Development – Choosing Which Names To Develop Every now and again, usually when I have a spare few hours, I scan my domain name list to find a likely candidate for some development.
Sometimes, that development will involve creating a small site with an occasional affiliate link, some Adsense and perhaps even some promotion of a business that’s local to me.
Usually though, ...
David Carter - Wednesday, September 1, 2010 - 3:57
Keeping It Real, Keeping It Simple I was in discussion today about the subject of development and in particular over-development.
It’s too easy when developing a domain, to get sidetracked into areas that you really shouldn’t be concerned with. I’ve been there and done it too many times myself in the past.
Here’s what typically happens.
The ini...
David Carter - Tuesday, August 31, 2010 - 13:30
Domain Auctions & Shows Like many others, I sat in my office yesterday and watched the live domain auction at TRAFFIC Dublin.
I love what TRAFFIC has done for the domain industry, but the auction? It was embarrassing.
There were a couple of hundred or so domain names that went under the hammer and I have to say, some of the
David Carter - Thursday, August 26, 2010 - 12:36
How Niche Is A Niche Market? My presentation at the MeetDomainers show in Manchester this Friday was going to be all about using domain names as niche marketing tools. Sadly, I have had to pull out of that, which is a pity because I was looking forward to meeting some new and not-so-new friends there and I’d begun an experiment last
David Carter - Wednesday, August 25, 2010 - 2:57
Old Sales Closing Tricks In New Media? In 1981 I was employed by the UK’s nationalised gas company, working in the computer department. The term I.T. hadn’t been invented back then and neither had the PC. I was also self-employed as a direct salesman with a home improvement company, as my shift-work allowed me many evenings free.
I was 20 and single at
David Carter - Sunday, August 22, 2010 - 6:39
It’s The Little Successes That Count In amongst all of the excitement of the past week, it’s almost possible to forget about all of the other stuff that continues to happen.
I’ve sold a couple of domains, brought in some nice surveying work and a site I built for my son to promote his extension planning service (www.extensionplan.co.uk) has brought him two
David Carter - Saturday, August 21, 2010 - 6:2
Buying Domains Is Harder Than You Might Think Following on from yesterday’s post, I must say that it seems to be harder to buy a premium name than I imagined.
There are so many considerations, but this week has taught me much about valuations and how to actually fund a major purchase.
We’re almost there. In fact, the funding is now actually in place, though
David Carter - Friday, August 20, 2010 - 8:53
Funding A Major Domain Purchase With Skill.co.uk I’ve agreed to buy a rather good domain name this week. It’s costing 6 figures and is the biggest thing I have done in domaining and it will definitely be my last.
This is it. The time is now.
I’ve had enough of hanging around the periphery of this industry, watching others seemingly striking it rich with
David Carter - Thursday, August 19, 2010 - 14:37
Attracting End User Buyers For Domains Finding end-user buyers for domain names isn’t easy and often involves a lot of time and work, the two things most domainers like me try to avoid.
If you think about we’re selling, it makes a lot more sense to let the potential buyer find the name they want, rather than go out in search of
David Carter - Friday, August 13, 2010 - 3:50
How To Sell Domain Names To End Users Do you have a great generic domain name that would be ideal for an end-user company?
If the answer is “yes”, but to date, despite your belief in that name, you haven’t had a flood of offers coming your way, then you have three choices:
Contact a broker
Get real
Start selling
A broker, if a real domain brokerage ac...
David Carter - Wednesday, August 11, 2010 - 23:47
It Easy When You Know How Me: “Bloody Hell, have you seen who this enquiry is from Bob?”
Bob: “No, who is it”?
Me: “Only one of the largest utility companies in the country, asking if we can help them with roof surveys for their new green energy installations”.
Bob: “Tell ‘em bollocks. Actually, let’s have...
David Carter - Wednesday, August 11, 2010 - 4:54
Official – The Sob Story Season Has Started Judging by the email offers I’ve received on some pretty good, keyword domains I’ve received this week, I can confidently state that the sob story season is now upon us.
I’ve received no less than three offers on domains this week and every one of them provides a reason why the potential buyer can’t pay the
David Carter - Tuesday, August 10, 2010 - 2:53
Selling On Sedo My business model has never been about selling domain names, but rather than letting certain names expire, I recently added a few to Sedo just to see what happened really.
In each case, I included a low buy it now price. These are names that would otherwise have expired, so there was little point in specifying
David Carter - Saturday, July 31, 2010 - 3:56
Another Domain, Another Opportunity As a domain developer, I have tried to concentrate my efforts on building my sites with the aim of selling services that I can complete myself, or act as a sales agent, facilitating a sale rather than just providing a sales lead. There’s a huge difference, which is why I command much higher commissions than
David Carter - Thursday, July 22, 2010 - 3:16
Google Adwords & The Idiot Tax I don’t really use Google Adwords or other pay per click advertising in my own business and generally don’t click on sponsored listings when conducting searches, unless the advertisement is spot-on for what I’m looking for.
In fact, I’m almost blind to the sponsored listings, as I just naturally veer towards t...
David Carter - Sunday, July 18, 2010 - 3:50
DomainSuccess.com Going With A Bang Over the past couple of years, one domainer has provided me with more input and help than any other. We’ve never met, though we have spoken on the telephone a couple of times. That domainer is Owen Frager.
Like myself, his approach to domaining is more geared towards marketing than it is domaining in general, since
David Carter - Saturday, July 17, 2010 - 3:27
Meet Domainers, Meet Me I’ve been booked to speak, along with some other better known UK domainers, at the forthcoming “Meet Domainers” show in Manchester on Friday August 27.
Until now I haven’t attended any of the usual domain conferences because I don’t like being away from the family for several days at a time.
Meet Domaine...
David Carter - Monday, July 12, 2010 - 11:31
Back To Core Business Being a domainer has to be one of the most frustrating occupations of all time.
If you’re anything like me, you have tons of names covering a wide range of markets and niches, all ripe for development of course and all names that could really dominate their market, given some time and some investment.
And that’s the
