I’m amazed at how few domain name registrars spend any money advertising to the domain name community. With many of the readers of domain name blogs and members of domain name forums having hundreds, even thousands, of domains, I just can’t understand why most of them don’t spend m...

I’m not a big fan of making predictions on where the market is going based on positive sales results for a day or two, however the LLLL.com market has been chugging along rather well in this New Year. The minimum wholesale was $2.00 in October, I feel confident suggesting it’s approxima...

I’m exploring the possibility of adding a no commission newsletter feature to www.LLLL.com. I really don’t have the time or patience to give a domain name auction marketplace another go, however a relatively maintenance-free 1-2 times per week newsletter and/or blog post featuring LLLL...

The question about how to go about setting up a domaining company gets asked quite a bit in this industry — not surprising, especially considering how large the fines for cybersquatting (eg. ACPA) can be or even the risk we all have of being dragged into court. I’m not a lawyer and know ...

Being a domainer, I’ve started to take an interest in internet history and how it all came about. Here’s a few facts I’ve stumbled across in my reading. I’ll try and write a post a week or so on some interesting facts in the pre/early domaining days. On March 15, 1985, less ...

You can follow the thread about this sale on Namepros. I’ve been quite busy lately and haven’t been paying much in the way of attention to the auction scene, which is unfortunate when bargains like this go down. I completely agree with the comments so far in the Namepros thread that: 1) ...

I receive a lot of emails asking me if I’m interested in domains or if I could pass on information that a particular domain is for sale to contacts and readers here — what I’m about to write here on LLLL.com is probably going to make me get even more, however I’m going to giv...

Let y denotes years, By denote the annual benefit derived in year y from owning the domain (parking revenue or other advertising revenue, commission, products sold, dollar value of satisfaction you derive from owning the domain each year, etc), Cy denotes the annual cost in year y associated with ow...

Think outside the box. Here’s an example of a company trying to make the best of these uncertain times by using a strategy which I personally find brilliant: Hyundai — Buy a car and if you lose your job within a year, return it for potentially no penalty (disclaimer: I have not read the ...

Here’s some ammunition to use against them doom and gloom people, courtesy of CNN Money. You’ll probably see something all too common, something which might seem intuitively obvious — as I’ve discussed a few times on LLLL.com already, and as I’m sure many of you were al...

As I’ve said on many occasions, I really do see the LLLL.com market as several very distinct markets, my opinion on the market being explained here and here. It’s irrational to compare some LLLL.com segments to others, much as it’s irrational to compare stronger dictionary words to...

The Wall Street Journal had an article on 2009 that highlighted some of the reasons that 2009 might not be such a bad year afterall. Much of it is applicable to domaining as well — while the WSJ suggests it’ll be a good year to buy stocks and real estate, I think we can all [...]...

“You don’t get rich digging for gold… You get rich selling the shovels”. Isn’t that a great quote which could be applied, almost without exception, to the new domain name extensions we’ve seen over the past few years? Someone is getting very rich off of them ̵...

I’m currently in the process of making a few changes to www.LLLL.com to make it easier to quickly browse through the content. Most of my posts tend to be quite long and I cover a wide variety of topics from week to week, so this will hopefully allow you to browse over the content more [...]...

Posted below are a few of my favorite quotes. Not all of them are by people who would identify themselves as being domainers, however all are applicable to domaining. Feel free to post any others you like. 1. “Domains have and will continue to go up in value faster than any other commodity eve...

The minimum wholesale is a concept that comes up quite a bit when we talk about short domains, but how relevant is it really to the large majority of short domains? It’s important to consider how many LLL.coms and LLLL.coms would actually qualify as “minimum wholesale” in quality. ...

For the most part, domains don’t sell well in bulk and short domains are no exception to this, as this eBay auction which inspired this post will show. The strategy in buying bulk aftermarket domains often makes sense — you can probably negotiate a better price, you may feel that lower q...

For those new to domaining, please see the Life Cycle of a Typical gTLD Domain Name for more information about how a domain which expires goes about becoming available for registration again. As we all know, LLLL.coms ceased being readily available for regfee on November 2nd, 2007. While there never...

I briefly covered time management earlier this week and I’ll elaborate on time management today. Time management is something most of us need to learn or at least get better at. Those without a boss and those of us working from home who don’t have someone telling us what to do and when t...

This is a second part to my Domaining: 2009 and Beyond post. Scott from TrendDomaining.com sent me an email asking what I saw as some trends to watch for in 2009. So with that, I’ll post below what I do see happening. Be sure to check out Scott’s blog if you haven’t done so already...

This question gets asked quite often on domain name forums by newer members who I guess think more experienced members have all the answers. Now it’s impossible to say with certainty what will happen to LLLL.coms, however I’ll elaborate more in this post about how I see LLLL.coms and how...

Domaining is a numbers game Probability of an enduser sale times expected payout from that enduser sale sums up what a domain should be worth for the purposes of targeting an enduser in a perfect world. There are of course plenty of other things we could do with a domain (like resell to silly domain...

YP.com was reported yesterday on Namepros as having sold for $3,850,000 by an astute member who came across an SEC filing. This has been discussed on many domain name blogs already (see Domaining.com) while I was sleeping, so I won’t repeat what’s already out there. It’s a good sal...

I’m sure most of you know what the rule of 72 is but for those who don’t, it’s a reasonably accurate and simple to understand way of measuring how long it will take an investment to double via compound interest at a constant rate of return. Now this isn’t a finance blog, so I...

Sometimes when I think I’m adding additional quality with a blog post or forum comment, I’ll later find out from an email or message that what I said was confusing to a new domainer or even long time domainer and they would have preferred I’d have explained it differently. It̵...