Believe it or not the person who said “I go out of my way NOT to get search engine traffic” is none other than Rick Schwartz, otherwise known as the “Domain King”. I am a big fan of a lot of the things that Rick Schwartz says on his blog as he really cuts loose and is unafrai...

I just finished reading the article on the acquisition of Mint.com by Intuit (the makers of Quicken, QuickBooks, MyCorporation.com, etc) at the WSJ Online as well as the synopsis by Chef Patrick and Michael Berkens and I was struck by something that I think is very applicable to all domainers, devel...

Apparently I have been living under a rock lately (or maybe just working too hard) because I just recently came across this great Frank Schilling interview by Paul Sloan that I had not read before. Great stuff and well worth a read if you have a few minutes. Here it is: Click here for the full inte...

While I have never done any Facebook advertising myself and don’t ever really plan on it either I have wondered from time to time though what kind of conversion rate different domain name related Facebook advertisements typically pull. One example of a nice looking site that I noticed that wa...

If you have not subscribed to the RSS feed of Darren Rowse AKA “ProBlogger” over at problogger.net then I would strongly recommend that you do so. His latest post is a great example of not only top notch content on how to monetize domains with the Amazon Associates affiliate program but...

According to Mashable Microsoft just acquired the domain name Office.com and will most likely use this domain name for the online version of Microsoft Office. I have to say, nice job Microsoft on nabbing the perfect domain name for the MS Office web only suite. You can read the full story by clickin...

I certainly do not agree with everything that this article says in regards to choosing domain names but I did find some great domain name statistics mentioned. You can check out the full article by clicking here but here are some of my favorite pieces of domain name information that Preeti Pradhan o...

I read these 2 posts a while back and I really enjoyed them but for some reason I just never got around to mentioning them. Aaron Wall from SEO Book makes some veeerrry interesting observations about Barack Obama’s use of domain names and the effect that it is having on certain niches in the S...

Are you an expert? Are you an expert in something? Anything? Chances are that many domainers are leaving money on the table by not putting their niche expertise to work. What do I mean by “niche expertise”? It has been said that almost everyone has some area of specialized knowledge whe...

UPDATE: Afternic was very proactive and quick to fix the below issue. I have recently found some very nice domains to buy at Afternic and in fact I just started the escrow process to buy one of them just a few moments ago. Nice job Afternic on quickly correcting a problem. Afternic just relaunched a...

I was just reading a post over on SmashingMagazine.com and I saw a Google AdSense image ad run BY Google directing people to check out their various “Google for Advertisers” services. Nothing unusual so far as Google often advertises using their own ad network. What was interesting to se...

Wordpress photo gallery plugins can be an easy way to add some pizazz to your Wordpress site. While photo gallery plugins for Wordpress are most often used by blogs that tend to be more personal in nature (i.e. a photography blog or personal portfolio site) there are in fact some excellent ways to u...

Although the focus of Domain Superstar is of course all about our domain name tools and making it easy for anyone to consistently find loads of valuable domain names we do also have some additional perks for our premium members, one of them being some hopefully very helpful website development tutor...

I love hearing/thinking about/dreaming up new business ideas. Why? It’s fun and the payoff can be huge! Lots of hard work is involved of course but starting new businesses and new websites is something that is definitely enjoyable. I usually put up 3-5 new websites every week and I like to thi...

If you are like me then you can sometimes be very paranoid about losing your website data, your site going down, your hosting company screwing something up, a hacker doing damage to your site, etc. etc etc. (the more paranoid you are then the longer the list can grow). One thing that I do to help al...

One of the reasons that FireFox is my favorite browser is the wealth of different plugins, extensions, addons, and themes that are available to use free of charge from the Mozilla community of developers. Here is a list of my personal favorite Mozilla FireFox plugins/addons/extensions for SEO, Domai...

Whether you park your domains, develop your domains, or really no matter what you do with your domains - I bet that I know why your domains are not making you much money (or at least not as much as they could be making you). I bet that I could tell you why your domains are performing so poorly befor...

I recently watched one of the best business/entrepreneurship/technology videos that I have seen in a long, long time. The below video is a presentation by the creator of Ruby on Rails and partner of 37 Signals (creator of Basecamp), David Heinemeir Hansson. The presentation takes place at Startup Sc...

There is an absolute ton of different things to consider when finding a domain name’s value. I will probably go into more detail in a future post on each of these different domain valuation considerations but here is a list that I put together just off of the top of my head with some different dom...

One thing that I love about domaining and really any type of Internet marketing or web work is that as long as you have a computer and an Internet connection then you can make money from anywhere in the world. I remember years and years ago it was (and still is really) just the coolest feeling for m...

I spoke with Art from Bido and he gave me clearance to go ahead and post up the live chat transcript from yesterday’s live domain name auction where I answered questions in their live chat room. Read through some of the interesting discussion below about keyword domain names, finding type in ...

We recently received a series of questions related to type in traffic by a visitor to our site and I thought that they were great questions so after replying to his questions in an email I decided to include the transcript of our email exchange as it may be useful for anyone else that has had these ...

A couple of days ago Art from Bido.com contacted me to see if I would be interested in being the guest speaker for their live chat that takes places during today’s live auction of the domain name knoxlanding.com. Art took the time to email me a few times and then followed up with a phone call...

What do you do when you come across a steal of a premium domain name but you don’t have the funds available to purchase the domain name outright for cash? One option available to many domainers, webmasters, and business owners is to use a domain name financier like Domain Capital LLC. I recent...

Do you ever have one of those days (weeks, months…) when you feel like you are just sapped of all creativity and you can’t really get any good ideas for finding profitable domain names? I know that I have. It’s often the easiest part of the domaining process to find good domain na...