Jamie Zoch took a break from Twitter and wrote a nice piece about how he spent his time during the break. I think Jamie fell into the trap that we all do. Routine is what makes it possible to get a ton of stuff done during the day. Its also what makes time go by so fast that days become like GroundHog day. Wasted days and wasted time. You look up and you’re drained and feel like nothing special came of it.
Fortunately its not a problem with me because it’s not my main job. I have the nursery to break it up every day. Time I waste on Twitter is actually me taking a break, not work. I’m certainly not addicted to it and a few days a week I merely check it during lunch or waiting on something. Other days I have it sitting open all the time goofing around. Just depends on what season it is for me. Writing this piece each day on the other hand, can become a chore. But if I can’t do it Travis and Josh have always been nice and picked it up. A much needed break when necessary. Jamie talks about his break in the article and gives some advice
- It will be ok to step back and not do some drop catching.
- It will be ok to step back and not spend hours and hours on expired domain auctions.
- It will be ok to put a chill on asking others for domain name appraisals.
- It will be ok to ignore domain news sites
- It will be ok to ignore the many social media websites that consume many hours of our days.
In my opinion, if you are spending the time he states on the above you already have a problem. One, social media probably adds zero dollars to your domain investing bottom line so its no more than entertainment if you spend your time reading and commenting. If you are writing, you better be making money from the posts, otherwise you are back to entertainment. Entertaining others, but still just entertainment . No reason why you can’t just walk away from entertainment when you have to. Same with domain news site. News is the past. You are hunting for the future. Appraisals? Again, doesn’t add much value except piece of mind. So that leaves plenty of time for the first two. The first two make you money. When you’re done with the money making part then its time for fun and games.
I feel Jamie just didn’t feel appreciated. He does a ton of work finding all the sales but makes no money from it. For us readers its entertainment. Very interesting and very appreciated, but the ratio of work to value is tough. Hours are spent finding things that get put in to a tweet that we spend 5 seconds reading and say “Cool” and move on. Again, super appreciated but not something anyone is going to pay for. We all do things for three reasons. One, because we enjoy it. We love the process and the results. Two, it gives us attention. Three, it makes us money. My opinion is Jamie doesn’t get 2 or 3 and it started to get to the point he wasn’t enjoying the work. So he had to take a break until it came back. Again, my opinion but we’ve all been there. And many times we never come back because we find something else we enjoy more. Our time is valuable and wasting it on something that doesn’t give us any of the 3 doesn’t make much sense.
Domain of the Day: HealthExchange.com I hope your health insurance exchange works better than the US version
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Park.io Names at Auction or Dropping
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Hurdle.io The app that helps you get over it
Blink.ly Taken in all the other extensions and works with .ly IMO
Cook.ly I’ve talked about it a few days. One of the best .ly names up in a while
Chinga.me If you speak Spanish you know why this is good.
Namejet and Sedo & More Domains at Auction
HtmlFiles.com Met reserve. 20 year old domain. Exudes website and coding
XUVD.com I wouldn’t normally list a name of this quality but reserve met at $60. Under $100 would be a good buy
Bangin.com Awesome clothing line. I’m to use the term but not too old to know it
FatClothing.com Might be a bit too honest in the branding
Dinosaur.net Loved the name and then I see the seller is wasting our time
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TheBestPlants.com A good marketing name for a place like mine. Wait. Maybe I’ll buy it
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Godaddy Domains With Bids
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ICanTravel.com No. No you really can’t right now
ANaturalCure.com A lot of places
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DiscoverJesus.com For many this is worth a look
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Scents.net Even as a dot net it has a ton of value. Billion dollar perfume and lotion business helps.
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GDNV.com The only time V is any good at the end. Nevada and Las Vegas
ZYWX.com i have no idea why its four figures. It has to be something with China
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Mehan.com 1999 birthday. Registered in 26 other extensions
Nahun.com Sounds like a town where a virus would start
WildRocket.com Not great but memorable and an easy logo
HelpAdvisor.com Doesn’t make sense but people are still going to bid on it
NerdBrand.com Not sure if the Geek and Nerd branding thing has played out. We’ll see
7ql.com A store of value NLL.com
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I feel for Jamie. Great guy, very knowledgable and puts a lot of time and effort into domaining but does not get financially rewarded enough by it.
Tony,
I agree. As I said in the opening, ppreciate all he does but the time to reward ratio is pretty low. Has to be something he enjoys doing to make it worthwhile
Excellent analysis Shane.
This site is one of my stops every morning. I appreciate you guys doing the work to get my day started 🙂 Just scanning here fast I feel like I did a little domaining of my own each day. Thanks guys…