Daily Poll

Marketplace.org published an interview with Jen Sale of Evergreen.com discussing domain names, domain name acquisitions, startup branding, and domain name investments. In the interview, Jen discussed what she does as a domain broker and also discussed what kinds of domain names she focuses on selling. One thing I appreciate is that she explained the difference between domain name squatting (cybersquatting) and domain investing, which I think gets a lot of people confused.

The article title is The dot-com URL is still king, and I thought I would ask in today’s poll what you think of that. Readers know what types of domain names I buy, and I am probably in a bit of an echo chamber when it comes to those investments. I am curious what you think.

The NamesCon extended domain name auction is ongoing at NameJet. It looks like there is a little more than one day remaining in the auction, and it seems like most of the highest valued domain names have not yet met reserve prices.

For today’s poll question, I am curious if you submitted domain names for inclusion in this year’s NamesCon auction. Vote in the poll below:

Everyone loves their domain names. Some were won in difficult bidding wars and others were bought after long and sometimes challenging negotiations. Most of us buy domain names because we think they have more upside than the purchase price.

I am curious to know what you think your most valuable domain name is worth. You are invited to share what you think your most valuable domain name is and are also welcome to share what you think the name is worth in the comment section and within the poll.

I have never spent a lot of time and money hand registering domain names. Perhaps it is to my detriment, but I also don’t think I would have the patience to find unregistered and available domain names to buy. I think I hand registered just one domain name so far this year (UpForEverything.com). It would be interesting to see what others’ buying habits are.

Today’s poll question asks how many domain names you hand register each year. You are also welcome to share what types of domain names you look to hand register – ie new extensions, trending domain names, potential trend domain names…etc. Vote in the poll below and share your thoughts!

When buying or registering a domain name, most people have a sales price in mind. Some people hand register names they hope to sell for a few hundred dollars and others buy names for thousands of dollars and hope to get a 50% ROI (less than 1x) on their investment.

Today’s poll question asks what rate of return you expect to achieve on your domain name purchases. You are invited to vote in the poll below and I encourage you to post additional thoughts in the comment section.

There was a lot of talk about emoji domain names in 2017. Even Vice News covered Emoji domain names.

Today’s poll question is Do You Own Emoji Domain Names? You are invited to vote in the poll below and are welcome to share additional thoughts in the comment section.