Posted on 30 June 2014 by Andrei
Unfortunately, not all end users are reasonable. Quite frankly, some of them will be the exact opposite and if you’re not careful, you’ll end up wasting time/energy with them that could/should have been spent more wisely.
Yes, some “end users” just want to pick a fight.
Posted on 24 June 2014 by Andrei
Back in December 2013, I wrote a post about Nassim Taleb’s Black Swan Theory, which refers to the fact that certain extreme events can end up proving that everything we thought we knew about something was wrong.
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Posted on 18 June 2014 by Andrei
Got an email about the fact that 101Domain is offering up to 100 free Dot Berlin domain, so I thought it would be an interesting experience to register 100, point them to “this domain is for sale” landing pages and see what happens.
Today, I’ll be sharing those domains as well as a few details about the approach I’ve chosen.
Posted on 17 June 2014 by Andrei
Leonard Britt has posted several interesting comments on DomainingTips about the fact that even dot coms are hard to sell to end users and this observation leads us to an important question: what does this mean as far as new gTLDs are concerned?
Posted on 16 June 2014 by Andrei
In my opinion, the best approach for those who want to secure a new gTLD domain or several new gTLD domains is pre-registering with more than one company.
I don’t own many new gTLDs and my data is therefore inconclusive at this point, so I won’t say which company/companies performed better for me thus far (I will however do this in the future, once I have more data) but up until this point, I’ve had interesting “surprises” as in seeing that the company I would have expected the least from a while back manage to secure the domain on the one hand and seeing a registrar I had higher expectations from screw up royally on the other.
Posted on 13 June 2014 by Andrei
Before I start, I just want to make it clear that this opinion refers exclusively to the reseller (domainer to domainer) market.
Through this post, I’ll try to explain why I think the reseller market will experience short-term difficulties. In other words, why I think there will be liquidity problems and all in all, why the near future doesn’t look very good in terms of domainer to domainer sales.
Posted on 12 June 2014 by Andrei
And make no mistake, it was truly awful. Eight new gTLDs entered the General Availability phase this week and their total day one registrations amount to 15,724. In other words, an average of less than 2,000 registration per new gTLD (1966, to be more precise).
Got these numbers from TheDomains and they are the result of data gathered from nTLDStats.com as well as RegistrarStats.com, with the highest value taken in each case (so for example, if nTLDStats had higher numbers for gTLD1 than RegistrarStats, the nTLDStats numbers were taken and if nTLDStats had lower numbers than RegistrarStats for gTLD2, the RegistrarStats numbers were taken).
Posted on 11 June 2014 by Andrei
Today, 4 new gTLDs entered the General Availability period: dot dating, dot events, dot partners and dot productions. To be honest, I like dot dating, yet I didn’t register any.
Is it because alternatives such as dot singles and dot date exist? Nope, that had nothing to do with it because despite the fact that those alternatives exist, dot dating is the strongest option. This, corroborated with the fact that there’s no potential “singular or plural?” confusion issue (as with dot accountant vs. dot accountants, for example) represents a good reason not to consider the competition from similar gTLDs a deal breaker.
Posted on 31 May 2014 by Andrei
Earlier today, Mike Berkens wrote a post about the fact that Rick Schwartz registered 500+ new gTLD domains and a lot of people were surprised. In my opinion, there’s absolutely nothing to be surprised about and I’ll try to explain why.
Posted on 30 May 2014 by Andrei
Many domainers are basing the entire business model on arguments such as “the Chinese are buying” or “there’s lots of demand from China” and sure, the let’s call it China effect has been impressive when it comes to numeric domain names for example (brush up on some China funds articles to understand how relevant China is when it comes to other assets as well).
