Buloney, we discussed this before - pull up old threads. You have never sold a domain name, you have never sold a domain name as an asset to business, maybe you ran a successful biz in the 70ies, Great for you. But stop offering terrible advice and calling yourself an expert.
The only thing you are going to do is bankrupt, some people, who think you have any understanding of what you post.
Have your opinion, promote it, but dont lie and say you have branded and sold countless biz deals, that never involved a domain as a consideration, as someone who sold domains.
Please stop willfully promoting ideas (as an actual expert) when you are so far from it.
Brian...i just realized I'd only responded to your inquiry about the symbol ™ vs. ®, and I hope you understand the difference.
Now on another note, I planned last August to do a joint trade show presentation with the registry that owns the
.Golf extension at the Worlds Largest Amateur Handicap Golf Tournament in Myrtle Beach, SC. That didn't happen for a number of reasons, but the registry chose to do it with me not only because of my knowledge of golf, but because I own about 80 pretty good
.golf domains like; target.golf, laser.golf, and
focus.golf (where the #4 golfer in the world Brooks Koepka attributes his
FOCUS for his success,. and this isn't just what I'm saying, you can find Brooks on Youtube saying it himself). Also because I have a lot more experience doing trade shows than the registry. Note, the registry and I are back on again to do the joint venture this August. Anyone reading this may want to come to Myrtle Beach later this summer and check us out
Send me a PM and I'd be happy to share the details.
Let me share with you another story about a local registry/registrar Dominion Domains, LLC that owns (5) new extensions; .homes, ..autos,.boats, .yachts and .motorcycles
. Dominion
.Domains is owned by Dominion Enterprises (formerly Landmark Communications that owed The Weather Channel) who owns the domain
Homes.com that is probably worth ten plus million dollars because of the 4 Million homes that are listed for sale on their website....don't believe me, check it out for yourself. Now what I'm about to share with you and other readers
SHOULD blow your mind. About a year ago a local TV celebrity and I met with the GM of the local registry and suggested we might work together to promote his extensions and yes, my domains. Fast forward to about six months ago, and I had bought to give to the this registry the domain DominionDomains.com because I thought they should own it to match up with their domain name Dominion
.Domains. When I did this I emailed the GM telling him that I had bought the domain(cost me $8.50) to give him/them. And in the same email, I told the GM about a
.homes domain I might be interested in buying that was for sale for $195 at the time. The domain was HomeSweet
.Homes, and I told him how and why I thought it would be great name. Now go back to a few months ago when Dominiion.domains re-released the .homes domain so that other registrars like GD could sell it. Since that re-release I've accumulated about 100 pretty good
.homes names like; Sonoma.homes, Hitech.homes Shamrock.homes, Omni.homes and Sweetheart.homes. Then when I checked with GD to see if I could buy HomeSweet.homes I learned the registry had held it back as a premium domain I guess? Wait, the story gets better.....about the time I attempted to acquire the name from GD, I get a call from a consultant from Chicago who was coming to Norfolk, Va to help Dominion
.Domains start a full fledged registrar similar to GD. He asks me, "Richard, do you still own the domain DominionEnterprises.com?" To which I said, yes, but I tried to give it to your new boss, but he said he didn't want it. Then he asked, "can we have it now?". To which I said sure, and transferred the name from my GD account to Dominions. Keep in mind I didn't charge them for a damn thing. Then the story continues to get even better...I go to Dominions site and search/inquire about the name
HomeSweet.homes and a message comes back saying "HomeSweet.homes is reserved, contact us for more information".Well I did, and the GM at Dominion sends me an email back saying "Richard you can buy it, but it's now
$64,000". After getting back in my chair, I registered the domain name,
DomainEthics.com for I considered this to be the most "Unethical" thing that's happened to me in 50+ years of being in business. The saga still isn't over, when I told the consultant what had transpired, I get another email from the GM saying we should talk. I think he was a little surprised that I would
"only" talk to him face to face, eye to eye, man to man
So we then meet at a local Starbucks about six weeks ago where he asks me, "Richard, do you really think I'm unethical?"
To which I said,
YES! Now get this...he then offers to
give me the domain to which I refused. When we parted company, he really didn't want me to share this story about ethics, and I attribute it partly to what I refer to as the
"Nature of the Beast"....the domain industry However, I'm sharing the story now because it needs to be told.
This
ALL ties into this thread titled, "Should like names have their own marketplace". I'm personally aware that Dominion is planning to sell their "Premium" domains like HomeSweet.Homes at Realty trades shows where it would make perfect sense for us to partner, but I doubt seriously that will happen, mostly because I wouldn't work with them unless somehow they were to make amends. However, I do plan to compete with them at trade shows and via the internet because my "Premium" domains will sell for less than 50% of what they're trying to sell their "Premium" domains for. If you need to ask how and why I can do that and still be profitable, you really need to get a better grip and understanding of the domain industry.
That's all folks, today is Palm Sunday in my religion, and for those of you who don't know the story about the Last Supper and this guy they call Jesus, my belief is
ALL ABOUT risk vs. reward, very similar to what I've been saying about the domain industry. Enjoy your day