Best Course?

[brittdoll]

In my efforts to learn more about buying and selling domains, I'm looking for a course/ebook to learn from. However, I'm not having much luck. Everything seems to be either outdated or doesn't look as if it's very good quality .

Can anyone recommend a course,ebook, website that has helped them?

Thanks in advance!
Britt

 

[DU]

In my efforts to learn more about buying and selling domains, I'm looking for a course/ebook to learn from. However, I'm not having much luck. Everything seems to be either outdated or doesn't look as if it's very good quality .

Can anyone recommend a course,ebook, website that has helped them?

Thanks in advance!
Britt

Lesson 1

Everything that a domainer tries to sell you in the form of an e-book or guide is usually totally $hit.

Lesson 2

The information is around NP and DNF if you just read a bit.

People like blogs too - for whatever reason there are some that are liked more than others. Based on what others say: DomainSherpa / Morgan Linton / Domain Shane / TheDomains I think are likely the best for just getting a feel for things.

I find DomainSherpa annoying as hell. Morgan Linton a bit blah... but I've yet to be overly annoyed by Shane. Elliot can be amusing/annoying...

I actually only ever really read TheDomains.com because it covers stuff, Mr Berkens is smart, and the comments are amusing.

 

[RazorNF]

Lesson 1

Everything that a domainer tries to sell you in the form of an e-book or guide is usually totally $hit.

completely agree

 

[ecalc]

Course #101
Course title: Bad Names
Tuition: $0.00
Term: Spring 2012
Location: http://www.namepros.com/domain-appraisals/
Course description: This class includes brief reviews of wretched names and the laughs that ensue when registrants complain. Topics include TLD, SLD, traffic, cash flow, bad judgement and denial. Psychological control systems are discussed, with emphasis on common sense and brainwashing. Other topics include stability, dynamics, and control during transition from productive citizen to ward of the state. There will be a brief discussion of UDRP motions, grace deletions, and other nonlinear events including car camping and bankruptcy.

Course #102
Course title: Good Names
Tuition: $0.00
Term: Spring 2012
Location: http://domainnamesales.com/sevenmile/page/125/
Course description: This class follows the money that flows from internet advertisers to Frank Schilling's wallet. Topics include free trade, business cycles, government regulations, optimal decisions about capitalization at the individual level and rum cake.

 

[GiftedDomains]

In my efforts to learn more about buying and selling domains, I'm looking for a course/ebook to learn from. However, I'm not having much luck. Everything seems to be either outdated or doesn't look as if it's very good quality .

Can anyone recommend a course,ebook, website that has helped them?

Thanks in advance!
Britt

Remember, those who sell ebooks etc. probably keep the best secrets for theirselves. You might learn 90% of what is important about domaining but its that 10% that you need to really make money. And that can only be learned through experience during a longer period of time.

Actually i don't agree that all ebooks are crap. Most probably are though.
I remember when i started domaining (before even joining any forum), i bought an ebook from ebay (i think it was from Empiredomains) for 30 Dollars or so, and after reading it, i actually REALLY made some money on ebay without having any loss. I sold all of my domains above regfee . So i think at that time, it was well invested money. I wouldn't buy it today but it was ok for the beginning. That guy actually really told us exactly what he was doing. Problem was, hundreds of people bought that ebook and then ebay was flooded with similar offers and basically the same template, too many offers and basically we ruined eachother on ebay lol

Today its even harder than before. Not only on ebay but everwhere.

I agree with others, Forums and Blogs are the best resources. You have to spend some time and read a lot.

edit:

ahh here is that Empiredomains guy haha

http://myworld.ebay.com/empiredomains/

as you can see that all stopped few years ago..

 

[johname]

Summer Domaining School Electives 2012:

Domainer Accounting Will focus on how hand reg portfolio renewals will always be greater than domain parking income! We will present many different accounting methods and problem solving sessions which will always show parking does not cover the new domainer yearly "investment". (This course will be also be available in Fall 12 for those still needing a refresher course)

Introduction to Domain Geography. Major themes of this discipline is how the domainer migration from country code to country code in pursuit of any possible alternative meaning to said country code which can produce $10 in their PayPal account.

