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What If YOU Don’t “Get It”?

Posted on 26 October 2009 by BillionDollarMedia

End users don’t “get it”. Other domainers don’t “get it”. Marketers don’t “get it”. Nobody “gets it” except you, right? Seriously, I’m starting to develop some kind of an allergy to this phrase. It was relevant the first time someone used it, it was relevant the second time but too much is too much!

Domaining Forums – Wow, Just Wow

I generally stay away from domaining forums (waaaaaay too much noise) but now that I’m a blogger and everything, I’m forcing myself to spend 10 minutes or so per day on the two major ones.

Going through some of the threads is like a rollercoaster ride. You go from being mildly amused to being shocked and then right back to being mildly amused. Again: wow, just wow!

Commonly (Mis)Used Phrases

Here’s how things stand: a lot of people have read Frank Schilling’s blog or Rick Schwartz’s blog and ended up “adopting” certain phrases. There’s only one huge problem: after everyone uses one of those phrases again and again (and again and again and again… and again), its value gets diluted.

Diluted up to a point when it’s not even funny anymore! Something along the lines of “I hand regged a 4 word dot com domain with only one hyphen, then emailed a bunch of people I found via Google search but nobody wants to buy it for $15,000: I can’t believe people still don’t >>get it<<”

Get What?

The fact that your domain sucks? The fact that you adopted a phrase without actually understanding what it means and when it should be used? Believe me, all of them “got it”.

Please do us all a favor and wake up! Stop considering yourself an expert after reading a few threads, stop living in denial, stop registering crap and start making some money!

5 Comments For This Post

  1. Jose Says:

    Well i got to agree with you Am sick & tire of hear the same old “got it ” “get it ” “they get it” or what ever, Be original guys…….hope you “get it”

  2. tanto Says:

    Hey nice article. the feeling is mutual. what are the two major forums?

  3. Andrei Says:

    @tanto: dnforum and namepros (there’s considerably less noise on dnforum since people have to pay for their memberships – a good thing IMO – but that still doesn’t mean that it doesn’t have its share of ridiculous posts/threads, not by a long shot)

  4. TechFilipino Says:

    I was guilty of that once lol! But I did learn my lesson the embarrassing way.

  5. Andrei Says:

    @TechFilipino: it’s all good man, some of the most important lessons are learned the painfully hard way :)

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