Lots of US investors make the mistake of thinking that European domainers benefit from the fact that the Euro is strong and the dollar is weak. Wrong, wrong, wrong! In fact, a strong Euro represents a disadvantage if you earn a living online and live in Europe, as I will explain through this blog post.

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Facebook Deals will go live in 5 US cities (Dallas, Atlanta, San Diego, San Francisco and Austin) soon. I’m sure all of you know that deal sites like Groupon are all the rage these days, do you think that Facebook Deals will do some serious damage? Given the fact that FB has hundreds of millions of users, I think this project will NOT be a flop. Ok, it won’t be a flop but will it put Groupon and LivingSocial out of business?

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Unlike the last one I shared with you guys, this coupon can be used by existing customers as well. As usual, only people who purchase the domain through their credit card can use this coupon and another thing worth mentioning is that it is NOT limited to dot com domains (it’s easy to find out if it works for the tld you had in mind, simply use it when you’re checking out after registering your domain). Alright then, here’s the brand new GoDaddy coupon you can use if you want to buy domains at $1 + $0.18 (ICANN fee): “ACES1”!

Ending at 2 PM EST: Intentions.com (regged back in 1996), Transistors.net (regged back in 1998), Forum.im (best possible Internet Marketing forum domain, IM = Internet Marketing), IIO.net (VVV.net), PingPong.mx, BusinessWeblog.com (Weblog = blog), WeddingArbors.com (regged back in 2000) and N.pe (Peru = 28,836,700 people)!

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In my opinion, that’s exactly what people will ask you 10 – 15 years from now, in other words they’ll have the same attitude that lots of domainers currently display towards those who got in back in ’95 or after the dot com crash. If you think the Internet is all grown up, you’re 100% wrong, the Web is still in its infancy and that’s absolutely great! If you take advantage of the opportunities that are right there in front of you now, you’ll thank yourself later and if not, well you’ll just have to work 4x, 5x, 10x harder in 2021/2026/whatever.

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My “let’s turn great domains into businesses” series of full disclosure case studies continues and today, I’ll analyze my latest project, Unmanaged Hosting Dot Com. As the name suggests, UnmanagedHosting.com has offering unmanaged dedicated servers (affordable $45/month management is available though, we can handle everything for you if that’s what you’d prefer) at rock bottom prices as its business model. Alright then, let’s get started (same format as the other 2 case studies):

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I always find the comments posted on Mike’s blog whenever he mentions an offer he rejected quite funny and can’t believe that people still don’t understand one simple concept: you can say things like “a domain is worth this much” when referring to the reseller market but NOT when it comes to end users! Why?

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The third Domain Madness auction will end in about 15 hours. The two most active individual auctions, 11 bids each at the moment of writing, seem to be GasDeals.com and BroadbandProviders.com. If you want to place a bid or analyze the inventory Mike and his team are putting on the table, click HERE.

In my opinion, Facebook would be able to monetize certain types of type-in traffic better than Google or Yahoo/Bing. The result? More competition for our traffic! Now before you jump to conclusions, read my post carefully because even though this theory may sound crazy, I think you’ll agree that it’s not exactly illogical.

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30 minutes after I published my post about how the term “squatter” was wrongly used, Martin edited his article and wrote a very reasonable/professional comment on DomainingTips.com. Thank you Martin, the Internet would be a far better place if everyone were as open minded as you have proven to be!

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