“Domains have and will continue to go up in value faster than any other commodity ever known to man”. This quote was said by the self-proclaimed “Domain King”, Rick Schwartz. Many of the major domain investors would love to believe this, but let’s take a reality check folks. A domain name has a $0 (or [...]

When inquiring about a domain name, many domainers will try to make their letter as professional as possible to the domain owner. They’ll say to include your full name, company name, position, phone number, address and other detailed information that makes you not only seem more professional, but seem more legitimate at the same time. [...]

Okay, while my title might exaggerate a tad bit when I say micro niche websites are the biggest hype ever, but they are continuing to gain popularity, especially in the domaining and forum community. For those of you who don’t know what a micro niche website is, you can call it a website that is [...]

With the popularity of minisites rising, there’s no question that many minisites need to take their content, operations and functions to the next level in order to compete well. Thinking about this made me ask myself, how exactly does a person take their minisite to the next level? What can be done to help take [...]

It’s funny when I see the same domain name listed on the forums about 7 times in a given year by different sellers. People talk about purchasing a name and then flipping it to a reseller for reseller value, but is there really such thing as reseller value? What exactly is reseller value? Well, I [...]

I was one of the lucky winner’s of one of Rick’s AEIOU info minisites a few months ago. I never wanted to spend the money it took to build an AEIOU minisite, only because I knew I could build one on my own for under $10. When I won, I was excited because I was [...]

People tend to concentrate on so many different facts when selling domain names or websites. I am not going to come right out and say those are not important factors, because they are. But there’s one thing that seller’s often miss, and don’t concentrate on. This underlying factor to selling domain names and websites is [...]

Today I am going to take some time and evaluate SitePoint’s new marketplace, Flippa.com. One of my main businesses revolves around flipping websites. I’ll make a wordpress blog, add some keyword-rich content to it, spiff it up a bit, and sell it for a small profit. While listing a website on the forums (for free) [...]

Launching websites is one of the major businesses in the internet industry. One of the things I have learned from my past experience is that sites fail. It’s a learning experience. Every site has it’s own, unique, individual reason for its failure. Whether it’s improper marketing, unfinished website, maufunctioning website, bad content, or anything else [...]

At some point in almost all domainer’s careers, they’ll write an end-user email. When writing an end-user email, you don’t want to be too formal, but you want to be too casual either. Companies will often trash letters and emails that don’t have proper grammar or spelling as well. I have created and wanted to [...]