One Thing I Learned Today From the Spartan Sprint I don’t often write outside the topic of domain names on this blog, but here’s one. There’s a moral at the end. I ran a race today called the Spartan Sprint. It’s essentially a race of the ‘Tough Mudder’ variety which I’d guess is a name more folks will be familiar with. It’s a dista...
DomainAnimal.com - Sunday, May 19, 2013 - 20:17
A Special Thank You From DBRFunFest 2013 As I sit in the Orange County Airport awaiting departure back home to Texas, I want to take a moment to say a special and very sincere THANK YOU to all of the wonderfully generous sponsors whose contributions helped make DBRFunFest, not only possible, but incredibly memorable. One of the great things I found in Related Posts:Bigfoot ...
DomainAnimal.com - Tuesday, May 7, 2013 - 1:48
A List of 7-Word Domains That Have Sold Common wisdom holds that the shorter the domain, the better. However there are some examples of very long domains that have sold in the past. According to the DNSalePrice.com record of publicly listed domain sales, the longest domain names that have ever been reported sold contain 7 words, and there are four such sales on Related Po...
DomainAnimal.com - Saturday, April 27, 2013 - 20:10
Speculating on Domain Forum Wanted Threads Is Generally a Bad Idea I’d like to share a situation I ran into today on a domain forum, that might help anyone new to domaining. Recently I posted a thread in the ‘Domains Wanted’ sub-forum, and today I received a private message from a forum user there who had submitted two domains to me earlier in the week. In Related Posts:What Are D...
DomainAnimal.com - Tuesday, April 2, 2013 - 20:4
Did ICANN Launch It’s Trademark Clearinghouse Today? … and Am I the First Domain Blog To Report On It? Perhaps I am behind the ball here and ICANN has once again postponed another of its deadlines, but it was projected that today would be the official launch of ICANN’s Trademark Clearinghouse, and the news of its launch has already been reported Related Posts:Face...
DomainAnimal.com - Tuesday, March 26, 2013 - 19:34
Tequilas.net Realized 400% Return, Plus Other Notable Liquor .Net Domain Sales Two weeks ago, DNJournal reported the domain Tequilas.net was sold on Sedo for $7,800. I recalled researching some wines & spirits domains last year on DNSalePrice.com. I had the feeling it was not the first time this domain had been reported sold, and memory served correct. In September of 2008, Tequilas.net had changed hands i...
DomainAnimal.com - Friday, March 22, 2013 - 18:1
New Domain Forum Launched At LeasingDomains.com By now its no secret that leasing domains is all the rage in 2013, what with the advent of the Domain King‘s JointVentures.com leading the stampede. As Ron Jackson, editor of DNJournal recently commented, “While it is true that there is nothing new about domain leasing, in the decade I’ve spent in this industry I...
DomainAnimal.com - Wednesday, March 20, 2013 - 20:55
When To Rake In the Pot vs. Pushing All-In On Domain Sales Recently I worked on a negotiation with a buyer for a domain I had acquired about six months earlier. During the negotiation which lasted several weeks, I was bouncing some of my negotiation strategy and thought processes off a good friend of mine, to help clarify my thinking, and to elicit feedback to ensure I
DomainAnimal.com - Thursday, February 21, 2013 - 15:3
Bigfoot Sightings at WebFest Global Confirmed A Domain Animal Exclusive Speculation has been rampant about various reports of a Bigfoot sighting coming from WebFest Global in Santa Monica over the past week. Now, thanks to popular blogger DomainShane, we have the smoking gun! An attendee of WebFest who wishes to remain anonymous has come forward to share this exclusive photo (a...
DomainAnimal.com - Wednesday, February 20, 2013 - 13:15
Voting For Domain Related Sessions At HostingCon 2013 Now Open HostingCon, the largest annual web hosting industry conference, has just announced that registered attendees may now vote for which expert talks will be given over the duration of the show. There are a few domain-related sessions proposed, whose abstracts are listed below. Companies behind the session proposals include NameMedia, Op...
