By Sam Silverman - Last updated: 20th November, 2009
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. [...]
By Sam Silverman - Last updated: 17th October, 2009
As most of you know by now, I mention Chef Patrick’s blog in numerous blog posts, and it’s easily one of my most favorite blogs in the industry (this is not a sponsored post). Chef puts out a domain name news video each week. This is easily one of the smartest ideas I’ve ever seen. [...]
By Sam Silverman - Last updated: 18th September, 2009
As I am slowly working my way back into the domain industry, I have been visiting a lot of forums and looking for some interesting investments as I am selling my latest venture that’s been keeping me occupied for the past couple of months (link). Especially on the Digital Point forums, I couldn’t believe the [...]
By Sam Silverman - Last updated: 12th March, 2009
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 [...]
By Sam Silverman - Last updated: 10th March, 2009
I would estimate that 99.9% of internet entrepreneurs are in the business for the sole purpose for making/raising money, or spreading the word about their product/idea/company. When a company wants to make money, they have two options for what to do: 1) Try to create a new website with a totally unique concept that hasn’t [...]
By Sam Silverman - Last updated: 22nd November, 2008
People are beginning to believe that the Vibrators.com sale was only a rumor, and not real because the whois doesn’t show the buyer, PriveCo, as then current owners. But trust me when I say that the sale is no rumor, and I have confirmed that with the CEO of PriveCo Inc., Mr. Tom Nardone. In [...]
By Sam Silverman - Last updated: 14th October, 2008
“Rock bottom domaining” means that the domain industry’s economy is basically at rock bottom, it’s at an extremely low point. At this point, I wouldn’t hesitate to say our domaining industry’s economy is either close to, or at rock bottom. But this article isn’t about focusing on the negatives, but instead is about focusing on [...]
By Sam Silverman - Last updated: 11th October, 2008
As the time of Sedo’s Government.net auction continues to decrease, the price continues to increase. Currently, with 19 hours left, the auction is at $20,100. This is a very interesting domain considering the unbelievable keyword, although the downside being that it’s a .net domain. I would say the keyword “Government” outweighs the .net part of [...]
By Sam Silverman - Last updated: 7th October, 2008
Everyone is getting really excited for the upcoming DomainFEST event, coming up this January 28-30. This year the event will be taking place in Hollywood, California. DomainFEST always features a live domain auction within it’s event, which this year, will happen on Thursday, January 29. DomainFEST has just opened itself up for submissions, so you [...]
By Sam Silverman - Last updated: 30th September, 2008
Yesterday, I wrote about the stock market crash we had yesterday afternoon, and it’s effect on the domain industry. Domains were selling and prices yesterday that I couldn’t even believe, as I stated in Part I of this article, which you can read by Clicking Here. And I would highly suggest you read that article [...]