As a domainer or as a person who earns a living online in general, you have more freedom than most people. How you use it is entirely up to you. Just a small tip + video today: don’t be one of those people who thinks that life can simply revolve around a chair and a screen.

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Dear Sedo,

Once a month, you’re running the GreatDomains event and as I’m sure you’ll agree, most of the buyers (the overwhelming majority) are domainers. If that’s the case, why aren’t you advertising on domaining websites?

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After many years of “meh… what we have is good enough”, I’m glad that people are starting to finally innovate again. New solutions such as Frank’s DomainNameSales.com impressed everyone, existing companies such as Sedo/Afternic upped their game through the MLS introduction, GoDaddy finally paid attention to what domainers wanted and the list can go on and on.

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In the past, premium listings pretty much worked like this: if a domain was sold, they’d send you a check… eventually. It took ages until the seller got paid and the entire arrangement showed a clear lack of respect towards domainers in my opinion. All of this changed and as some of you already found out, GoDaddy introduced new payment options as well as (considerably) faster payment timeframes.

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As a business owner, keeping these three words in mind is a must in my opinion. I don’t know if it’s just me or if it’s human nature but a lot of times, whenever I hear about an opportunity (domain sale or acquisition, business, offline investment, you name it), I tend to be pretty excited initially.

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The SnapNames Premium Year-End Auction ended a few moments ago and after a confrontation between two bidders, the domain Cotton.com ended up being sold at $205,890.

Congrats to both the buyer and the seller.

Less than 24 hours left. 185 domains are being auctioned, from no reserve listings to gems such as Security.com, OS.com or Cotton.com.

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Made my 1st loan via Kiva, thanks guys! As mentioned previously, I’m donating 100% of the revenue generated from new DomainingServers.com shared customers via Kiva.

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On Sunday, I wrote a post about how I’ll be donating 100% of the revenue DomainingServers.com makes from new customers until the end of 2012 and Francois was kind enough to list it as a sponsored headline.

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Whenever we’re dealing with something like the escrow industry, embracing new services is hard. You used Escrow.com, you used Sedo (both of them are great escrow services, I used them personally and my experience was great) and the first reaction whenever you see a new service is probably “meh… Escrow.com and Sedo are good enough” but that’s a mistake in my opinion.

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