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Life is a series of negotiations: whether you’re buying a car, asking for a raise at work or selling a domain name. So I picked up the book Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It figuring I could learn something. The book outlined some eye opening negotiation...

The challenge with negotiating is that I never really know if I did a good job. I may get what I think I want, and I try and do it without taking advantage of the other person. But, somehow, I often feel like I left something on the table that I shouldn't have. Or worse, that I may have taken...

When you start a company, there are a thousand things to do. Often times, the domain name is the last thing on the list. That can be a huge mistake, and I wrote an entire article about it. As a rule of thumb, startups do best when they launch with a dot com that passes the radio test and is an...

If I’m buying brandable domain names for resale then I need to know what’s selling and study the sale prices. That’s why I read the weekly list of the top 20 brandable domain sales by Doron Vermaat (@dv82). It’s also why I track brandable sales daily and post them weekly on Doron’s blog (DN...

There’s a saying in real estate: You make your money on the buy, not on the sale. The same is true for domain names, but selecting solid brandables can be tricky. We need information to inform our opinions and develop our skills. So here are some tips for making savvy purchases that can increase...

Go Daddy’s people are standing by via phone and Internet chat, but there’s a few things you aren't going to hear from GoDaddy’s finest. WHO SAID DISCO(UNT) IS DEAD? Okay, so the days of using 99 cent coupons to register HomemadeMiniPickles.com for your grandmother‘s secret recipe are over...

Some people in the domaining industry (I’m talkin’ well-known professionals) say that there’s no money in brandables. And here’s why: They have no Exact Match Domain search results. There’s no Pay-Per-Click demand or competition. Buyers can make up their own name; supply is virtually...