ landing pages, nor to state which direction they’ll eventually go.