Where have all the domain blogs gone? As everyone knows, May is a tough month for me to write and I don’t have much time to read the blogs. But lately it really hasn’t mattered. We’re pretty much down to DomainInvesting, TheDomains, DomainGang, OnlineDomains and DomainIncite. Morgan is busy with FashionMetric and has written more about Python than his domain buys and sales. Raymond Hackney writes for everyone else and his home blog is down to a daily sales list and now a Godaddy affiliate list. Mark Hershiser has gone on long hiatus. Jason Thompson is now pure cybersecurity, and the rest pop up every once in a while but nothing consistent. This isn’t a criticism of ANY blog. We all get busy. This blogging stuff is hard. Especially if you’re looking to try and make a living at it. And why wouldn’t you build a business instead of blogging? Aaron wrote a post yesterday about his acquisitions and it reminded me that it’s been pretty much down to Elliot and Konstantinos when it comes to acquisition, sales, and overall personal daily life domaining stories now. Francois of Domaining.com never said this directly but it had gotten so sparse that he added 3rd party domain articles to fill the feed with stories. I don’t know that is really the reason but I bet it had something to do with it. Yes, there are some that come out every once in a while and write some fantastic stuff, like Eric Borgos, but they aren’t as often as they used to be. Maybe I was newer 7 years ago and had more to learn so I found everything more interesting. But I do think some of the people that wrote the great articles have gone on to other things. It’s also why Aaron and I joined together. Because we both have other careers we knew that together we wrote an acceptable site where solo we didn’t provide enough quality content. But as long as Elliot and Michael keep it up I’ll keep reading. Here are today’s names
ABWG.com 16 years old. Good letters. Not Chinese letters but good Scrabble letters
ITrainYou.com Great personal training marketing name. No bidders.
HawaiianShirt.net Its a dot net but the Hawaiian shirt market is bigger than you think. Not just for fat people any more
MMRY.com I see mammary. I’ll just leave now
RapidStaff.com Great name for temporary labor company. Essentially what is being sold. NO bidders
XJYX.com Flanked by X = a price with lots of digits
iClinicalTrials.com I recently had a friend that lost a battle to cancer and her last days where spent trying to find trials to join. I impinge their are hundreds of thousands of others trying to do the same thing. Could be a very valuable buildout. No bidders
GGKP.com Another bad scrabble name getting a great price
FWCW.com And one more 4 figure domain
SHZR.com Geez, just came across another crazy price. Why didn’t I buy more “bad” letter LLLL.coms?
MMP.cc New Godaddy high for an LLL.cc
MarijuanaSupplier.com Much easier to find than asking around at a liquor store
NEW GODADDY COUPON CODE: $1.99 New Registration Godaddy hitched149
WUXO.com Surprised that the reserve has been met a such low a price. Going to sell regardless
RomanticIslands.com Just went to auction. The honeymoon travel business is a billion dollar business. And they all want to take a trip to a romantic island. 15 years old
CoffeeHouses.net Tens of thousands of coffee houses around the world. One on every corner. No bidders
TOYS.io Dot io continues to sell well. Starting to extend beyond tech names
8255.com Crossed 5 figures and climbing
ZB.org It’s not dot com but its one of the big three. Still pretty rare
SEDO’s Live Auctions Going on Now
MissingPersons.com I see the use on this one but not sure how you monetize.
EKLA.com Something something Los Angeles
AdultSocialNetwork.com Trying to figure out if this will be adult as in older or as in naked. 28 bidders already have a plan
StarWriter.com A really good writer, a blog about celebrities. Or just a guy that loves astronomy
NDNE.com There are plenty of great LLLL.coms on the auction market lately. This is one of them
BitsNBobs.com I actually hadn’t heard the term but I saw the bidders and looked it up. Over a million results for the term so its obviously still used. Would make a great kids brand.
PokerComp.com All poker rooms are not created equally. Serious poker players want to know which rooms give the best comps. A site in the waiting
CedarGlen.com Upgrade name for many places
HorseCreek.com Ditto. Sounds like a nice neighborhood in Dallas
ItsMadeForYou.com With the world of bulk buying, personalization is becoming more and more of a need. Great marketing name for those that do
BarberPole.com Good old fashion hair care name
TMCS.com Has the most bids of all the LLLL.coms today
OVOO.com At $12oo and the auction hasn’t even started
RedRaven.com Good communication name. But I may be the last person who still communicates by Raven
MobileSales.com The English call a phone a mobile. So the PhoneSales.com of Britain
For more great names make sure to check out CAX.com
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*All names chosen by me, Shane . (ie you click through and purchase a name you like) or an occasional paid listing. Everything I say is based on my own research or is opinion. Do your own due diligence. That means look it up yourself if you don’t think the stats or my opinion is correct
It all went down hill after Rick stopped blogging. Namepros is the best place to learn now. I can’t understand why some people do
Domaining blogs and they own CRAP
domains.
Dr. Domainer,
Great point about Namepros. It really has become THE place for good conversation
Shane – Thanks for the shout out. I read your blog every day when it shows up on domaining.com, which I go to every day. I used to bookmark individual domaining sites, but now I just wait until I see the latest article from them on domaining.com, which makes it easier for me. There may be less commentary type blog postings (like Rick Schwartz), but still always lots of interesting news about which domains people are buying and selling (for example I found the Marchex/Godaddy sale, and the comments about it, fascinating).
Love the site, been reading the auction picks daily! Do you ever post auction results? Would love to figure out where I can figure out how these ended up. Any suggestions?