General Domain Information

In the most recent DNJournal weekly domain sales report, Ron Jackson reported the sale of two cancer vaccine domain names: CancerVaccine.org sold for $18,000 and CancerVaccine.net sold for $10,000. According to the updated Whois records for both domain names, the company that acquired them is a publicly traded pharmaceutical company called Northwest Biotherapeutics (Stock symbol: NWBO).

Additional research led me to find that the company also acquired CancerVaccine.com as well. Up until August 1, the domain name was owned under privacy protection at Moniker, but the Whois lookup is now showing that it is owned by  Northwest Biotherapeutics at Go Daddy. Prior to its privacy protection in late 2012, it was owned by a domain investor in New Jersey.  It is possible the company had owned it at that point, and the privacy was removed after the transfer.

At the moment, it does not

I took a little over a week off and went on vacation. I had scheduled several posts for while I was gone, and you probably didn’t even miss me!

I have a number of comments in the moderation queue and a ton of them in the spam filter, so I’ll be going through those later tonight and tomorrow. If your comment isn’t approved by tomorrow, please let me know so I can look into it. Sometimes it’s more efficient to simply delete all spam comments and hope nothing important was lost, but I’ll do a cursory check in the meantime.

If you’ve emailed me in the last week and a half, I will do my best to get back to you within a couple of days. If you’re trying to sell me a domain name and I didn’t reply, it probably means I have no interest in the name and haven’t had the chance to reply. If you’re looking for a domain broker, I don’t broker names, so you can have a look at a list of domain brokers. If you’re looking for domain consulting, my apologies, but I don’t do that either.

This was the first vacation I’ve had where I did almost no work. I checked email just a bit and tried to disconnect as much as possible. It was nice at the time, but I’m now playing catch up. Thanks for understanding.

I was speaking about investing in domain names with my wife’s cousin in an attempt to give a very general overview of what I do and the business of domain investing. He is a finance professional, and one of the questions he asked was about the risks associated with domain investing.

I thought it was an interesting topic, so I’ll share and discuss what I think are the greatest risks to investing in domain names, and I welcome you to share your thoughts on these risks and to add other risks that exist that I missed. These risks are in no particular order, and they may pertain more to my business than to yours. Whatever the case is, I welcome your thoughts.

Risks of Domain Investing:

I read Ray’s post on Hybrid Domainer  today, and think it’s worth a read when you have a chance. There are a number of companies advertising on my blog, and I want to touch on Ray’s article a bit and give a bit of a disclaimer, in addition to the disclaimer I have on my blog already.

In order to be able to spend the time sharing information at no cost to readers, I need to have advertisments. No offense, but I am not going to spend 30+ hours a week on my blog if I am not earning revenue from it. If I was going to spend that much time without being paid, I’d be volunteering at a non-profit organization and not writing articles to help others make money from domain investing. I enjoy writing and sharing, but if there’s no financial incentive, the time would be more wisely spent managing and operating my domain investment business, not helping others build theirs at the expense of mine.

That said, we are in a niche business. There aren’t hundreds of companies