Tag Archives: Domaining
The Map is not the Territory
Can a domain name be the difference between success and failure in a business? Are domain names the single best investment one can possibly make in one’s business? These are the main questions debated in an ongoing chain of posts, then my comments, and a follow-up post, and another of my comments and yet another post between myself and Andrei over at DomainingTips.
The conventional wisdom among domainers is that without the domain name, you’re nowhere, or, investing in domain names is the single best thing you can do to achieve some kind of “edge” in the… Read the rest
How to tell if a new TLD will succeed (and most won’t).

First they came for the file-sharing domains…
(Background: as you may or may not be aware, earlier in the year the US Department of Homeland Security began seizing domain names of various filesharing websites. Suddenly the agency tasked with protecting the United States from further terrorist attacks was now seizing domain names to combat copyright infringement. Without further adieu, I bring you [...]… Read the rest
Revisiting the “Sweetman Protocol”: 5 Ways to Increase Your Domain Sales
After having lunch with YummyName’s Bill Sweetman a few months ago, I posted “5 Ways to Increase Your Domain Sales”, and after writing the article I took his program to heart and went out and implemented two key points from his 5-point program: 1) I started getting my inventory listed with the networks, in this [...]… Read the rest
IMHO Oracle won’t sell sun.com, and TheDomains censors comments