If you (like me) are working full time on domain names, you might have been enjoying an unusual period of calm and relaxation after a very hectic 2015. The aftermarket is somewhat slower, your QQ does not beep as often and your inbox is finally breathing. But why is that? If you haven’t noticed, we are…

How is everything? Hope this first part of 2016 has been treating you well! On my end, I finally managed to get back to my beloved Lisbon after an odissey trip back from Vegas for Namescon, the largest industry event organized by Richard Lau & Jothan Frakes. While it is true that “What happens in…

How do you make one million dollars in six months? You might recall the story of Ken O’Brien. Ken did not own a single LLLL domain until he bought Adam Dicker‘s portfolio last May, as discussed in this DomainSherpa episode (11:00 to 19:00). Since then Ken started working with me to learn about the LLLL market and…

Back in May, we released the infographic companion to our Numeric Domains 2.0 – The Definitive Guide. It has been featured in several industry outlets, like DomainInvesting.com by Elliot Silver, DNSelect.com, as well as the legendary DNJournal published my Mr. Ron Jackson. To this day, it continues to receive great feedback – so much so that we…

  Are the new gTLDs a good investment? This is a question we asked VERY often.   Using the Pareto principle, investing in new gTLDs is bad 80% of the time and good 20% of the time. Not only does this apply to which domains you actually pick to register (or “invest”), as it has a lot…

Over a year ago I wrote an article about the meaning of numbers in Chinese culture and how that affects the value of numeric domains. The article got a fantastic response: several blogs linked to it; Michael Cyger from DomainSherpa.com interviewed me about the content and the article jumped to the second search result on…