In the past couple of months I have taken quite a bit of time off from domaining. I have kept up my domain sales and my income is still coming in but I have not done anything to improve the income stream. Not to mention, I have made ZERO domain acquisitions. That brought me to the thought of what ab...

By now you have probably seen the donation button and the useless feeds on Domaining.com. I have come to the conclusion that people need to get over it and accept it or not. There are many bloggers and website owners that do the same thing, even though they make 10 fold what their average reader mak...

I have been away from the general online/domaining industry for the past couple months because of a business opportunity that has suddenly come up. If you have not guessed it has something related to pizza ! Anyways this business adventure had set me in a direction on the Internet to find out as mu...

Doing something new as i have done over and over here at YGrab.com. I am going to start up the video blogging again with short and quick domain name news videos for the week. So instead of having to watch videos of people for 6+ mins i am going to try to keep it under 3 mins. Along with that i am go...

I was at a hotel the other day when i noticed a monitor displaying weather and airport arrival/departure times through a service located at LiveSigns.net. I did not think that this was out of the norm since it is the closest hotel to the airport. With the down turn of traditional news print and peop...

Yes you heard that right the popular domaining aggregation site is up for sale for a cool $3,000,000 site. This is appearently the claimed ‘reserve’ price that they are asking for this domain. Pretty crazy since it is the category killer domain for the domaining industry. Said at the off...

Elliot from ElliotsBlog.com is running some great posts right now that have advice from some of the greatest domainers of all time: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3. So i thought it would be great to share a piece of advice straight from me to everyone out there. Otherwise strike me as a retard and just read wh...

This morning i was greeted by an email i had not seen before, a Newsletter from NamePros.com. Titled “NamePros Newsletter #1″. Well in fact this is the first instance that i have seen of a NamePros.com newsletter. The newsletter itself was pretty straight forward and short. Although it w...

We all want to generate traffic to our sites whether it be a blog or a minisite. Here are 4 easy ways to generate backlinks and traffic that will help your site grow. Not only will these tips help you grow right away but they will also have lasting effects that will help you as your blog expands. 1....

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Last week I had talked about writing to end users Professionally. I would like to let everyone in on the second round of emails that you should send back to the end user in response to interest in the said domain name. At this point you have over came the odds and the end user is nibbling on the lin...

Starting a new post idea for my readers. I would like to spread around the love to other bloggers in the domaining community. These stories are the top stories that arrive in the domaining.com newsletter. So if you just want to bypass this post all together just subscribe to the domaining.com newsle...

We have all had experience with writing to end users. Whether it be a constructed well thought out sales letter or a generic template you personalize for each email or snail mail it is all for the same goal, sell your domain names. I have been asked quite a bit about how to not sound like a domainer...

It is being reported that .YU domains are to be forever disbanded from existence as of September 30th. .YU is the country code for the former Republic of Yugoslavia. Which has been disbanded and replaced by Serbia, .rs, and Montenegro, .me. There has been a request for a postponement by the Serbian ...

I was watching TV the other day, like i do most days. I had seen this pretty interesting commercial from AT&T about a lost dog. Basically there is a lost dog and this guy sees the banner and texts it to all his friends and they all come together to find the dog and return it to the little girl. ...

Not sure if many of you have noticed that YGrab.com has been down for just over 2 weeks. In fact it is still not fully up as we speak. I was unfortunately at the mercy of my hosting company, once again. The company did not go down or anything but they might as well have. The company had went through...

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There are many many different ways to create a ministe or a website in general. Some people go the extra mile and complete code a CMS(Content Management System). There are always pros and cons when it comes to how you develop a website. You have to look at your end game you want to achieve with the ...

I had done a poll asking How Would You Spend $100? in the past week. The results really did not surprise me at all. It went along with what i have heard in the past of what most people do and what i had actually done when i started and still do today. Not to anyone’s surprise Hand Registration...

Its no secret that people in the domain industry are turning to domain development to earn a bit of extra cash over the parking alternative. Not only does development allow you more control over your property but it also can increase the value of your domain name. This is usually done in the form of...

I always here about people complaining that their newly developed minisites get no traffic. Well there are a couple of reasons why a minisite built on a domain that had no previous traffic gets no traffic. The main reason is that the domain itself completely sucks, i.e. Schools4You.com is not a grea...

Yes people this is very true. I was reading a story over at MSN.com today about a girl that ended up homeless because she lost here job. She had gone from being an executive assistant to a homeless blogger. You may be thinking the same thing i was, how the hell was she using the internet, let alone...

I was checking out domaining.com today when i came across an article over at TheDomains.com. I am not going to go in to much detail about what they said but basically its about a  entrepreneur named Matt Wegrzyn. He has made his stake in buying and selling domain names, just like all of us. You may...

As of late i have been picking up more and more .org and .net domain names. Not only have i been picking them up i have been able to flip some as well for great prices. You may be saying what the hell do you want a .net or .org for? Well there are two reasons why i have been taking them: 1) Hardly a...

LiveDomainAuctioneers.com broke on to the scene last month. Basically what they do is whole live no reserve domain name auctions completely online. Lots of people when they here domain auction house they automatically go, great another one. Well with Live Domain Auctioneers that is not the case. Li...