Domainer Sociology An immersion class on the fundamentals that members of the Internet will continue to embrace well know sites like facebook and twitter and shun your fresh reg social term domain and/or development.

Domainer Linguistics 101 Fundamentals of pronunciation for language domainer with a particular symposium of those that have a background of registering domains in a language that's not native to the land of the extension.

Domainer Linguistics 102 A refresher course on what the student body learned in their formative years in grade school. That you didn't write a 4 for "for" with your crayons, then, why do it now? Also it will be presented that 2 is still not "to". And your teacher in 3rd grade never called you "U". And there will be a guest professor that will lecture on leetism and its duality of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder behavior.

Intro to Domaining Zoology I Monkey See Monkey Do. In this class you will be enlighten on the domainer primate that uses their cognitive skills to hand(prehensile tail) reg vast numbers of topical domains well after the more erect vertebrae has gather all the dot bananas and
placed them in their treehouse.

Intro to Domaining Zoology II Breaks off into a subculture of a particular domainer gibbon that is proud of their long tails. These monkeys act curiously normal under many domaining lab conditions until they talk about their own longtails.

Domainer Intellectual Property Law 101 Is a multinational course on various legal proceedings and claims within the novel idea that domainers can not register domains containing trademarks. Studies also encompass the yet to be fully understood ideas of a) you're at the mercy of the panel alone. B) if they have a lawyer and you don't they most likely will win. c) no matter the facts you will be prejudged at as the pesky leech domainer with 300 domains of every topic under the sun, against the honorable one business owner. d) Leave common sense interpretation of generic at the UDRP doorstep. Students of this discipline are subject to random security checks before entering the auditorium!

Domainer Meteorology A nationally recognized program designed to guide the newly minted domainer into acceptance that the cloud domains have been purged from the domaining atmosphere long before cloud computing tv commercials.

Domainer History 101 Examines the origins of the creation date domainer that will correlate value with any name from the godadolithic time (1998-2004) irregardless to hieroglyphics left of the dot.

Domainer Psychology An extensive lab orientated class which attempts to show various ink blot "Rorschach" cards to domainers that suggest visual forms of ".co" After the domainer repeatedly says "Means Company" he/she will be presented with further cards and counseling until they can say "Republic of Colombia" Sorry the .tv classes have been canceled this summer semester for prior student truancy.

Hacking English 101 Follow the modern Shakespeare with Iphone in hand as he/she assembles every possible word from every genre with indifference to grammar, tense or decor, in pursuit of any word with a dot in it that can be sold at auction to a less fortunate domainer.

Domainer Sexology 101 Investigates the dangers of high reg fees associated with the dot XXX, The total lack of interest in them, The holding at the register level of the ones people actually would think about owning. And the further dilution down the road through dot sex dot porn and dot adult. There will be a mandatory field trip to a local bar where it will be domontrated that the 23 year old blonde girl that emails you to buy your domains is in fact a 53 year old guy wearing a fedora hat and unkempt nostril hair.

Introduction to Domainer Philosophy This quick summer session focuses exclusively on the danger of assembling domainer ideas and strategies based solely on "Show Me Your _____" threads in popular domaining forums.

Domainer Political Science Examines a never-ending cycle associated with presidential and midterm elections whereas a new domainer tries to register candidate domains even though the candidate already has the name they want and the likelihood of some blogger offering more than a few times regfee is remote. There will also be a roundtable discussion on the political org vs com syndrome, that whichever one you get the enduser will want the other.

Domainer Astronomy 101 Designed to instruct future domainers in the yearly celestial bodies orbit of the date domain. Each year a new crop of "201X" type of names gets shot down like a comet in the nights sky. Note D. Astrology 101 will be canceled based on 2012 is not the end of the world year.

Domainer Extension Economics An in-depth study of why an extensions relatively low price compared to a dot com does not mean "load up the truck".

