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I found this blog post by Eric Borgos refreshingly original and honest:
http://www.impulsecorp.com/10-reasons-why-i-am-eager-to-sell-my-domains
When you have been around domaining forums and blogs for a while, you discover that there are many myths repeated and reinforced on a daily basis, and nobody really questions the content of these myths (not in a constructive manner, anyway). But I found Borgos' post refreshingly free of almost all such ruminations. In particular I was intrigued by this statement:
Isn't he effectively contradicting the gospel according to all successful domainers - that endusers should pay for a premium domain because it is so much easier to build traffic then?
If even a successful domainer thinks it is better to hand reg domains for websites, how can we convince endusers that expensive domains are worth spending money on for that exact same purpose?
http://www.impulsecorp.com/10-reasons-why-i-am-eager-to-sell-my-domains
When you have been around domaining forums and blogs for a while, you discover that there are many myths repeated and reinforced on a daily basis, and nobody really questions the content of these myths (not in a constructive manner, anyway). But I found Borgos' post refreshingly free of almost all such ruminations. In particular I was intrigued by this statement:
9. I had tried building minisites on all of my parked domains, but that totally bombed. They got almost no traffic and made no money. I also tried building real sites on some of the bigger domains and those did not do well either. None of these sites ever came close to being worth what the domain alone was worth, which made me realize it did not make sense for me to use premium domains for these sites. In the future when I build new sites, I will hand register domains for them instead.
Isn't he effectively contradicting the gospel according to all successful domainers - that endusers should pay for a premium domain because it is so much easier to build traffic then?
If even a successful domainer thinks it is better to hand reg domains for websites, how can we convince endusers that expensive domains are worth spending money on for that exact same purpose?
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