DomainAnimal.com - Wednesday, February 6, 2013 - 15:26
In Case You Missed It There were a couple of great comments in defense of domain investing the other day, on TheDomains.com, in response to .Gay TLD applicant Alexander Schubert’s call for ‘dead domainers’. Here is the original article, for reference, in case you missed it. The focus of that article is not a subject I wish to dwell on
DomainAnimal.com - Tuesday, January 22, 2013 - 10:51
The Evolution of Domain Names 101 No one is likely to dispute that Frank Schilling is one smart cookie, but almost no where is this more evident to me than when one examines the evolution of the Domain Names 101 page on his flagship DomainNameSales.com website. Viewing the page again for the first time in many months, it struck me that
DomainAnimal.com - Thursday, December 27, 2012 - 13:35
New Charity Mack Jack & McConaughey Could Use Help Of Their Own In Domain Naming The current issue of my local Community Impact newspaper has a bit about a new charitable organization announced in late November by famed University of Texas (UT) football coach Mack Brown, musician Jack Ingram, and actor Matthew McConaughey. According to the charity’s website the goal of the organization is to impact the live...
DomainAnimal.com - Wednesday, December 26, 2012 - 17:38
Don’t Fear the EMD Reaper I began drafting this post back in late October, in the wake of a Google algorithm change called the ‘EMD Update’ and never got around to finishing it, until now. Merry Christmas. As most readers will be aware, EMD’s stand for ‘Exact Match Domains’. Lately (at least, back in October) every time I turned ...
DomainAnimal.com - Monday, December 24, 2012 - 19:57
Are LLLDirect Domains a Smart Investment? This morning I was reading through Domain Name Wire’s weekly report of domains bought by end users. Scanning the list, I came to GFIDirect.com, and paused briefly to consider why someone would have registered that particular domain with the hopes of reselling in the first place. Googling the term “GFI Direct” in qu...
DomainAnimal.com - Thursday, December 20, 2012 - 14:31
A Kernal of Data on Afternic (Keyword)Marketing.com Domain Sales I’m currently testing out a new file syncing service called AeroFS to keep files synced between my laptop, desktop and other devices. In the process of getting set up, reorganizing my file structure and ‘clearing out the clutter’, I’ve been combing through a lot of orphaned files including old keyword and doma...
DomainAnimal.com - Tuesday, December 11, 2012 - 18:2
Will The Real DomainMarket Please Stand Up They say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. If that’s the case, uber domain investor Mike Mann has good reason to be flattered. Founded in 2007, Mann has built a successful $2.1 million/yr (2011) enterprise around his DomainMarket.com, a company named to this years INC 500 list of Fastest Growing Companies. It l...
DomainAnimal.com - Tuesday, December 4, 2012 - 11:51
Update: 25.com No Longer At Auction on CAX Since first breaking the news about 25.com having received a $1,500,000 bid at domain marketplace CAX, other bloggers had speculated about whether the bid or the bidder were in fact legitimate. It turns out those speculations proved accurate. Although the 7-day auction was scheduled to run until December 2nd, the domain no longer ap...
DomainAnimal.com - Friday, November 30, 2012 - 12:7
Where are you spending your time? If you domain invest long enough, you’ll eventually come to an axiomatic truth, which is that the more value a domain name has, the less effort is generally required to convince other investors of the same. For example, if it requires a lengthy dissertation to explain why small businesses should be climbing over themselves to
DomainAnimal.com - Tuesday, November 27, 2012 - 15:5
Francois Enjoys Cyber Monday As 25.com Enters Auction At CAX Notable domain industry investor and entrepreneur Francois Carillo who runs a network of domain sales and services sites, including Domaining.com and CAX.com, may have gotten the biggest baddest Cyber Monday ‘deal’ of all today. The 2-number (NN) domain 25.com has just entered into auction at CAX having met reserve with a...
DomainAnimal.com - Monday, November 26, 2012 - 10:46