Domainer Quantum Mechanics. Spend four weeks in a Domainer University Higher Level Mathematics Camp learning the principles set forth by Einstein and followed up into the Internet age that within a domaining function the hyphen is indeed a transposed subatomic particle that repositions itself into a minus sign once a value mathematical proof is rendered.

Domainer Programming 101 An in-depth look at the theory that the Internet does not need another poker, directory, fail pic, can opener review etc website. Students are also encouraged to not wordpress every multiple-hyphen name that they register in a drunken stupor.

Domainer Statistics 101 Will delve deeply in the tangential acceleration between how many domains a new domainer registers to how "up the creek" the domainer is. And ending the summer session with a regression analysis on the probability of said domainer not being out of the creek by renewal time.

 

[Name Trader]

I would recommend you read every word on NameNewbie.com

 

[Kate]

Lesson 3
Domaining is not easy, that's why you have people who sell picks and shovels to the gold diggers rather than mine for gold themselves.

The best course is probably to read the forums for a few months, a few selected blogs too.
Read read read.

 

[DU]

Domainer Linguistics 201 Pronunciation ... it might not seem like it but you can pronounce ANY four letter combination with enough creative license.

 

[Dave]

Lesson 4
Remember 99.9% of good domains are gone in the major TLD's (.com, .net, .org, .co.uk, .de). Sure sometimes someone pulls a rabbit out of the hat but these cases are rare and you will be much better of investing your time and money in the drops and aftermarket.

 

[FreshAvails.com]

Select and buy only domains you truly believe in and LIKE! You will have a lot easier time if you buy based on what you want rather than trying to guess what others will want. Have a vision for each name and commit some time to making that vision happen on a regular basis. Not saying that you have to develop every name you get but you should have a vision for it. You will have more success trying to improve the value of your current names than in trying to grab at straws and flip low end garbage. Time is your most valuable asset.

 

[hound]

go to http://www.tutorgig.com and type the word domain in the searchbox.
there's tons of them.

 

[Kenstein]

Totally agree with GiftedDomains on the issue of only being able to learn 90% of what you need to succeed from ebooks and online courses. Especially in the IM world, you need to understand that secrets aren't revealed easily, and if they are, they usually come in a nice little template or blueprint that may seem almost turn-key. But not many products actually teach you the core aspects of how things work to give you the power to keep ahead of the rest by formulating your own solutions, instead of relying on others. Turn-key solutions stop being as effective once too many people know about it, and that's why by the time these products get released, the creators would have already started on a new method to stay ahead. And again, that could only be done when you understand the "bare bones" of the field and have the experience to piece it all together and move forward from it with your creativity.

As others have advised, read...read...and read some more--both paid and free resources. It won't take long before you start seeing a pattern. Follow that pattern, test out your ideas and theories, fail, then try again. Keep a clear mind while doing all this, and most importantly, don't lose your common-sense! Lol. After all, IM isn't some alien entity that doesn't follow logic and reason. It's still a real business, but on a different platform. That's all.

If you really want to spend some money on learning, I suggest you get a mentor and participate in a 1-on-1 coaching program. That way, you can ask the hell out of your coach and squeeze all the knowledge you need out of them, LOL. And since you're paying so much for the program, they would usually want you to succeed. Just be sure to find a reliable and trusted coach.

Back to ebooks and courses on domains though, have you come across Phil Craig's Quick Cash Domaining? It seems like it might be outdated, but I'm still curious to learn what the guy has to teach. The course has many training videos in it apparently. Guess I got sucked into his sales copy.:D

 

[enlytend]

Domainer Ethics:
The foolishness of registering dead celebrity names, tragedy-related names, squatting on someone else's business/life/misfortune just because you can, blatant price-gouging (unreasonably jacking up the price of a crap domain you would have gladly dumped for $1 last week because someone actually wants to use it for something) and similar behavior. Examines the effect on your future sales attempts, when it causes you (and the entire industry) to be viewed by many non-domainers as a life form slightly lower than this.
Should be taken in conjunction with Domainer Intellectual Property Law 101 and Domainer Psychology in order to fully understand all topics covered.