I saw a funny video this morning that I want to share with you. On The Daily Show with Jon Stewart that aired earlier this week, comedian Louis C.K. was a guest. Towards the end of his appearance, Stewart instructed people to visit Louis C.K.’s website, and he was promoting the .net version, LouisCK.net rather than LouisCK.com. At the moment, LouisCK.net forwards to LouisCK.com, and you’ll probably be amused when you hear why he is doing it.

Jon Stewart’s reaction is funny, and I think you’ll enjoy their dialog.

If you want to skip through the interview to get to the discussion about the .net and the expired LouisCK.com domain name, skip to the 6:56 mark. Otherwise, enjoy the video in its entirety.

Thanks to Adam for sharing this with me.

For as long as I’ve been serious about investing in domain names, I’ve learned that there are many different business models domain investment companies utilize successfully. There are differing levels of risk and reward for varying business models, and while most people employ similar models to each other, I’ve found that mine is fairly different compared to most other companies who operate in a full time capacity.

Some people seem surprised when they hear I only own a few hundred domain names. Across the five domain registrar accounts I use, my two companies probably own fewer than 400 domain names at any given time, yet I make my living as a domain investor. My domain portfolio is a fraction of the size of most other professional domainers, and I’ll share some insight into how I operate and why having a more trim portfolio is helpful to my business model.

My focus has almost always been to

With the year coming to a close, I wanted to see if you’d be willing to share how you did with your domain name investments this year as compared to prior years. No need to share revenue or income numbers of course, but I am curious to see how 2013 compared to other years for domain investors.

The poll to vote is below, and you are also welcome to provide additional commentary in the comment section if you’d like. I hope you had a great 2013. If not, I hope this past year provided some good lessons that can help propel your business forward in 2014.

After looking through some of the comments and seeing several dislikes for my reason for not including more people, I decided to choose 9 participants for the hand registration contest. With my participation, that will mean there are 10 people in total participating in this contest.

I used Random.org to select the participants more fairly, and they are listed below. I will send each participant an email to let them know about their selection and advise them of the rules later on today.

The ten participants are: