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Hello guys,
Strange question from a strange and dumb domainer. I'm about to explain to a big CEO how unique and rare domain names are just like how a piece of masterpiece artwork is created from skilled strokes of a brush by Picasso or Michaelanglo or the choice of words and notes by a musician to create a musical piece that becomes a classic that millions of people will sing or hum around the world.

So the thought came to my mind about the basics of domain and pretty much anything that's "online" or "internet". It's digital and view via tech there will be lines of code involved yea? That boils down to a specific pattern of 1's and 0's.

The people who try to sell domains to never think domain names as these rare and random patterns of 1's and 0's.

Like for example. Keyword Casino. To turn that into Casino.com. My dumbass assumes a random set of 1's and 0's has to be chosen to come to the creation of Casino.com and then next making the smart decision to secure that random set of 1's and 0's in the king of domain extensions .com.

Buyers always overlook and downplay the sheer magnitude and just plain "extraordinary" feat of securing a domain name in the exact keywords the need.

I believe they downplay this "extraordinary" to their benefit to negotiate the cheapest price possible. Let's be honest the perfect situation for a buyer who just so happens to be the ultimate enduser for the domain is to get the domain for registration price because they are pissed they can't get the domain they want when they want it or need it. They can't seem to wrap their heads around the fact that a domain that they could have registered for $10 is a now a domain they have to pay $5,000-$100,000.

People call domainers greedy and as part of that label "cybersquatters". What we do is ART. If you compare what we do to say Rembrant or Van Gogh I don't see any difference. Artist spend their own money to buy the canvas and paints and whatever else is factored into the expense to do what they love with no guarantee they will make a dime off their work. That's admirable and risky and scary. Anyone who does this should be admired for their bravery to jump into the void with no guarantees. We domainers do the same thing. So don't ever sell yourself short just because your buyer wants to get the best price possible. F**k THEM!

So in short...let's say Casino.com ? What would be the 1's and 0's pattern to end up with Casino.com? does it look like below? or something else?

1010101010101010110111011100101110111001110000110101101010101110011110011100001110001
0101111011111000111101011101001101111010001110001110010101101010101011010010110101101
01101111011001110101101111011110011101100110111001110101011001101011010110011001101011
100110101101100101101010101101010110101011010101101110101101010110110101101010110101
001111101110011010101010110101100110101011010101010110101010110111010010110101001000
011110011101010101101010111010101101010110110101010101010110111110101011011010110101
011101011010111100110110101010101110010101011001101010110010101011010101010110101101
011010101101010110101010111010110101101010110101011010101101010101010101101010110101
011011011010110101011010101101010110101010101011010101010101011010101010101010101010
01101010110101010101010101010101010101011010101010110101010101010101010101010101110
01101101011010110101010101010101010101010101010010101010101010101010101010101101000
011110101011001011010101010101110101011111110101011010101010101010101010101010101010
0111101101101011010101010101011111010101111010111010101011010101011100101101011010101

While CasinoChicken.com (registered since 2005) would be.

01011010111010101010101010101010101010101101010101010101011010101101011010101010101
11011011010110101101010101010101010101101010101010101010101010101010110100010101010
011011110011011011010101010101011010101011010101010101011010101011011010101010101010
011001101010101010101010101010111110101010101010101010111101010101010101011110101010
01101011101010101010111010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101
0101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101
01010101010101011101010100010101010101010101010101011111010101110100101010110101010
01110111110111011101011101010110110111111100101001111101110111011010101010101010101101
011101010101011101010110101010101010101010101110101101010101010101010101010111101101
011101010101110101010101010101010101010101010101011101010101011101010110101101110101

When you look at domains as above it really is an eye opener. Technically ALL DOMAINS are valuable it's really all about the correct series of 1's and 0's. Like the right combination on a combination lock or vault lock that opens treasure.

We've all come so far as human beings. Imagine how things were back in 1920? and compare then to now.
The problem is we've taken for granted how spoiled we are that we overlook or don't pay attention to what makes our world WORK. without those 1's and 0's and with Pascal or the Turing machine and the discovery of electricity. Where would we be?

Also I just realize if it's not 1's and 0's could it be ASCII?

Disclaimer: I am not a techie so apologies in advance if this is a stupid question. So be kind to dummy. lol

Also the reason I am asking this is because the CEO I plan on talking to is a lover of the Arts and has donated millions to art foundations and charity events. So the idea that exact match domain names are works of art (digital art) should resonate with him. maybe?

Hey. This is just me thinking out the box.

But this idea should not just apply to selling to a CEO but to any offer even one's coming in at $50 offer or $100 offer.
This is exactly why $100 offers are insulting and "bottomfeeder" ish.
 
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Long story short. It's binary code:
https://www.convertbinary.com/text-to-binary/

Enjoy :)
yea I knew that was it. just wasn't sure. Is Binary and ASCII the same?

So to avoid looking stupid to the CEO of a huge tech company. Can I argue the point that domain names are "works of art" just like the unique brush strokes that only the likes of Rembrandt or Van Gogh or Picasso can do? and if it was anyone else it would be just trash?

These domains below are works of art and masterpieces and their original creators total Geniuses.

Among our circles we talk about these people. You know them already. They are mythic status. Legend.

So with that said. Thanks for your reply. But is there a tool online that can be used by our buyers to verify EXACTLY what our domains look like in Binary code? Of course I could just Google it. Just thought it would be nice to discuss.

I feel it would be a great visual to ram the point of how unique domain names really are.

am I being too overly "indepth"? or looking at this too much? and domains are just domains?

Am I just grasping at straws? Let me know in the comments.
 
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And.............................. I found the tool!

I Google "convert domain names to binary" and got the link below.

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=convert+domain+names+to+binary

And from there I found this perfect tool!

Gotta love the Interwebs! lol

http://www.bagill.com/text-converter.php

Here is the Binary code for Casino.com

01100011011000010111001101101001011011100110111100101110011000110110111101101101

No one else has this code above except for Casino.com .

Here's the Binary code for CasinoChicken.com

01100011011000010111001101101001011011100110111101100011011010000110100101100011
011010110110010101101110001011100110001101101111011011010000110100001010

Here's one code that no other domain has. Not saying the domain is valuable because it has this unique code. I'm saying all domains are valuable because they are all unique. but when this unique combo of numbers becomes useful for a specific purpose? Then what is already valuable because it is unique becomes even more valuable.

Many will disagree with me on this but there are no garbage domain names. It's more about the NEED for them.

The take away is that. Once there is a NEED for the domain. That NEED did not make a nothing domain into a valuable domain. ALL DOMAINS are unique and rather and therefore valuable by default. The NEED for it by an enduser only rams the point that the owner of the domain already knew. That the domain is valuable and is now more valuable and should be treated as such.

There are times when I feel discouraged when I get no inquiries on my domains. I feel like they are crap. After seeing domains different I feel re-energized and more confident.

I think we should all think our domains are THE BEST and deserve top dollar when a NEED arises out of thin air because they were already valuable to begin with once they were created and registered.

Here's the Binary code for OnlineCasino.com

01101111011011100110110001101001011011100110010101100011011000010111001101101001
01101110011011110010111001100011011011110110110100001101000010100000110100001010

Again no one else has the code above except for OnlineCasino.com

Another useful tool I found was this during this search for "convert domain names to binary".

https://wtools.io/convert-ip-to-host

and here's an instructional.

https://www.aluriasoftware.com/binary-and-dns/
 
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Well just tell him domaining is indeed an artform, but while each domain name is like an original painting, does not make each a work of art. I'll leave the sales pitch to you, as to why he should hang your painting on his wall.

I'd stay away from the zeros and ones though, while super interesting to perhaps you and I, not so sure a buyer would down with paying x amount for a bunch of, well, 0's and 1's..
Imagine how things were back in 1920? and compare then to now.
Funny you say that... actually not too different in that lots of masks and lockdowns but a lot less 0's and 1's for sure.
 
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Well just tell him domaining is indeed an artform, but while each domain name is like an original painting, does not make each a work of art. I'll leave the sales pitch to you, as to why he should hang your painting on his wall.

I'd stay away from the zeros and ones though, while super interesting to perhaps you and I, not so sure a buyer would down with paying x amount for a bunch of, well, 0's and 1's..

Funny you say that... actually not too different in that lots of masks and lockdowns but a lot less 0's and 1's for sure.


lol smart! you mean 1918 right? spanish flu? let's hope we don't end up exactly like that. I think 10 million people died from it?
 
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Buyers aren't stupides, you are first buyer before being a domainer ;)

There are many sellers that overestimate their domain names, therefor they lose many deals based on this... buying a 10$-5000$ one and set the price to 1M$ have none sense expect if it really worth them !

Some days ago, I made an attempt to buy a domain name from a domainer, he set the price to 9xxx$ and minimum offer as 1000$, I given to him an evidence that the domain name worth maximum 1000$ with many real infos, with many examples of better domain names by far on that niche were sold lower than that in recent days (maximum 1 year ago, including one of the domain name he already hold in the past)... but he stuck to the exagerated price and he prefered to hold it for many other years knowing that the value of that domain name will decrease overtime, in addition there is a choice now in the market (going from switching to another extension like IO to other DN in the same category).

You call this an ART ?

Right Price = More Buyers
 
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Buyers aren't stupides, you are first buyer before being a domainer ;)

There are many sellers that overestimate their domain names, therefor they lose many deals based on this... buying a 10$-5000$ one and set the price to 1M$ have none sense expect if it really worth them !

Some days ago, I made an attempt to buy a domain name from a domainer, he set the price to 9xxx$ and minimum offer as 1000$, I given to him an evidence that the domain name worth maximum 1000$ with many real infos, with many examples of better domain names by far on that niche were sold lower than that in recent days (maximum 1 year ago, including one of the domain name he already hold in the past)... but he stuck to the exagerated price and he prefered to hold it for many other years knowing that the value of that domain name will decrease overtime, in addition there is a choice now in the market (going from switching to another extension like IO to other DN in the same category).

You call this an ART ?

Right Price = More Buyers

Domainers aren't stupid because they know the industry.
But not all buyers are domainers.

buyers that are not domainers are like a blank slate capable of being sold on something.

Your post assumes buyers are automatically domainers.

it's already understood that most people have no clue what the value of domains should be. it's up to you the seller to explain to them.

Obviously I would never try the "art" approach to domainers.
 
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