I have about 4,000 domains I will be liquidating shortly. I’m going to first offer them to select insiders, then make them available to the public in the near future. Stay tuned.
ICANN announced it would let registrars own registries and vice-versa. Great analysis on the decision can be found here. I think it comes down to this: the economy sucks. I think this decision creates the most money as it will encourage registrars to put a moat around their own new gTLDs. A game of one-upmanship and splintering loyalties will prosper. Moving domains to different registrars could become a thing of the past, at last for these new gTLDs. But hey, who can really be surprised. ICANN has always acted with its own interests and put the interests of transparency and domain owners on the backburner.
You know the Staple’s Easy Button? That annoying little voice has been haunting me for a while. I set up this site over a year-and-a-half ago to sell a simple ebook on my domain sales system. While a lot of people saw value in the product, many people kept being slammed by the one factor they couldn’t overcome: poor domain selection. Most newbies don’t know how to pick a good, non-trademark infringing domain name that someone might want to purchase for a reasonable $399 to $799 price tag. In the end, I decided I would forget selling the ebook and just offer it for free on a blog. That was over half a year ago.
Selecting a Blog Platform
Setting up the blog was fairly easy (a few permissions problems) and long overdue. WordPress was the obvious choice, given that I’ve used it to launch minisites like BaltimoreHarbor.com and my own PR blog PR Fuel runs on it.
Building out my blogroll was also easy. Now I have to decide how to take the course and ebook and translate it to a free product. I’m thinking of continuing to use aweber and deliver as an autoresponder as it will maintain the linear aspect of the course. Look for that to come soon as well as posts here about my musings on the domain world.
