Earlier this week, former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin announced that she started a new online, subscription-based media venture called SarahPalinChannel.com. Not long after, Comedy Central host Stephen Colbert announced that he was starting a new network on TheSarahPalinChannel.com. I thought his segment was funny, and I embedded it below for your enjoyment.
Being a domain name broker seems like it could be lucrative, and for the best domain brokers, it is a great job. Domain brokers represent domain name owners who are trying to sell their valuable domain names and they make a commission on successful sales. Aside from their time and marketing expenses, brokers rarely have a financial stake in the domain names they are selling, but the potential reward on a large sale may be considerable.
I am not a domain broker, and I want to share the three primary reasons why I am not interested in becoming a broker or working with other domain owners to sell their domain names.
Aron Meystedt shared this video with me, and I want to share it with you. The video that was created by Heritage Auctions to educate its clientele about domain names and why they might be interested in spending significant sums of money to buy the best domain names. I would imagine a good portion of HA’s clients are well-educated and savvy investors, and this video may shed some light onto the value of investing in exceptional domain names.
According to Meystedt, the video “covers most of the important aspects of domains for investment or business use.” I think creating and sharing a video like this is a smart move by HA.
What do you think? Is there anything that should be added?
David Harris, Tech Editor at the Boston Business Journal, published an article about Boston-related domain names up for sale on Afternic. The article is brief, but I disagree with two areas:
Harris wrote of listings on Afternic that contain the “Boston” search term, “Many of these sites have been registered by cybersquatters.” In looking through the results, there are very few domain name listings that I would consider cybersquatting. I am not a lawyer or a legal expert, so I am not going to call out any domain names that could be considered cybersquatting examples, but in my opinion, there are very few obvious trademarks that come up in the results page for a “Boston” search.
I also disagree with how Harris describes
Back in 2003 I started my own domain name lending site at GetFunding.com (I no longer own that domain, but you can see this screenshot of how my site looked). Now there are a bunch of sites like that, such at DomainCapital.com, Intelend.com, and DigiPawn.com, but at the time I was one of the first. I figured since I was buying domain names anyhow, it couldn’t hurt to try to make loans on domains that I would consider “buyable” and then if the borrower defaulted, I would get the domain, if not, I would get a good return on my money. More importantly though, I was trying to create a new online business out of it which hopefully would have some value.
I did not do any advertising for the site, but due to people finding me in the search engines (it was a lot easier to get noticed for free back then), I got some offers from potential borrowers. They were all domains I considered totally worthless though. Not once did anybody offer me a good domain to make a loan on. So, after a year, I gave up and shut down the site.
Recently though, Francois Carrillo,
We’re the company formerly known as HasOffers. Read all the details about our rebrand here: ttp://www.tune.com/blog/introducing-tune/
— TUNE (@tune) July 17, 2014
I saw the above tweet from Tune last night, and before I could publish an article about HasOffers’ rebranding to Tune this morning, Theo at DomainGang had written an article about it. Check it out for the details. I found a bit more information, which I shared below.
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