When I first started out domaining I begun with a friend I was already in the web development business with. We both had a solid knowledge of the web industry and had a vision that domain names would become hot property as the web expanded. In the early days the
Recently I have been busy locking in my domains before the price rise that in case you didn’t know happened on as January 15th, 2012. The price of .com domains rose by 7% and .net domains by 10%. 7% across thousands of domains is a lot of money, and these
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
As a domainer I like to keep track of big domain name sales, and often head over to some of the big domain selling sites like DomainNamesSales.com to see the action. Already 2012 is heating up for domaining, and I witnessed an awesome sale on January 15 of PetZone.com, selling
Ten years ago I might’ve said yes. Webmasters were hyphen crazy back then, believing that being able to stuff keywords into a domain name separated by hyphens gave them a competitive edge. And this may have been the case, but this wasn’t the only reason hyphenated domains were favoured. Brands
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Cybersquatting refers to registering a domain name with the intent of profiting from someone else’s trademark, and it’s one of the things domainers get hated on for doing. The practice of cybersquatting is usually carried out by buying up a domain name that uses the name of an existing business with