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    discuss What makes for a good brandable domain ? Showcase your brandables here

    I'd wager that a majority of domainers who regularly use the term 'brandable domain' have essentially no meaningful comprehension of what a 'brand' is. Sure, they can run off to wikipedia or dictionary.com, collar a broad definition and feign knowledge, but 'branding' as a practice is as wide...
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    $500 to invest

    Don't. Domaining is like playing the guitar. The longer you do it, the better you get at it. Nobody picks one up and plays Paganini right away. Sure, some people are freaks and show prodigious talent early on and learn much faster than others, more than a few sad souls spin their wheels...
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    discuss Showcase and Discuss Marijuana/Pot/Hemp/Cannabis domains

    You're still talking a deeply speculative thing that's still illegal at the Federal level, which means interstate (read: internet) commerce in said will be a massive no-no until that's undone. Yes, I realize there's a peripheral market for head-shop type stuff, but ultimately, it's like...
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    news The End Of .COM

    Lots of vapid speculation and gross exaggeration there. There may be 'millions going into promoting new TLD's', however if we added up all the entirety of all commercial dollars spent that involved advertising a .com domain name since the advent and rise of commercial internet, it's probably...
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    Your best buy under $500

    I won't post the exact name, but a similar example would be "JetSkiing.com". The owner had it advertised for a very high price. He was sophisticated enough to be using a domain sale platform, but all research indicated he wasn't a 'domainer'. Turns out he was the original registrant in 1999...
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    Do you guys give up in domaining yet? Or are you thirsty for more?

    In the year 2012? It's god-awful hard. Matter of fact, it's so hard that certain persons who enjoyed great success at domaining early on (when it was trivially easy) have made gigantic asses of themselves in recent years trying their hands at it now that actual brainpower is required. People...
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    Google's Penguin - Consequences for Domainers

    The reason this is so puzzling to 'domainers' is because essentially none of you are involved in relevant, front side eCommerce. You're involved with splogs, sham development, "minisites", affiliate networking, Wordpress. How you know if you fall into this category: If your main concern...
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    If You Were Starting As A Domainer Today...

    I probably wouldn't. The intellectual skillset required to succeed in domaining now could be applied to several, drastically more lucrative pursuits. Early on, you could've been a relatively shrewd amoeba and succeeded at domaining, as evidenced by a lot of the domain millionaires minted...
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    Emails from domainers selling crap names

    You guys do understand how unimaginably damaging these chimps are to domain reselling, right? Imagine if you were tasked with selling premium, comprehensive car insurance for only $20 a month. You'd think it would be the easiest thing in the world to sell, since everyone else was already...
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    domain Please Appraise: SpinePain.com

    LMAO that you've been registered on this site since 2005 and think this is a reg fee domain. You should tell that to the people who own: spinepain.com Taken spinepain.org Taken spinepain.net Taken spinepain.me Taken spinepain.tv Taken spinepain.in Taken spinepain.info Taken...
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    opinion Buyer: "Well, I'll own the TM in a couple of weeks. So, nobody will be able to use it."

    What matters is if the domain has generic properties or not. If you registered WiziwooPizza.com and it turns out that he was starting up a company called WiziwooPizza, you're screwed. If you registered TexasAligators.com and he's starting up a new minor league baseball team called the Texas...
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    Are you investing in Space Travel / Space Tourism domains?

    Another potential "theme domain" cash-bonfire, as we've seen with the lowest level of idiots in domaining and their moronic involvement with "future trends"? As with the rest: This probably has a tiny handful of names that are commercially viable. SpaceTravel.com, SpaceTourism.com...
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    Constructive Suggestions (and debate) for the New NamePros

    The issue here is a collapsing foundation, what most everyone is proposing amounts to a fresh coat of paint and some flowers. The problem with this Namepros isn't aesthetic. It's cultural. Namepros 'is what it is', or more accurately, 'has become what its become'. It suffers from a severe...
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    news The End Of .COM

    But it wasn't made available to the public until 2002 and by that time, .com was so far ahead in the minds of the public that it never stood a chance and has remained a massive underperformer (relative to its intuitive potential) to this day. It (.us) is actually a great choice for a local...
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    Why Future Trend Domains May be a waste of money

    It isn't that getting ahead of a curve is a bad thing. It's that, methodologically speaking, 'future trend domaining' as a practice by people who are otherwise unskilled at domaining is a waste of money and time. The result is a lot more money being lost than there is money being made. lightning...
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    Is there an optimal portfolio size?

    Is there an optimal portfolio size? Theoretically, sure. The problem with that is, domaining is a qualitative game of imperfect information. It's based on your counter-party, not some centralized mathematical standard. It's art, not science and for this same reason, it can never be...
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    Domaining a "waiting game" ?

    It is indeed a waiting game. Of course, it's also a "getting it in the fucking first place and buying the right names" game, which is the first required step so the 'waiting' part of the game stands a chance at being productive. It's also very, very hard with a near vertical learning curve in...
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    .net and .org domains available for reg fee: Are they all worthless?

    The answer is: who cares what the GAKT says? The Google Adwords Keyword Tool is a false god. It's caused more money to be wasted than anything else in domaining. Yes, it's a fine general indicator as far as what sort of commercial pulse a given keyword might have but the idea that domain...
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    Your best buy under $500

    Just to add to the anecdote; that was the last time I ever sent over a four figure good faith payment without escrow. There were reasons that made me comfortable with doing so, chiefly that the seller and I were both in the same state, meaning not only could I sue him with relative ease if need...
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    Cleaning up the domaining industry

    That idea has a fatal flaw. There is no societal value to me buying a domain for $8, then charging someone $3500. If anything, it's a counterproductive, retrograding force. Trying to cobble up some narrative about how we're 'benefiting society' by doing this is disingenuous, transparent and...
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