I’ve been blogging here on DomainingTips for almost 8 years and have come to the conclusion that I am without a doubt insane.

Let me explain.

Albert Einstein is credited with saying that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

The more I look back, the more I realize I’m guilty of doing just that.

Do you know what the easiest thing for me as a blogger would be?

Well for starters, regarding the Adam Dicker fiasco, siding with the victims and writing countless posts about how we should feel sorry for them. You can’t go wrong siding with the victim, guaranteed social points. Yet I didn’t write such posts because I felt the dead horse in question had already been beaten and that it’s more productive to write about the lessons those who lost money should learn. Yes, Adam Dicker lied and all that but I thought people were sick and tired of hearing this over and over again, I thought it would be more meaningful to write about what the victims did wrong as well so that everyone can draw conclusions which can prove to be useful down the road. In other words, I encouraged the victims to learn from their own mistakes and others to learn from the mistakes of the victims.

How dare I?

This isn’t the first time I peed against the wind.

I did the same thing back when minisites were all the rage and was (to the best of my knowledge) the only one who explained that the business model in question isn’t sustainable.

Back then, just like now, for every person who thanked me for my perspective, there were two who called me an asshole.

And let’s not even talk about new gTLDs.

Back when they started appearing, I explained that there isn’t enough data for me to tell whether or not investing in new gTLDs is worth it and that I have to wait for the time being.

Some publicly expressed their disappointment, as if I had some kind of an obligation to reach a conclusion right from day one.

Then, about a year or so later, I had enough data and publicly said that in my opinion, there are far better investment opportunities out there.

For every person who thanked me for my perspective, there was one who called me a dot com fanboy (I own Fanboys.com btw, guess that must mean something).

You can see a pattern here.

I’m doing the same thing over and over again but still end up being disappointed by the outcome.

From now on, I guess I should simply embrace the following two principles:

1) Domainers never make mistakes and if they lose money or don’t make enough money, it’s not their fault. It’s the unfair industry’s fault. Or the fault of veteran domainers. Perhaps we can blame the weather

2) Dot com is dead, everyone should start building a premium Dot Horse portfolio right away

This would make my life a lot easier.

Everyone would like me, I wouldn’t be pissing off half of my potential advertisers and everything would be just peachy.

Unfortunately for the little sanity I have left, this won’t happen.

I figure that if I’ve been insane for so long, it would be a shame to start breaking the habit now. Who knows, perhaps down the road, some people will come to the conclusion that there’s room in the industry for the batshit crazy perspective of yours truly 🙂